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STATE AaEICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
EDMUND F. MABIE, 
Late Member of the Executive Committee of the Society. 
PREPAKED BY N. M. HARRINGTON, DELAVAN. 
Mr. Edmund Foster Mabie, a Life Member of this Society, died at his resi¬ 
dence in Delavan October 26th, 186Y, aged 57 years. Mr. Mabie has so long 
held a prominent position as an enterprising farmer in this State, that a brief 
notice of his life will be proper. 
He was born in Patterson, Putnam County, New York, and came to Wis¬ 
consin in the autumn of 1847. Here he become the proprietor of an exten¬ 
sive and valuable farm in one of the choicest locations of a region celebrated 
for its natural beauty and fertility. 
He possessed a natural aptitude for business, and enjoyed giving a person¬ 
al attention to the innumerable details of the varied transactions in which 
he was engaged. He was a practical farmer, and did much for the introduc¬ 
tion of improved stock on his own farms and in the neighborhood in which he 
lived. For this department of agriculture he had a special fondness, and if 
he is a benefactor of his race, who causes two blades of grass to grow where 
one grew before, surely, none the less so is he who produces two pounds of 
flesh where but one was produced, or who gives us the blood-horse in place of 
the common. 
The unamimous testimony of the community in wich Mr. Mabie lived is, 
that he was an honest man. There was nothing unfair or mean in his deal¬ 
ings. He felt a deep interest in the prosperity of the place in which he had 
made his home, and was ever ready to contribute of his means for the im¬ 
provement of the place, the good of society and all patriotic measures. Thus 
his prosperity was a common blessing. 
He was a man of sensitive spirit and tender heart, though his external man¬ 
ner was not as polished as that of many. 
From early youth, all through life, he had been the subject of strong 
religious convictions, which, like so many others, he long resisted; but in the 
latter part of his life he made a public profession of religion in connection 
with the Congregational Church. A calm trust in the Redeemer characterized 
his last moments. 
