A continuous business relationship of 40 years or more is certainiy a fair test of integrity and honorable dealing.” 
Our Golden Roll of fionor. 
The feeling of gratification that we experience in being able to reproduce the portraits of twelve 
friends and customers, on the opposite page, and the long list of names of those from whom we have 
heard, whose patronage we have retained through all the changes of forty years or more, cannot be 
expressed in words. However, we wish to say that we appreciate the confidence and esteem extended 
and expressed in the continued long, pleasant business relations. It is worthy of mention that Mr. 
J. W. Bailey, Newtouville, when kindly giving us permission to use his name and photograph, in¬ 
formed us that not only had he been a customer since 1850, but his father, the late Mr. Job Bailey, of 
North Scituate, had traded with the house from its beginning, in 1822, until the time of his death. 
Our old friend, Mr. I. N. Howland (of Randall’s Boston, Hanover and Pembroke Express), who 
has bought from us goods for his own use and for his customers for forty years, says, “ that the name 
‘ Breck ’ is ‘ a household word ’ in my territory is attested by the thousands of orders I have carried 
you year after year.” 
It is with sincere regret that we are again called upon to chronicle the passing 
of one whose name was inscribed on our Golden Roll of Honor — Hon. Benjamin 
G. Smith, whose death occurred at his residence in Cambridge, last September. 
Mr. Smith was a staunch friend of the late Hon. Joseph Breck, and also of his son, 
Hon. C. H. B. Breck, president of the Joseph Breck & Sons Corporation. It was only 
some two weeks before his decease that he visited Mr. Breck at our own store, and 
it was then remarked how hale and vigorous he was for a person of nearly 90 years. 
Mr. Smith was a well-known horticulturist and a prominent citizen of Cambridge. 
He was in business in Boston until 1865, when he retired. Of late years he had 
given his attention to the cultivation of fruits. He was a life member of the Mass. 
Horticultural Society, and for 30 years he was its vice-president. He was treasurer 
of the American Pomological Society. He was also a life member of the American 
Forestry Association, Bay State Agricultural Society, Middlesex Agricultural So¬ 
ciety and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 
Customers whose Patronage we have Retained from 40 to 71 Years: 
Mrs. Adeline W. Griswold, Belmont. 60 yrs. 
Mr. Frederick H. Greenwood, Cambridge, 60 
Mr. M. C. Dizer, E. Weymouth. 50 
Mr. J. W. Bailey, Newtonville . 50 
Mr. Wm. G. Lewis, Framingham. 50 
Mr. Seth Foster, Norwell. 45 
Mr. Urban Derby, Concord. . 43 
Mr. John Fisk, Billerica . 40 
Mr. I. N. Howland, W. Duxbury. 40 
Mr. J. Whitehead, Saugus. 40 
Mr. Tlieo. G. Dennett, Somerville. 40 
Mr. Henry M. Wiswall, Watertown . 40 
Mr. Aaron Hill, Woburn. 40 
Mr. John Hill, Woburn . 40 
Mr. J. E. Wood, Enfield. 40 
Mr. Alvan L. Lovejoy, Boston. 40 
Mr. Charles F. Kimball, Dedham. 40 
Mr. J. O. Bisbee, Stoughton. 61 
Mr. J. E. Tolnian, Waltham. 55 
Dr. T. E. Francis, Brookline . 50 
Mr. W. S. Hill, Woburn . 50 
Mr. Asa Locke, Arlington. 50 
Mr. E. A. Studley, Boston. 50 
Mr. J. S. Blatchford, Wabau. 48 
Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Currier, Melrose.45 
Mr. John Gerald, Canton. 45 
Mr. Augustus Flagg, Waltham . 40 
Mr. W. K. Gilmore,Norfolk. 40 
Mr. J. W. Glynn, So. Boston.40 
1104. F. L. Carney, Sheepscott, Me . 50 
Mr. John S. Tewksbury, Winthrop, Mass. 49 
Mr. Asaliel Wheeler, Boston . 47 
Mr. A. D. Puffer, Medford. 42 
AifWe desire to add to our Golden Roll of Honor the names of all custom¬ 
ers qualified by time to be included, and solicit their correspondence. 
Mr. L. W. Lincoln, Woburn 
Rev. W. Ii. Wilcox, Malden 
Mr. Moses Hemenway, Stoueham 
Mr. Cyrus Littlefield, Avon 
Mr. Charles E. Grant, Concord 
*Mr. Benjamin G. Smith, Cambridge. . . . 
Mr. Nathaniel T. Allen, West Newton... 
Mr. Milo H. Shattuck, Groton. 
Mr. Alexander McGaw, South Braintree.. 
♦Mr. E. G. Andrus, East Weymouth. 
Mr. W. II. Baldwin, Pres. Y.M.C.U., Boston 
Mr. R. B. Leuchias, Brookline 
Mr. David C. Robbins, Malden 
Mr. Stead, Woburn. 
Mr. John H. Reed, West Roxbury 
Mr. J. P. Conant, Stoneham 
Mr. Josiah Reed, South Weymouth . 
♦Mr. Franklin King (E.& F. King),Boston 
Mr. S. A. Stetson, Boston. 
♦Mr. George Bird, Cambridge 
Mr. G. B. Talbot, Norwood. 
Mr. John S. Richards, Brookline 
Mr. S. W. Grant, Wrentham 
Mr. C. S. Bates, Cohasset. 
Mr. Samuel T. Sharpe, Watertown. 
*Mr. Fearing Burr, Hingham Centre .... 
Mr. E. A. Brackett, Winchester. 
Mr. J. Harrigan, East P'oxboro. 
Mr..Matthew H. Burr, Hingham Centre.. 
Mr. Daniel Bowker, Malden 
Rev. C. S. Locke, West Dedham 
Dr. B. B. Chandler, Hyde Park. 
♦Deceased 
