(ESTABLISHED 1888) 



OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE 

 NATIONAL BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



Office OF Publication - - - 230 \A/oodlan d Aven ue 



VOL. XXV. DETROIT, MICHIGAN, OCTOBER 1, 1912. No. 10. 



Short Biographical Sketches of the Men Who Are 

 Now Editing The Review. 



E. D. TOWN SEND. 



^^HIS is August 5th, 1912. It was in 1858, 51: years today, I was 

 mj_j born. Down east in York state, in Jefferson Co., near Water- 

 town, on Grandfather Nathen Townsend's farm, now a suburb of 

 the city. Next to her wedding day, my mother used to mention 

 this date as an episode in her life. Not that my mother thought 

 more of me than of her other children, for I never knew my mother 

 to show partiality to any of us. I was the older one ; later, it be- 

 came more of a common occurrence, as there are four of us, two 

 brothers and one sister. My two brothers make bee-keeping the 

 greater part of their business, and I'll be "gol darned" if father 

 jiasn't now gone into the bee business. 



At six months of age I had the pleasure (?) of moving by 

 sleigh from Jefferson Co. to AVayne Co., near South Butler, with 

 my parents. I write this as I was told, as my memory is a little 

 vague of this period of my life. When six years of age my parents 

 moved to Michigan, and I can just remember that I went along. 

 After a long, tired ride on the steam cars, one day the brakeman 

 came in and hollered out "Pewamo." Then I remember that there 

 was a considerable "commotion" in our part of the car. AA'earing 

 apparel was "donned," bundles, boxes and hand-bags were gathered 

 up, as this was our destination — Pewamo. Ionia Co., ^Michigan. The 

 second six years of my life was spent with m}^ parents on a farm 

 two and a half miles southwest of Pewamo, in the township of 



