The Somerset reporter., 1908-02-06

joining counties, and there were few
people in Skowhegan at that time
who did not personally know Mr..
Paul. While a comparatively young
man when he left Skowhegan, he had
built up a reputation for integrity
and straightforwardness that any man
could be proud of, and WAS known by
everyone as a cheerful, kind hearted,
obliging man.
In 1871 he married Miss Mary ID.
Bicknell They had two sons, Arthur
and Clarence, both prosperous bust
ness men of Boston. Mrs. Paul died
in Lexington, Mass. in 1888, and the
body was brought home to Skowhe
gan for interment
In 1881 Mr. Paul, desiring larger
field of activity, and having fine
opening for business, moved to Bos-
ton, and embarked in the wholesale
commission business with Mr.. Frank
Sproul, under the firm name Sproul,
Paul q Co. He remained there all of
the twenty seven years that he was
in business in Boston upon North
Market street, most of the time at
the present address, %. Perhaps no
man in all of the market region was
better known or more universally
loved and respected than was Mr..
Paul; and among all of his business
acquaintances and associates all
through the market and business sec
ton of Boston, he WAS known as an
upright, honest, clean spoken bust
ness man, one whose word was to be
implicitly relied upon, and whose
every business act was regarded as
one of honor. ! have talked with
many of the business men upon the
street during Mr.. Paul's life time, and
since; and all say that he came nearer
than any one they new to living in
his business life the principles of the
Golden Rule.
What he was in his business life he
was in his home and neighborhood
life; an unselfish, devoted husband
and father, a man whom every one
put himself out TO speak to, because
of his brig ht, cheerful face and view
of life and for his hearty handshake.
He married later in life Miss Dora
Stevens, who survives him with their
little daughter, Florence. His resi-
dence was at 81 Warner street, Dor
chester. To say that throughout the
Harvard street section of Dorch stcr
saving only the simple truth. 1t has
been said by hundreds of people that
they never knew a better man than
Mr.. Paul, and that his life was really
an example. The substance of Rev.
VIM. T. Beale's remarks the day Of
his funeral were that his life had been
as nearly ideal in the neighborhood
and in the church and in affairs as it
is possible almost for mans life to
be.
He was a member of and a deacon
in the Harvard Congregational
Church, Dorchester, having years ago
brought his letter from the Island
Avenue Congregational Church,
Skowhegan. He was a Mason, an
Odd Fellow, member of the Abraham
Lincoln G.. A. r. Post, No. IL of
Charlestc wn, one of the founders of
the Harvard Improvement Associa-
tion and other social and business or
ganizations; and yet, for all his fra
ternal activities, he was home man
and you would usually find him,
when not at business), at home or
about the neighborhood doing such
social, benevolent or fraternal duties
as came his way.
1t may not be improper TO say here,
and possibly friends who were unable
to attend the services at the church
might be interested to know, that up
on busy business day and in the
middle OF the day and in a suburb re-
mote from the business center, when
all the men are at business, the
church was full of largely men,
neighbors, business associates and
acquaintances who had given up the
day and had come to pay tribute to
one they loved and respected,
hardly know how to describe the
floral tributes. 1t perhaps is not nee
essary that there should be banks up
on banks of flowers to show appreci-
alton OF the life lived, but the writer