being scarcely a week in which something from his pen did not appear in that paper. During Father Clarkson's last illness he requested that Professor Budd be made an editor of the Iowa State Register, continuing the agricultural department. His authorship also included two volumes entitled American Horticultural Manual, which he published in collaboration with Professor N. E. Hanson, one of his "boys." This was the culmination of his work along technical lines and the manual is to be found in all colleges and large libraries in the country. On resigning his position in the Iowa State College in 1900, he was made professor emeritus, an honorary title. He continued' to take an active interest in the college, however, up to the time of his death. He was a pioneer member of the Iowa State Horticultural Society and as its secretary edited all but four or five of the annual reports up to the year 1900.
On the 7th of January, 1860, at Iowa City, Professor Budd was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Breed, of Crown Point, New York, who was there born, reared and educated. She came t0 Iowa with a married sister and engaged in teaching school at Cedar Rapids, where she made the acquaintance of Mr. Budd. She was a member of the old Breed family of Lynn, Massachusetts, the ancestral record being as follows: Allen Breed, 1601-1692 ; Allen Breed, 1626 ; Joseph Breed, 1658-1713; Allen Breed, who was born in 1707, and Huldah Newhall; Eliphalet Breed, who was born in 1750, and wedded Mary Johnson; Allen Breed, 1778-1853, who married Judith Livingston; and Allen Breed, who was born in 1801, married Barbara Baldwin and died in 1877. Among Mrs. Budd's ancestors were two who served in the Revolution : Isaac Livingston, of New Hampshire, and Oliver Ladd, of Vermont. Unto Professor and Mrs. Budd were born a son and daughter. The former, Allen Joseph Budd, was born at Shellsburg, Iowa, and was educated in. the Iowa State College at Ames. He then returned to his native town, where he is engaged in active business. He married Miss Nellie McBeth and has reared and educated a large family, his children being Joseph Arthur, Mrs. June E. Case, Leila, Vera, Sarah Jane, Myron and Alfred. Etta M. Budd, born in Shellsburg, Iowa, accompanied her parents to Ames and was graduated in the Iowa State College. Later she was successfully engaged in the study of art in Boston, New York and Chicago. After the death of her father she continued to live in the parental home and conducted much of the business of the estate. She is the genealogist of the Budd family.
In early life while residing in Benton county, Professor Budd joined the Masonic fraternity, November 14, 1863, and continued his connection with the order until his death. He built and owned the home of Arcadia Lodge, No. 249, A. F. & A. M. in Ames. He took great delight in building operations and found extreme pleasure in erecting some large building, and thus contributing to the welfare and improvement of the city in which it was located. He found rest, recreation, interest and education in travel and visited nearly all of the European countries, Cuba and the various states