FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
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He is survived by a widow and two 
daughters, Mrs. S. G. Wilmer, of Balti¬ 
more, and Mrs. Charles D. Abbott, of 
Jacksonville. 
The Rev. James H. White, of Island 
Home, Georgiana, on Merritt’s Island, 
was for many years a member of this So¬ 
ciety, and died at the home of his daugh¬ 
ter, Mrs. J. B. Bowers, Rock Ledge, Fla., 
January 24, 1913, aged 89 years, 1 month 
and 5 days. After a happy married life 
of sixty-eight years he left a widow 87 
years old. 
Mr. White was a lineal descendant in 
the seventh generation of Peregrim 
White, the first white child born in New 
England. 
Mr. White came to Florida in 1875 
and started an orange grove on Merritt’s 
Island. He was an intellectual man, who 
made wide researches of many subjects. 
He made valuable contributions to the 
horticultural press, and will probably be 
best remembered by the old timers of this 
Society fbr the exhaustive series of ar¬ 
ticles on the comparative climatology of 
California and Florida, to the manifest 
advantage of Florida. 
After the opening of this meeting this 
committee was informed that Col. S. S. 
Harvey died in Havana, Cuba, February 
2 5 > 1913. 
Colonel Harvey was a life member of 
this Society, and we are sorry information 
came so late we could get no further par¬ 
ticulars of his son. The old members of 
this Society will remember that Colonel 
Harvey was located at Molino, near Pen¬ 
sacola, about twenty-five years ago, and 
had orchards of LeConte pears and oth¬ 
er deciduous fruits. About twenty years 
ago he was associated with the Farmers’ 
Alliance movement, which was of short 
duration. Colonel Harvey, Senator A. S. 
Mann and A. H. Manville were associat¬ 
ed in a citrus fruit auction in Jackson¬ 
ville, Florida, which unfortunately was 
broken up by the 1895 freeze. 
After the ’95 freeze Colonel Harvey 
went to Cuba and led an active life till 
the time of his death. 
A picturesque, original and forceful 
character of large and varied ability, his 
loss will be regretted by all members of 
this Society who knew him. 
E. S. Hubbard, 
Edgar A. Wright. 
