Reginald Fessenden
Reginald Fessenden was born October 6, 1866, in East-Bolton, Quebec, the eldest of the Reverend Elisha Joseph Fessenden and Clementina Trenholme's four children. Elisha Fessenden was a Church of England in Canada minister, and the family moved to a number of postings throughout the province of Ontario.
Samuel Fessenden
Fessenden was born in Fryeburg, Maine. His father was the Rev. William Fessenden, who graduated from Harvard College in 1768, and was the first minister of Fryeburg. He was also active politically, being elected more than once to the Massachusetts state legislature. (Maine was then part of Massachusetts.) The senior Fessenden also served as judge of probate. Samuel Fessenden's cousin Thomas Green Fessenden became a noted author and editor.