Eugene Secor

SECOR

Posted By: Debbie Clough Gerischer (email)
Date: 7/23/2005 at 03:15:26

EUGENE SECOR is a name well known to all lovers of trees and parks in Iowa.
He was born in Peekskill, New York, May 13, 1841, and attended the district
schools in his native State. His father possessed a well-selected library and
from this his children gleaned a higher education. In 1862 Mr. Secor came to
Iowa and enlisted in the "hundred days" service but was not called to the
field. Two years later he entered Cornell College at Mount Vernon but was soon
obliged to abandon his studies. He held a number of offices in Winnebago County
during the following fourteen years. But he is best known throughout the
State for his valuable papers on bee-keeping, horticulture and preserving the
beauties of nature in parks and forest reserves. He has been a prominent member
of the State Horticultural Society for many years, having served as director,
president and manager of one of the experimental stations. He has contributed
to journals and magazines both literary and technical for many years, and
written by request a resume of the apiarian industry of the United States and its
exhibit at the World's Fair for the permanent records of that and the Omaha
Expositions. He is a successful bee-keeper, often procuring a ton of honey in a
season. He has served as treasurer, president and general manager of the
National Beekeepers' Society. In 1888 Mr. Secor was chosen trustee of the State
College of Agriculture, serving six years. He is a prominent Republican and
for sixteen years has usually been a delegate to the annual State conventions
and has also served as a delegate to the National Convention in 1892. In 1901
he was elected a Representative in the Twenty-ninth General Assembly and
served as chairman of the committee on horticulture.

-source - History of Iowa, by B. F. Gue, 1903,
Vol 4
-transcribed by Debbie Clough Gerischer

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