Fessenden, Samuel
lawyer, philanthropist, was born July 16, 1784, in Fryeburg, Maine. In 1815-16 he was in the general court of Massachusetts, and in 1818-19 represented his district in the Massachusetts senate. For fourteen years he was major-general of the twelfth division of Massachusetts militia. He died March 13, 1869, in Portland, Maine. was FESSENDEN, SAMUEL CLEMENT, clergyman, lawyer, congressman, born March 7, 1815, in New Gloucester, Maine. In 1856 he established the Maine Evangelist; in 1858 entered upon the practice of law; and soon after was elected judge of the municipal court of Rockland. He was elected a representative from Maine to the thirty-seventh congress. In 1865 he was appointed a member of the board of examiners of the patent office.