The Greenes of Rhode Island, with historical records of English ...

Children by Second Marriage:
Eighth Generation. 589
3915. Edwin C. Bailey, a successful journalist, who became editor and proprietor
of the Boston Herald. He was married and lived and died in Boston.
The only child named is a daughter, Mrs. Shepard of Boston, but there
may have been others.
3916. Francis Bailey, died when about thirty years of age.
3917. (Son) Bailey.
3918. (Son) Bailey.
3919. (Daughter) Bailey, who married (?). Said to have been "so remarkably
handsome and fascinating that she always created a disturbance!"
The only stirviving son of William Pitt Fessenden, General Francis
Fessenden, still resides in Portland, Me., "a gallant man with a splendid
war record, who lost a leg in the Civil War. " During a long period of years
he never failed to honor his paternal grandmother, Ruth Greene, with a
visit, whenever he chanced to be in Boston, and pleasant relations were
always kept up by his father, also, with the children of her second marriage.
General Francis had three brothers, two of whom were also in the United
States service: James D., bom 1833, died 1882, Brigadier and Brevet
Major-General Volunteers; Samuel, born 1841, was mortally wounded at
the second battle of Bull Run, August 31, 1862; William H., born 1835,
died 1898.
2689. NATHANIEL « GREENE (Nathaniel , " Peter W.^ Richard '
Peter *, Peters John', John') was born in Boscawen, N. H., May 20,
1797. His educational advantages were somewhat limited, and at the
early age of ten years he went to Hopkinton, N. H., as clerk in a store. In
18 1 2 his father died, leaving an embaiTassed estate, which compelled Na-
thaniel to struggle on under adverse circumstances. But he was a great
reader and faithful student, and, after connection for a time with the New
Hampshire Il'a?- Journal at Portsmouth, he removed to Haverhill, Mass.,
where he had the sole supervision of the Gazette when but eighteen \'ears of
age. In 181 7 he started his own paper, The Essex Patriot, and in 1829 was
appointed Postmaster of Boston, Mass.
Mr. Greene possessed some poetic talent and published occasional
verses' over the nom do plume of " Boscawen." He afterward published a
History of Italy (translation), and translated about fifty volumes from the
German. He also distinguished himself in politics. He travelled in Europe
extensive!}", and when in Paris met with a great affliction in the death of
his only daughter at Panama. He married Susan, daughter of Rev. Wil-
liam Batchelder of Haverhill, Mass. Mr. Greene was christened "Peter,"
but having great respect for his father's name, he wished to assume it, and