Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-24

a number OF years was on his lips
many times. ana NJ often asked,
Have you heard from Eiecta? - There
was no reason FOR thinking that the
end was 81 near but the Angel OF
Death. after waiting so long. came
quietly.
Thus after more than cen
tury's existence Fairfields old
est citizen passed away. The
mere statement of 100 years does not
bear the full weight 81 its Significance
George Kendall was six months old
when the third President of the United
States, Thomas Jefferson. took his
seat. George Washington had been dead
but Il little over Il year. He was three
years Old when the first labor strike
OF America took place, seven when
Fulton's first steam boat made her
maiden trip on the Hudson, and T..
when the colonies had their second I'M
picasantness with England.
He was Old enough to understand the
significance Of the battle of Waterloo
beng at that time IL years old. He was
II when the printing press was invent
ed and when the streets of London
were first lighted by gas. He was
young man, matured by the har,iships
Of frontier life when Lafayette made
his memorable visit to this country
II it had been possible for him to have
gone 10 New York on that occasion h.
could have accurately TOLD, the children
now how that Frenchman looked
He had just received the right to cast
his first vote when Napoleon Bona
II.
famous Monroe doctrine was first pro-
claimed. Seven years later occurred
the French revolution. but it is proba-
bic that Uncle George" heard but lit
tie about il. although he was then 50
years Old, as the electric telegraph
was not invented until eight years lat
or. He was 81 when Queen Victoria.
now the oldest monarch on Il throne.
then q mere girl wore her ascension
robes
He had turned the middle mile stone
OF life when the sewing machine was
invented, while electricity is so mod
crn that he scarcely had time to be
com" accustomed to it. He was an old
man when postage stamps We're first
used in the United States and was too
Old for service in the Civil War.
The Mexican war seemed but ycster-
day to him until within a few years
Of his death. He was II years old when
the first International exhibition was
held ana now the last is about to
close its gates as he passes to, his, re-
ward. He was an old man when many
of the events that will make the 18th
century memorable occurred Electric
;,-
recent invention I" him. Even the rail
roads We're his contemporaries and he
could doubtless remember when the
first locomotive was considered a dan
gorous novelty. Only one of the wars
Of the United States occurred outside
OF his lifetime ana its rumble had
scarcely more than died away when he
lay in his rough cradle down here. in
tho wilderness OF Maine. then a mart
of Massachusetts, The whole growth
of the State and even Of the United
states has been within his personal
knowledge. Many Of our most famous
men were born. achieved their fame
and died while he lived on To keen
their memory and achievements bright
This has been so with All Of Maine's
famous ones. Think of the brilliant
list that has passed in review before
before him and gone to their reward
before him,
He had seen this town. founded BY
his family and originally bearing his
name, grow from log cabin beside the
kenneDec in the wilderness to The
bright. prosperous. progressive town OF
today. he had marked the growth OF
every industry. IL had been possible:
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