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erous medical worka and lectures.

Aug.

Kichard Stockton,

Field,

He

died

1888, in Jeflfersonville, Ind.

28,

was born Dec.

30, 1803, in

lawyer,

White

jurist, Hill, N.J.

In 1861-63 he was United States senator to fill a vacancy; and was then appointed judge of the district court of the United States for the district of New Jersey. He

May

25, 1870, in Princeton, N.J. Field, Roswell Martin, journalist, author, was born Sept. 1, 1851, in St. Louis, Mo.

died

He is the is a journalist of Chicago, 111. author -of In Sunflower Land; Echoes from the Sabine Farm; The Romance of An Old He

Fool; The Bondage of Ballinger; and Little Miss Dee. Field, Samuel, merchant, philanthropist, was bom Aug. 12, 1823, in Delaware county, For many years he has belonged to Pa. the presbyterian board of education in Philadelphia, Pa.; and has taken a leading part in the establishment of the hospital under the management of that denomination.

Seaman, merchant, stockraiser, jurwas born Feb. 27, 1829, in Ellisburgh, N.M. He was educated in the public schools and is now a successful merchant and stockraiser of Deming, N.M. He has been depuField,

ist,

ty-collector of customs; filled the office of justice of the peace; was chief justice of his county; and for many years served as probate judge of his county. He is senior member in the firm of Field and son, merchants and stock raisers of Deming, N.M.; and in 1905-06 was mayor of his city. Scott, soldier, educator, lawyer, senator, congressman, was bom in 1848 in Mississippi. During the civil war he served in the confederate army under General Forrest. Since 1872 he has practiced law in Calvert, Texas; was county attorney in 1875; and was a member of the Texas state senate in 1888-90. In 1903-07 he was a representative from Texas to the fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth congresses as a Field,

state

Field,

Thomas Warren,

of public schools there in 1873-81. He was the author of Pear Culture; Historic and Antiquarian Scenes in

superintendent

Essay Toward an Indian

and

Brooklyn;

He

died Nov. 25, 1881, in N.Y. Field, Walbridge Abner, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 26, 1833, in Springfield, Vt. He was assistant United States attorney in Boston in 1865-69; was then appointed assistant attorney-general of the United States, and resigned in 1870. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-fifth congress, but his seat was successfully contested by Benjamin Dean. In 1877-81 he was a repre-

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