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which he conducted until 1917. Maria Shackley Faunce attended Norway Liberal Institute, which is now Norway High School. To Mr. and Mrs. Faunce three children were born: Helen M., married Hugh Pendexter, lives in Norway, Maine; Benjamin F., the subject of this sketch; and Grace L., married Walter C. Leavitt, lives at Marblehead, Mass.
Benjamin F. Faunce attended the public schools of Norway, Maine, and in 1901 was graduated from the University of Maine. From early youth Mr. Faunce has been interested in all things mechanical and as a boy spent a great deal of his time in a local machine ship in Norway. In 1896 he began a course in mechanical engineering at the University of Maine which was continued until April, 1898, when he left college to enter the army at the time of the Spanish-American War. He waz appointed a sergeant in Company D, First Maine Regiment Volunteers and was connected with the engineering corps of that regiment. This regiment was mustered out of service Nov. 2, 1898. He then obtained a position at the Fore River Ship Building Company as a plater on the hulls of torpedo boat destroyers. He was engaged in this work until September, 1899, when he returned to college. During the summer of 1900 he was again employed by the above company as a machinist engaged in usual machine endeavors and on the installation of the engines in the above mentioned boats. He was graduated from the University of Maine with honors in June, 1901, and a few days afterwards went to Harrisburg, Pa., where he was employed by the Harrisburg Foundry & Machine Company as a member of the engine testing and inspecting crew, testing engines under steam before shipment. Later he went with the Pennsylvania Steel Company, where he was employed as a draftsman until the middle of November when he transferred to the Cambria Steel Company of Johnstown as a draftsman. At the end of a year he was promoted from draftsman to assistant mechanical inspector and on April 1, 1902, he was made chief mechanical inspector of the Cambria Steel Company. From this time until Nov. 15, 1903, he held this position, having charge of the mechanical inspection of every kind of mechanical purchase made by the company. This included blowing engines and rolling mill engines of the largest types, blast furnace reconstruction, coke oven construction, cables for passenger inclines and railroads, lumber, patterns, cast iron pipe, cranes, locomotives, and every kind of equipment that entered into modern steel making. On Nov. 15, he left this company to accept a position as manager of the Clifford-Capell
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