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 HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Fielder, George

was bom July

B., soldier, congressman, 24, 1842, in Jersey City, N.J.

He

served in the civil war. He was elected register of the county of Hudson in 1884; and re-elected in 1889. In 1893-95 he was a representative to the fifty-third congress

York

He has

lis, Minn. In 18991905 he was presiding elder at Minneapolis, Minn. Since 1905 he has been president of the Fort Worth university of Texas.

Mrs. Annie Adams, author, poet, in 1834 in Massachusetts. She is the author of Under the Olive, a volume of verse; The Singing Shepherd, and Other Poems; A Shelf of Old Books; Whittier, Notes of his Life and Friendships; Memoir of James T. Fields; How to Help the Poor; Fields,

was born

and Authors and Friends. Fields, James Thomas, publisher, author,

Pa.

He

received his education at the Wil-

liamsport high school,

and the Iowa state normal school. At the

age of entered

government

the ment

Illinois.

Ludwig Spang, physician, invenwas born on March 12, 1825, in Berks county, Pa. In 1871 he gave up the pracFilbert,

tor,

tice of medicine i n which he was engaged for twenty years, three

years as quarantine physician for the port Philadelphia. The same year he organof

publisher

i

ces

of

Reminiscen-

his

published

life

in

were

A

Me-

moir by Mrs. Fields. He died April 24, 1881, in Boston, Mass. Fields, William C, merchant, congressman, was born Feb. 13, 1804, in New York

He was sixteen years a justice of the peace in the town of Laurens, N.Y. and In subsequently supervisor of the town. 1867-69 he was a representative from New York to the fortieth congress. He died in Laurens, N.Y. City.



Fiero,

James Newton, lawyer, author, was

born May 23, 1847, in Saugerties, N.Y. He began the practice of law in 1869; and in 1895 became dean of the Albany law school. In 1892-94 he was president of the New

d

the

Vulcanite

of Philadelphia, of which

he

days with Authors Underbrush, a collection of essays; and

Verses.

z e

paving company

the author of Yester-

J

clerk in interior departiu Washington,

B.C. He has traveled in every state of the union, and across British America; has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press; and his poems have been incorporated in several standard works. Fifer, Joseph W., soldier, lawyer, governor, was born Oct. 28, 1840, in Staunton, Va. In 1861-64 he served in the army in company C, twenty-third regiment infantry volunteers; and was wounded in the battle at Jackson, Miss. In 1889-93 he was the eighteenth governor of the state of

and edited the Atlantic Monthly in 1862-70. He was

Other

he

W

of Boston;

and

fifteen

educational work; was county superintendent for eight years in a v e r 1 y, Iowa; and is now a

was born Dec. 31, 1817, in Portsmouth, N.H. He was educated in the public schools and academies of New England. He was a

Ballads,

the au-

Fiester, Simon Forrester, educator, poet, was born Jan. 17, 1855, in Williamsport,

poet,

well-known

is

and Special Pro-

ceedings.

at-

tained success as one of our foremost educators and theologians. He has filled pastorates in the Dakotas and at Minneapo-

He

state bar association.

thor of Special Actions;

as a democrat. Fielder, William, educator, clergyman, college president, reformer, was born Oct. 13, He received a thorough 1852, in England. education in the public schools, academies and theological seminaries; and has received various degrees from educational institutions.

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has

since

president.

an

been

He invented

artificial

stone pav-

ing, that is recognized

best known lining for the largest reservoir basis; and is also the inventor of various other paving materials in pracHe died in 1903 in Philadelphia, tical use. Pa.

as the

Fillebrown, Charles Bowdoin, soldier, merchant, reformer, author, was born Dec. 26, 1842, in Winthrop, Maine. In 1862-66 he served in the union army. Since 1881 he has been president and general manager of the Glenark knitting company of WoonSince 1895 he has been active socket, R.I. as a single tax propagandist and iji 1899 was president of the Massachusetts single tax league. He is the author of The Single Tax, Its Breadth and Catholicity; and many valuable treatises on that subject. Fillebrown, Thomas, dentist, was born Jan. 15, 1836, in Winthrop, Maine. In 1860