Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-05
Maiae People.


a Bowdoin graduate, is visiting his
father, DR.. John Stevens, in Bangor.
Arthur Stetson of Bath, Bowdoin '95,
is among the rs out of RS students
who have passed the Suffolk bar exam
ination. He will enter the office Of
Boardman Hall in Boston.
Brunswick has a citizen who once
attempted that very popular feat, the
swimming of the English channel. His
name is Joseph Heaton. He had COM
pleted the greater portion of the 33
miles across when the currents forced
him to abandon the attempt.
Chandler Hale. secretary of the
American legation at Rome, who be-
came quite i'll soon after his arrival at
his post of duty. is now fully recovered.
He is now on the coast of France. His
mother. Mrs. Eugene Hale, is with him.
Before returning to Rome he will come
home FOR short time.
Arba Eugene Powers. nephew of
Governor Powers. who was student
at the Coburn Classical Institute
few years ago. has been busy of late at
his home in Houton writing farcial
musical comedy, which is about to be
presented by local talent. Mr.. Powers
was recognized as a funny fellow while
in the Institute.
Senator Frye is to take his grandson
William Frye White, Bowdoin, 81 to-
Washington with him as his clerk at
the coming session of Congress Mr.
White succeeds DIR. Woodbury. Pulsifer
who, however will devote session to
thoroughly initiating his successor into
the mysteries of the business. DIR. Pun
sifer has had fiattering offers to remain
in Washington and settle there but ne
has practically decided to settle IN
Lewiston after he completes his work
with the senator. .s,.-4,e
Mr. John Flint Sprague, who was for
almost the entire time between 1870
1854 associated with the late j. >.
Swift in the publication of the Frank
lin Register and it's successor the
Pennington Chronicle, died very recent
~ at his home in Mansion, Wis, at the
age of IS years. Mr.. Sprague was a
member of the famous political conven-
ton which met in Strong, August Z,
1854 and had the honor as its members
always claimed, to organize the repub-
lcan party. In 1857 Mr.. Sprague went
to Dubuque, Ia, where in company
with others he published the Daily Sun
for three years. He removed in 1860
from Iowa to Colorado, where he en-
gagged in mining In 1865 he took the
foremanship of the Mansion (Wis)
Star which, in 1875 was purchased by
Mr. Sprague and his son, Gleason j.
Sprague. A widow and two children
survive.
Hon. William s. Pattee of Minneapo-
lis, has left for home from a visit to
relatives in Waldo county. He was a
guest of his cousin, James Pattee of
Belfast, and together they visited. by
carriage, their relatives in the various
towns. Williams mother lives in Mon
roe. He is dean of the law department
of the university of Michigan, which
department he established in 1883. AL
though the school is new it ranks
fourth In the law schools of the United
States. Mr.. Pattee Is native of Jack
son. and, his father dying when he was
a small child, he secured his education
by his own unaided efforts. He at
tended the seminaries at Bucksport
and Kent's Hill and graduated at Bow
doin college with high honors. He was
classmate of Messrs. A. G. Sibley,
James s. Hartman, William =. Thomp-
son and others of Belfast Since grad
uatng he has taught in various law
schools and been In successful law
practice in st. Paul and Minneapolis
In the roll of mothers of famous
Maine men, the name of Mrs. Margery
Brown Sullivan should have a promi-
nent place. Mistress Margery was a
nine-years old girl when she came to
n nd he
voyage was befrended by John Cor
Owen Sullivan. who had left his home
in ireland because his mother forbade
him marrying the girl of his choice, the
objection being due to a question Of
rank. His mother never heard from
him again but in 1875 he married Mar
gerry and bought farm in Berwick in
which town he became the village
schoolmaster. Master Sullivan used to
say he had -four countesses to his
mother and grandmother" and he lived
to be los years old, retaining his love
of books to the last, but he used to let
his young and beautiful wife work in
the fields to save him from doing it and
II is told of her that she once drove a
COW thirty miles through the woods
She used to boast that she had dropped
corn many n day with two governors
a judge in her arms and general on
her back" She died in 1901 at the age
of 81 years, after seeing one son an
officer in the British navy and mourn
ing his loss at sea before the Revolu-
ton; another son a captain in the Rev
dictionary army and a victim Of
British cruelty: third member Of
the Continental Congress. a major
general. governor of New Hampshire
and u. S. judge; the fourth. governor
of Massachusetts. n member of the
Provincial Congress and author of the
first history of Maine; and the young
est son major in the Revolutionary
war. Her only daughter was the an
cestress of Gov. Wells of Maine Sena-
tor Wells of New Hampshire and Lieut..
GOV. Wells of Illinois.
At the North Jay quarry of the Maine