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Y.M1C.A. 1933 Moumain View 1946 Deering Estate 1948 petity. His sociai connections were agreeable. and the affable hnst extended hospitality :0 celebrity and piebian alike- an era can be read in their names alone; untold sadness and immeasur- able fame in their hnal reputations. Deering's sister, Sarah, married Commodore Edward Pteble, the renowned subduer 0f the Barbary Pirates and Father of the United States Navy. By marriage, he was affiliated with Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury and former United States Senator, William Pitt Fessenden. Dent Daniel Websret walked the Mansionis hails; swatthy Vice President, Hannibal Hamlin, danced in its glittering parlors; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, long a tesi. dent of Portland, read poetry on thegreen lawn beneath the elm trees. Secretary DFWar, jefferson Davis, personally inspected the construction ofbrooding Fort Gorges in the harbor, solemnly int dicative ofthe stutms then gathering. In the corps attending the lean and dignified Secretary was Robert E. Lee ofVitginiaA The War of Rebellion, whiie dearly expending the lives of thousands of Maine soldiers in celebrated and infamous batties alike, left unaltered the boundaries of the state, but profoundiy 10 Lee Memorial 1946 Boy's Club 1947 altered the compiexion of its resitients. Times were not kind to- the Deering famiiy yet they remained unwiiling to sell any- subsrantial portion of the land surrounding the Mansion to; fourteen years A common sreeLplate map of1875, A Bitd'siEye- View of Portland, pictures a singie railroad spur straggling- aiong ForeSt Avenue with mi Other buildings lying between this ; track and DeeringAvenue save the Mansion and extending farm buildings. It was no: until 1879 that the Deerings 501d a iatge ponion Of Deering Oaks to the city. This confined the boundaries 05th? family estate solely within the limits ofthc municipal bordered: the town of Deering, named for the landowner, james Deering- Westem Falmouth was ruled off as Wwbrook in 1814, and-a portion ofthat municipality, Deering, was incorporated in 1871:: it was later reannexed by Portland in 1899. The Great Portland Fire of 1866 forced many prominent: bumednut and homeless families onto the remaining Dean, land, and the Family sold much of the satellite areas of the ndw failow farmland for house lets. In 1946, when Portland Junk ?
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