Excerpt from The Memorial Church and Buildings, Fairhaven, Massachusetts: A Record of the Dedication Exercises and a Description of the Buildings HE church, parish house, and parsonage of the Uni tarian Society of Fairhaven, dedicated on Tuesday, Octo ber fourth, 1904, form a group of beautiful buildings. They were erected by Henry H. Rogers as a memorial to his mother, Mary Eldredge Rogers, who died in Fairhaven on November ninth, 1899, in the eighty-ninth year of her age. During the month of April, 1901, work was begun on the buildings, and the corner-stone was laid shortly after five o'clock in the afternoon of Monday, August fifth, of the same year. The speakers on this occasion were Rev. Robert collyer, Rev. Minot J. Savage, D.D., and samuel L. Clemens (mark Twain). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.