OF MARY PREBLE BROUGHT BY CHERISHED PORTRAIT Dec. 6-Among the many rical interest in Preble vas rededicated recently sive alterations, none is than a photograph of Mary Deering Preble, en- ivory miniature in the rs. Alice Preble Ander- mouth Hotel, who is a of Commodore Edward ng Preble. This minia- the latter at 18, at famous gentlewoman ledged belle of Portland. of Portland are particu- ssociation, but Preble reasons is of vibrating ry approach to the pic- stucco-finished edifice, unction of Cumberland eble street, is haunted y of historic characters nding on this corner, in of the city's tumult, ing about the secluded place which makes one ng life of the present, thinks of Mary Deering ame the bride of the Tripoli and was Preble ocral benefactor. ame Preble's last years building was communi. her mind and beneficent still beating quick to ce and she immediately suggestion. Thus it is Only portrait in Portland of Mary 3 in the yard of Preb.e Deering Preble, reproduced from a led on the grounds of miniature made of her when she was which was for a time 18 years old. modore Preble and his ese lilac tree near the The brick mansion of Commodore I Preble street was Preble, father of the United States navy, comparatively recent was erected 1806-1807 on the corner of cream-white blossoms, Congress and Preble streets. The bricks re, sweet fragrance in were brought from Philadelphia. The seem somehow exposi- building was enlarged and opened as a ring grace and gentlo hotel, the old Preble House, in 1860 on e the influences per- the site of the 12-story office building Mary Deering Preble. recently completed. es sway softly in dim Preble Chapel, which is the outgrowth and the passerby, of the Ministry at Large, dating from ay be unaware of the 1849, is of the Unitarian denomination. the renowned beauty In being connected with the Ministry cels something of the at Large, it was the first building inherent in the place erected for the purpose in the city or be hallowed by her the State. It is also of interest to know that in the nearly 75 years of its history, Preble was born in Preble Chapel has had but four pastors, married Commodore namely, William Hobart Hadley, the N., March 17, 1801, Rev. Oliver P. Tuckerman, the Rev. She was a. daughter William Tait Phelan, whose pastorate ering, a well known of 36 years is the longest, thus far, in Portland in the early the history of the church, and Rev. called Falmouth. He Arthur Gooding Pettengill. the present of the present Deering pastor, who has just completed 20 years the daughter of of service. herited much property father. He added to Preble Chapel is a free church owing to the fact that it is an endowed institu- to by the purchase of tion. There is no creed, but instead a 1g between Congress brief formula to which members are re- ove and it was a par- that Mary Deering quired to subscribe. This is a simple statement of the fundamentals of the ortland's ministry at Christian religion, including belief in ion of Preble Chapel, her name. God, with Jesus Christ as the spiritual leader.