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of Sciences; Revision of Le Conte's Elements of Geology; and over ninety Monographs on geological and biograph-

Fairchild, David S., educator, physician, college president, was born Sept. 16, 1847, in Fairfield, Vt. In 1879-93 he was profes-

York Academy

sor of physiology and comparative anatomy at the Iowa agricultural college. In 1893 he became surgeon of the Chicago and

ical subjects.

Northwestern railway; and in 1897 became special examining surgeon of the Milwaukee railroad. 'For two years he was president of the Iowa college of physicians and surgeons. Fairchild, Edwin Milton, lecturer, fourider, author, was born Nov. 7, 1865, in Lansing, Mich. He proposed visual instruction in ethics as a method for use in Sunday and public schools, which was first tried in 1898. -He is the author of The Function of the

Church;

Commandments

professor of English literature in Berea college, Ky. He was the author of Rural Wealth "and Welfare. He died in 1901 in Berea, Ky.

George Winthrop, manufacturcongressman, was born May 6, 1854, In Oneonta, N.Y. He is president and a director of several manufacturing and financial institutions. In 1907-11 he was a repFairchild,

er,

resentative from New York to the sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a republican. Fairchild, H. F., lawyer, jurist. In 1860 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Arkansas.

Harrison Stiles, soldier, was York. In 1861 he became colonel in the eighty-ninth New York infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadierFairchild, in

man;

Philosophy; Needed Phases of Christianity; Oberlin, the Colony and the College; Elements of Theolo-

Wisdom

Father

Taught the Child He Loved; The Educational Church Marriage Service; and Ethical Instruction in School and Church. Fairchild, George Thompson, educator, author, was born Oct. 6, 1838, in Brownhelm, Ohio. In 1898 he became vice-president and

born

Fairchild, James Harris, clergyman, college president, author, was born Nov. 25, He was edu1817, in Stockbridge, Mass. cated in the public schools of New England. He was a congregational c 1 e r g J- and was president of Oberlin college He was in 1866-89. the author of Moral

gy

of volunteers. 1901, at Rochester, N.Y. Fairchild,

He

Herman LeRoy,

ogist, lecturer, author, 1850, in Montrose, Pa.

died

Jan.

Pa.;

for

was eng scientific work

Fairchild, Maria Augusta, physician, lecturer, was born in 1834 in Jersey. She

New

received a thorough medical education. She was physician to women in the late Dr.

health institution of City; and is now physician and proprietor in her own sanitarium at Quincy, 111. She is the editor of the Troll's

New York

29,

eleven in

New

York. In 1888 he was called to the chair of

geology in the university of Rochester,N.Y. In" 1885-88 he was secretary of the New

York academy of sciences; and since that time has been president of the academy. Since 1890 he has been secretary of the geological society of America. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. He is the author of History of the New

19,

in 1880-82 was minister plenipotentiary In 1886-87 he was commanderto Spain. in-chief of the grand army of the republic. He died May 23, 1896, in Madison, Wis.

educator, geol-

3'ears

March

and

Health Magazine; and

In 1874 he graduated from Cornell university with the degree of B.S. He taught two years in Kingston,

died

Fairchild, Lucius, soldier, diplomat, governor, was born Dec. 27, 1831, in Kent, Ohio. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel of second Iowa infantry in 1861; and was made brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862. He was secretary of state of Wisconsin in 1864-65; the eighth governor in 1866-72;

25,-

was born April

Woman's

and

1902, in Oberlin, Ohio.

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general



He

Right to the Ballot.

jects.

She

is

lectures upon the science of health, happiness and prosperity, and metaphysical subthe author of Monographs and

valuable articles in

medical and scientific

literature.

Mrs. Salome was born June 21,

Fairchild,

Cutler, librarian, 1855, in Dalton, Mass. She has held important positions in the American library association since 1889 and was editor of its catalogue. She is the author of Home Libraries; and Scientific Study of Philanthropy.

author,

Faircloth, William T., lawyer, jurist. He chief justice supreme court North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C. He died in 1900 in Raleigh, N.C.

was

Fairclough,

Henry Rushton, educator, philwas born July 15, 1868, in

ologist, author,