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history of this locaUty. He was a fruit grower on a large scale 

 for this part of the country and was a constant exhibitor of the 

 products of his orchards at the exhibitions of the Society, taking 

 many prizes as evidence of his skill and horticultural knowledge. 



He had been a member of the Committee on Fruits since ISSO, 

 a period of twenty-five years, the present year as chairman, and 

 was elected a Trustee of the Society at the last annual election. 



Hon. John Ware Fletcher, who was elected a member of 

 the Society in 1871, died in Boston, April 27, 1905. 



He was born in Norridgewock, Maine, in 1824, and at an early 

 age started in business in Bangor, later removing to Boston where 

 he was engaged in the insurance business for many years. He 

 was a captain in the army in the early years of the Civil War and 

 was ttt'ice elected Mayor of Chelsea, Massachusetts, 1871-72. 



Hon. Robert W. Furnas of Brownville, Nebraska, a Corre- 

 sponding Member of the Society since 1875, died June 1, 1905. 

 He was President of the Nebraska State Horticultural Society 

 from 1877 to 1883 and was Governor of the state in 1873-74. 

 He came to Nebraska from Ohio in 1855 and was a pioneer in the 

 development of the horticultural and agricultural interests of the 

 great Northwest. 



Joshua Montgomery Sears of Boston, a member of the Society 

 since 1881, died at his summer home in Southboro, Massachusetts, 

 June 2, 1905. Mr. Sears was born in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, 

 December 25, 1854. 



In addition to many other interests he took pleasure in horti- 

 cultural matters, and the exhibitions of the Society were frequently 

 enriched by the choice and rare productions of his greenhouse.s 

 and gardens at Southboro. 



Robert Charles Winthrop, Jr. died at his home in Boston, 

 June 5, 1905, at the age of seventy-one years. Mr. Winthrop 

 became a member of the Society in 1890. He was the son of the 

 late Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, an early Honorary Member of the 



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