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AMERICAN P0M0E0GICAE SOCIETY 
W, F, Heikes. 
Major Heikes who became a life member of the Society in 1903 died at 
his home in Huntsville, Alabama, August, 1911. He was a quiet modest man 
of untiring energy and zeal with a wealth of warm geniality who won a 
host of earnest friends through his long years of active business life. He 
was of the stock of a famous family of nurserymen. His grandfather Is 
cited as the first man who propagated fruit trees by the root graft method 
west of the Alleghanies in 1822. 
The demise of Mr. Heikes was a severe loss to the nursery trade of the 
whole country, the south in particular. The society knew little of him dur- 
ing these later years of his very busy life, but felt the force of his loyal 
help and influence which was greatly appreciated by those familiar with his 
life and labor. 
William Smith. 
Mr. Smith was born in Canterbury, England, 1,837 and came to this 
country at the age of eighteen. He immediately settled in Geneva and at 
first was interested in market gardening and afterwards in connection with 
his brothers, Thomas and Edward, started in the nursery business under 
the firm style of W. T. & E. Smith. 
About 1865 Edward Smith withdrew and the business was conducted as 
W. & T. Smith until it was incorporated in 1892. 
At the time of his death, February 6, 1912, Mr. Smith was President of the 
Company. He was also president of the Standard Optical Company of 
Geneva and a director in a number of other business and banking organ- 
izations. 
He was largely interested in educational work, and maintained the 
Brook’s Astronomical Observatory. Though never married he was much 
Interested in woman’s development and a few years before his death gave 
a large part of his means toward the founding of the William Smith College, 
and institution established in Geneva, New York, for the higher education 
of women. 
P. F. Williams. 
On December 4th, 1912, at Ashville, N. C., whence he had gone in search 
of rest, recreation and Improvement, Professor P. F. Williams of Auburn, 
Ala., passed, leaving a young widow, other relatives and many warm friends 
to mourn his untimely death. He was a genial, earnest hard-working and 
enthusiastic laborer in the horticulture of the South where he was doing a 
splendid work. Southern horticulture and American pomology suffer a 
distinct loss in the passing of this bright young man and we extend in 
deepest sincerity our heartfelt sympathy to his grief stricken wife and 
other relatives. — American Pomologist. 
