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Since 3902 he has been professor of latin at the Stanford university of California. He is the author of The Attitude of Greek Tragedians Toward Nature. Fairfax, Albert Kirby, banker, was born 23, 1870, in Northampton, Md. He was educated at Maupin's university school of Ellicott City, Md. For fourteen years he was connected with Brown brothers and company of fifty-nine Wall street. New York GMy; and for four years was assistant manager of the London office of the International banking corporation of New York. He is now a partner of William P.

June

Bonbright and company, bankers of London, New York City and Colorado Springs.. He is the twelfth baron of the barony created in 1627; and has the title of Lord Fairfax of Cameron. The sixth baron inherited nearly six million acres of land in Virginia; settled in the American colonies; was the friend and patron of George Washington; and his descendants still live in the United States.

Fairfield, Sumner Lincoln, educator, author, poet, was born June 25, 1803, in Warwick, Mass. He was the author of Abaddon, the Spirit of Destruction; Lays of Melpomene; The Sisters of St. Clara; Cities of the Plain; The Heir of the World; The Last Night of Pompeii; Poems and Prose Writings; and Select Poems. He died March 6, 1844, in New Orleans, La.

Fairhead, John Sterling, soldier, lumber manufacturer, was bofn Dec. 23, 1841, in New Hartford, N.Y. He served for three years during the civil war in the one hundred and seventeenth New York volunteer infantry.

He moved

to

Jacksonville

in

1885 and became a partner in a. large lumber exporting firm, which became known as Fairhead, Straw and company, and which business he now owns individually. For three terms he was president of the board of trade of Jacksonville, Fla.; has been president of the river and harbor trustees; is a stockholder and officer in the Citizen's bank of Jacksonville ; a large property owner and is a staunch republican. He has been past department commander of the grand army

Fairfax, Donald Macneill, naval officer, was born Aug. 10, 1822, in Virginia. He served in the United States navy during the civil war; and for gallant and meritorious services attained the rank of rear admiral in the United States navy. He died Jan. 10, 1894, in Hagerstown, Md. Fairfield, Edmund Burke, clergyman, statesman, author, was born Aug. 7, 1821, in Parkersburg, Va. In 1845-47 he preached at Canterbury, N.H. In 1856 he was elected state senator of Michigan; in 1889-93 was United States consul at Lyons, France. He was the author of Subject of Baptism; and

numerous

416

speeches.

Fairfield,

Francis

Gerry,

journalist,

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was born Aug. 18, 1844, in Stafford, Conn. He was the author of The Clubs of New York; and Ten Years with Spiritual

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He died April 4, 1887, in New City. Fairfield, Genevieve Genevra, author, was born in 1832 in New York. ' She is the author of Genevra, or the History Fair of a Mediums.

York

The Vice-president's Daughter; The Wife of Two Husbands; The Innkeeper's Daughter; and Irene. Fairfield, Mrs. Jane Frazee, author, was born about 1810 in New Jersey. She was the Portrait;

wife of S. L. Fairfield, the poet, of whom she wrote a Life in 1846. She afterward pubShe died in New lished an Autobiography. Jersey. Fairfield, John, lawyer, congressman, governor, United States senator, was bom Jan. In 1832 he was 30, 1797, in Saco, Maine. appointed reporter of the decisions of the supreme court. In 1835-39 he was a representative from Maine to the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth congresses; and was the eighth governor of the state in 1839-43. In 1843-49 he was United States senator. He died Dec. 24, 1847, in Washington, D.C.

of the republic of Florida.

Fairlamb, James Remington, musician, composer, was born Jan. 23, 1837, in Philadelphia, Pa. Between 1867 and 1880 he was successively director of the music in different churches in Washington, D.C. He was called to a, similar office in the church of the ascension, New York City, and a year later to that of St. Ignatius. His published works, chiefly sacred compositions and songs, number nearly a hundred, exclusive of Valerie and Leonello, two operas. His best songs are Little Blue Pigeon, and Unfurl the Starry Flag. Fairlamb, John Franklin, railroad manager, was born Nov. 12, 1855, near Philadelphia, Pa. In 1874 he entered railway service; and since 1890 has been auditor of passenger accounts of the New York central

and Hudson river

railroad.

George, clergyman, theologian, was bom in 1853 in Knox, N.Y. In 1877 and 1880 he graduated from the Union college with the degrees of A.B. and A.M.; and in 1880 graduated from the Auburn theoSince 1880 he has been logical seminary. pastor of the Westminster presbyterian church of Troy, N.Y. He is stated clerk 'of the presbytery of Troy; president of th? board of trustees of the presbytpry: secretary and treasurer of the synodical home missions; and a director of the Auburn theHe is also a director of ological seminary. the Thompson milling company; and a director and vice-president of the Hanna Fairlee,

manufacturing company. clergyman, Fairley, William, educator, In author, was born in 1857 in England. 1878 he graduated from Amherst college; and has received the degrees of D.D. and Ph.D. In 1884-94 he was rector of Christ church at Peoria, 111.; and in 1894-98 was