When Harrold Pitt Fessenden was born on 4 October 1869, in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Sgt. Mjr. Charles Bucknam Fesseden, was 28 and his mother, Harriet Louise Everett, was 25. He married Elizabeth Evans Ketchum on 27 April 1901, in Galveston, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Parsons, Labette, Kansas, United States in 1880 and Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States for about 20 years. He died on 11 October 1934, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Chapel of the Chimes Columbarium and Mausoleum, Oakland, Alameda, California, United States.
English (Kent): probably from a lost or unidentifiedplace in Kent, named with an unexplained first element + Old Englishdenu ‘valley’. The variant Fishenden is also found.
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