The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . Frederick W. Ritter. On Thursday, March 1, 19i)6, there passed awaya venerable and much respected member of thecraft at his home in Dayton, C, in the person ofFrederick W. Ritter, at the ripe age ot 90 years,80 of which had been spent as a practical florist.Death was the result ot injuries suffered the previousFriday, when the deceased fell down stairs. It wasthought at first he would recover, but the shock tohis nervous system was too much for the old gen-tleman to bear. He ma

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The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . Frederick W. Ritter. On Thursday, March 1, 19i)6, there passed awaya venerable and much respected member of thecraft at his home in Dayton, C, in the person ofFrederick W. Ritter, at the ripe age ot 90 years, 80 of which had been spent as a practical florist.Death was the result ot injuries suffered the previousFriday, when the deceased fell down stairs. It wasthought at first he would recover, but the shock tohis nervous system was too much for the old gen-tleman to bear. He made his home with his son, H. H. Ritter, the florist, and it was here that theaccident occurred. Mr. Ritter was born in Leipsic, Germany, on July13, 1813. Up to a recent period he was possessedof robust health, and barring accident, promised toreach the century mark. He came to Dayton Au-gust, 1852, and for 50 years past had resided onGrand avenue. He was continuously in the floristbusiness for SO years, a remarkable record, and oneseldom attained in any line of trade or profession.. The I/ate J. C. Rennison. Mr. Ritters wife died 2 8 years ago. He Is sur-vived by four children: F. W. Ritter and H. H.Ritter, both florl.sts; Mrs. J. M. Mellinger, of Ar-canum, and Mr.s. C. F. Rhoades, of Indianapolis. The deceased was a member of the German Pio-neer Verein. The funeral took place Monday, March 5, and theinterment in Woodland Cemetery. J. C. Rennison. J. C. Rennison, the well known florist of SiouxCity, la., died somewhat suddenly on Saturday, Feb-ruary 24, the cau.se of death being indirectly a fall onthe icy sidewalk on the previous Wednesday, fol-lowed by a paralytic stroke, from which he neverrallied. Mr. Rennison was a native ot Newburgh, N. T., where he was born in 1839. As a young man hedevoted his attention to the nur.sery business, butwhen the Civil War broke out he enlisted as a pri-vate, rising to the rank of captain in the FifteenthNew York Cavalry. He was mustered out at