PORTLAND'S ONLY LIKENESS OF MARY DEERING PREBLE TAKEN FROM AN IVORY MINIATURE Portrait of Mary Deering Preble, wife of Commodore Edward Preble, which hangs in Preble chapel, Were it not forla photograph of the Mary Doering Preble was born in portrait of Mary Deering Preble, wife Portland in 1770, married Commodore of Commodore Edward Preble, U. S. Edward Preble on the 17th of March N., which hangs in Preble Chapel, in 1801, and died in 1851. She made Portland would have no likeness of her home for some time on the site of this *lamous gentlewoman whose hus, the Preble House, now being razed, band and father were so prominently where Commodore Proble erected a connected with the early history of the mansion for his family. City. She was a daughter of Nathaniel The Preble Chapel photograph, a Deering, a well-known boat builder of skillful bit of work, is enlarged from Portland in the early days when it was a photograph of an ivory miniature of called Falmouth, and progenitor of the Mrs. Alice Preble Anderson of the present Deering family. Ho married Columbia, who is a granddaughter of the daughter/of Deacon Milk, and from Commodore Edward and Mary Deering bis wife's father inherited much prop- Preble This miniature. represents ertv. He added to this in his later Mary Deering Proble as she was at 18, life by the purchase of 70 acrea and so far as is known is the only stretching between Congress street portrait of her in existence. It depicts and Back Cove, and It was a parcel of a girl of such daintiness and grace this land that Mary Deering Preble that it is easy to understand how the gave to the First Parish Church for hero of the Tripoli campaign fell a the erection of Preble Chapel, which victim to her charm. now bears her name