. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. ;31, 1895.] THE BRITISH BEE JC&TATAL. 435 (Mtorial, $tttim, tot. REV. L. L. LANGSTROTH. Last week we had the melancholy duty of announcing the death of this venerable gentle- man, who has been rightly designated '• The Father of American apiculture. We now give some details of his life and work, together with a portrait taken when in his prime. Lorenzo Loraine Langstroth was born in the city of Philadelphia on Christmas Day, in the year 1810. The spirit of the day on which he first saw the light, and that of'the city of to dis
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. ;31, 1895.] THE BRITISH BEE JC&TATAL. 435 (Mtorial, $tttim, tot. REV. L. L. LANGSTROTH. Last week we had the melancholy duty of announcing the death of this venerable gentle- man, who has been rightly designated '• The Father of American apiculture. We now give some details of his life and work, together with a portrait taken when in his prime. Lorenzo Loraine Langstroth was born in the city of Philadelphia on Christmas Day, in the year 1810. The spirit of the day on which he first saw the light, and that of'the city of to discourage Ais "strange ' He could not, however, resist the bent of his nature, but persisted in his observations, and devoted to them much of the time spent by his school-mates in sport. r»> In 1827, at the age of seventeen, he entered Yale College ; and graduated four years later. All readers of Langstroth's work on the " Honey Bee'' have been charmed by its lofti- ness of style and the purity of its diction, and it may be safely argued therefrom that the time passed at college was conscientiously and industriously spent. His father's means having failed, he was considered competent to teach in the college in which he had received his. " brotherly love," seems ever to have animated him, for love to others has been the great characteristic of his life. In his early days he took an unusual interest in insect life. His parents were intelligent people, and in com- fortable circumstances ; but they did not encourage their son's studies in this direction. No books on natural history were ever placed in his hands; but rather, every means taken education. He was for two years mathematical tutor in the college, and was thus enabled to sustain the expenses of his theological course. In May, 1836, he was ordained pastor of a Congregational Church, Andover, Massachu- setts. Mr. Langstroth devoted himself with all his strength and assiduity to the duties of
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