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He was an active, useful and efficient citizen. Of late 

 years he has been retired and lived quietly at his home on 

 Essex street. He received a premium from this society as 

 long ago as 1851 for Milch Cow. 



T. O. W. Houghton, of Saugus, died Feb. 15, 1887, aged 

 52 years. He was employed for many years in a snuff 

 factory. He was interested in the keeping of a herd of 

 Milch Cows for a milk dairy. He served one year as 

 a Trustee of this society. 



Ben : Perley Poore, of West Newbury. Born in 1820, 

 died May 29, 1887. He joined our society in 1848. De- 

 livered its annual address in 1856, and in 1858 was one of 

 its trustees. 



He was always an active industrious worker for the best 

 interests of this society, and always took a lively interest 

 in its agricultural, literary and social success, as his fre- 

 quent and successful exhibits on his farm (at Indian Hill 

 which his ancestor bought in 1650 by lawful purchase from 

 " Great Tom Indian") and at our Cattle Shows and Fairs, 

 and his valuable essays, statements and reports published 

 in our transactions, and his cheery face and voice, in his 

 witty, entertaining and instructive speeches at many of our 

 annual dinners, can all testify. 



Major Poore was of patriotic and military ancestry, and 

 with such blood tingling in his veins, no wonder that from 

 boyhood to age he was full of military ardor ; his martial 

 and scholarly elements alternated in him, or blended har- 

 moniously in patriotic literary labor, when his telegrams 

 were as effective as bullets on the battlefield. His pen was 

 certainly mightier than the sword. His services also to his 

 country, state and county, in literary works, have been 

 invaluable. 



His pet grove of forest trees gained from the Massachu- 

 setts society for the Promotion of Agriculture a premium of 

 $1000, which had been offered for the best growth of forest 

 trees within ten years from tbe time of planting. It con- 

 sists of twenty acres of oak, chestnut, hickory, locust, fir, 

 and pine. Every tree was planted with his own hand. 



