Excerpt from War Papers of Frank B. Fay: With Reminiscences of Service in the Camps and Hospitals of the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865
Frank B. Fay was born in Southborough, Massachusetts, on the twenty-fourth of January, 1821, the eldest son of Francis B. and Nancy Brigham Fay, and died March twenty, 1904.
He had the ordinary school education, and entered active business in Boston at the beginning of his twenty-first year, as a member of the firm of Fay & Farwells, one of the largest commission houses in Boston at that Lime. He continued in this business successfully many years, commanding the respect and confidence of all who knew him. lie retired with a moderate competency, entered into several special partnerships which were also successfully maintained, and which gave him leisure for the public service which he enjoyed and in which he won distinction.
There was another finer trait which became a passion within him as the years went on, namely, a desire to serve those about him who were in trouble, and his mind and his heart were alway open to them. He entered public life early, and won public confidence by the breadth of his views, his courage, good sense, and high character, and this confidence ripened into the love of multitudes of people through all the years of his service for them. Whether in the crises of public affairs or in the private perplexities and griefs of those who gave him their confidence, lie always managed to get under the load to lighten it for them.
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