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422 he offered Mr. Faulkner the mission to France, which he at first declined, but accepted in 1859. Louis Napoleon was encouraged by him to sympa- thize with the south in the approaching contest, rather than with the nation, and accordingly Presi- dent Lincoln recalled Mr. P^aulkner, who, on his return to the United States, was arrested and con- fined in Fort Warren as a disloyal citizen. When released in exchange for Alfred Ely, a member of congress who was imprisoned in Richmond, he joined the Confederate army, and served on the staff of Gen. " Stonewall " Jackson until the death of that officer. For some years he was debarred the rights of citizenship on account of having borne arms against the governnaent, but in 1872 his political disabilities were removed. He was a member of the State constitutional convention of West Virginia in 1872, and in 1874 was elected to the U. S. house of representatives for the term that expired on 3 March, 1877. He was an un- successful candidate subsequently for the U. S. senate and for the governorship of West Virginia, after which he retired to private life. — His son, Charles James, senator, b. in Martinsburg, W. Va., about 1840, was graduated at the University of Virginia, served as a private in the Confeder- ate army during the civil war, and after its close studied law, and rose rapidly in the profession. In 1880 he was appointed a circuit judge, to fill an unexjiired term, and in 1882 was elected to the same office. On 5 May, 1887, he was elect- ed as a Democrat to the U. S. senate from West Virginia.

FAUNCE, Daniel Worcester, clergyman, b. in Plymouth, Mass., 3 Jan., 1829. He was graduated at Amherst, and received his theological education at Newton theological institution. He was or- dained as pastor of the Baptist church in Som- erville, Mass., in 1853, and has been pastor in Worcester, Maiden, and Lynn, Mass., and also in Concord, N. H., and Washington, D, C. He has travelled in Europe, Egypt, and Palestine. The degree of I). D. was conferred upon him l)y Am- herst in 1880. — His son, William Herbert Perry, b. in Worcester, Mass., 15 Jan., 1859. He was graduated from Brown and from the Newton theo- logical seminary. During 1881-'2 he was instruc- tor of mathematics in Brown university. He served in the pastorate of the state sti-eet Baptist church, Springfield, Mass., from 1884. In 1889 he became pastor of the 5th avenue Baptist church. Dr, Faunce is a trustee of various universities, a lecturer at the University of Chicago, and jtreacher to Harvard.

FAUNTLEROY, Thomas Turner, soldier, b. in Richmond county, Va., 6 Oct., 1796; d. in Leesburg, Va., 12 Sept., 1883. He was commissioned a major of dragoons in the regular army, and served in the Seminole war. In September, 1845, he was detached from Gen. Taylor's army to hold in check the Indians on the frontier of Texas. From this duty he was ordered to join Gen. Taylor, and subsequently, in Mexico, he commanded the cavalry of Gen. Scott's army. In 1849 he was promoted to the lieutenant-colonelcy of the 1st dragoons, and commanded the troops on frontier duty in Texas. In 1850 he was promoted colonel. In the winter of 1854-'5 he conducted a campaign against the hostile Indian tribes of the Rocky mountains, and in 1858 he made another mid-winter campaign against the Indians in New Mexico. In May, 1861, he entered the Confederate service. He was commissioned a brigadier-general by the convention of Virginia, and placed in command of Richmond and its defences. But, after the organization of the Confederate government, it refused to confirm his commission, although he ranked all the officers but one that had resigned from the U. S. army to serve the Confederacy. &mdash; His son, Archibald Magill, physician, b. in Warrenton, Va., 8 July, 1837; d. in Staunton, Va., 19 June, 1886, was graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1856, and in 1857 entered the U. S. army as assistant surgeon; but he and his brother, a lieutenant in the navy, resigned at the same time with their father. He became a surgeon in the Confederate army, and was president of the board for the admission of surgeons, and chief officer on the medical staff of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, and served with him until the battle of Seven Pines. He was then ordered to build and organize the hospitals at Danville, Va., and afterward had charge of the military hospital at Staunton, Va., until the war ended. He remained and practised at Staunton after the war, and was for several years superintendent of the lunatic asylum at that place. His contributions to medical literature include papers on bromide of potassium, chloral hydrate, the use of chloroform in obstetrical practice, and a &ldquo;Report upon Advance in Therapeutics,&rdquo; which was printed in the &ldquo;Transactions&rdquo; of the Virginia medical society. &mdash; Another son, Thomas T., became judge of the Virginia supreme court of appeals. &mdash; Their sister, Mary Thurston, married Surgeon-General Barnes, of the U. S. army.

FAUQUIER, Francis, colonial governor of Virginia, b. about 1720; d. in Virginia, 3 March, 1768. He was a man of a cultivated mind and liberal religious views, who counted Thomas Jeff- erson among his friends, and was greatly respected in the colony for his private worth. He succeeded Dinwiddle in 1758, and was lieutenant-governor until his death. He dissolved the assembly in 1764 after it had adopted Patrick Henry's resolutions declaring that the sole right of taxation resided in the colonial legislature ; and when Massachusetts invited the other colonies to join in a general con- gress, in 1765, he refused to summon the newly elected house of burgesses in order that it might appoint delegates. Except in combating disloy- alty, he sympathized with the colonists, and was one of the ablest and most popular of the royal governors. He published several financial essays, among them one on '• Raising Money for Support of the War" (London, 1757).

FAVILLE, Oran, educator, b. in Manheim, Herkimer co., N. Y., 13 Oct., 1817; d. in Wa- verly, Iowa, 3 Oct., 1872. He was graduated at Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn., in 1844, and after teaching in Cazenovia, N. Y., and West. Poultney, Vt., became, in 1852, professor of an- cient languages in JMcKendree college, Lebanon, 111. He was president of Ohio Wesleyan female college, Delaware, Ohio, in 1853-'5, but retired to a farm in Mitchell county, Iowa, on account of his health, and was subsequently county judge, lieu- tenant-governor of Iowa, and president, and after- ward secretary, of the State board of education. In 1863 he was one of the board of visitors to the U. S. military academy. He edited the " Iowa School Journal " in 1863-'7, was state superintend- ent of public instruction in 1864-'6, and also presi- dent of the State teachers' associaticm. He re- signed these offices on account of failing health, and lived in retirement from 1867 until his death.

FAWCETT, Edgar, author, b. in New York city, 26 May, 1847. He was graduated at Columbia in 1867, and has since devoted himself to literature. His books include "Short Poems for