182 rilE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



NECROLOGY. 



As one by one the years are added to the Hfe of our Society 

 it is but natural tliat we should be called upon to recognize the 

 hand of Death within our membership. In the 16 years of its 

 existence the Society has been particularly blessed, in that 

 nearly all of its founders and older members ha\'e been spared 

 to carry forward the important work. Yet with each recurring 

 annual meeting we miss the face and voice of some veteran 

 member and know instinctively that another \\\)rker in the 

 field of Horticulture has been called from his earthly labors to 

 the Eternal Rest and Reward. 



Since our last Report four deaths have been reported to 

 the Secretary's office and the following notes are intended as 

 a brief tribute to the memory of our departed meml:)ers and as 

 an expression to their lo\ed ones of the sympathy felt by their 

 associates in the Society. 



Stephen M. Wells, of Ncwington, one of our best-known 

 members and a man prominent in agricultural affairs in Con- 

 necticut died in 1906. Mr. Wells belonged to an old Wethers- 

 field family and resided in that to\vn most of his life. He was 

 a well-known and successful breeder of Ayrshire and Jersey 

 cattle, as well as an enthusiastic fruit grower. 



Harry Sedgwick, of Cormvall HoUoi^', a member since 1903, 

 passed away in the spring of 1906. A man of strong personal- 

 ity and long experience in agriculture, he will be greatly missed 

 at Connecticut farmers' meetings where he was a well-known 

 figure and was often heard in the discussion of farm problems. 

 Mr. Sedgewick was a frequent contributor to the agricultural 

 press. His later vears were marked In' ill health and much 

 suffering. 



