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tary Commission at Gettysburg, and then with the Army of 

 the Potomac from the Rapidan to Petersburg. In 1868 and 

 1869 he was president of the New York, Flushing and North 

 Side Railroad, and of the New York and Flushing Railroad. 

 In connection with Conrad Poppenhusen, he projected the net- 

 work of railroads now covering Long Island. In 1883 Mr. 

 Judd retired from the presidency of the Orange Judd Company, 

 and was succeeded by his brother, David W. Judd. For some 

 years previous he had been only nominally connected with 

 the company. In 1870 he gave $100,000 for the Orange Judd 

 Hall of Natural Science at Wesleyan University, and con- 

 tributed largely to the building of churches and Sunday- 

 schools, and to other philanthropic enterprises. In 1884 Mr. 

 Judd established the Orange Judd Farmer Company, in Chi- 

 cago. Mr. Judd wrote much for the press, notably his own 



lessons for every Sunday In the year, upon which the later 

 Berean and International lessons were modeled. 



William R. King died November 17, on the Bluefields 

 river, Nicaraugua. He had but recently gone to the tropics 

 for the purpose of establishing a nursery and fruit plantation. 

 He had prepared himself thoroughly for the undertaking by 

 work in the Division of Pomology of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, and by spending a year in the nurseries of R. D. 

 Hoyt, of Seven Oaks, Florida. Mr. King was born at Yellow 

 Springs, Ohio, 24 years ago. 



David McDonald, a florist* of Philadelphia, of Scotch 

 birth, died September 7. 



F. T. McFadden died in Au*gust, at his home near Cincin- 

 nati. He was favorably known in recent years as a green- 

 house builder, and for many years as an appreciative admirer 

 of horticultural pursuits. He was connected with journalism 

 for a time. He was 50 years of age, and was born in Zanes- 

 ville, Ohio. 



D. D. T. Moore, founder *and first editor of The Rural 

 New-Yorker, died June 3. He was born in 1820, at Marcel- 

 lus, N. Y. He founded the Michigan Farmer, and was later 



