The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-02-24
HENRY Edwin GREELEY.


Seldom has community been more grieved
and shocked than at the sudden death of its
esteemed citizen and friend, Henry Edwin
Greeley, which cured at Bar Harbor on the
morning of Feb. LIST. Mr.. Greeley was born
in Swanvile. Maine. juno 25 1857, the eldest
child of Edwin and Margaret Cunningham
Greeley of that town. He received his educa-
ton in the public schools of Swanville and in
Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, N.
Y. After completing the course at Eastman's
in the short period OF six months, he clerked
for year or two in Belfast; then purchased
the best and most extensive farm in Swan
vile and by the sh,ewd business ability,
characteristic of him. and by diligence and
earnestness, made it pay tor itself in less than
six years, meanwhile teaching school during
the winter months. At this time. November
"a, 1881, he married Miss Helen Augusta Nick
erson of Swanville, who died in three short
years. Two years later he married her sister.
Miss Carrie Gertrude. who died shortly after
their marriage This overwhelming double
calamity would have crushed less sturdy
nature but his strong manhood asserted itself
Ks
himself to business with his nrother-in-law,
Edward Hugh Nickerson, then merchant in
Swanvile. In 1892, Mr.. Greeley became
m ember of the firm of Nick erson & Spratt,
then doing business in Bangor, as well as Bar
Harbor, Mr.. Nickerson having charge of the
business in Bar Harbor. where Mr.. Greeley
relieved him, and the following year he mar
-
Mr.. Nickerson, The two branches became
united in Bar Harbor under the firm name of
Nickerson, Spratt & Greeley, where Mr.. Gree
ley helped to build up business by which he
amassed a handsome fortune. Excellence"
seemed ever his watchword. In his young
schooldays he was first in all departments of
school life, leading his class in mathematics.
in English and in physics. In college he stood
with the first as careful, painstaking student
and an expert accountant. In the business
world he built up name with which all are IA
miliar as an honest tradesman, seeing to it that
a fair deal should be given all customers as
we'll as the firms or houses with which the
busin ess affairs in his native town of Swanville
as the first selectman he managed with careful
adjustment the numerous details of that ardu-
GUS Office and exceled in its manipulations. In
1891 he represented his class in the State Leg
isature, and in all the years he has been abb
sent. he has never omitted his yearly stipend
for the maintenance of the Swanville Sunday
school library. AS home builder and beloved
solicitor husband and father his kindness and
judgment could not be excelled, and sad in
deed is that home made desolate by his depart
ure. The sincere sympathy of this village and
of Swanville is extended to the bereaved wife
and sorrowing children. The funeral service
was held at the Congregational church, Thurs
day in Bar Harbor, Rev. Angus Macdonald
officiating, and second service at the church
in Swanville on Friday, Rev A. A. Blair of the
Universailst church in Belfast officiating. In
terment was made in Greenawn Cemetery,
Swanville. =
In Memory of Henry E. Greeley.
From the dust of the weary highway,
Away from all toll and care,
At rest with those who long ago
Passed to that country fair.
The world hath eed of men like him,
The generous, trusty and kind,
Whose honest &C ts and sincere words
Uplift the common mind.
The memory of all that was noble.
Will ever live on though he's gone.
May it stand as gentle example
To the dear ones who follow him on.
Death takes away many a loved one,
But still we have faith, and must know
That we'll meet again, sometime, in heaven.
For the dear Father hath ordered it SO.