The Portland daily press., 1868-07-30

In the death of Mr. Noyes, which took place
suddenly, on Tuesday night, July 49, this COM
munity and the private circle of which he was
the valued centre, hassustained severe loss
He was son of Jacob Noyes, respectable
merchant in Portland fifty years ago, and was
the seventh in a direct line of descent from
Nicholas Noyes, who with his brother the Rev.
James, came to this country in 1884 the first
immigrants of the name. His great-great-
grandfather Joseph settled in this town about
1880; became an active magistrate and town
officer during the remainder of his life, and
left the legacy of an honored name to a numer-,
GUS posterity.
His descendant whose death we now Ia
ment, was born in Portland in September 1898,
and having qualified himself for mercantile
life, he established himself in Eastport, where
in partnership with our fellow townsman, N.
F. Deering he commenced an honorable ca
reer, which placed him at the head of the bus
mess community of that hourishing frontier
town. He was active and unselfish in eyery
good enterprise, and by his intelligence, his
energy and strict integrity, he contributed
largely to promote the prosperity of that sec
tion of our State in its moral and religious, as
well as in its material aspects.
In 1888 he represented his town in the legis-
lature; in 1886 he was elected a representative
in Congress and served one term. In 1841 on
the accession of General Harrison to the Pres
idency, he was appointed Collector of the Dis
trict of Passamaquoddy. On the completion
of his term of service, he moved to Portland
and formed partnership with Stephen Cum
mings in the -four and commission business
and afterwards with Mr.. Weston, which was
extensive and successful. While engaged in
this occupation he was appointed treasurer of
the Portland Company, and afterwards, on the
establishment of the Portland Savings Bank,
its first treasurer, which Office he held at the
time of his death.
1t is not too much to say of our loved and
esteemed friend and fellow citizen, that in all
the varied and responsible positions which he
was called to fill, he discharged their duties
with singular fidelity, ability and integrity.
and to the entire satisfaction of those with
whom he had business relations. He was also
often called to act as referee and appraiser,
and brought to these delicate duties high
sense of impartial Justice.
LII Ills DuSiHeSS IrdHSdctlOnS, SO also Ill all his
private and domestic affairs, his conduct was
above reproach-as member of the christian
church to which he belonged-as a son, broth
er, a father and friend-nothing was wanting
to fill up and round an almost perfect charac-
ter. His father died in 1920, when he had just
attained to manhood and from that time the
burden of taking care of his mother and her
numerous family rested ON him; the deep af-
Fiction of that venerable and admirable wo-
man, now in her ninety-third year, OF his sis
ters and remaining brother, most deeply attest
the fidelity, the affection and devotion, with
which that sacred duty and trust have been
discharged, and how terribly severe to them is
his sudden taking off.
Mr.. Noyes leaves by his two wives, both long
since deceased, three sons; his eldest, George
Freeman, an inheritor OF the virtues and intel
ligence of his father, died in the early part of
the present year; this very sudden and sad be-
reavement struck fearful, if not fatal blow at
the heart of his beloved father. These events
are mysterious and wrapt up in Gods own
Providence;- what we see not now, We shall
know hereafter. His aged mother exclaimed,
on being informed of the death of this cher
ished staff OF her life, so, why could not have
been taken in his stead!"
"With silence only as their benedction,
Gods angels come
Where, in the shadow of a great at1 iction
The soul sits dumb.
God calls our loved ones; but we lose not wholly
What He has given.
They live on earth in thought and deed as truly,
As in His hetven.' w.