IN MEMORIAM. 



Since the last annual meeting, Death has been busy among 

 our members, and several of the founders of the Worcester 

 North Agricultural Society, esteemed while in life and honored 

 in death, are not with us to-day, as has been their annual custom 

 — they rest from their labors, and we are in their places. Such 

 is life ! We are here to-day, and to-morrow we are gone. Let 

 us heed the lesson ; let us do our life-work, standing at the post 

 of duty, so when death comes, 



'* Wc may wrap the drapery of our couch about us, 

 And lie down as one to pleasant dreams." 



Three of our former Presidents, and one of our Vice Presi- 

 dents, are numbered among the dead of 1869 ; they all died 

 '•^ with their harness on" — active in life, loved and revered by 

 their fellow-citizens, and we hope to embalm their virtues and 

 their memories in our hearts, and while we record their names, 

 we wish to stimulate and incite the living to more ardent effort, 

 not only for the cause of agriculture, but for the brotherhood of 

 man. 



ABEL FOX ADAMS, ESQ., 



The first President of this Society, under the town organization, 

 died August 6th, 1869. He was born in the neighboring town 

 of Lunenburg, February 20th, 1807, and at his death was in 

 his sixty-third year. Mr. Adams was the second son of Zabdiel 

 Boylston Adams, Esq., Counsellor at Law, of Charlestown, 

 Mass., familiarly called " the Honest Lawyer ^^ and Martha 



