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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
JOHN SCHNARR 
Mr. John Schnarr was born in Hessan 
Cassee, Germany, April 4, 1851. At the 
age of about two years he came with his 
parents to this country. The journey was 
made in a sail boat and they landed at 
New Orleans. From New Orleans they 
went by boat up the Mississippi River to 
Quincy, Illinois, where he grew to man¬ 
hood. For a while he was engaged in the 
mercantile business. From this employ¬ 
ment he entered the service of the Noxal 
Shirt Company, as a traveling salesman. 
During the next thirty-one years he trav¬ 
elled for this company and the Harga- 
dine-McKitrick Company. After this 
long period of service there came from 
exposure incident to the work a decline in 
health and he sought relief in Florida. 
He came to Seville about 1905, but very 
soon found his way to Orlando, where he 
lived until he died, October 28, 1919. He 
was married to Mrs. Laura Gilliam of 
Elgin, Illinois, January 5, 1912, who now 
survives him. Soon after arriving in 
Orange county he purchased a grove in 
the Conway section near Orlando. At 
this time the ravages of the white fly was 
CHARLES 
Mr. Charles Pugsley was born Decem¬ 
ber 5, 1851, in Athens County, Ohio. 
The family of eight moved west in 1855, 
settling in Harrison county, Iowa, on a 
farm, where he had the advantages of 
the. common school, high school being out 
of the financial reach of the small farm¬ 
er in that day and place. 
At the age of twenty-one he associated 
Limself with his two older brothers in the 
uppermost in the minds of the citrus 
growers not only in Orange county but 
the entire State. Mr. Schnarr, together 
with his nephew, Mr. Hahn, proceeded to 
develop an insecticide which would be es¬ 
pecially adapted for Florida conditions. 
After many years of experimental work 
they succeeded in compounding Schnarr’s 
Insecticide. This work alone would en¬ 
title him to a very prominent place in the 
history of citrus culture in Florida. He 
had many very amiable qualities and 
traits. He was intensely loyal and his 
honesty was never questioned. He pos¬ 
sessed a most marvelous faith in human¬ 
ity. To illustrate this particular quality 
of mind an incident should be mentioned. 
With possibly one or two exceptions, he 
never refused to ship insecticide to any¬ 
one who ordered it, regardless of their 
financial condition or standing. During 
all his business experience of about four¬ 
teen years, he lost practically no money 
from bad accounts. 
Besides his wife, a brother, William 
Schnarr, survives him. 
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PUGSLEY 
growing of nursery stock. After this 
experience he went to Texas, where he 
spent a season on a sheep ranch. During 
the years 1883-1884 he had his first res¬ 
idence in Florida, coming to Mannville 
with his father, who settled there on a 
tract near town. 
In the. fall of 1884 after spending the 
summer traveling in the west he returned 
to Mannville, and made his home with 
