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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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S. LAKE 
Once more death has entered our midst and taken from 
us a life-long friend and a good citizen who lias done his 
part in making the country more fruitful and beautiful, 
and set an example which we should all follow. 
David S. Lake, Shenandoah, Iowa, passed away Thurs- 
the school there and later the Academy at Pittsfield, New 
Hampshire. When nineteen years of age, after complet¬ 
ing his studies at the Academy, lie started west, first in 
Wisconsin and later engaged in teaching school in Illi¬ 
nois. Five years later he was employed as a laborer in 
a nursery at Prairie City, Illinois. 
In 1870 he moved to Shenandoah, and started the pres¬ 
ent nursery, which has grown from a few acres to now 
one of the largest in the middle west, and besides what 
nursery stock he grew at Shenandoah, large quantities 
were grow n for him by contract in western New r York 
and Ohio. 
He has said that his first trip to Iowa was on horse 
THE LATE D. S. LAKE 
'7/e has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much: who has gained the respect of intelligent men and 
the love of little children: who has filled his niche and accomplished his task—who has left the world better than he found it. 
whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; irho has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed 
U) express it: who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration: whose 
memory a benediction." —Stanley. 
day. February 2. from an illness with which he has been 
afflicted for several years, though he was confined to his 
bed for only three weeks previous to his death. 
During these three weeks his faculties were as clear 
as ever, and he devoted his time in making arrangements 
for closing his business affairs and providing for the 
continuation of the nurseries and the other varied enter¬ 
prises with which he w as connected. 
He w as born in New Hampshire. January *27. 1843. 
passing his boyhood on his father's farm and attending 
back, selling Osage Orange hedge plants and forest tree 
seedlings to the settlers. This work took him over a very 
great part of the middle west. 
Probably his greatest personal interest was as a grow¬ 
er of apple seedlings. These he grew largely by contract 
in the Kaw Valley in Kansas—and they ran up into the 
millions every year and were distributed all over the 
United States and Canada. The seed was purchased 
from many sources in France, as he deemed it unwise, as 
he said, to place all his eggs in one basket. He also im- 
