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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
HENRY A 
Mr. Henry A. Hempel, founder of 
Gotha, Orange county, Florida, and a 
former member of the State Horticul¬ 
tural Society, died March 31, 1920, at 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
Mr. Hempel was born in Walters- 
hausen, Gotha, Germany, on October 21, 
1836, and after the early death of his 
father, a weaver, he became an appren¬ 
tice in a large printing establishment. 
Coming to the United States in 1867 he 
followed his printer’s trade in several 
Western states, coming to Buffalo, N. Y., 
in 1876. He had in the meantime become 
an American citizen and decided to make 
Buffalo his home. 
Mr. Hempel is the inventor of the 
printer’s metal quoin which is now used 
all over the civilized world in printing es¬ 
tablishments. 
In 1879 Mr. Hempel took his first trip 
to Florida in a search for better health, 
and was so enchanted by the climate and 
DR. T. G. 
Dr. T. G. Julian was born Sept. 19, 
1864, at the old home place near Frank¬ 
fort, Ky., which had been the home of the 
Julians for four generations. He attend¬ 
ed and graduated from the old Kentucky 
Military Institute, then studied pharmacy, 
graduating with high honors at the School 
of Pharmacy, Louisville, Ky. He then 
went into the drug business in Mt. Ster¬ 
ling, Ky., where he remained for eight 
years. 
He had suffered with rheumatism for 
fifteen years so in 1894 he came to Flor- 
. HEMPEL 
natural beauties that he purchased a large 
tract of land in Orange county, near Or¬ 
lando. Here he established the village of 
Gotha, named in memory of his birth 
place, building himself a handsome resi¬ 
dence and bringing to it as permanent set¬ 
tlers many German-speaking families. 
For the next thirty years he continued to 
make Florida his home, going North to 
Buffalo each summer to look after the 
manufacture of his printer’s quoins. 
Mr. Hempel was much interested in 
orange culture, establishing and operating 
a number of groves, and brought to 
southern Florida a number of improved 
varieties of economic plants and breeds 
of stock. 
He is survived by his widow and four 
children, Mrs. F. L. Lewton, of Washing¬ 
ton, D. C.; Adolph Hempel, of Sao 
Paulo, Brazil; Mrs. J. C. Lang, and Otto 
F. Hempel, of Buffalo. 
JULIAN 
ida for his health. From that time he 
made a study of orange culture, devoting 
all of his time and attention to it. He 
came to Clearwater to locate in 1899 and 
purchased several orange groves which 
he owned at the time of his death. 
I have heard Dr. Julian say many times 
that he owed his improved health to Flor¬ 
ida climate and wished to repay by doing 
something for the people of Florida. He 
made a special study of the disease in cit¬ 
rus trees called “foot-rot,” and was so 
successful in curing it in his own groves 
