Luther married Joanna Twombly April 9, 1848, in Somersworth, New Hampshire.
Mr. La Salle A. Maynard tells "The Story of the Seedless Orange" in The World To-Day. Mrs. Luther C. Tibbits of California obtained in 1872 four orange shoots from the agricultural department of at Washington, sent there by William F. Judson, American consul at Bahia, Brazil. They were presented to him by a native, who had several shoots of a seedless orange tree growing in a swamp on the Amazon. "Mrs. Tibbits brought the infant trees carefully home and her husband planted them in the garden. One died, another was chewed up by a predatory cow, but two lived, and five years later produced 16 oranges. These 16 golden globes and their immediate successors produced results comparable only in value to the famous discovery of another kind of gold in Sutter's millrace and brought fame and no small fortune to their lucky owner."
--The Iola Daily Index (Iola, KS) Mon. Nov. 4, 1907
Luther married Joanna Twombly April 9, 1848, in Somersworth, New Hampshire.
Mr. La Salle A. Maynard tells "The Story of the Seedless Orange" in The World To-Day. Mrs. Luther C. Tibbits of California obtained in 1872 four orange shoots from the agricultural department of at Washington, sent there by William F. Judson, American consul at Bahia, Brazil. They were presented to him by a native, who had several shoots of a seedless orange tree growing in a swamp on the Amazon. "Mrs. Tibbits brought the infant trees carefully home and her husband planted them in the garden. One died, another was chewed up by a predatory cow, but two lived, and five years later produced 16 oranges. These 16 golden globes and their immediate successors produced results comparable only in value to the famous discovery of another kind of gold in Sutter's millrace and brought fame and no small fortune to their lucky owner."
--The Iola Daily Index (Iola, KS) Mon. Nov. 4, 1907
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