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people. He gave to the problems of the peon the
same keen interest as to those of the upper classes.
Though at the time of his death relations be-
tween the United States and Mexican govern-
ments were strained, and feeling against the
United States was high, a popular movement
was inaugurated for the erection of a monument
to his memory. Physically he was short and
heavy-set He was an all-around athlete who
had been the star quarter-back of his college foot-
ball team. He had a ruddy face, with irregular
features and laughing blue eyes, topped by a
mass of red hair. Husk contributed a number
of articles to medical periodicals dealing with
the medical and sanitary problems of the Mexican
people.

[H. W. Jackson, in H. A. Kelly and W. L. Burrage,
Am. Medic. Biogs. (1920); N. Y. Times, Mar. 21,
1916; personal acquaintance.] J. M, P,

HUSMANN, GEORGE (Nov. 4, i827-Nov.
5, 1902), viticulturist and author, was born at
Meyenburg, Prussia, son of J. H. Martin and
Louise Charlotte (Wesselhoeft) Husmann. He
attended school at Meyenburg, where his father
was a village schoolmaster, and was inspired by
him with a love of nature and of horticultural
pursuits. The family emigrated in 1837, took
shares in the Ansiedlungs-Gesellschaft of Phila-
delphia, and in the winter of 1838-39 joined the
company's settlement at Hermann, Mo. George
received instruction in German, English, and
French from his elder brother, Frederick. His
first vineyard was planted on his father's farm
in 1847. Ifl 1850 he went to California, tried
mining, but returned two years later to look af-
ter the farm of a widowed sister. Here he plant-
ed extensive vineyards and orchards, which be-
came known as the model fruit-farm of Missouri.
He married Louise Caroline Kielmann in 1854.
During the Civil War he was quartermaster of
the 4th Infantry, Missouri Volunteers, 1862-63.
In 1869 he moved to Bluffton, Mo., as president
of the Bluffton Wine Company. Following a
ruinous decline in the prices of grapes and wines,
which caused his company to fail, he moved in
1872 to Sedalia, Mo., and started a nursery.
From 1870 to 1875 he shipped millions of cut-
tings of phylloxera-resistant vines to reestablish
French vineyards. In 1878 he went to Columbia,
Mo., as professor and superintendent of pomol-
ogy and forestry at the state university. Inde-
fatigable, he taught, made extensive plantings,
converted the campus into an arboretum, warred
against itinerant pedlers of nursery stock, plead-
ed for recognition and financial support from the
legislature. Three of his children attended the
tmiversity. In 1881 he moved to Napa, CaL,

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where he managed the Talcoa Vineyards, grew
vinifera grapes, and made prize wines. He was
United States statistical agent for California
from i88s to 1900, and was a member of the first
Viticultural Congress at Washington, D. C. He
died at Napa.

Husmann was a small man with sparkling
eyes full of humor, and a bearded, German coun-
tenance. He was energetic, keen, outspoken but
unobtrusive. He enjoyed a reputation as viti-
culturist and wine-maker second only to that of
Nicholas Longworth \_q.v."]. Active in public af-
fairs, he served sixteen years on the Missouri
State Board of Agriculture, of which he was
vice-president, 1867-68; was a member of the
convention of 1865 to revise the Missouri con-
stitution ; was presidential elector for Grant; and
member of the board of curators of the Univer-
sity of Missouri, 1869-72. An unselfish pro-
moter of horticulture, he helped found and was
a charter member of many organizations. By
invitation he contributed many essays to jour-
nals and society reports. He published the Grape
Cultwrist from 1869to J873, and was the author
of An Essay on the Culture of the Grape in the
Great West (1862), The Cultivation of the Na-
tive Grape and Manufacture of American Wines
(1866), American Grape Growing and Wine-
Making (1880), Grape Culture and Wine-Mak-
ing in California (1888).

[Annual Reports Mo. State Hort. Soc., 1859-81;
Ann. Reports Mo. State Board of Agric., 1865-81;
Univ. of Mo. catalogues, 1869-72, 1878-81; Hist, of
Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and Gas-
conade Counties, Mo. (1888); In Memoriam, Prof.
George Husmann (1902); Mo. Hist. Rev., Oct. 1929;
personal information from C. B. Rollins and G. C.
Husmann.] H.D.H-k-r.

HUSSEY, CURTIS GRUBB (Aug. n, 1802-
Apr. 25, 1893), miner and manufacturer, was
born on a farm near York, Pa., the son of Chris-
topher and Lydia (Grubb) Hussey. Soon after
his birth, the family moved to Ohio, where he
grew up, attending the district school in the in-
tervals when he could be spared from the work
of the farm. When he was about eighteen he en-
tered the office of a physician at Mount Pleasant,
Ohio. In 1825 he qualified to practise medicine
and moved to Morgan County, InA, where he
quicldy built up a lucrative practice. Within four
years he had accumulated a capital of several
thousand dollars with which he purchased gen-
eral stores in the territory which he covered in
his practice. The stores, bought as an invest-
ment, grew so rapidly that soon he devoted his
entire time to their management and finally went
into the business of dealing in pork, an impor-
tant product of the section.
Since Pittsburgh was the center through

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