Hon. Fabius M. Ray was born March 30, 1837, at South Windham, Me. He was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1861, and spent the year after graduation in Heidelberg, Germany, and Geneva, Switzerland, in the study of German and French. Returning home, he read law in Portland, and in due time was admitted to the Cumberland Bar. He has resided for many years past in Saccarappa, practicing his profession there and in Portland, where he has had an office since 1871. Mr. Ray has represented the town of Westbrook two terms in the "popular branch" of the Legislature, and served one term as State Senator from Cumberland County. He takes a decided interest in matters pertaining to local and family history, and is at present President of the Maine Genealogical Society. Mr. Ray was class poet at Commencement, in his college days, and has written very creditable poetry for various publications.

tipped-in photograph
presumably of Judge Ray's Westbrook house

Fabius M. Ray, Translations, Imitations, and a Few Originals
(Portland, Maine: Smith & Sale, 1904)
[library of James R. Elkins]

Fabius M. Ray
Thos. W. Herringshaw (ed.), Local and National Poets of America 687
(Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1890)

Poetry

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