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refined, affable and beloved in all the social relations ; quiet and 

 modest.in his intercouse ; industrious, persevering and thorough 

 in every undertaking ; decided in his convictions, and faithful to 

 bis trusts in all the public duties of citizenship. He was twice 

 married, and leaves a wife and two young children, daughters, 

 by his second marriage. 



The life of Dr. Weston was in the highest and best sense a suc- 

 cess. His work was well done. By the traits of character and the 

 works of beneficence above imperfectly delineated, he endeared 

 himself to every community where he was known, and made a 

 friend of every person with whom he was associated. But, 

 marked as was his success in these things, happy as were his sur- 

 roundings and brilliant as were his accomplishments, his most 

 enduring fame, and his highest claim to the gratitude of the public 

 and of posterity, rests upon his efforts in behalf of the agricultu- 

 ral, horticultural and industrial interests and institutions of the 

 State. During his residence in Portland he was an active member 

 of the Portland Horticultural Society, and at a supper given by 

 that Society to the State Pomological Society, on the occasion of 

 our exhibition in that city in 1874, he remarked that whatever 

 success he had attained as a fruit culturist, was due to the interest 

 awakened by the Portland Society during his residence there. 



Upon his removal to Bangor he became connected with the 

 Bangor Horticultural Society, of which he continued to be an 

 efficient and useful member to the time of his death. He was 

 also a member of the State and County Agricultural Societies. 



During the years 1862, '63 and '64, he was a member of the 

 State Board of Agriculture, and took an active part in its pro- 

 ceedings. The nature of the subjects presented for the consider- 

 ation of the Board during those years — resulting partly from the 

 condition of public affairs and partly from extrinsic causes, — as 

 well as the current of thought upon agricultural and industrial 

 topics within the State, gave great importance to its proceedings; 

 and as a member, and during most of the time chairman of the 

 business committee, Dr. Weston had great influence in directing 

 their course. 



Prominent among the subjects claiming the attention of the 

 Board, as well as of the Legislature and the public, at that period, 

 were the establishment of the State Agricultural College, involving 

 the more general question of agricultural and industrial education 

 among the people ; the relations of capital and labor, and of man- 



