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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Ferrel, William, meteorologist, scientist, author, was born Jan. 29, 1817, in Fulton, Pa. He was a distinguished meteorologist employed at various times in the coast survey and the signal service. He was the author of Recent Advances in Meteorology Popular Treatise on the Winds; and Motions of Fluids and Solids on the Earth's Surface. He died Sept. 18, 1891, in Maywood, Kan. Ferrell, Chiles Clifton, educator, author, was born Aug. 20, 1865, near Greenville, S.C. Since 1893 has been professor of modern languages in the university of Mississippi. He is the author of Teutonic and Antiquities in the Anglo-Saxon Genesis. Ferrell, John Appley, educator, lawyer, author, was born Sept. 23, 1865, in Maries county. Mo. In 1896 he was admitted to the bar. For four years he taught in private normal schools; in 1903 was county superintendent of schools at Sedan, Kan.; and in 1903-06 was professor mathematics in Southwestern state normal school at Weatherford, Okla. He is now practicing law in Sedan, Kan. In 1901-02 he was president of the

Southwestern Kansas teachers' association. is the author of Teachers' and Students' Manual of Arithmetic; Ferrell's Elementary Arithmetic; and Ferrell's Advanced Arithme-

He

been judge of the common pleas court law of Lucerne county. Pa. Ferris, George Titus, litterateur, author. He was the author of Great German Composers; Great Italian and French Composers; Great Singers ; Great Violinists and Pianists and Great Leaders. Ferris, George Washington Gale, civil engineer, inventor, was born Feb. 4, 1859, in Galesburg, 111. He was the inventor of the Ferris wheel that was the wonder of engineering at the world's fair in Chicago. died Nov. 22, 1896, in Pittsburg, Pa.

Ferrell,

Thomas

M., state

senator,

of the university of

in

Ferris, Charles 6., congressman, was born New York City. In 1834-35 and 1841-43

he was a representative from New York to the twenty-third and twenty-seventh congresses. He died in New York. Ferris, George S., lawyer, jurist, was bom April 28, 1849, in Pittston, Pa. Since 1871 he has practiced law; and since 1900 has

New

York; retired in

1870; but was immediately chosen chancellor emeritus. He died June 16, 1873, in Roselle, N.J. Ferris, John Charles, soldier, horticulturist, lecturer, author, was born Jan. 2, 1835, in Chenango Forks, N.Y. He was educated in the public schools of New York and Illi-

He

served as a of the third territorial legislature of Wyoming. He served for over three nois.

member

con-

Ferrero, Edward, educator, soldier, was born in 1831 in Spain. He conducted a dancing school in New York City; and taught dancing at the military academy of West Point. He raised the fifty-first New York regiment; became its colonel; and was brevetted brigadier-general and major-general. He died Dec. 13, 1899, in New York City. Ferris, Albert Warren, physician, neurologist, founder, was bom Dec. 3, 1856, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Since 1892 he has practiced medicine in New York City; in 1893-1901 was assistant in neurology at Columbia university; and since 1899 incorporator, director and financial secretary of the Pringle memorial home of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Ferris, Benjamin, merchant, author. He was a watchmaker; and was clerk of the Philadelphia meeting of Friends. He published History of the Early Settlements on the Delaware, from its Discovery to the Colonization under William Penn. He died in 1867 in Wilmington, Del.

He

Ferris, Isaac, clergyman, theologian, was born Oct. 9, 1798, in New York City. He was pastor at Albany in 1824-36 and at the Market street church of New York City in 183653. In 1852 he accepted the chancellorship

tic.

gressman, was born Jan. 20, 1844, in Glassboro, N.J. He was a member of the state assembly in 1879; a state senator in 1881; and in 1883-85 he was a representative from New Jersey to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.

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years during the civil war; and became commander of his post,

grand army of the republic, department of of Iowa. For three terms he was president of the Northern Iowa horticulturist society and later became connected with the Iowa horticultural society. In 1904 he was a candidate for secretary of the state of Iowa. He has written extensively on horticulture; and has lectured on that and on kindred

subjects. Ferris,

John Mason, clergyman, was born

Jan. 17, 1825, in Albany, N.Y. He became editor of the Christian Intelligencer of New York City in 1883 and treasurer of the foreign mission board in 1886. He is the author of a History of Foreign Missions.

Mary Lanman Douw, founder, was born May 22, 1855, in PoughN.Y. She was the founder and sec-

Ferris, Mrs.

author,

keepsie, retary of the daughters of the Cincinnati; and was instrumental in establishing the museum maintained by the colonial dames of New York. She is the author of Dutch Nursery Rhymes; History of Fort Crails; The Van Cortlandt Mansion; of Colonial Dames; and Legend of New Year's Eve.

Ferris, Morris Patterson, lawyer, historwas bom Oct. 3, 1855, in New York City. He is president of Yonkers historical library association; and treasurer of the society of ian,

American authors.