The Portland daily press., 1894-06-05
PERSONAL.


Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Carter will sail on
Saturday next from Montreal by the
Dominion steamer for their former home
in Ashby, England, to spend the sum-
mer.
Mr.. Daniel J. Began, the popular book
keeper at the Umbagog Pulp Company's
mills at this place for the past ten years.
was Friday promoted to the superintend-
ency of the above company's mills at
Livermore Falls to fill the vacancy oc-
casioned by the resignation of Supt.
Barnes, who succeeded Supt. Loring
when he resigned because of his health
four months ago. "Dan," as Mr.. Began
is familiarly called, is the son of Capt.
James j. Began of Portland.
Bishop Nicely next Sunday morning
will induct Canon Stills into the Office of
Dean of st. Luke's Cathedral.
Mr.. Gravel. bishop of Nicollet, P. O.,
was in Portland Saturday.
Levi Greenleaf- Esq. of Lewiston, was
in the city yesterday. He is compiling
the genealogy of the Greenleaf family
in Maine for Jas. E. Greenleaf of Charles
town, Mass. He came here to look over
records in the interest of his book.
He has searched town records all over
the State. The common ancestor of all
the Greenleafs of America was born in
England in 1600.' He came to America
with his family and settled in Newbury,
Mass His ancestors were Huguenots
who left France some time in the six
teenth century and went to England to
live. The English name Greenleaf was
probably translated from the French
name Fuilleverte. 1t is found that there
are descendants of Edmund Greenleaf in
every State in the Union. He is candi-
date for postmaster of Lewiston.
Mr.. E. E. Parmenter arrived here yes
terday morning and entered upon the
discharge of his duties as Principal of
the North school.
Manager McCallum of the Peaks is
land Pavilion, will arrive here the first
of next week.
Mr.. A. H. Duren and Mr.. A. G. Pettingil,
of Fairfield. passed through the city yes
terday on their way to Murphy, North
Carolina. where they, with others, have
bought and will work the Warner gold
mine.
Rev. B. L. Whitman, President of Colby
University, will deliver the address at
the graduation exercises of the Portland
Training School, in Reception. hall on
the evening of June 81. Professor Has
kell, recently appointed to the associate
professorship of mathematics in the Uni
versity of California, is a nephew of Mr..
BE-. Haskell of haskell & Jones, and
also of Hon. G. W. Woodman and Alfred
Woodman Esq, of this city. Professor
Haskell is one of the four or five Cline
scholars in America. Cline. who is at
present the greatest mathematician liy-
ing, had such confidence in Haskell dur
ing the latter's four years at Gottingen
under him that on several occasions he
had Haskell take his lecturers chair and
classes.
Mr.. William Ell. Green. of Princes Ex-
press. yesterday celebrated his thirty
fifth year in the express business. and
his sixty-first birthday. In the words
of the immortal Rip,.." May he live long
and prosper"
Mrs. Thomas 7. Sawyer has returned
home from her visit in the West, LATTER
being absent year.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Barron, of the Twin
Mountain House, White Mountains. N,
H., will be at the Falmouth Hotel
Thursday and Friday, June and g.
Those desiring to obtain apartments at
this famous resort for the summer
will have the opportunity of SO doing.
The business outlook for the summer
travel is very fattering.
Mr.. John Alden, who has been passing
the past eight months in Greece, sailed
from Liverpool for Boston in the Pavon-
ia, last Thursday, and will be due in
Boston next Sunday morning.