PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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illustrated book of complete information 
about the cemetery. 
, Annual Report of Smithsonian In- 
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of officers and valuable scientific pa- 
pers; 546 pages; illustrated; Govern- 
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OBITUARY 
Dexter Mason Ferry, probably the 
most widely known business man of 
Detroit, Mich., and head of the world 
known seed house which bears his 
name, was found dead in his bed, No- 
vember 11. He had not been in ro- 
bust health since the death of his wife, 
in 1906, but did not seem to be suf- 
fering from illness, and his death 
came as a shock. Mr. Ferry was 74 
years old. He began life a poor boy, 
the son of a wagonmaker in Lowville, 
N. Y., lost his father in 1836 and then 
his family removed to Penfield, eight 
miles from Rochester, N. Y. Here he 
attended the country school until he 
was sixteen years of age, when he 
engaged to work for a neighboring 
farmer for $10 per month. Going to 
Detroit in 1852, he obtained a position 
with a book and stationery house first 
as an errand boy, then as a salesman 
and later as a bookkeeper. His farm 
training, however, combined with his 
acquired knowledge of business, sug- 
gested to him engaging in the 
sale of seeds, and in 1856 he started 
the career that brought him fame and 
fortune. With M. T. Gardner he be- 
gan business as the firm of M. T. 
Gardner & Co., the association of 
their interests lasting for thirteen 
years, when Mr. 'Ferry bought out his 
partner and assumed the management 
of the concern, changing the name to 
D. M. Ferry & Company. 
* * * 
Obadiah Brown Hadwen, horticul- 
turist, agriculturist, benefactor, public 
servant, and one of the most widely 
known citizens of Worcester, Mass., 
died suddenly October 24, 1907, of 
gcute bronchitis and heart dis- 
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