Report of Necrology Committee 
The Necrology Committee submits the 
following report: 
Miss Doris F. Worcester, only child 
of C. IT and L. E. H. Worcester, Pomo¬ 
na, Florida. Born in Louisville, Ky., 
June 14, 1896. Died in Havana, Cuba, 
July 9, 1912. A brief notice of the sad 
circumstances of Miss Worcester’s death 
appeared at the close of this Society’s 
1912 proceedings. Attending the Socie¬ 
ty’s meeting at Miami in apparently good 
health she was taken with typhoid fever 
on the trip to Cuba, and after a lingering 
illness died in the hospital at Havana. 
The heartfelt sympathy of all members 
of this Society who knew her or of her 
has been and is extended to her parents, 
who state “she was a dear child, and all 
who knew her loved her.” 
Professor James Willis Westlake, of 
Lake Helen, was for many years a prom¬ 
inent and active member of this Society. 
The following very complete notice is 
from the Florida Times-Union of Octo¬ 
ber 22, 1912: 
Lake Helen, Oct. 21.—Prof. James 
Willis Westlake, one of Volusia county’s 
most respected and prominent inhabi¬ 
tants, passed away at his beautiful home 
in Lake Helen on October 18 at 2 p. m. 
Professor Westlake was 82 years of age, 
and had been in feeble health for some 
months, and had been confined to his bed 
for some time. Professor Westlake was 
born in Devonshire, England, and came to 
America when quite young. He was pre¬ 
pared for college at Wyoming, Pa., semi¬ 
nary, and was afterwards graduated from 
the Union University, of New York, with 
the highest honors. In 1861 he enlisted 
as sergeant major in the Twenty-third 
Volunteer Militia, and served until mus¬ 
tered out. He then taught for many 
years in prominent schools and colleges. 
He occupied the cTMr of English litera¬ 
ture in the Baltimore City College, and 
was also; in charge of the same depart¬ 
ment in the Millersville, Pa., State Nor¬ 
mal School for seventeen years. 
He was the author of several well 
known text-books, among them Three 
Thousand Practice Words, Common 
School Literature, and manv uncollected 
poems and essays. 
He was a charter member of the Psi 
Upsilon fraternity, a Knight Templar, 
also a member of Monterey Lodge I. O. 
O. F., of Lancaster, Pa. 
In 1886 he came to Florida and located 
at Lake Helen, where he lived a quiet, 
studious life among his books and orange 
groves. 
He was a figure of national importance 
as author and educator, but people who 
really knew him recognized -in 'him a 
man of the gentlest traits, devoted to 
children and animals, a character of ster¬ 
ling worth, his long life an example. His 
life was gentle and the elements so mixed 
in him that nature might stand up and 
say to all the world, “this was a man.” 
