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Rh work on the Erie canal in 1825. completed contracts for the slack-water navigation in Lehigh river in 1835, the Croton aqueduct in 1838, and afterward constructed the Boston water-works. Subsequent- ly he engaged in railroad building, and executed extensive contracts for the New York and Erie rail- way, the Great Western railway of Canada, the Utica and Black river railroad, and the Flint and Pere Marquette railway, of which last he was vice- president and the principal share-holder. He also built the Brooklvn water-works.

FASNACHT, Charles H., soldier, b. in Lancas- ter county. Pa., 27 March, 1842. He enlisted in 1861 ni the 99th Pennsylvania regiment, and mus- tered out of service in July, 1865, as 1st lieutenant. On 12 May, 1864, just after the taking of the salient at Spottsylvania, he captured the flag of the 2d Louisiana regiment, taking the color- bearer and color-guard prisoners, but was shortly afterwai'd wounded, and fell into the enemy's hands. With over one hundred others he lay on the battle-field several days, waiting to be taken to Richmond, and was finally rescued by National troops. During this time he had the iflag concealed in the lining of his blouse. For his gallantry he received the United States medal of honor, a silver medal from the directors of the sanitary fair at Philadelphia, and the bronze " Kearny badge."

FASQUELLE, Jean Louis, educator, b. in France in 1808 ; d. in Michigan in 1862. He came to the United States in 1834, and became a teacher of languages. From 1846 till his death he filled the professorship of modern languages and litera- ture in the University of Michigan, and was also librarian for two years. In 1854 he published in New York " French Course, or a New Method for Learning to Read, Write, and Speak the French Language," which was extcnsivc^ly used in the United States, and of which 30,000 copies were sold in England. He also published, besides other text-books, " Telemaque. with Notes and Gram- matical References." a '• Colloquial French Reader," and a " General and Idiomatical Dictionary of the French and English Languages."

FASSETT, Cornelia Adèle (Strong), artist, b. in Owasco, N. Y., 9 Nov., 1831 ; d. in Washington, D. C, 4 Jan.. 1898. She studied water-color paint- ing in New York city and in Paris and Rome, painting in oil under Matthieu and other artists. She returned to the United States about 1855, es- tablished herself as a portrait-painter in C'hicago, 111., and in 1875 became a resident of Washington, D. C. She has executed portraits of Vice-Presi- dent Henry Wilson, Justices Miller and Field, Chief-Justice Waite, President Garfield, John A. Logan, Clara Barton, and others, and in 1877-'80 painted " The Electoral Commission in Open Ses- sion," containing portraits of about 200 persons. She became a member of the Chicago academy of design in 1873.

FAICHER DE SAINT MAURICE, Narcisse Henri Edouard, Canadian author, b. in Quebec, 18 April, 1844. His father was seigneur of Beaumont, Vineennes, and Mont-a-peine. He was educated at the seminary of Qviebec and at the college of Ste.-Anne de la Pocatiere. He went to Mexico in 1864, and became a captain in the 4th Mexican sharp-shooters, and afterward was aide-de-camp to Gen. the Viscount Courtois Roussel d'Hurbal. He served through the war, being in eleven battles, thirty-two minor engagements, and at the sieges of Oaxaca and Satillo, at the latter of which he was made prisoner and sentenced to be shot, but was afterward exchanged. He returned to Canada in 1866, and was for the next fourteen years a clerk of the legislative council of the province of Quebec. In 1881 he was elected a representative for Bellechasse to the Quebec legislative assembly. He was a commissioner in 1881 from the province of Quebec at the International exposition of geog- raphy in Venice, and while in Europe was created a chevalier of the legion of honor for exceptional services rendered to France in the Canadian press. He also had been created a knight of the Imperial order of Guadaloupe by Maximilian, and received the medal of the Mexican campaign from Napoleon III. He became editor of "Le journal de Quebec" in 1883. retaining his connection with it for a year and a half, and is now (1887) editor of " Le Cana- dien." He has contributed largely to the news- paper press in France, Canada, and the United States. He is a member of various societies, and is the author of " De Quebec a Mexico " ; " A la Brunante " ; " Chases et autres " ; " De Tribord a Babord " ; " Promenades dans le Golf de St. Lau- rent"; "Procedures parlementaires " ; " Cours de tactique " ; " Relations de ce qui s'est passe aux fouilles faites lors de la demolition des casernes des Jesuites, a Quebec"; '"A la Veiliee"; "Deux ans au Mexique " ; and " L'abbe Laverdiere."

FAUCHET, Jean Antoine Joseph, Baron, diplomatist, b. in St. Quentin, France, in 1763. He was a law student at Paris when the Revolution began, and published a pamphlet in defence of its principles. He was appointed secretary of the executive council, and was ambassador to the United States in 1794-'6. He produced a work on the United States and their relations with France (translation by W. Duane, Philadelphia, 1797). The directory nominated him a commissioner to Santo Domingo, but he declined. Under Bona- parte he was prefect of the Var, and in 1805 of the Arno, and was made a baron. On Napoleon's re- turn he was made prefect of the Gironde.

FAULKNER, Charles James, lawyer, b. in Martinsburg, Va.. in 1806 ; d. in Boydville, W. Va., 1 Nov., 1884. He was graduated at Georgetown university, D. C, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1829. Three years later he became a member of the Virginia house of dele- gates, where he in- troduced a measure for the gradual abo- lition of slavery in Virginia, declaring that all children born of slave parents after 1 July, 1840, should be free, but the prop- osition was defeat- ed. Mr. Faulkner after this devoted himself with success to his profession. He served as a commis- sioner on the dis- puted boundary-line

between Virginia and Maryland. He was elected a state senator in 1841, but resigned in the following year. In 1848 he was elected to the house of delegates, and introduced a bill that was passed and sent to congress, which became the famous fugitive-slave law of 1850. He was a member of the convention for the revision of the State constitution in 1850. The next year he was elected to the U. S. house of representatives, and was reelected by the Democratic vote for four successive terras, serving from 1 Dec, 1851, till 3 March, 1859, When James Buchanan became president in 1857,