The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-02-25

NIX EDITOR,-Your paper has already an
nounced the terrible accident which has 50
suddenly deprived our village of one Of it's
most active and efficient business men But
this community in which he has so long resid-
ed and with which he has been identified tor SO
many years, will feel that a more extended no.
tice OF his life is due to his memory. In Sac
carappa he was as it were, the centre of life to
the business interest of the place. Senior
member of the firm of Brigham, Clements &
Warren, he was at the head of the principal
numbering company on the Presumpscot, as al
30 OF the most extensive branch of business in
the village. OF late he had also been agent for
the Berlin Falls IN HI Lumber Company, in
which he was an owner, and had an Office in
Portland. On the day of his death he had
been in Portland, as was his custom, and had
returned home early in the afternoon to look
after his business here, The shocking details
of his death have already been published and
are so well known to the public that they need
not be repeated 4srr-e. q .,-. ag
MIR. Brigham was a native of Bridgton, and
was born in that town on the 10th day of ,Janu-
airy, 1911, SO that at the time of his death he
was little more than 56 years of age. He
nrst came to Saccarappa in 1884, and entered
the employment of the late Captain John and
Major Nathaniel Warren, who were then as
sociated in the numbering business under the
firm name of J. & N. Warren. Mr.. Brigham
was at this period about % years of age, un-
married and without fortune. His time " as
divided between the counting-room and the
lumber yard, it being his business to keep the
books OF his employers, and whatever leisure
there might be from this his regular vocation,
to engage in the severer labor of loading, haul
ing off OF pilng lumber. By his habits of in
dustry, faithfuiness and sobriety, he steadily
advanced in favor with his employers and
gradually accumulated an ample fortune. In
1854, when the old firm was finally dissolved,
Mr.. Brigham purchased the interest of Joseph
Walker, Jr., now of Portland, and formed with
George and Lewis p. Warren, sons of Captain
John Warren, and Mr.. Samuel Clements, the
copartnership of which he was senior member
at the time Of his decease. o. -.'l -'lf' 7.Y
MI. brigham was ever a staunch member of
tne republican Union party, but, though fire.
quehtiy urged, he steadily declined to hold any
puDiic once OF Importance because of his 9TH
er business. He was also deeply Interested in
the cause of temperance and an omen and ont
spoken friend of prohibition. OF the JTn;ver.
salist society in Saccarappa, he was one of the
most active members from its first forma+;o,,
and at the time of his death was Superintand-
entof the Sabbath school, in which he eyinced
the same degree of energy and untiring deyo-
ton to duty which have always characterized
him in his busineas relations. !-llsl s.r..-.
From those severe dispensations of Provi-
dence which overwhelm others with grief it
should not be justified as humane or even right
to draw lessons of consolation for ourselves
Whatever of comfort there may be in SO severe
q dlspensation as this, belongs of right to the
ueeply afflicted family who have thus been so
Unexpectedly called to give up forever on this
ear,n' the society and sympathy of tender
anu anectionate husband aud father. Indeed,
"'sn'oi consolation we can find, let us give
~ men, 10 those whose sorrow is keenest, and
with time must wear the deepest-t IN tba
hear'.proken widow, to the daughter and the
son whose first draught from the hitter nnn has
drained it to the lees With fervent ,;rs o..
Of the priceless depths CT believing hearts -.
us say unto them, if we cam - -
Shrink not, human SPIRIT .t,-F+ t
The everlasting arm Is strong to eavet
Look up, look up frail natureI put tby ,rus.
In Him who went down mourning to The Dust
Andovercame the gravel III '
Saccarappa, Feb. %. r.