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342 and there she sleeps, among her old friends and neighbors.

"Patriotism, courage, and righteousness were among her possessions."

A chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution named in honor of Mrs. Fulton was organized in Medford, December 17, 1896, with seventeen members. Its charter was presented January 26, 1897. The first officers were: Regent, Mrs. Mary S. Goodale; Vice-Regent, Mrs. Mary B. Loomis; Secretary, Miss Helen T. Wild; Registrar, Mrs. Enmia W. Goodwin; Treasurer, Miss Adeline B. Gill; Historian, Miss Eliza M. Gill.

During Mrs. Goodale's administration a tablet was erected to mark the site of the home of Mrs. Fulton during the Revolution. During the Spanish War the members of the chapter were active in work for the soldiers. They gave liberally of time, work, and money to assist the enlisted men of Medford, and also contributed to the Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association.

December 5, 1898, Mrs. Mary B. Loomis was elected Regent. During her term of office the chapter erected a memorial in the Salem Street Cemetery, Medford, to mark the last resting-place of Mrs. Fulton. The stone used was the doorstep of the house on Fulton Street where she lived for many years and where she died. It is inscribed:—

In April, 1899, a loan exhibition was held by the chapter in the Royal House, Medford, which was attended by a large number of persons from far and near. The proceeds enabled the ladies in 1901 to open the Royal House to the public for a permanent exhibition. They also published a descriptive jiamphlet relating to it. The house also is the headquarters of the chapter. The mansion, which is a fine example of colonial architecture, was remodelled by Isaac Royall in 1732, and it is known to have existed in a plainer form as early as 1690. During the siege of Boston it was the headquarters of the New Hampshire division of the Continental army.

RANCIS LAUGHTON MACE, one of the best beloved poets of Maine, was born in Orono, on January 15, 1836. She died at Los Gatos, Cal., July 20, 1899. She was a daughter of Sumner Laughton, M.D., and his wife, Mary A. Parker Laughton. Dr. Laughton was a physician of excellent standing in his profession. He removed to Foxcroft when Frances was a year old, and removed thence with his family to liangor when she was about fourteen. She had already made excellent progress in the schools of Foxcroft, reading all the Æneid of Virgil and his Bucolics at twelve and thirteen, and writing much under the tutelage and with the encouragement of both friends and teachers.

The principal of the Foxcroft Academy at the time she was a student there was Mr. Thomas Ta.sh, afterward of Portland, and of much ability as a teacher, well-known in Maine educational circles. He gave her work not only close and friendly criticism, but warm appreciation. "It was he," she said long afterward, "who gave me courage to persevere."

In Bangor she continued her studies at the high school, completing the course at sixteen, and with private teachers. She was always an eager and diligent student, and her thoroughness and zeal are evidenced in her themes themselves and in her often lavish use of classic allusion and imagery. Her first verses were printed in the Waterville Mail when she was only twelve years old. It was not long before her poems began to attract attention, and, some of them coming under the eye of the editor of the New York Journal of Conunerce, she was invited to contribute to that paper. The series of poems published in that journal includes some of the loveliest and most significant of her minor verse.

In 1855 she was married to Mr. Benjamin ?I. Mace, a lawyer of Bangor, where they resided till the hope of firmer health for both induced their removal to San Jose, Cal.

The twoscore and more of years of Mrs. Mace's