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IN MEMORIAM. 375
In Memoriam.
ALEXANDER BENNER.
At Liberty, Maine, November 19th, 1893, Alexander Banner,
Company B, First Maine Cavalry, died, aged fifty-two years,
four months, sixteen days. He also served one year in the
navy. He was a member of the Bradstreet Post, and was a
man of good standing and highly respected by all who knew
him. He was a pensioner, and died of disease contracted while
in the service. He left surviving a widow and three sons.
GERSHOM F. BURGESS.
Hon. Gershom F. Burgess of Rockport, died September ist,
1894. He was born at Hartland, Me., sixty-five years ago, and
was educated at Kent's Hill and Coburn Classical Institute,
Waterville, where he was a classmate of C. F. Richards of
Rockport, and Nelson Dingley, besides other notable men.
After graduating he came to Rockland and taught school sev-
eral years, also at Rockport and other towns in Knox county.
For a time he was engaged in the stable business at Rockland
and studied law, where he met and married his first wife, Mrs.
John White. After her death he went to Rockport and associ-
ated himself in business with David Talbot. In a few years he
married Mrs. Christiana Young and assumed the management
of the lime business of her late husband. In 1883 Mrs. Bur-
gess died leaving two children, Gershom L. and Ardella C.
Several years later Mr. Burgess married Miss Lotta Gould who
died at the end of about two years. In 1890 Miss Julia Knight
of Camden, became his wife and now survives him.
Mr. Burgess all through his life has been prominent in busi-
ness and social circles. He served in the late war as first lieutenant
of Co. I, Nineteenth Maine Infantry, under Capt. Edward
A. Snow. In that regiment it will be remembered were such