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Ferris, Scott, lawyer, statesman, congress-

was a representative from Connecticut to the

man, was born Nov. 7, 1877, in Neosho, Mo. He graduated from the Newton county high school; and from the Kansas City school of law. Since 1901 he has practiced law in Lawton, Okla. In 1904 he was a member of the legislature of Oklahoma. In 1907-11 he was a representative from Oklahoma to the sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a demo-

thirty-sixth congress. He served as a colonel and brigadier-general in the civil war. In 1867-75 he was United States senator. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866; and to the soldiers' convention held at Pittsburg in 1872. He died Nov. 21, 1875, in South Norwalk, Conn.

crat. Ferris,

Woodbridge

educator, banker, 1853, in Spencer, principal of schools

N.,

was born Jan. N.Y. In 1879-84 he was founder,

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at Pittsfield, 111. In 1884 he founded and has since been president of the Ferris institute. He is president of the Big Rapids savings

bank

in Michigan. Ferriss, Orange, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 36, 1814, in Glens Falls, N.Y. He was appointed surrogate of his county for four years; in 1851-63 judge of Warren county. In 1867-71 he was a representative from New York to the fortieth and forty-first congresses. In 1880 he was appointed second auditor of the United States treasury. He died April 11, 1894, in Glens Falls, N.Y.

Ferry, Dexter Mason, merchant, seedsman, banker, was born Aug. 8, 1833, in Lowville, N.Y. He organized the firm of D. M. Ferry and company in 1867. In 1879 the house was incorporated with Mr. Ferry as president. He is also president of the First national bank, the Union trust company, the American harrow company, the National pin company, and other corporations of Detroit, Mich. Since 1896 he has been chairman state republican committee. Ferry, Elisha P., governor, was born Aug. 9, 1825, in Monroe, Mich. He resided at Waukegan until 1869, when he removed to the territory of Washington. In 1872-80 he was governor of the territory; and was elected again in 1889. He died Oct. 14, 3895, in Seattle,

Wash.

Ferry, Ervin Sidney, physicist, author, was born June 14, 1868, in Croydon, N.H. Since 1899 he has been professor of physics at Purdue university. He is the author of Ele-

mentary Dynamics. Ferry, George Bowman, designer, architect, •was born Feb. 7, 1851, in Springfield, Mass. He studied architecture at the Massachusetts institute of technology. He was architect for the public library of Milwaukee, Wis.; and of the library of the historical society of Madison, Wis., which latter received the award of one of the five gold medals at the Pan-American exposition. For six years he was an officer of the American and was a director institute of architects of the Western association of architects. Ferry, Orris Sanford, soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman. United States senator, was bom Aug. 15, 1823, in Bethel, Conn. He was elected to the Connecticut state senate in 1855-56. In 1856-59 he was state's attorney for the county of Fairfield; and in 1859-61 he

Ferry, Thomas White, congressman. United States senator, was born June 1, 1827, in Mackinaw, Jlich. He was elected to the state legislature and to the state senate in 1856. In 1865-71 he was a representative from Michigan to the thirty-ninth, fortieth, forI

ty-first and forty-second congresses, but did

not take his seat in the latter, as in 187183 he was United States senator. He died Oct. 14, 1896, in

Grand Haven, Mich. Ferry, William Montague, clergyman, was born Sept. 8, 1796, in Granby, Mass. In 1834 he purchased, with others, a tract of land in the Grand river valley, where he founded a settlement and went extensively into the manufacture of lumber. He was one. of the first to perceive the future value of the immense pine forests of Michigan. He died Dec. 30, 1867, in Grand Haven, Mich. Ferry, William Montague, soldier, statesman, inventor, was born July 8, 1824, in Michigan. For over forty years he was a resident of Grand Haven, Mich.; and became widely known as a machinist, inventor and hydraulic and mechanical engineer. In 1857

he was elected regent of the university of Michigan. During the civil war he was brevet major and lieutenant colonel United States volunteers. In 1876 he was mayor of Grand Rapids, Mich.; and in 1904 was nominated for governor of Utah, having removed to that state. He died Jan. 2, 1905, in Park City, Utah; and was buried in Grand Haven, Mich. Fess, Simeon Davidson, educator, lecturer, author, was born Dec. 11, 1861, in Lima, Ohio. He is the author of A Compendium of United States History, and Outlines of Physiology and Hygiene. Fessenden, Francis, lawyer, soldier, was born March 18, 1839, in Portland, Maine. He served. through the civil war; and was brevetted major-general. In 1866 he retired from the army with the rank of brigadiergeneral. He was subsequently appointed secretary of the treasury, and was mayor of Portland in 1876. He died in 1906 in Portland, Maine. Fessenden, Franklin Goodridge, lawyer banker, jurist, was bom in Fitchburg, Mass! He was educated at Harvard university; and is an attorney at law by profession. He has