Wallace Fessenden

1860–1935 (age 75)

Biography

Wallace Fessenden, born in 1860, was a steady figure in his locality, guiding civic and commercial affairs with a calm sense of purpose.

He valued education and good governance, and his memory endures among the trees of Green-Wood Cemetery where he now rests.

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