IN MEMORIAM. 



Secretary Elijah Cook. 



By the death of Professor Elijah Cook, the Pomological 

 Society loses its secretary, the State Grange its lecturer, the 

 community a public-spirited and strictly honorable citizen, and 

 the poor a friend whose sympathy was unbounded. Although 

 the greater part of his life was occupied in teaching, he ever 

 longed to come more closely in touch with nature, and on his 

 return to this, his native State, after an absence of nearly thirty 

 years, he purchased a farm, and in order to obtain the best results 

 , from the same, felt that he must make himself acquainted with 

 the best methods, both in the cultivation of fruits and the tilling 

 of the soil. In consequence he seized the first opportunity to 

 become a member of this society. When chosen secretary, he 

 remarked in his emphatic way : I mean that under my juris- 

 diction the Pomological Society shall be all that I am capable of 

 making it, by putting into it my best energies. Prof. Cook's 

 success, in whatever he was engaged, was due to his indomitable 

 will and energy of character. This was most markedly dis- 

 played while he was yet a young man. He decided at an early 

 age to make teaching his profession and as he was obliged to 

 depend entirely upon his own efforts in fitting himself for this 

 position, he left no stone unturned towards its accomplishment. 

 He even made forty days to the month, during one school vaca- 

 tion, by weaving in the factory nights and a part of each day; 

 thus fitting himself, the man, to become the helpmeet that he 

 was in after years to the hundreds of young men who were for- 

 tunate enough to come under the tuition of a man so strong, so 

 self-reliant and yet so unostentatious, kind-hearted and just. 

 No scholar come under his influence, without imbibing some- 

 thing of his nobility and grandeur of soul. Recognizing most 



