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Joseph P. Gardner, of Hamilton, died Oct. 16, 1886, 

 about 26 years of age. He joined our Society early in 

 the year, and being a young farmer of ability, gave prom- 

 ise of usefulness to the Society, of which his early death 

 has deprived us. 



"John P. Gilman, of Haverhill, died April 13, 1886, 

 aged 59 years. He was an active business man, formerly 

 a shoe manufacturer and afterward a hat manufacturer, 

 and also largely interested in real estate." 



"Israel K. Jewett, of Ipswich, died suddenly Oct. 

 26, 1886, aged 87 years, 8 months. Before the advent of 

 the railroad, he drove an express team from Ipswich to 

 Boston, which railroad .competition caused him to abandon, 

 and for fifty years past kept a grocery store in Ipswich. 

 The deceased was a successful business man and prospered 

 in whatever he undertook, being a man of strict integrity 

 and always recognized as a safe man with whom to deal." 

 He became a member in 1869. 



Jacob Rhodes, of Lynn, died in 1886. He became a 

 member in 1872. 



James B. Knight, of Newbury, died in 1886, aged 75 

 years. For forty years or more, he was engaged in the 

 grain business at the tide mill at Knight's Crossing, on the 

 Eastern railroad, and later at the City Steam Mills, New- 

 buryport, where he had an extensive business. Aside 

 from this, he took an active interest in farming, having 

 raised some of the largest crops of English hay and pota- 

 toes ever raised in that town. At his death, his herd of 

 milch cows was among the best in that section of the 

 county. He became a member in 1879. 



John F. Kimball, of North Andover, died the 1st of 

 September, 1886. 



Eunice L. Smith, of Newburyport, a member of this 

 Society, died July 7, 1886, at the age of 51 years. She 



