Samuel Clement Fessenden
Born: March 7, 1815
Birthplace: New Gloucester, Massachusetts (Maine)
Father: Samuel Fessenden 1784 – 1869
(Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine)
Mother: Deborah Chandler Unknown – 1873
(Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine)
Wife: Mary Abigail Grosvenor Abbe 1816 – 1905
(Buried: Woodland Cemetery, Stamford, Connecticut)
Children:
Lt. Samuel Fessenden 1847 – 1908
(Buried: Woodland Cemetery, Stamford, Connecticut)
Oliver G. Fessenden 1855 – 1921
(Buried: Woodland Cemetery, Stamford, Connecticut)
Brother: U.S. Secretary of Treasury William Pitt Fessenden 1806 – 1869
(Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine)
Brother: U.S. Congressman Thomas A. D. Fessenden 1826 – 1868
(Buried: Riverside Cemetery Lewiston Maine)
Political Party: Republican Party
Religion: Congregationalist
Education:
1834: Graduated from Bowdoin College
1837: Graduated from Bangor Theological Seminary
Occupation before War:
1837 – 1856: Minister of Second Congregational Church, Thomaston, Maine
1846: Unsuccessful Candidate for Governor of Maine
1858 – 1861: Attorney in Rockland, Maine
Judge of Rockland Maine Municipal Court
Civil War Career:
1861 – 1863: United States Congressman from Maine
1861 – 1863: Member of House Revisal and Unfinished Business
1862: Choose not to be a candidate for reelection to U.S. Congress.
1863 – 1865: Attorney in Rockland, Maine
1865 – 1879: Examiner of United States Patent Office
Occupation after War:
1879 – 1881: United States Consul at St. John New Brunswick
Died: April 18, 1882
Place of Death: Stamford, Connecticut
Age at time of Death: 67 years old
Burial Place: Woodland Cemetery, Stamford, Connecticut
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