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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Wis. Since 1892 he has been engaged in the practice of law in New York City. In 18981900 he was a representative in the New York state legislature. He is the author of a Text-book on Collateral Inheritance and Transfer Tax. Fallows, Samuel, clergyman, bishop, author, was born Dec. 13, 1835, near Manchester, England. He is a bishop of the reformed episcopal faith. In early life he was a methodist minister; and during the civil war a brigadier-general in the federal army. He left methodism for the reformed episcopal church in 1875; and was advanced to the episcopate the next year. He is chancel-

and editorin-chief of its educational courses in History, Literature, Religion, and Social and Political Economy. He is the author of The Bible Story for Young People; Splendid Deeds of American Heroes; Complete Hand-Book of Synonyms and Antonyms; Hand-Book of

lor of the university association,

Abbreviations and Contractions; Hand-Book of Briticisms, Americanisms, etc.; The Home Beyond, or Views of Heaven; Past Noon; and Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms. He has edited a Supplemental Dictionary of the English Language; and a Students Biblical Cyclopsedia. Fancher, Frederick Bartlett, farmer, governor, was born in April, 1853, in Orleans county, N.Y. In 1871-81 he was engaged in the insurance business in Chicago, 111. In 1881-1901 he farmed on a large scale in North Dakota. In 1899-1901 he was governor of North Dakota. Since 1901 he has been a general merchant of Sacramento, Cal. Fane, Mrs. Frances Gordon, educator, author, was born in 1867 in Boston, Mass. For some years she taught school. She is the aiithor of Story of Leo; The Way of the Man With a Maid; and Richard Wingham. Faneuil, Peter, founder, was born in 1700, in New Rochelle, N.Y. He was the founder of Faneuil hall; which, with the exception of the capitol at Washington, is probably the best known building in the United States. He died March 3, 1743, in Boston, Mass. Fanning, Adalbert Canedy, lawyer, jurist, was born July 25, 1851, in Springfield, Pa. Since 1874 he has practiced law; smce 1899 has been president judge of the forty-second judicial district of Pennsylvania and is now serving the term ending in 1910. Fanning, David, free-booter, author, was born in 1756 in Johnston county, N.C. He was a famous free-booter who acted with the royalists during the American revolution; and was one of those persons exempted by name from benefits of the general pardon. He was the author of a Narrative of

Adventures in North Carolina. He died in 1825 in Digby, N.S. Fanning, James W., soldier, was born about 1800 in North Carolina. He was colonel of the four-hundred slain at Goliad, Texas, on Palm Sunday, 1836, under Santa 27

Anna. He died March

27,

417

1836, in Goliad,

Texas. Fanning, John Thomas, civil engineer, inventor, author, was born Dec. 31, 1837, in Norwich, Conn. At the outbreak of the civil war he had completed a course of study in architecture and engineering. He enlisted in the third regiment of Connecticut volunteers and served its full

term; and subsequently Avas a field officer in the state militia. In 1862-80 he was acting engineer of Norwich, Conn.; and in 1872 moved to Manchester, X.H., to supervise the construction of the public water supply. In 1881 he was employed by a citizen's committee to report upon an additional water supply for New York, Brooklyn, and cities of the Hudson Valley. In 1886 he was appointed chief engineer and agent of the St. Anthony Falls water power company. He was appointed consulting engineer of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba railway and of the Great Northern railway, and became vice-president of the Minneapolis union railway. Among works directed from his Minneapolis office have been improvements in various water powers and public water supplies; a comprehensive plan for the drainage of three thousand square miles of the famous hard wheat land in the valley of the Red river of the North; the construction of the water power from the Rainy river in Minnesota; the large water power on the Missouri river at Great Falls, Mont.; on the Spokane river at Spokane, Wash. and a large water power on the Missouri river near Helena, Mont. He is patentee of improvements in slow-burning building constructions in turbine water steam boilers. He is the author of A Treatise on the Water Supply; and Engineering.

Fanshaw, Daniel, pioneer,

printer,

was

born in 1789 in New York City. He was printer to the Bible society in 1817-40; and was also printer to the Tract society for many years. In 1829 he introduced power presses) and was the first printer of books by machinery in New York. He died Feb. 20, 1860, in

New York

City.

Faran, James J., journalist, congressman, was born in Ohio. In 1845-49 he was a representative from Ohio to the twenty-ninth and thirtieth congresses. He subsequently became one of the proprietors of the Cincinnati Enquirer. He died in lS92 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Fardella, Enrico, soldier, was born in SicIn 1861 he became colonel in the one hundred and first regiment of New York infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadiergeneral of volunteers. ily.