. Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . ce in Washington, and it was on hisretirement from that position that he made Stamford his home, inwhich town he died on April 18th, 1882. Samuel Fessenden was born on April 12th, 1847, during hisfathers residence in Rockland, Maine. Strong, vigorous and alreadygiving promise of high intellectual attainment, he was being preparedfor college in the Lewiston Academy at Lewiston, Maine, when theCivil War broke out. Young Fessenden was only sixteen years old, yetas well devel
. Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . ce in Washington, and it was on hisretirement from that position that he made Stamford his home, inwhich town he died on April 18th, 1882. Samuel Fessenden was born on April 12th, 1847, during hisfathers residence in Rockland, Maine. Strong, vigorous and alreadygiving promise of high intellectual attainment, he was being preparedfor college in the Lewiston Academy at Lewiston, Maine, when theCivil War broke out. Young Fessenden was only sixteen years old, yetas well developed as most youths of eighteen or twenty, so that whenhis patriotic spirit could no longer be restrained and he presented him-self for enlistment, he was accepted. The Seventh Maine Battery —later to win such an illustrious name in the great conflict — wasjust being recruited and he was put into its ranks as a private. For his bravery, tact and devotion through the fierce WildernessCampaign, he was recommended by General U. S. Grant, commandingthe Federal armies, for a commission and was made first lieutenant 190. SAMUEL FESSENDEN. 193 by order of Abraham Lincoln. Soon he was promoted to be captainin the infantry of the regular army, but his preferences being for theartillery arm of the service he was commissioned in the First MaineLight Artillery and subsequently served on the staff of General A. till the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. Eeturning from war, he at once resumed his studies, but with hismind fixed upon the profession of law. The preliminary coursequickly mastered, he went to the Harvard Law School where he wasgraduated in 1870. As the family had then removed to Stamford, hewent there and, on being admitted to the bar in Fairfield County,began his practice in the town in which he ever since has resided. Hewas fortunate in being taken into the firm of the late Joshua B. Ferrisand Calvin G. Child, men well qualified to help lay the solid founda-tions for
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