4(5 run coxxncTfcrr i'omoi.ocical society. 



Marietta, Ohio, and started a nursery and the Gillette familv 

 took hon;e a supply of trees down to Lawrence Countv in the 

 tall of ISU) and set them out the next spring. 



Rufns Putnam in pruning his trees overlooked or neglected 

 to cut off a si)rout that had come out below the graft or from 

 the root of one of the trees and when Joel Gillett bought those 

 trees and took them to Marietta, Ohio, in 1817, he cut that 

 sprout (Tt't and gave it to his son Alanson, saying, "Here's a 

 democrat, you can have that." His son took it and .set it out, 

 and it grew to maturit}' and produced hue a])ples and was 

 called Gillett's .seedling. It was soon after changed to Rome 

 Beauty, being named al)out 1832-1835. and it grew about 8 

 miles from where I live. Soon after the gold fever of 1850 

 another one of the Gillets carried this apple to Oregon, and 

 that is how it got into that part of the country. 



To go back a little, the Putnams that .settled in Marietta, 

 Olu'o. took a homeless l)oy in 1804 and got acquainted with the 

 (iillett family and when they went down the river in the fall 

 of 1816. that was too much for the boy and he went down in 

 the spring of 1817. 175 miles in a canoe, to see the girl, after- 

 wards there was a w edding and they settled in the rich Ohio 

 Ri\'er Ijottom. — that was my grandfatlier and grandmother: 

 they had pretty good success. My father grew up across the 

 ri\-er in West Virginia; one of mother's brothers went out on 

 to the hills and took up some government land, in 1847, set 

 out a little orchard, probably got tired of working there and 

 went further west ; his father liought that land and gave it to 

 my father and mother and in 1854 they went there to make a 

 living. They toiled along pretty successfully and in a few 

 years the trees that my uncle had set out began to bear and they 

 had pretty nice apples. My father took it into his head that 

 he was going into the apple business and set out 60 acres about 

 1860. I^^-om that he gradually increased his orchards. The 

 l)eople ma<le fun of him. saying that he couldn't pick so many 

 and if he got them ])icked he couldn't .sell them nor use them. 

 The apples were picked and were taken d(^wn the river in flat 

 boats and he did pretty well witli them: there were not enough 

 people right where he lived to use the ai)ples. but the people 

 were down the river and there the apples went and found a 



