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Rh his theological studies, he was ordained a priest in May, 1857, by Bishop Young of Erie. He per- formed missionary worlc in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Kentucky, building a new church at Covington and introducing the Benedictine nuns to teach the girls' school. At St. Joseph's, Chicago, he so increased his flock as to render a larger church necessary, and this he erected, also a fine school. In 1871 he was appointed coadjutor to Bishop Miege, viear-apostolic of Kansas, and was consecrated under the title of bishop of Eucarpia, in June, 1871, at St. Joseph's church, Chicago, which he had erected. He assisted Bishop Miege in his lal)ors among the Indians, and many churches, schools, institutions.and priests were added. Bishop Fink became vicar-apostolic of Kansas in May, 1877. and bishop of Leavenworth in May, 1891.

FINNEY, John, physician, b. in Irefanil: d. in New Castle, Del., in 1774. He settled at New Costle. and was appointed one of the first mem- bers of the common council of that city in 1724. He followed his profession with success for fifty years, and became the wealthiest person in that county. In 1738 he was appointed a justice of the peace, and he served as a judge of the or- phans' court for many years. Soon after the defeat of Uen. Hraddock he was appointe<l lieutenant- colonel of the upper regiment of New Castle county, and in 1758 he acted as commissioner of the lower counties in enuipping three comimnies of soldiers required by Gov. Denny. He was also appointed trustee of moneys that were granted the govern- ment for military uses by parliament, and was naval officer for the port and dist rict of New Castle. An elegy written upon him by his friend, John Parke, was printed among poems of the latter in 1786. — Darid, his son, lawyer, d. near New Castle, Del., in May, 1H(I0, was iKjrji in America, but re- ceived his higher education in Ireland, and prac- tised his profession at Newcastle. In 1748 he was commissioned captain of a company of a.»si)clators of New Castle county. In 1771 and 1775 he was appointcil a justice for that county for the trial of negroes, and in 1777a just ice of the jieace. In 1778 he was judge of the supreme court of Delaware and justice of the superior court. He was rej)ut«l the richest citizen of Delaware until the peruKl of the Kevolution, when his patriotism induced him to give too great credit to the Continental currency, thereby materially diminishing his wealth.

FISET, Louis Joseph Cyprien, Canadian poet, b. in (Quebec. :i Oct.. IH2.">. He studied law, but abatidnned the i)rofession to devote hims(>lf ex- clusively to literature, he was elected president of the Institut Canadien in IHTM, and for sev- eral vears edited the ~ Jounial de I'lnstruction Publif|uc." In 1860 he was selected to write the ode of welcome on the visit of the firlnce of Wales, and in 1867 he competed siiccessfidly for the medal offered by the Laval university for the best jioeni on the iliscovery of Camida. Almost all his poems have Ix'en publisheil in "La Kuche Litteraire," "Les Soirees Catuuliennes," " Le FoyerCanadien," and other literary reviews of Montn-al and yue- Iwc. The most popular of his compositions are •'La voix du pa-sse.' "MiVlitation," "Le poete k la muse." and " l^e vn-iix <Ie Mariette." Mr. Fis<-t [ iMiblisheil "Jnde el (trazia ou les malheurs de j I'einicrution Ciiniidieniir " ((^upbec, ISfil).

'''FISHBACK. William Meade'''. senator, b. in Jeffersonton. Culpeper co., Va., 5 Nov., 1831. He was graduated at the University of Virginia, reail law in Kichmor.d in 1858. and removed to Fort Smith, Ark. He was a member of the con- stitutional conventions of 1861 and 1874, was elected U. S. senator in 1864 by the " Camden" legislature, but was refused admission to the sen- ate because Arkansas was not properly " recon- structed." He was a member of the slate legisla- ture in 1877. 1879, and 1885, and elected governor in 1893. He is the author of the " Fishback amendment " to the Arkansas constitution, forbid- ding the legislature to pay certain reconstruction state bonds, which he denounced as fraud nlent. FISHER, Sidney George, lawver, b. in Phila- delphia, 2 March. 1809: d. there! 25 July, 1871. He was gnwluatcd at Dickinson college. Carlisle, Pa., in 1827, practised law in Philadelphia, and wrote largely in the newspapers and magazines of the time on the political questions of the civil war, under the i>en-name of "Cecil." Among his writ- ings were essays on "Kansas and the Constitu- tion." "The True Interest of the Border States," "The Laws of Hace in Reference to Slavery," and "The Law of the Territories." He wrote a pamphlet in favor of the re-election of President Lincoln, which was published by the Union league of Philiulelphia and had a wide circulation. At the close of the war he wrote a book called "The Trial of the Constitution," which discussed the constitutiotial questions and diflicullies that had been raised by the war. — His son. Sidney George, author, b. in Philailelphia. II Sept.. 18.50, was graduated at Trinity in 1879, spent two years at Harvanl law-school, and became a niember of the Philadelphia bar in 1883. On 30 July, 1880, he wrote for the New York " Nation " a letter signed " F. G. S.," which was the beginning of the move- ment which established the various civil service reform societies throughout the country. In 1892-'3 his articles entitled ".Alien Degradation of American Character" and "Has Immigration Dried up our Literature f" published in "The Forum." did much to influence the formation of the Immigration restriction league. Mr. Fisher has miule a Special study of colonial history. Ho has t>ublished a pamiifilet entitled "The Catises of the Increase of Divorce " (Philadelphia, 1890) and the following historical books: "The Mak- ing of Pennsylvania" (1896); " Pennsvlvania : Colony and Commonwealth" (1896); "The Evo- lution of the Constitution" (1897): and "Men, Women, and Manners in Colonial Times" (1897).

FISHER, Sydney Arthur, Canadian statesman, b. in Montreal. 12 June. 18,50. educated at McGill university, and afterward at Trinity college, Cam- bridge. England, where he took his degree of B. A. He became a farmer in Bedford. Quebec, and has closely identified himself with dairying, fruit- growing, and stock-breeding. He has been for many years a member of the council, and is one of the vice-presidents for Quel)ec of the Dominion alliance for the prohibition of the liquor tralUc. Mr. Fisher was first returned to parliament in 1882 for Brome county, and in 1887 also, but was defeated in the electitin of 1891. In IH'M he was elected anpoinleil niiiiisler of agriculture in the cabinet of Sir VVi|friopal church in 1874. and or- dained prii'st in 1875. From 1870 till 1873 he was heail-master of Burlington college. an<l from 1874 till 1876 missionary of St. Mark's, Ilammonton, N. J., and of Christ church, Waterford, N. J. He was rector successively of St. Mary's, Castleton, N. Y., St. Peter's, Peekskill, and of St. Stephen's,.