The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-10-27
PERSONAL
Hon. Elbridge Gerry is very ill.

Hon. Elbridge Gerry is very Ill.
Raw. A. r. Dunn of Dorchester, Mass, has
accepted the call that the Free Street Church
extended to him.
Mr.. Harvey Murray writes from Berlin
that he is taking piano lessons from Karl
Klindworth and studying theory under Otto
Tiersch.
Miss Clara 81. Merrill, soprano at Williston
Church, has received very fiattering offer
to sing at one of the leading churches in
Massachusetts.
Miss Lucie V. G. Gookin, the elocutionist
of this city, read at an entertainment in
Grange Hall, Buxton, Oct. oath, and is CIV
ing frequent entertainments throughout the
country. She is fine reader and much adj
mired.
1t is not true, as was announced in the
Boston papers of last week. that Rev. G. S.
Cummings of the Methodist Church in
Bridgton has accepted call to New
Hampshire pastorate. Mr.. Cummings pro-
nounces the report as wholly without foun-
dalton.
A. s. Ranney, Concord, N. H. j. d. An
derson, Gray; c. B. Fowler, Salem; G. E.
Pearl, Haverhill; c. Fl. Yonker, Cincinnati.
Ohio Hon. d. N. Mortland, Rockland; j. E.
Taylor, Philadelphia; S. T. Leonard, Chica-
go, ILL.,, were at the Falmouth Hotel last
night.
Rev. E. F. Small, who for the past five
years has officiated as rector of the Episco-
pal churches in Biddeford and Saco,
preached his farewell discourses in those
churches Sunday. Monday he left for New
ark, N. j., where he will henceforth officiate
as rector of the st. Stephens church in that
city.
Last Friday as Mr.. VIM. Lawrence Dana,
son of DIR. l. T. Dana, was assisting in a
post mortem examination at the Maine Gen.
eral Hospital, a small quantity of matter
from the knife got into slight cut on his
finger, inducing blood poisoning. The hand
and arm became badly swollen and Mr.. Da-
ma was confined to his bed He is now i'm
proving, however, and will be out shortly.
Mr.. Fred A. Greenleaf,I formerly of Bath,
died at Helena, Mont, ON Friday, of con-
sumption. Mr.. Greenleaf went west about
twelve years ago. For two years he was en-
gagged in surveying Montana, and afterward
he entered the United States Assay Office at
d6lena, as an assistant dSSayer. IHe Illness
which led to his death is supposed to have
been caused by inhaling the fumes of nitric
acid which he was constantly handling in as
saying. Last June he came east and mar
ried Somerville lady. The deceased had
made amateur photography quite study,
and during his two years as a surveying en-
gineer and since he has collected many fine
views of the scenery in that Territory. His
age was 30 years and IL months.
The late DR.. Fl. G. Fessenden of Eastport
was brother Of William Pitt Fessenden
and an uncle of Gen. Francis Fessenden of
this city. He was born in New Gloucester
in 1919, the fifth son of Samuel Fessenden.
He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1888
and at the Maine Medical School. He prac-
ticed medicine in Saco and afterwards
moved to Eastport, remaining there for
thirty years, until his death. He leaves a
widow, formerly Miss Mary Peterson of this
city. He also leaves three sons, Nicholas
Fessenden of Fort Fairfield, William Pitt
Fessenden of Boston, and Henry Fessenden
of Eastport Of two daughters, one is the
wife of D. Page Perkins of this city, and the
other of Captain Appleby of Eastport