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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
January, 1898. During 1901 to 1904, in¬ 
clusive, he was a member of the executive 
committee. Early in April, 1904, he was 
appointed Assistant Secretary to act until 
the meeting of that year, which was held 
April 26-27-28. At this meeting he was 
elected Secretary, which position he held 
until his death, May 22, 1913. 
In 1909 he was made an honorary 
member. 
You will thus see that he played a very 
important part in the work of the So¬ 
ciety. In his life he worked diligently 
for its best interests. In his death he re¬ 
membered it, for he left as a legacy, to 
the Society, the income from $500.00 
It is not my purpose to dwell upon 
Mr. Painter’s life and activities. Others 
who knew him well, will speak on other 
phases of his work. The measure of life 
is service. If it is a laudable ambition 
for a man to serve his day and generation 
well, then Mr. E. O. Painter achieved that 
ambition. 
E. O. PAINTER, HIS LIFE AND HIS WORK 
Edwin S. Hubbard 
Mr. Presiden t, Ladies and Gentlemen : 
I was surprised to find myself assigned 
to the topic of the Life and Work of E. 
O. Painter on this memorial occasion as 
I feel I cannot begin to do justice to this 
subject. Although I had an acquaintance 
and friendship reaching back to Colonel 
Codrington and Mr. Painter’s early work 
with the Florida Agriculturist, I neces¬ 
sarily have not enjoyed the intimate re¬ 
lations that would arise from being a fel¬ 
low townsman or social and business as¬ 
sociate. 
The main facts of E. O. Painter’s life 
appear in the report of the Necrology 
Committee and as the special life activi¬ 
ties of Mr. Painter are dwelt on by other 
members of the society in this memorial 
session, I will confine myself to considera¬ 
tion of Edward Okie Painter as a man. 
The greatest glory of this great re¬ 
public is the opportunities it gives for the 
development of self made men. Lincoln, 
the rail splitter statesman, Edison, the 
newsboy inventor, Rockefeller, the gro¬ 
cer clerk capitalist, and yet though op¬ 
portunities may be equal the capacity of 
men to grasp opportunities is not equal 
and success is the popular rule for the 
measure of men. 
Some years ago, John D. Rockefeller 
gave a lecture on thrift before the Sunday 
School of his church in Cleveland and 
read items from the little account book 
with which he started business life to show 
how carefully he considered and kept down 
expenses to save money and acquire capi¬ 
tal. Does anybody suppose this lecture 
on thrift will make many of its hearers 
millionaires? Of the hundreds of pupils 
of Joachim, the virtuoso violinist, how 
many ever became artists? Of the thou- 
