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492 1831). His complete works, containing lectures on moral philosophy, miscellaneous essays and sermons, and a fragment of a treatise on psychology, and a memoir by his widow, were published after his death (5 vols., Boston, 1842). &mdash; His wife, Eliza Lee Cabot, author, b. in Boston, 15 Aug., 1787; d. in Brookline, Mass., 26 Jan., 1860, was the daughter of Samuel Cabot, of Boston, and married Dr. Follen in 1828. After her husband's death she educated their only son, whom, with other pupils, she fitted for Harvard. She edited the &ldquo;Child's Friend&rdquo; in 1843-'50. Mrs. Follen was an intimate friend of William Ellery Channing, and was a zealous opponent of slavery. Besides the memoir of her husband, mentioned above, she published &ldquo;The Well-Spent Hour&rdquo; (Boston, 1827); &ldquo;The Skeptic&rdquo; (1835); &ldquo;Poems&rdquo; (1839); &ldquo;To Mothers in the Free States&rdquo; (1855); &ldquo;Anti-Slavery Hymns and Songs&rdquo; (1855); &ldquo;Twilight Stories&rdquo; (1858); and &ldquo;Home Dramas&rdquo; (1859).

FOLLET, David Lyman, jurist, b. in Sher- burne, N. Y., 17 July, 1N36. He was educated at Cazenovia seminary, N. Y., admitted to the bar in Binghamton in 1858, and settled in Norwich, N". Y. He has been assessor of internal revenue for the 19th district, and in 1874 was elected a justice of the supreme court of New York.

FOLSOM, Abby, reformer, b. in England about 1792 ; d. in Rochester, N. Y., in 1867. She came to the United States about 1837, became noted as an advocate of anti-slavery reform, and was well known for her addresses at the meetings of the American anti-slavery society, about 1842-'5. She married a Mr. Folsom, a resident of Massachusetts, and after- ward rarely appeared in public. She published a " Letter from a Member of the Boston Bar to an Avaricious Landlord " (Boston, 1851).

FOLSOM, Charles, scholar, b. in Exeter, N. H., 24 Dec, 1794; d. in Cambridge, Mass., 8 Nov., 1872. He was graduated at Harvard in 1813. During his college vacations he taught in Sudbury, Mass., and after graduation had charge of the academy at HalloweJl, Me., for one year. He began the study of divinity in 1814, and became chaplain in the U. S. navy, and midshipman's teacher of mathe- matics on the ship " Washington," in 1816. He was charge d'affaires in Tunis in 1817-19. David G. Farragut was one of the youngest of Mr. Fol- som's pupils on board the " Washington," and was given permission, at his own request, to leave the ship and remain with his teacher at Tunis. In after years Farragut was never weary of acknowl- edging his affectionate obligation to his friend and teacher. Mr. Folsom was tutor in Harvard from 1821 till 1823, and in 1825 was instructor in Italian. He was librarian of Harvard in 1823-'6, and of the Boston athenaeum from 1845 till 1856. After 1826 he was a member of the firm of Folsom, Wells & Thurston, proprietors of the university press, and was engaged in the examination, correction, and partial editing of various classical works. Through- out his life he was accustomed to give much time to the version and criticism of the proofs of the works of various authors, among whom Quincy, Sparks, Norton, Palfrey, and Prescott have ren- dered special tribute to his ability. From 1841 till 1845, with his wife, he conducted a school for young ladies in Boston. Late in life he was engaged with others in the preparation of Worcester's Diction- ary. He was the author of the inscriptions upon the monuments erected to three presidents of Har- vard — Dunster, Willard, and Webber — and was fre- quently called upon for aid in similar labors, as also in the deciphering and interpretation of an- cient inscriptions. At the close of the civil war Admiral Farragut gave Mr. Folsom a silver vase, handsomely engraved from sketches made by Far- ragut himself. Mr. Folsom was co-editor with William Cullen Bryant of the " U. S. Literary Gazette " in Boston and New York in 1824, and edited, with Andrews Norton, the " Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature " in 1833. He published " Cicero's Select Orations," with notes (Boston, 1811), and " Additional Selections from Livy," with notes (Cambridge, 1829). — His wife, Susannah Sarah, daughter "of Prof. Joseph Mc- Kean. of Harvard, married Mr. Folsom in 1824, and has written both prose and poetry. During Mrs. Eliza Lee Follen's absence in Europe she edited volumes thirteen and fourteen of the " Child's Friend " (Boston, 1850), and wrote an " Ode for La- dies Fair " (1840). She also contributed to Miss A. W. Abbot's " Autumn Leaves " (Cambridge, 1853), and to Arthur Gilman's " The Cambridge of 1776 " (Cambridge, 1876). — Their son, Charles William, engineer, b. in Cambridge, Mass., 17 April, 1820, was graduated at Harvard in 1845, and was engaged in the construction of railroads in New York,Virginia, and Ohio from 1848 till 1854, and in Nova Scotia from 1855 till 1856. He served in the National army during the civil war, was receiver of railroads in Virginia and Tennessee for the U. S. govern- ment in 1869, and superintendent of Mount Au- burn cemetery, near Boston, from April, 1870, till April, 1873. He has been employed in the sewer department of Boston since 1876. — Another son, Norton, physician, b. in Boston, Mass., 15 April, 1842, studied in the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard, and was graduated at Harvard medical school in 1864. He was surgeon of the 45th col- ored troops in 1864-'5, and acting medical director of the 25th array corps, receiving the brevet of lieutenant-colonel. He was in Texas when mus- tered out of service, and became a surgeon in the Liberal Mexican army under Gen. Escobedo. He was resident physician at the Massachusetts gen- eral hospital in Boston in 1869-'76, and since that time has practised his profession in that city. Dr. Folsom has invented sanitary appliances, and pub- lished " Essay on the Senses of Smell and Taste," which gained the Boylston society prize (Boston, 1863), and " Plans and Suggestions for Johns Hop- kins Hospital, Baltimore " (New York, 1875).

FOLSOM, George, antiquarian, b. in Kenne- Vnmk, Me., 23 May, 1802 ; d. in Rome, Italy. 27 March, 1869. He was graduated at Harvard in 1822, studied law in Saeo, Me., and practised his pro- fession in Framingham, and afterward in Worces- ter, Mass. In the latter town he was associated with the American antiquarian society, was its chairman, and edited the second volume of its series. He removed to New York in 1837, became an active member of the historical society of that city, and virtually quitted his profession for histori- cal literature. In 1844 he was elected to the state senate, and in 1850 appointed by President Taylor charge d'affaires at the Hague, where he remained until 1854. After travelling in Europe two years, he returned to the United States, and renewed his connection with various literary and charitable associations. He repeatedly returned to Europe, and collected a valuable library, but was deterred by ill health from active historical studies. He was president of the American ethnological society and of the citizen's savings bank, aiicl published " Sketches of Saco and Biddeford " (Saco, Me., 1830); " Dutch Annals of New York " (New York, 1841) ; " Letters and Dispatches of Cortez," trans- lated from the Sjiaiush (1S43); "Political Condition of Mexico" (Bi)st(m, 1842); and an "Address on