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bountiful harvest of fruit and every garden yield its wealth of 

 berries and plums. 



I can close these brief remarks in no better manner than to 

 use his words, as one day we were talking about the going out 

 of one we both knew. 



Said he : " Let's have a sympathy for those who remain 

 which will mean something more than mere words, and then let's 

 take hold and go to work and do something." 



HON. CHARLES A. MARSTON. 



It is a singular fact that two of the life members received by 

 our society in 1904 should die the following year. Mr. Marston 

 first met with the Society at our orchard meeting in Manchester. 

 Interested himself in fruit growing and pleased with the work 

 of the Society he then and there became identified with the 

 Society. At our annual meeting for that year held in Skowhe- 

 gan he made an exhibition of excellent fruit and made a very 

 pleasing address of welcome. 



He was born in Waterville, May 26, 185 1, the son of Isaiah 

 and Eliza Coburn Marston. He was educated in the common 

 schools and Bloomfield Academy. He settled in Skowhegan and 

 became identified in one way or another with many of its mate- 

 rial interests. He has served in both branches of the legisla- 

 ture. For fifteen years he was a member of the Republican 

 town committee, being chairman ten years of the time. He was 

 a member of several secret orders and a Mason of high standing. 



His farm is in the southern part of the town and is said to be 

 one of the finest estates in the county. 



FRANCIS FESSENDEN. 

 General Francis Fessenden was a son of Senator William Pitt 

 Fessenden. He was born in Portland March 18, 1839. He 

 was educated in the old Portland Academy, Westbrook Sem- 

 inary, and graduated from IJowdoin College in 1858. He 

 studied law in his grandfather's office and attended the Harvard 

 Law School. In 1861 he was in Minnesota and when President 

 Lincoln called for volunteers he promptly tendered his services 



