Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22.

Medford Horticulturists.

Medford has been in the vanguard many a time, and it is pleasant to know that when the Massachusetts Horticultural Society was formed, among the original (one hundred and thirty-eight) members who subscribed before the organization of the society, March 17, 1829, that the name of Samuel Train of this town is found. During the first fifty years of the society's life the following citizens enrolled in the membership:—

1829	Dr. Samuel Swan.
1829	George Thompson.
1830	Dudley Hall.
1830	John King.
1831	Capt. Martin Burridge.
1834	Nathaniel H. Bishop.

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1845	Edmund T. Hastings, Jr.
1845	Nathaniel Whiting.
1847	John H. Bacon.
1847	Robert Bacon.
1850	George E. Adams.
1851	Charles Hall.
1855	S. B. Perry.
1859	George L. Stearns.
1860	James Bean.
1863	Peter C. Hall.
1864	Caroline B. Chase (Mrs.）
1864	David W. Lothrop.
1865	Francis Brooks.
1865;	Joshua T. Foster.
1865	J. Q, A. Griffin.
1865	William B. Whitcomb.
1865	Ellen M. Gill (Mrs.）
1866	Mrs. Samuel Joyce.
1866	Edward Kakas.
1866	Francis Thieler.
1867	S. R. Roberts.
1868	Dr. H. H. Pillsbury.
1869	William C. Child.
1869	James W. Tufts.
1870	Japhet Sherman.
1871	George S. Buss.
1872	Benj. F. Morrison.
1873	William H. Northey.
1873	Alonzo E. Tainter.
1873	Charles Garfield.

In 1841 Mrs. Lucy Bigelow, widow of Timothy, was made an honorary member, an honor shared, up to 1879, with five other women. Of the above only Mrs. Ellen M. Gill is now living (August 22, 1918). Enfeebled by age, her active work in the society has ceased. E. M. G.