THIRTY-THIRD BIENNIAL SESSION 
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Lowell Byrns Jjidson. 
Professor Judson, assistant secretary of this society from 1907-1911, 
died March 7, 1911 at the age of thirty-four years and two months. His 
early days were spent in the city of his birth, Lansing, Michigan, where 
he secured his primary education. He later attended Northwestern Uni- 
versity and graduated from Harvard University in 1901, and the Michigan 
Agricultural College in 1903. From this date until 1906 he occupied the chair 
of Horticulture in the University of Idaho, thence he was called to Cornell 
University as assistant Professor in horticulture. While on the Pacific 
coast Professor Judson took an active part in the promotion of all matters 
pomological and was held in high respect by the foremost workers in fruit 
growing throughout that section. In his work at Cornell he became es- 
pecially interested in floriculture, sub-tropical fruits and the growing of 
vegetables, and was associated with a brother in managing a fruit farm at 
Kinderhook, New York. Not only was he a student of the sciences, es- 
pecially those pertaining to plant life, but he was an artist and an accom- 
plished musician. His versatile talents were a source of delight to his 
many friends and auditors. Not infrequently the same convention has been 
entertained by him as both a lecturer and a violinist, and with an equal 
degree of appreciation. His natural diffidence and aversion to ostentation 
was a large element in governing the fact that only a few of the many 
people that he met came to fully appreciate his many splendid qualities. 
Claudius L. Hoag. 
The death of Mr. Hoag on Nov. 12, 1913 at his home in Lockport, New 
York, marked the passing of one of America’s foremost workers with fruit. 
For over half a century he had been a close student and a devoted experi- 
menter with the grape. The names of Hoag and Niagara grape are linked 
inseparably. The parent vine of this variety still flourishes on the original 
Hoag Homestead, now the State Odd Fellow’s Home. 
Mr. Hoag was frequently termed the “Burbank of the vineyards,” 
Though educated with the intent of becoming a physician, as a young man 
he developed the pioneering trait of his quaker ancestry, and in “forty-nine 9 " 
joined with the army of gold-seekers that went to California. On his return 
home after several years on the Pacific coast he took up experimental work 
in grape culture, and ever since had been an ardent worker in the develop- 
ment of this fruit, making the Hoag home in Lockport a famous spot in grape 
investigations. He was the last survivor of the charter members of the 
Western New York Horticultural Society. Born at Pittstown, Rensselaer 
County, New York, January 25, 1825, he lived to make Niagara County of 
the same state, notable through its white grape. 
A wife and four daughters survive him, as he takes his long sleep, 
and he is deeply mourned and sincerely missed by a host of horticultural 
friends throughout the country. 
