. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 466 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. July 29. sphere of usefulness the veteran Justus Van Deusen, in the 83rd year of his life. Wc do not know what heaven is like ; but we have a right to assume that those qualities of heart and mind that we are commanded to cultivate here will, under perfect direction, find wider scope and more ample employment in the hereafter. We rejoice that our friend was spared the period of de- crepitude that usually falls to the aged. Attendants at our national conventions, no matter how distant, have usually found him present, displ
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 466 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. July 29. sphere of usefulness the veteran Justus Van Deusen, in the 83rd year of his life. Wc do not know what heaven is like ; but we have a right to assume that those qualities of heart and mind that we are commanded to cultivate here will, under perfect direction, find wider scope and more ample employment in the hereafter. We rejoice that our friend was spared the period of de- crepitude that usually falls to the aged. Attendants at our national conventions, no matter how distant, have usually found him present, displaying the vigor of body and mind of men a score of years his junior. His presence was delightful, and a visit with him was an incentive to the ways that lead upward. As his nephew, Capt. Hetherington, well says, he was a line example of the Christian gentleman. From early manhood to 1848 he was engaged in the jewelry business. In the year following, the Van Deusen family built the woolen factory at Sprout Brook, which he ran for many years until he converted it Into a comb-founda- tion factory. He was a fine mechanic, and was satisfled with nothing but the highest grade of material and workmanship. It is but justice to say that every skein of yarn and every foot of foundation turned out from his factory had workt Into it the trademark of his life—the best. From small beginnings, because of the prejudices of bee-keepers against the fiat-bot- tom cell, the trade in this foundation has steadily increast to large proportions; and the greatest tribute ever paid Mr. Deusen's good judgment is the recent adoption, by the most extensive manufacturers of beekeepers'supplies in the world, of the flat-bottom cell in their highest grade of improved foundation. He was the father of the late C. C. Van Deusen, the origi- nator of several valuable inventions in bee-keeping, and whose tragic death, together with his wife, on their way to the World's Fair, so shockt the bee-keeping world. P. U.
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