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Rh . He was promoted 1st lieutenant in May. , and captain. 27 Feb., 1862. He was trans- ferred to the 1st artillery, 15 Dec, 1870, in 1881 f)romoted major, lieutenant-colonel of the 2(larlil- ery in 1889. and colonel of tlie 1st arlillerv, 25 Oct.. 1894. From 1888 until 1898 he was com- mandant at the U. S. artillery school at Fort Jlon- roe. At the outbreak of war with Spain he was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers, and as- signed to the command of the department of the east, which he held from 19 May to 3 .July. From 7 July Gen. Frank commanded the 1st division of the 3d army-corps until he was assigned to the comnianil of that corps on 27 Aug., 1898. FREDERIC. Harold, author, b. at Utica, N. Y., 19 Aug.. IS-'iB: d. in London, 19 Oct.. 1898. He was graduated from Hamilton college in his twentieth year, and in 1874 he became a proof- reader. During the next six years he ailvanced rapidly from one position on the staff to another, until he wiLs qualifled for the place of chief edi- torial writer on "The Utica Observer." In 1882 he took charge of " The Albany Evening Jour- nal " and endent of " The New York Times," filling that jiost with ability until his death. His novels are "St-th's Brother's VVife"(Xew York, 1887): " In the Vallev " (1889): "The Lawton Girl " (1890); "The Return of the O'Mahony" (18i»2); "The Copi^rhead " (1894); "Marsena" (189.5): "The Damnation of Theron Ware" and "March Hares " (1896) ; and "(iloria Mundi" (1898). Mr. Frederic left in manuscript a novel entitled " The Market Place " (1899), a story of the London stock exchange, which has proved to be his most popular novel.

FRENCH, Alice, author, b. in Andover, Ma.s.s., 19 March, 1H50. She was graduated at Abbott acmlemy, Andover, in 1868, resides in Davenport, and is the president of the Iowa society of colonial dames. Miss French has gained reputation, un- der the pen-name of "Octave Thanet," by her short character sketches and [lapers on economic subject.s. Her most popular stories are "The Bishop's Vagabond," " Till' Day of the Cyclone," and " Whitsiin Harp, Kegulator." These, with other articles that previously appeared in the "Atlantic Monthly" and "S<Tibner"s Magazine," were published under the title of " Kniltles in the Sun "(Boston, 1880); "Otto the Knight " (188a): " Expiation "(Xew York, 1H86): "We All"(1889); "Stories of a Western Town"(18U2): "An Ad- venture in I'hotographv" (1892): "A Book of True Lovers" (1897): " .Vlissionarv Sheriff" (1807); ard "The Heart of Toil" (1898).'

FRENCH, Samuel Gibbs, soldier, b. in Glouces- ter i-ounty. N. J., 22 .Nov.. 1818. He entered the U. S. military academy in lKt9, was ap|Kiinted brevet. 2d arlillerv. and was gradiiutrd with Grant in 1843. During tlie .Mexican war he w.ls pronioteil for the battle of Buerui Vi>ia, where he was dan- gerouslv wounded. He resigned his commission in the C S. army, 31 .May, 18.56. He was appoint- ed major of the corjis of artillery in the Confed- erate states army, 2 April, 1861 brigadier-general in the provisional army, 2ii Oct., iNtil. an 1 inajor- general, 31 Aug., 1862.' From 14 Nov., 1861, to 8 March, 1862, he was in command at Kvansport, Va., blockading the I'otomac river. On 14 March, , he relieved (jen. Branch, in command at New Berne, N. C, of the Confe<lcrale forces at Kington. He was .sent to Wilmington, and was orderetl, 17 July, 1862, to the command of the de- partment of Southern Virginiaand .orth Carolina, with headquarters at Petersburg, Va. lie was in I command of the line of defence from the Appo- mattox and James rivers, and moved to Coggins's point, with infantry and artillery, 31 July. Early in June. 1863, he was ordered to report to Gen. Joseph E.Johnston at Jackson, Miss. Hisdivision in 1863 was composed of the brigades of Maxey, McNair. and Evans, and in 1864 of the brigades of Cockerell, Ector, and Sears, lie was engaged in all the battles of Gen. Johnston's campaign, from the siege of Jackson, Miss., to Atlanta. Jonesboro', Lovejoy's station, and Big Shanty, and was in the battles of Decatur, Columbia, Franklin, Nashville, and the Meridian campaign. He <lirected the for- tiiications of Wilmington. Cape Fear river, Fort Fisher, and the line of the Ulufkwater.

FREVET, William Alfred, architect, b. in New Orleans, La., 19 Jan., 1833. He was educated in his native city and Baton Kouge, and adopted architecture as his profession. At the outbreak of the civil war he entered the Confederate army as a private in the Washington artillery from New Or- leans. He was promoted from time to time, finally reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel of en- gineers. He servetl on Kirby .Smith's staff, and was also assistant chief and acting chief of the trans- Mississippi department until the surrender. In 1866-'8 he was state engineer for Louisiana, and for several years after that he had charge of the con- struction of the public schools of the McDonough fund, some sixteen in number. He served as su- pervising architect of the V. S. government from June, l&i7, until March, 1890, when he resigned. He designed the reconstruction of the state-house at Baton Kouge, and was the architect for the buildings of the state university at Pineville, La., the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, and many of the jiublic buildings and private residences in New Orleans and elsewhere in Louisiana and several of the neighboring stales.

FRICK, Henry Clay, manufacturer, b. in West Overton, Pa., 19 Dec, 1849. After an English edu- cation, he began his business life as a clerk for his frandfatlier, who was a merchant and distiller iu 'ayette county. Later he embarked in the coke trade, which increas«Ml until the business was larger than all the other houses in the United States combined. He is president of the H. C. Frick coke company, also of the Carnegie steel company of Pittsburg. He first came into public notice by his extremely able and vigorous man- agement during the famous strike at the llome- sleatl works in 1892. when he was several limes wounded, being both shot and slabbed by the riot- ers. In the summer of 1899 he went auroad and visited his former partner, Andrew C-rnegie, at Skibo ciuille. in the north of Scotland.

FULLER, Melville Weston, jurist, b. in Au- gusta. Me., 11 Feb.. 1833. He was graduated at liowdiiin in 1853, studied law in Bangor with his uncle, George jM. Weston, and then at Harvard, and began to practise in 18-55 in his native city. There Tie was an a.ssociate editor of the " Age," served a-s presiilent of the common council, and became city attorney in 18.56; but he resigned in June of that year, and removed to Chiciigo, 111., where he was in active practice for thirty-two years. lie rose to the highest rank in his pro- fession, and was concerned in many important ca>*s, among which were the National bank tax ca-ses, one of which was the first that was argued before Chief-Justice Waile, the Cheney ecclesias- tical case, the South park commissioners' cases, ami the Lake front case. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1802, and later of the lower house of the legislature, where