He was brilliant from his youth upward; had led the Maine Legislature when but a few years beyond his majority; and, at a time when members of the legal profession are struggling for a first foot-hold, he had stepped to the front rank in the bar of Maine.
Blaine recounts Fessenden's early achievements and rise in the legal profession in Maine.
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