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History of the Methodists in America; and other worlcs. Faulkner, L. B., soldier. During the civil war he attained the rank of brigadier-general. He died Jan. 27, 1890, in Canaseraga, N.Y. Faunce, Daniel Worcester, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 3, 1839, in Plymouth, Mass. He is a baptist minister of New England and has traveled in Europe, Egypt, and Palestine. He is the author of Words and Works of Jesus Words and Acts of the Apostles; The Christian in the World; A Young Man's Difficulties with his Bible; The Resurrection in Nature and Revelation; Prayer as Theory and Fact; Hours With a Sceptic; and other works. Faunce, William Herbert Perry, educator, clergyman, college president, was born Jan. In 1889-99 15, 1859, in Worcester, Mass. he was pastor of the Fifth avenue baptist church of New York City. He has been a lecturer at the university of Chicago; and since 1890 has been president of Brown uni;



versity of Providence, R.I. Fauntleroy, Archibald Magill, army surgeon, was born July 8, 1837, in Warrenton, Va. In 1857 he entered the United States army as assistant surgeon. He became a surgeon in the confederate army, and was president of the board for the admission of surgeons, and chief officer on the medical staff of General Joseph E. Johnston, and served with him until the battle of Seven Pines. He died June 19, 1886, in Staunton, Va.

Fauntleroy, Thomas Turner, soldier, was born Oct. 6, 1796, in Richmond county, Va. He was a lieutenant in the war of 1812-15. He studied law in Winchester, practiced in Warrenton, and in 1823 was elected to the legislature. In 1836 he was commissioned a major of dragoons in the regular army; and served in the Seminole war. In 1861 he confederate service; and was a brigadier-general by the convention of Virginia, and placed in command of Richmond and its defenses. He died Sept. 12, 1883, in Leesburg, Va. entered

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Henry, clergyman, founder, wae born July 7, 1R47, in Milford, Wis. He was educated in the public schools of his native state; attended a private academy studFaville,



ied in Lawrence university of Wisconsin;

graduated from Boston school of theology; and received the degrees of D.D. and Ph.D. He was for many years a principal of high schools in Wisconsin and Iowa; and gained prominence as an eminent clergyman of Wisconsin. He was founder of the Sunday evening club movement. He has

important pastorates in methodist episcopal churches for twelve years; and for the past twenty-five years has been pastor of the First congregational church of La Crosse, Wis. For many years he has been identified with the educational and religious welfare of his state; and has contributed valuable articles to educational and religious filled

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Fauquier, Francis, colonial governor, was born about 1720. He was colonial governor of Virginia in 1758-67. He died March 3, 1768, in Virginia. Favill, Henry Baird, physician, was bom Aug. 14, 1860, in Madison, Wis. In 1883 he began the practice of medicine in Madijion, Wis. In 1898 he was appointed Ingalls professor of preventive medicine and therap«otics in Chicago, 111.

Faville, John, clergyman, author, was bom July 7, 1847, in Milford, Wis. He is president of the Wisconsin anti-saloon league. He is the author of The Problem of Author-

ity in Religion. Faville, Oran, educator, college president, lieutenant governor, was born Oct. 13, 1817, in Manheim, N.Y. In 1853-55 he was president of Ohio Wesleyan female college of Delaware, Ohio. He was subsequently county judge, lieutenant-governor of Iowa; and president of the state board of education. He was state superintendent of public instruction in 1864-66; and also president of the state teachers' association. He died Oct. 3, 1872, in Waverly, Iowa.

Favrot, George Kent, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 26, 1868, in Baton Rouge, La. He graduated from the state university and from the law department of Tulane university of New Orleans, La. In 1892 he was district attorney of the twentysecond judicial district of Louisiana. In 1898 he was delegate from the state at large; and in 1900 was re-elected district attorney. In 1904 he became district judge. In 1907-09 he was a representative from Louisiana to the sixtieth congress as a democrat.

May New York City. He was the An Ambitious Woman; Fabian

Fawcett, Edgar, author, was born 26, 1847, in author of

Dimitry; A Gentleman of Leisure; A Hopeless Case; Olivia Delaplaine; Asses' Ears; A New York Family; The Confessions of Claude; Purple and Fine Linen; A Mild Barbarian; The House at High Bridge; Social Silhouettes; The Adventures of a Widow; Tinkling Cymbals; Rutherford; Douglas Duane; Ellen Story; A Demoralizing Marriage; The Evil that Men Do; A Man's Will; Miriam Balestier. In verse he has published Short Poems for Short People; The Buntling Ball, a satire; Poems of Fantasy and Passion; Romance and Revery; Song and Story; Songs of Doubt and Dream; and The New King Arthur. He died May 3. 1904, in England.