> November 19, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



19 



George M. Kellosfg. 



terly dinner and he had worked out a 

 profit-sharing plan, together with many 

 other ideas for the general good. He 

 was easily the leading citizen of Pleasant 

 Hill, and his demise is regarded there 

 as a public loss. 



S. W. Flower. 



Stevens W. Flower, president of the 

 S. W. Flower Co., the Toledo grass seed 

 merchants, died at 3 o'clock on the 

 morning of November 13. He was taken 

 with a congestive chill at 3 o'clock the 

 afternoon before and sank rapidly after 

 the attack. 



Mr. Flower was 76 years of age and 

 had been prominent in the commercial 

 life of Toledo for forty years. Although 

 he had practically retired as head of the 

 commission house about ten years ago, 

 leaving his nephew, C. S. Burge, in con- 

 trol, he kept in touch with business af- 

 fairs and visited the office from time to 

 time. 



Mr. Flower was a philanthropist in the 

 finest sense of the word, but his giving 

 was so quiet and unostentatious that the 

 world knew little of it. The notable ex- 

 ception to this was his gift to the Door 

 of Hope four years ago, when he pur- 

 chased the Sprague home and after fit- 

 ting it up with the most modern con- 

 veniences and enlarging it gave it out- 

 right to the board of directors of that 

 charity. 



Mr. Flower was born in Clayton, Jef- 

 ferson county, N. Y., August 21. 1832. He 

 enlisted in the Tenth New York artillery 

 at the outbreak of the Civil War and 

 served until the close. When the war 

 was over he located in Maumee, O., in 

 September, 1865. He engaged in the 

 milling " business there with George W. 

 Eeynolds, and in 1868 removed to To- 

 ledo. He was married at Maumee in 

 September, I860, to Frances B. Reyn- 

 olds, daughter of his business partner, 

 George W. Reynolds. She died eleven 

 Tears later. 



In 1874 he was married to Miss Ellen 

 Burge, of Maumee, and her death was 

 a blow from which he never fully re- 

 covered. 



Immediately after coming to Toledo 

 Mr. Flower engaged in the grain and 

 grass seed business of which he was so 

 many years the head. 



He was a member of St. Paul's M. E. 

 church for many years, and Dr. R. D. 

 Hollington, of St. Paul 's, assisted Dr. 

 T. N. BarkduU, a life-long friend, in the 

 funeral service, which took place No- 

 vember 16. 



Toledo Post, G. A. R., was the only 

 organization apart from the church with 

 which Mr. Flower was connected. 



John A. Nisbet. 



Stricken with apoplexy while riding 

 up College Hill in an electric car on the 

 evening of November 10, John A. Nis- 

 bet, one of the best known landscape 

 gardeners and florists of Providence. R. 

 I., fell dead from his seat. Mr. Nisbet 

 had apparently been in his usual health 

 during the day. He was born in See- 

 konk, Mass., in 1844 and when a boy 

 worked on the old Elmgrove Farm. Much 

 attention was devoted to flowers of all 

 kinds, and to landscape gardening, and 

 Mr. Nisbet, as a boy, showed particular 

 aptitude for this line of work. Leaving 

 the farm, he worked for several est.'ites 

 as florist and gardener and eventually 

 entered business for himself. For many 

 years he conducted, greenhouses just 

 outside of the city, but for the last few 

 years had devoted himself to landscape 

 work, although having charge of several 

 of the estates of wealthy eastside resi- 

 dents. He married Miss Margaret Mc- 

 Lane about thirty-five years ago. She 

 survives him. There are no children. 



James Lewis. 



.Tames Lewis died at his home on 

 Algoma street. Oshkosh, Wis., November 

 7. He had bo'en failing for some time, 



but was not seriously ill until about a 

 week before his death. He was born in- 

 Herefordshire, England, in 1833. In 

 1873 he came to America with his first 

 wife. He was for a number of years 

 the manager of the greenhouses and gar- 

 dens at the Northern State Hospital for 

 the Insane. Since then he had been em- 

 ployed as florist by Edgar P. Sawyer. 

 He was highly successful in his profes- 

 sion. 



He is survived by his wife, Alletta 

 Lewis, and the following daughters and 

 sons : George Lewis, of Puyallup, Wash. ; 

 Dr. Alfred Lewis, of Valentine, Neb.; 

 James Lewis, Jr., of Minneapolis; Mrs. 

 Joseph La Pine, Mrs. Florence Hough, 

 Mrs. Anna Goodland, Howard T. Lewis, 

 Bessie and May Lewis. 



Mrs* Daniel E. Gorman. 



Mrs. Gorman, wife of Daniel E. Gor- 

 man, of Williamsport, Pa., passed peace- 

 fully away November 3, after a lingering 

 and painful illness. Mrs. Gorman was 

 a faithful helpmeet of her husband, and 

 took active interest in their business, 

 which in eight years has grown to a 

 fairly good sized plant, consisting of 

 some 40,000 square feet of glass. A 

 woman of much energj^, sterling char- 

 acter and many attractive qualities, her 

 death is mourned by a large circle of 

 friends. She is survived by her husband 

 and an adopted daughter. 



Joseph Bradford. 



Joseph Bradford, a pioneer resident of 

 Columbus, O., died Sunday, November 8, 

 at his home, 26 South Garfield avenue, as 

 the result of uremic poisoning. He had 

 been confined for some time prior to bis 

 last illness. He was a well-known flo- 

 rist and an authority upon botany, but 

 spent the last years of his life in other 

 occupations. Seven children and a widow 

 survive. 



Will Greinq-. 



Will Greiner, of Bridgeport, O., was 

 instantly killed November 6, in a run- 

 away accident. 



E. Leedham. 



E. Leedham, the well-known bulb grow- 

 er, died at his home in Santa Cruz, Cal., 

 November 5, at the age of 80 years. He 

 was a genial, kindly gentleman, as well 

 as an expert in his profession, and his 

 death is inourned by a wide circle of 

 friends. Mr. Leedham was born in 

 Leicestershire, England, but emigrated to 

 Nova Scotia in his early manhood. Later 

 he removed to California and lived for 

 some years in San Luis Obispo county be- 

 fore making his home in Santa Cruz, six- 

 teen years ago. He founded the business 

 now conducted by the Leedham Bulb 

 Co., and was its active manager till the 

 time of his death. 



Stratford, Conn. — Henry Meachen is 

 making preparations for the erection of 

 a greenhouse, to take the place of the 

 one recently destroyed by fire. 



NORTHBORO, Mass. — J. L. Moore, pro- 

 prietor of the Northboro Dahlia and 

 Gladiolus Gardens, says that orders are 

 now over four times what they were at 

 the same date last year, and that if the 

 present volume of business keeps up 

 long, he will be obliged to refuse whole- 

 sale orders, so as to protect retail and 

 mail order trade, although his stock is 

 more than doube last year's supply. His 

 orders are largely from old customers, 

 who prophesy a heavy trade in bulbs 

 and general stock in the coming spring. 



