Born: November 18, 1880
Died: September 15, 1957
Married: Alice Wilcox
Children: Mrs. Cora DeWitt, Henry Fadden, Howard Fadden, Alfred Fadden
Wesley C. Fadden worked as yard foreman for the Kendall Lumber. Later he worked as a carpenter. For his last twelve years he was an Inspector of electric wire at the Rome Cable Plant, Rome, N. Y., until failing health forced his retirement a year before his death. His name appears in a list of forest rangers, mountain observers, plantation and railroad patrolmen. He is buried in the Merrillsville Cemetery.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 17, 1957
Wesley C. Fadden Funeral Services
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Wesley C. Fadden, who died Sunday at the Saranac Lake General Hospital, where he had been a patient for three days. Dr. E. Holt Hughes, pastor of the Bloomingdale Methodist Church will conduct the services in the Fortune Funeral Home, where the body is reposing. Interment will be in Merrillsville Cemetery.
Pall bearers are grandchildren Alfred and Peter DeWitt, and Alfred and David Fadden.
Mr. Fadden was born on November 18, 1880 in Jeffersonville, Vt, the son of Henry and Emma Gibson Fadden. He spent has early childhood in Merrillsville. He moved to Saranac Lake and worked as yard foreman for the Kendall Lumber Co. until he retired a year ago. Since his retirement he lived at 5 Virginia Street in Saranac Lake. Mr. Fadden is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Cora DeWitt of Buffalo; three sons, Henry, Watertown, Howard of Cheektowaga and Alfred of Elizabethtown; two sisters, Mrs. George Belmont of Merrillsville, and Mrs. Loren Hebler of Buffalo; eleven grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.
