Necrology 
E. S. Hubbard and Edgar A, Wright 
KEY. J. F. SUNDELL 
Rt. Rev. J. F. Sundell was born near 
the city of Upsala in Sweden in 1843, 
and died at Lake Mary, Florida, Sept. 
26th, 1913, aged 69 years, and 10 months. 
He was survived by a widow and three 
children. Mrs. Aubrey Moran, Mrs. 
Samuel McBride and a son, Oscar D. 
Sundell, who died Dec. 16th, 1913, and 
also by two step-daughters, Mrs. J. E. 
Rose and Mrs. W. A. Willsey. Mr. Sun¬ 
dell came to this country when he was 
about 30 years of age and owned a farm 
in the State of Maine for 14 years, but 
tiring of the cold winters, he moved to 
Florida in 1883. He was interested in 
real estate and worked for the settling 
and upbuilding of Florida. He was a 
Presbyterian clergyman for twenty years 
and after retiring from the ministry, for 
several years had charge of the orange 
grove of Mr. C. Marot Townsend of Phil¬ 
adelphia, at Lake Mary. Mr. Sundell was 
an even tempered man of a sunny dispo¬ 
sition who was loved and respected by all 
who knew him. 
CHARLES S. BUSIINELL 
Charles S. Bushnell was born in New 
York State, Feb. 13, 1847, an d died * n 
Arcadia, Feb. 1, 1914, aged nearly sixty- 
seven years. Plis father, F. S. Bushnell, 
went to New York State from Louis¬ 
iana when a boy and was educated and 
married there, removing to Florida after 
his children were grown. Mr Charles 
S. Bushnell lived in Florida many years. 
For ten years he was employed by the 
old F. C. & P. R. R., now the Seaboard 
Air Line, and then resigned to move to 
Arcadia and live on his orange grove. 
He was a public-spirited man who 
worked in every way for the advance¬ 
ment of Arcadia, DeSoto County and 
horticulture. He was president of the 
local Farmers’ Institute, President of the 
former Arcadia Citrus Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation and member of the Growers’ and 
Shippers’ League and the Florida State 
Horticultural Society. He is survived by 
his wife. Public spirited men like Mr. 
Bushnell are missed in any community. 
HENRY M. FLAGLER 
Henry M. Flagler was made an honor¬ 
ary member of this society at the meet¬ 
ing in Miami in 1903, where he addressed 
this society and said in the course of a 
few remarks: “It is not the size of the 
thing we do, but the way in which we 
do it”; and, “The man who cultivates 
his five acres or ten acres industriously 
and soberly, that man has his reward.” 
No more striking personality than Mr. 
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