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Title: Annual report of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Identifier: annualreportofmi26minn (find matches)
Year: 1883-1898. (1880s)
Authors: Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Subjects: Minnesota State Horticultural Society; Gardening; Fruit-culture; Horticulture
Publisher: Minneapolis : The Society
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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OBITUARIES. 115 be a question of only a few days when the end would come, he still held on to life with that grim determination and purpose to succeed which were characteristic of him. Althoug:h his life was a cease- less struggle with adverse fate and discouragement, yet he did not live in vain; he fulfilled a mission in life, and he could say with Shakespeare: "Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, "Wears yet a precious jewel in her head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks. Sermons in stones, and good in everything." Excelsior, Minn., Feb. 15,1898. —A. G. Long. GEO. W. CLARK, LATE OF WINONA, MINN. Geo. W. Clark, died Aug seven children, the young Mr. Clark was born in 1827. He was one of the of Winona Co., lo- the fall of 1851, ward included in Clark mar- Lockwood, of in Feb., 1857, his farm five years, t e n t i o n 3,1897, leaving a widow and est eighteen years of age. Lewis Co., N. Y., June 10, first, or pioneer, settlers eating his claim in which was after- the city limits. Mr. ried Miss Jane Waupun, Wis., and occupied for thirty- giving at- mainly t o
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sheep , p a s tur- farm has the last ten among the apple trees i(and in fruit culture successful with from the east that have Minnesota. His exhib- among the best, and his fruit planting in this part eral years an active mem- h ay and age. His been rented for years. He was first to set out took great interest and was remarkably varieties of apples usually been a failure in its at the fairs were success greatly stimulated of the state. He was for sev- ber of the State Horticultural Society. To his family he was known as a kind and affectionate husband and father, and to his neighbors, as an intelligent, candid and honeat man, in all the relations of life. O. M. IX)RD.

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