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32 Partington. She proved herself to be one of the best speakers in the cause of temperance that have ever appeared in Baltimore, and spoke with an earnestness, distinctness, pathos, and humor that held the close attention of the assemblage to the last"

In her own State her friends are legion; and the Portland Transcript voiced the sentiments of all when it declared that "among the many speakers none made a deeper impression than Mrs. Partington, of this city."

In recent years Mrs. Partington has devoted most of her time to furthering temperance instruction among the children. She is District Superintendent of the Juvenile Templars in Cumberland County, Maine. On her seventieth birthday she was given a public reception in Portland, which was largely attended. Among the many gifts of love and respect which the occasion called forth is an Illustrated Life of Queen Mctoria" from the Juvenile Templars.

Since the first organization of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union she has been an active member. Her name is on the roll of the Union in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she often makes her headquarters. She is representative at large from Kings County Union, and has held other positions of responsibility. For several years Mrs. Partington had been a member of the W^ Oman's Relief Corps, auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic. Progressive and patriotic, she is a firm believer in the principles of equality and justice, and takes a deep interest in all the prominent (questions of the day. She is a cheerful companion and a loyal friend. When she was fourteen years old, she became acquainted with Lucy Stone, whose influence, she says, was an inspiration which has helped her through life.

Mrs. Partington has one son, Frederick luigene, born May 18, 1854. Her only daughter, Harriet Davis, born September 28, 1858, died when three years and six months old.

Frederick Eugene Partington, after several years at the high school of Portland, went abroad with his mother, and travelled two years, spending the winters in Brussels. He attended school and studied the French language in Paris. After his return he became a teacher in Pike Seminary, New York, and later he taught in Goshen, N.Y. Entering Brown University, Providence, R.L, in 1875, he was graduated in the class of 1879, of which he was chosen class historian. He then went to Germany, where he studied for a year and a half.

In 1881 he accepted a position as principal of New Paltz Academv, New York. After the building was burned, in 1884, he was chosen principal of Staten Island Academy, now one of the most popular educational institutions in New York. Through the efforts of Mr. Partington a new building has been erected, valued at seventy-five thousand dollars. Mr. Partington is a writer and lecturer upon educational topics. He has crossed the ocean many times, visiting Greece, Asia Minor, and other foreign countries; and his lectures upon his travels are very popular, especially the one on "The Land of the Midnight Sun."

On June 12, 1890, he married Miss Elizabeth Hamilton Bateman, of Portland, who was educated at Mount Holyoke Seminary.

VELYN GREENLEAF SUTHERLAND, writer, playwright, and critic, the only daughter of James Baker, formerly a prominent wholesale merchant of Boston, and his wife, Rachel Arnold Greenleaf, was born and bred in Boston, as were her paternal ancestors for three or four generations. Her mother, who died in 1896, was a daughter of Spencer and Pamela (Adams) Greenleaf, of Wiscasset, Me.

Mrs. Sutherland is descended on both sides from fighting stock, and inherits many interesting traditions. Her mother's [aternal ancestry she traces to Captain Edmund Greenleaf, who came from England and settled at Newbury in 1635, the line being: Edmund,1 Stephen,2 3 4 Samuel,5 Benjamin,6 Spencer.7 Edmund Greenleaf marched against the Indians in 1637. From that time to the death in 1857 of her grandfather, Spencer Greenleaf who served in the War of 1812, there was but one break in the military service of the family. Captain Stephen2 Greenleaf, son of Captain Edmund,1 was one of the purchasers of Nan-