Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-29

ma gnitude it would attain, and where
in organization and instruction mad to
be effected in the midst of the Sevcre.st
la Dor. And that this labor was indeed
the severest we may understand when
we learn that for months in succession
it was literally continuous, proceeding
without cessation through days, nights,
Sundays and holidays. All this ire
mendous task came upon the shoulders
of young man of twenty-five. Many
a one who went to the front did not do
half the service for State and country
that his clerk did, with none of the eX-
elements of war to stimulate, nor any
of the rewards of victory to eEcour-
age.
In 1865 Mr.. Partridge sustained in
juries by falling from tree which
caused hemorrhage of the lungs and
endangered his life. Recovering. he
went into partnership with his former
employer, Mr.. Potter, but soon bought
him out. September of the same year
his store was destroyed in the great
fire. and he occupied one-half of The
Wells store until Granite Block was
finished in 1866, when he moved in,
and never afterward quilted the build
ing except for brief periods after the
two other fires which visited him. In
1874 he and his brother, Frank r.,
formed the firm of Partridge Brothers,
which dissolved in 1887, after which he
carried on business alone. At his
death he was and had been for years,
in point both of age and service, the
oldest druggist in Augusta and one of
the Oldest in the State.
He was a charter member of the
Maine Pharmaceutical Association
founded in 1877, and it's president for
several terms. In the same year he
was one of the originators of the Maine
Commission of Pharmacy. 1t was
largely through his efforts that the ex-
listing pharmacy law was passed, and
he was member of the first hoard of
examiners, together with Drs. Cum
mings and Harlow, serving two terms.
He was also a member of the Ameri-
can Pharmaceutical Association, he
and his brother Frank being Augustus
only representatives in that body.
Mr. Partridge was made Mason in
Bethlehem Lodge; charter member Of
Augusta Lodge, instituted in 1861; q
member of Jerusalem r. A. Chapter,
Trinity Commandery, X. T., and the
Abnaki Club. He was always d Re
publican, and in his younger days an
active political worker, but never
sought any office. His religious pref
erences were Unitarian.
In 1865 he married Miss Mary LARA
bee of North Vassalboro. by whom he
had two children. Miss Winifred and
Miss Margaret Partridge, who, to-
gether with his widow, survive him.
He is likewise survived by a sister
Miss Anna Partridge-and two broth
ers-Messrs. Allan and Frank II.
Partridge.
The captain of the ship in which all
men must voyage from the port they
cannot remember to the harbor they
hope for has stationed some Of US on
deck where we fight hand % hand
with the enemy to win glory and
praise: some of us he places at the
helm, to steer the vessel on the course
he orders; and some of us he sends
aloft through bright sunshine and
sweet breezes to look out over the wide
circumference of sea. But others ne
puts at the oar. to labor always at the
u
| Deep down in the dim lower decks
/ where they see nothing of the varied
strife above them and hear nothing but
the reiterated order which ever bids
them to row on. they labor till the end
comes-the motive force that sends the
whole ship along. Charles Partridge
was one of these. His entire life was
a life of patient. inconspicuous work
from the day that the fourteen-year-o old
boy went to toll for his family to the
day when the man of sixty-five left the
place of his labor for the last time.
Bred to an exacting occupation. than
which there are few SO completely en-.
crossing the lives and fewer still max.
ing such demands upon the care ans
attention of those who pursue them