The Portland daily press., 1882-02-28
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| After his graduation IN 1913, Mr. Longfel-
| low entered the law Office of Salmon Chase.
an uncle of Salmon Portland Chase, late Chief
Justice of the United States and he was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1901. He at once entered
upon an extensive and lucrative practice.
| Three years later, January l. 1904, he married
Zilpah, eldest daughter of Gen. Peleg Wads-
worth, who built and then occupied the brick
house which is still standing on Congress
street adjoining the PreblO House, and is
known as the Iongfellow house. In the same
| year he was selected by the citizens of the
town to deliver an Grafton on the Fourth of
July.
After his marriage Mr.. Longfellow lived
year in the Wadsworth house. During the
next year his home was in the small house on
the corner of Temple street opposite the First
Parish church. Samuel Stephenson, rich
merchant of Portland, then lived in the large
square wooden house which is still standing
at the corner of Fore and Hancock
streets. His wife, Abigail Longfellow was
sister of Stephen Longfellow, the lawyer
and as her husband had been sud
denly called to the West Indies on busi-
ness, she invited her brother with his family
to spend the winter of lSJ6-7 with her. Thus
it was that on the 9th of February, 1907, in
this house,-which should be known as the
Stephenson and not the Longfellow house
and during this temporary residence, was born
their second son, Henry Wadsworth Longfel-
low, named for Mrs. Longfellow's brother,
Lieutenant Henry Wsdsworth of the United
States Navy, who ON the night of september
4, 1904, in the harbor Of frpol, lost his life,
voluntary sacrifice, in gallant endeavor to
destroy the enemy's hotilla by fre-shIp. In
the spring of 1907, General Wadsworth, Mrs.
Longfelow's father, having removed to Hiram
in order to occupy and improve large
tract of land which had been granted to hun
for his military services, Stephen Longfellow
took up his residence in the brick house which
General Wadsworth had vacated and made it
theneeforth his home.
In 1874 he was sent to the Legislature of
Massachusetts,, and while engaged in this
service. he was chosen member of the cels-
brnted Hartford convention. In 1916, he was
made Presidential eleetor In 1922, he was
elected member of the Eighteenth Congress.
AT the close of his Congressional term he re-
tired from political life, and devoted his re-
naming years to his profession. In 1925,
when Lafayette visited Portland, Mr.. Long
fellow was appointed to give the address Of
welcome. The service was fittingly performed.
In his reply Lafayette made this graceful
allusion to Mr.. Longfellow: "While l offer
to the people Of Portland and to you gentle
men, my respectful thanks, am happy to rec
OzuIlS IN inc hluQ organ Ok tueI kluuHtSS 10
me, the member ofCongress who shared in the
hatterng invitation which has been to me
soures of inexpressible honor and delight"
In 1928 Mr.. Longfelow received the degree of
LII. d. from Bowdoin college Of which he
was trustee from 1917 to-lS36 Hs was re-
cerding secretary of the Maine Historical
Society from 1928 to 1880, and in 1884 he was
elected president of the society. He died
August 3, lS49, aged "a years. In his LAW,
Courts and Lawyers of Maine" Mr.. Willis
says of him: "No man more surely gained the
confidence of all who approached him or held
it irmer; and those who knew him best loved
him most. In the management of his causes,
he went with zeal and directness of purpose
to every point which could sustain it. There
was no travelling out of the record with him,
nor wandering away from the line of his ar
gument after figures Of speech or fine rhetoric,
but he was plain, straightforward, and effse-
tive in his appeals to the jury, and by his
frank and cordial manner won them to his
cause"
Such, in public life, was the father of Henry
Wadsworth Longfsllow. In the domestic
circle the noble traits of his character were no
less apparent. His home was one of refine
ment, and the purest social virtues; and
she who shared its direction with him not
only adorned it with rare womanly grace, but
gave to it many added charm.
Here the poet passed his earliest years.
How well he remembers the Portland of those
years we are told in his delightful poem, my
Lost Youth:"
Iremember the black wharyes and the ships,
And the sea-tides tossing free;
And Spanish sailors with bearded lips
And the beauty and mystery Of the ships,
And the magic of the sea,
And the voice OF that boyho0d song,
IS ringing and saying still;
"a boys will is the winds will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts
remember the bulwarks by the shore,
And the fire upon-the hill,
The sunrise gun, with its hollow roar
The drum beat repeated DER and oer,
And the bugle wild and shril
And the music of that old song
Throbs in my memory stild;
"a boys win is the winds WILL
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts"
Iremember the sea fight far away,
How it thundered oe'r the tide!
And the dead captains, as they lay
In their graves, oerooSfng the tranquil bay,
Where they in battle died.
And the sound of the mournful song
Goes through me with thrill.
"A boys viii is the winds WILL
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts"
lean see the breezy dome Of groves,
The shadows of Deering's Woods;
And the friendships old and the early loves
Come back with Sabbath sound as Of doyea
In quiet neighborhOods.
And the verse Of that sweet old song,
1t hutters and murmurs still;
ga boys will Is the winds will,
And the thoughts of youth long, long thoughts.
remember the CLEANS and glooms that dart
Across the schOol-boys brain;
The song and the silence in the heart,
That in part are prophecies, and in part
Are longings wild and vain.
And the voice of that ftful song
Sings and is never still;
"a boys win is the winds will,
And the thoughts of youth arelong long thoughts"
The first school that Mr.. Longfellow at
tended was kept by Ma'am Fellows in small
brick school house on Spring street. above
High, and Just below the house in which DR..
Bacon now lives. Later he went to the town
school on Love Lane now Centre street, where
Judge Goddard's house stands. Here, how
ever, he remained only a week or two, and he
was then placed in the private school of
Nathaniel IL. Carter which was kept in little
one story wooden house on the west side of
Preble street. near Congress. Afterwards he
attended the Portland academy under the same
master, and also under the mastership Of Mr..
Bezaleel Cushmsn, graduate of Dartmouth
college, who took charge of the school in 1915,
and continued in the position twenty-six
years. One Of his assistants, while Mr.. Long
fellow was connected with the school, was
Jacob Abbott. Under such inspiring teachers
his progress was rapid and in 1921, at the age
of fourteen, he entered Bowdoin college,
though for the most part during the hrst year
of his college course, he pursued his studies
at home.
The class which he entered was brilliant
one. In it were sons of some of the choicest
families in northern New England; and among
them were those who were to achieve a wide
reputation in the field Of letteis-Nathaniel
Hawthorne, George b. Cheever, Joha S. G.
Abbott-and others at the bar and in political
life, eonspieuously the lamented Cilley, and our
honored president, Hon. ]. w. Bradbury,
whose absence tonight we all so greatly
regret. One Of his classmates, Rev. David
Shepey, D. d., referring to hongfellow as
scholar says. "He gave diligent heed to all
departments of study in the prescribed course,
and excellcd in all while his enthusiasm
moved in the direction it has taken in subse-
quent life. His themes, feleitious translations
Of Horace and occasional contributions to the
press, drew marked attention to him. and led
to the expectation that his would be an honor
able literary career
When he entered college Mr.. Longfellow
had already occupied the poets corner in the
Portland newspapers. His first published
,,ooT, nae m TovplpS Firht In his connietp