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Title: Germantown Gardens and Gardeners
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Jellett, Edwin C. (Edwin Costley), 1860-1929.
Subjects: Gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Germantown (Philadelphia). Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Biography.
Publisher: Philadelphia: Horace F. McCann
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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to this he gave his best attention until hislast illness. Thomas Meehan was a corresponding memberof many learned societies, and was vice-president of theAcademy of the Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, for morethan 20 years. Upon the death of Joseph Leidy he wastendered the presidency of this great institution, but this onaccount of deafness, he did not feel free to accept. Hetraveled throughout Western America and Canada, and uponreturning from his last long trip, published Notes onAlaska. But his best works are yet to be presented.Technique at its best is but artificial,—flowers though beauti-ful are silent, and the greatest thing in the active universe wesee is man, and to Thomas Meehan the good in, and the use-fulness of man, most appealed. It was this love of manwhich made him the force he was, and charged him with amagnetism which charmed and won his most humble associ-ate. I know not one, great or small, associated with him,who did not love him. He loved children, and the best
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Thomas Meehan ss years of his life were given to the improvement of the PublicSchool System of Pennsylvania. It was he who introducedNature Study and Kindergartens to our Public Schools,and the care and elevation of negro children received his bestattention. In recognition of this a Germantown school isnamed in his honor. He was the organizer and constantchampion of the small parks movement, and by his directefforts secured Bartram, Vernon, and other small parksto the city. He was the founder of The CommercialMuseum. While doing these great works, he was State Botanistof Pennsylvania, teacher of the Ladies Botany Class, alocal institution which met at his home once a week, andlecturer to the Germantown Horticultural Society. Heprojected new streets and named them, introduced brick forthe paving of streets, and took under his personal oversightevery public school in Germantown. In all his multifariousworks he was above suspicion, and he lived and died anhonest man. In works he was most

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