Fessenden, Thomas
clergyman, author, was born in 1739 in Cambridge, Mass. He became pastor in Walpole, N.
H., which charge he held from 1767 till 1813. He was author of The Science of Sanctity, and The Boston Self-Styled Gentlemen-Reviewers Reviewed. He died in 1813.
FESSENDEN, THOMAS AMORY DE- BLOISE, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 23, 1826, in Portland, Maine. In 1858 he was appointed aide-de-camp to the governor of Maine. In 1860 he was elected to the Maine legislature, and in 1861 was chosen attorney for the county of Androscoggin, which position he held until 1862, when he was elected a representative from Maine to the thirty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy. He died Sept. 28, 1868, in Lewiston, Maine.