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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
FEB 22 
DEATH OF CHARLES W. IDELL. 
The death of Charles W. Idell, of Hobo¬ 
ken, N. J., on January 10th, following 
that of Mr. Peter H endeuson by two days 
removes from the business community 
an estimable and widely known citizen. 
Mr. Idell was a native of Crosswicks, Bur¬ 
lington County, N. J., where he received 
the rudiments of a common school educa¬ 
tion such as the country schools of his boy¬ 
hood days afforded. In 1848, he came to 
New York City with his father, and en¬ 
gaged in the fruit commission business 
which he continued through life. In 1849, 
he married Miss Josephine B. Beatty, an 
estimable young lady of Allentown, N. J., 
and with his young bride, moved to Hobo¬ 
ken, where they resided continuously till 
his death in the 67th year of his age. Mr. 
Idell was a self-made man, supplementing 
the deficiencies of his early education by 
extensive reading and study in his maturer 
years. He was an early and valued con¬ 
tributor to the columns of the Rural 
New-Yorker, and of late years to other 
agricultural and horticultural journals, 
his efforts being directed more particular¬ 
ly to noting the changes that had occurred 
in the character and kinds of fruits, pack¬ 
ages and methods of shipping during his 
42 yeai's of business life, and to inducing 
growers to strive for a higher standard of 
produce as a means of realizing better 
prices and profits. He identified himself 
with the N. J. State Horticultural Society 
at its first annual meeting in January, 1876, 
served continuously as Vice-President, and 
for eight years was on the Executive Com¬ 
mittee. He was in attendance at every 
annual meeting except the last, and, with 
two or three exceptions, contributed valu¬ 
able papers at each meeting, his last con¬ 
tributions being prepared while battling 
with his fatal illness. His long and ex¬ 
tended business relations with farmers and 
fruit-growers over a wide area of country 
and his thoroughly honest and upright 
methods won their esteem and confidence, 
and those who knew him longest loved him 
best. 
His practical operations in horticulture 
were chiefly confined to the culture of 
flowers—-of which he was passionately fond 
—in his city garden. A few years since ow¬ 
ing to the death of her father. Mrs. Idell 
came into possession of the old homestead, 
and its management devolved on him. Here 
his extensive reading and observations were 
of great advantage to him in developing 
and executing plans for its improvement, 
and much of his leisure time was spent 
there. It was here he encountered the 
drainage problem and his study of the sub¬ 
ject led him to realize its importance and 
necessity, and made him suggest the sub¬ 
ject as a really practical and useful one for 
the fruit-growers of New Jersey to consider, 
and he recommended the horticultural 
society and experiment station to demon¬ 
strate its importance in a practical way. 
Modest and unassuming in his manners, 
ever ready for any duty he felt called to 
perform, his death creates in the com¬ 
munity in which he lived and moved a 
void that is seen and felt. D. B. Idell, one 
of his sons who for years has been associat¬ 
ed with him in business, will continue it. 
w. 
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