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AMERICAN POMOROGICAR SOCIETY 
He was interested in everything that tended to the upbuilding of the 
State and community in which he lived : He was one of the charter members 
of the First Baptist Church in DeLand, organized in 1880: He was one of 
the oldest members of the Board of Trustees of John B. Stetson University 
at DeLand, and was still a member at the time of his death: He was a 
member of the Masonic Order, and Odd Fellows; a charter member of the 
Florida State Horticultural Society and served as Secretary for a number 
of years prior to his death; the first president of the Jacksonville Y. M. C. 
A. ; a foremost earnest worker for the Children’s Home Society and City Mis- 
sion; a member of the Municipal Dock Committee, and his eyes were on South 
America. Seeing the vast opportunities not only for South America but for 
Florida with the development of this country he was endeavoring to open 
the way for closer communications and trade interests. 
He was the first chairman of the Committee on Foreign Commerce of 
the Jacksonville Board of Trade. 
He may truly be classed as a developer. 
He was distinctively a man of progressive ideas and endeavors, and 
threw his whole soul and energy into the bettering of conditions in horti- 
culture and agriculture through every section of the state. His was a master 
mind — an analyzing mind, and as great men are gentle, the beautiful gentle- 
ness of his nature finds illustration in the high esteem in which he was 
held in the business and commercial world. 
Early in the forenoon of May 22nd, 1918, while crossing the S't. Johns 
River on the public ferry boat, en route to his fertilizer works aft South 
Jacksonville, he was seized with a fit of coughing and vomiting, and step- 
ping to the outer rail of the boat, lost his balance and fell into the riveh and 
was drowned. 
He is survived by his wife, Martha S. Painter, and one daughter, Okie 
C. Painter. The latter succeeded him as President of the E. O. Painter 
Fertilizer Company. 
He was universally beloved by all who knew him and in his death our 
Society has lost an ardent worker and one of its most active supporters. 
G. L. T. 
Lewis Chase. 
In the death of Lewis Chase of Rochester, New York, this society lojst 
one of its valued life members. Mr. Chase was born in Maine, Jan. 22, 1830, 
and died in Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 5, 1911. For fifty-six years of this eighty- 
one years he was an active nurseryman of unusual business acumen. His 
first venture in this direction was with two brothers, Ethan A. and Martin 
V. B., with whom he began a business at Chase’s Mills in Maine in 1857. 
In 1868 he and Ethan A. moved to Rochester where they organized under 
the name of Chase Brothers Nursery Company. As principal founder he 
was made president of this concern and remained such to the time of his 
death. He was an ardent admirer of fruits and trees and other plants and 
remained devoted to them to the last. American pomology suffered a 
severe loss in his death since as in all lines of endeavor vigorous men of 
integrity, devoted to high business and civic ideals are all too rare. His 
