The Portland daily press., 1897-05-14
CLOSE OF AN EVENTUAL LIFE.
sketch of Late N. Q. Pope and His Re-
markable Career.

A writer in the Lewiston -Journa has
this to say of N. @. Pope, whose sudden
death is announced elsewhere:
Mr.. N @. Pope made his appearance
in this state as a resident about 10 years
ago, coming here with his father-in- law.
John Hanscom, who was a native of
Poland and having become wealthy, re-
turned to Maine to pass the rest of his
days in his home in that town. Mr..
Pope bought nearly the whole of White
Oak Hill, built fine house and stables.
and passing his winters at 241 Park place
and full of excitement. 1t is our impress
sion that his youth was passed in Chicago
and that from a clerk of failed bucket
shop he developed such marked ability
in its reorganization that his name be-
came speedily famous. AS young man
he was one of the most skilful and daring
spectators in Chicago, even in the DAYS
when fortunes were made and won in a
day and in that city he has left a memory
that time has not withered He was per-
sonally a man of cool, determined DOW
ers, and with face moulded as with
mask, impenetrable and imperturbable.
He lived much in retirement here in
Maine during summers and his place, on
White Oak Hill became noted here chiefly
from the fact that he established the fin
est kennels in the United States and
that he had penchant for monkeys,
his simian collection being both pictur-
esque and appreciative. From Poland's
White Oak Hill he occasionally made de-
scents on astonished Lewiston society
with his English drag drawn by six
mules, the leaders being spanking, 1.-the
limbed buckskins. Mrs. Pope, who was
frequent visitor here, was quiet of taste,
literary in her research and possessed one
of the finest private libraries in Brooklyn.
Their home at 241 Park place, was the
choicest in its books of any in New York,
and the services of a special collector
were always employed by her in Europe
to keep an eye out for choice editions.
$3.50, 900 at her death, and, we have heard
it said, was her own property, the New
York Herald Of July 10, 1895, stating that
after Mrs. Pope's death there was a con-
test for the possession of the premises at
241 Park place, Brooklyn between Mr.
Pope and Mr.. Hanscom, in which Mr..
Hanscome prevailed, Mr.. Pope afterward
living at the Montauk club. In this
library was the most famous edition of
Dickens ever col1ected-so valuable in
its interpolated illustrations and its SOU
venirs of Dickens and his characters that
it was sold separately for many thousand
dollars.
Mrs. Pope died in August 1894, and
in July, 1895, Mr.. Pope married Miss
Jennie P. Barnes of Knightville,a cousin
of his first wife and companion of hers.
Their wedding was private and was
celebrated at Knightville.
The New York Herald of that date says:
The first intimation that it had taken
place came from the marriage notice
printed in the Portland papers this morn
ing.
When the bridal party departed yester-
day afternoon, the bridegroom announced
their intention o, going on a trip to the
White Mountains. They took passage
on the Mountain Division of the Maine
Central, but, on arriving at Yarmouth
Junction, changed to the Grand Trunk
route. Col. Frank Dana, president Of
the Lewiston street railway company,
train. He is firm friend of Mr.. Pope,
but he refrained : from disturbing
the bliss of the bridal pair till Lewiston
Junction was reached. He had wired
message to his wife, telling her of Mr..
Pope's marriage, and asking her to sum-
mon some friends to be at the station to
welcome him.
ton the Pullman car door was opened
and in walked a dozen or more ladies and
gentlemen headed by Mrs. Dana, who
warmly greeted Mr.. and Mrs. Pope, con-
graduating them on their marriage, and
presented the bride with package, in
which were a pair of glass slippers, filled
with rice Before the train moved out,
rice fell in such copious showers that the
Pullman car floor was literally covered
with it, and eight to ten torpedoes placed
on the track added to the jollity of the
occasion.
Mr.. Pope was concerned with F. W.
Dana in building the electric road in
Lewiston and Auburn, and it is current
ly understood that it was Mr.. Pope's in
vestment that furnished the funds for
tne Cndugo from horses TO el6cIr1c1ly
He passed much of his time in Lewiston
and was seemingly much interested in its
development.
A few years ago he and F. W. Dana
became intere sted in the establishment
of a stock exchange in the Carter build
ing in Boston, and they fitted up there
the finest offices in Boston. The suspen-
sion of the concern happened few
months ago.
Mr.. Pope's death now closes the book of
an eventful life. Those who knew him,
remark upon his suaye and graceful
address, his cosmopolitan we'll bred air
and his keen and clever business touch.
He had peculiar notions of country life
and when he sold at auction the para
phenalia from his White Oak Hill estate
in Poland at the Maine State Fair
grounds he had the oldest collection of
equine and other miscellany ever seen in
&c c%oto 7bo 1t,