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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
pathies to relatives and friends of these 
deceased members. 
Resolved that these resolutions be 
spread upon our minutes; that suitable 
memorial notices be printed in the 
forthcoming Report of the Society; 
that the same report shall be dedicated 
to the memory of our deceased Presi¬ 
dent, Charles Tobin McCarty, and that 
this dedication so appear on the title 
page. 
CHARLES TOBIN McCARTY. 
“Our self-made men are the glory of 
our institutions.” 
Charles Tobin McCarty was born at 
Green Bay, Wisconsin, on February 
24th, ia the year 1857. 
He came of blood which had proved 
its staunchness amid the dangers and 
hardships of a new land; he owed his 
being to parents noted for energy of 
brain and brawn, in a community 
where each person must of necessity, 
have possessed something of the he¬ 
roic; he sprang from a race which could 
not be moulded into unchangeable 
austerity even by the exigencies of 
pioneer life. He was the son of a 
frontiersman and he early took upon 
his young shoulders his share of that 
father’s burdens. Here it was that his 
inheritance from his Celtic ancestry 
stood him in good stead. It made him 
cheerful in the midst of difficulties; it 
gave him the power to see poetical 
beauty as well as practical opportunity 
in the pine forests about him; it fired 
him with ambition, and whispered to 
him continuously of great things to be 
done in the world, even though that 
world seemed an unconquerable wilder¬ 
ness. 
He was a boy in whose sturdy man¬ 
liness his father felt a just pride, upon 
whose gentleness his mother relied; 
whose courage won the respect of his 
brothers and whose courtesy made 
glad the hearts of his sisters. 
He gave of himself freely, of his 
warm sympathy, of his mental activity^ 
and by this very generosity created 
for himself a little higher plane; opened 
up for himself the way along which he 
resolutely trod toward loftier ideals. 
He was, from his earliest years, con¬ 
sumed with a thirst for knowledge, for 
education, apparently realizing from 
the first that without this he could not 
reach the heights on which he had 
fixed his eyes. Only those who are 
acquainted with the limited education¬ 
al advantages of the West in those 
days, can appreciate the difficulties in 
his way. Whatever they were he 
surmounted them, and in 1878 entered 
Tilford Collegiate Academy at Vinton, 
Iowa, with so many credits that he 
graduated from that institution a year 
later. 
In the class with him was Miss 
Elizabeth Matter, whose record in 
school work was equal to his own. As 
he had been one marked and set apart, 
so had she been a leader, a forceful, 
independent spirit. Upon the stage 
from which these two delivered their 
addresses, they were made man and 
wife, on the day of their graduation. 
Life as they could see it ahead of them, 
was not a path of roses, but they enter¬ 
ed upon it confidently, secure in the 
knowledge of their tried powers, ani¬ 
mated by kindred ambitions, and sure 
that the depth of their affections would 
