The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-03-05
OBITUARY.
Il. Frank Jones.

MI. L. RANK Jones, manager Oh tuo
Mercantile Agency in this city, died at
his home in Deering Monday about noon
after an illness of about a week of pneu-
monia. Mr.. Jones has been prominent
citizen of Deering, and at the very time
OF his death his fellow citizens were re-
electing him to the fee of city auditor
which he had held ever since Deering
became city. Mr.. Jones was born in
Boston on October 10Th. 1841. Upon
leaving school he went West and found
clerkship in Chicago. EarlysEin the
year 1866 he returned to his native city
and engaged with Edward RUSSELL &
Co. in their Boston Mercantile Agency.
On the first day of March, 1868, he opened
the Portland branch of the Mercantile
Agency in the building on Exchange
street, now known as Rossini Hall, the
best accommodations then obtaiuable,
as it will be remem bered the great fire
had swept the business section of the..city
less than twenty months before that.
When the Hon. W. W. Thomas built the
Stanton block he provided quarters de-
signed for the purposes of the office in
that building, No. 81 Exchange street,
which are yet retained.
LII the quarter century, ending March
LIST, 1888, Mr.. Jones has acquired the con-
hdence and esteem OF generation of
business men of Portland. by his fidelity
to their interests. as mach as to those
OF his principals and their general regard
by his genial personality.
During this long term, Mr.. Jones has
been not only the observer, but the
chronicler of all the vicissitudes of cor
porate and personal business enterprises
enterprises in this city; indeed, of the
entire state, for that and the northern.
counties of New Hampshire and Yer
mont constituted the territory under his
supervision as conductor of the Mercan-
tile Agency, which he assumed with
clientele of but 81 annual subsc1 ibers.
In 1879 he opened branch office in Ban
gor IN order to become more in touch
with the business of the interior and
eastern part of the state, the supervision
of which he has always retained,
Mr.. Jones was married and leaves a
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SOUPS church.
Mr.. Jones was very active Odd Eel
low, was Past Grand of Ligouia Lodge,
and d mem Der of Eastern Star Enca mp
meEt. He and mis- wife were regular at
PENDANTS at the meetings of Rebekah
Lodge. isa.a .sssFs.
John L. Hodsdon. au9is5s
General John &. Hodsdon, who died at
Bangor Saturday, was born in Hallow-
ell, May 9. 1916, and therefore only
lacked abouttwo months of being 70
years old at the time of his death. He
age, at which time he was adopted by
the late General Isaac Hodsdon. AS a
mere youth he became interested in mill
iuary affairs, and at 16 enlisted in the
Bangor Light Infantry and soon after
became member of the major generals
staff. III studied law with the late Hon.
George Evans, and with Judge Cooley,
afterwards being admitted to the bar
began the practice of his profession in
the town of Exeter. At the outbreak
of the Aroostook war ha was aide-de-
camp on the staff of his father. who was
in command of all the troops engaged
on the frontier and rendered most effjc-
lent service. He was also captain of the
Bangor Light Infantry, colonel of the
Bangor regiment, major general, and
twice made brigadier general. Thus it
was that he passed the various grades Of
military service that gave him his splen-
did equipment for the ardious duties OF
adjutant general, position held by him
from 1861 to 1867. a
He went to Bangor from Exeter in
1858, and began the practice of his pro-
fession there, and continued until called
to Augusta in 1861, occupying the office
of judge of the municipal court for two
years. He resided with his family in
Augusta during the war period, and at
the expiration of his term of service as
adjutant general returned to Bangor,
where he has since lived. He finally
gave up active practice of the law, and
for some years was engaged in the real
estate business with the late Jefferson
Cham berlain, and after his death con-
tinued the BUSINESS alone until falling
health necessitated his retirement from
all active business life.