AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



208 





■■ -^ -*■ ■^ ■*■ ■^ ■■ 



HOX. GEO. JB. HILTON. 



In the ranks of bee-keepers are to be 

 found representatives of almost every 

 w^alkor profession in life. We find doc- 

 tors and dentists ; lawyers and legisla- 



OEORGE E. HILTON. 



tors ; manufacturers, merchants and 

 mechanics ; professors and preachers ; 

 bankers, editors, students and house- 

 keepers, all mingle with farmers and 

 fanciers of every degree and description. 

 But as bee-keepers they all meet on a 

 common level, and vie with the bees as 

 brethren and sisters in the great and 

 harmonious industrial " hive of the 

 world." 



In our biographical department, so 

 far this year, we have presented 10 

 farmers, 4 editors, 4 doctors (one a den- 

 tist), 2 lawyers, 2 legislators (including 

 Mr. Hilton), 2 manufacturers, 2 bank- 

 ers, 2 merchants, 2 house-keepers, 2 

 students, and 1 mechanic. Thus we see 

 the great variety of vocations represent- 

 ed by the 33 different persons. 



But this week we are permitted to 

 present another legislator bee-keeper, in 

 the person of Hon. George E. Hilton. 

 This is the fourth prominent Michigan 

 bee-keeper that we have had the pleas- 

 ure of showing to our readers since July 

 1st, and the " pine woods " of that ever- 

 leading apicultural State is still "full of 

 them." 



Mr. Hilton was born in the town of 

 Leighton, county of Bedford, England, 

 46 years ago, and came to America 

 with his parents in the fall of 1851. 

 Since 1876 he has resided in Fremont, 

 Mich., and has owned and managed at 

 one time 250 colonies of bees. He has 

 made a record of 75 pounds of comb 

 honey per colony, spring count, for 

 eight consecutive years. His supply 

 business now occupying much of his 

 time, he has reduced his apiary to 100 

 colonies. 



Mr. H. served two years as President 

 of the Michigan State Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation, and three as Secretary. He or- 

 ganized the Fremont Progressive Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, and was its Presi- 

 dent until he organized the Newaygo 

 County Farmers' and Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation, which absorbed the former. 

 He is at present serving his seventh 

 consecutive year as Secretary and Treas- 

 urer of the latter. He was appointed 

 by the Board of World's Fair Managers 

 for Michigan a member of the Special 

 Committee on Apiarian Products. He 

 invented a chaff hive and T super that 

 bears his name, which is all the royalty 

 he asks. 



At home he has served two years as 

 village Councilman ; is Treasurer of the 

 Republican League ; is a member and 

 trustee of the First Congregational 



