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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. ture; and was the twenty-fifth governor of Virginia in 1849-52. In 1857-61 he was secretary of war. He was one of the first to join the rebellion, in which he took a leading part as a brigadier-general. He died Aug. 26, 1863, in Abingdon, Va. Floyd, John Charles, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born April 14, 1858, in Sparta, Tenn. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of Bentonville, Ark.; and in 1879 graduated from the university of Arkansas at Fayetteville. In 1889 he was a. member of the Arkansas state legislature from Marion county; and in 1890-94 was prosecuting attorney of the fourteenth judicial district. In 1905-11 he was a representative from Arkansas to the fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a democrat.

Floyd, John G., congressman, was born in York. He served in the New York state assembly; and in 1839-43 and 1851-53 was a representative from New York to the twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and thirtysecond congresses. He died in New York. Floyd, Richard, colonist, was born about 1620 in Wales. He was the first of the Floyd family on Long Island; and was a

New

man

of

intelligence

and

vigor.

in Setauket, N.Y. Richard, soldier, jurist, 1661,- in Setauket, N.Y.

He

died

about 1690 Floyd,

May

12,

was born

He was

appointed judge of the common pleas in 1723; and was also colonel of the militia of

He died Feb. 28, 1737, in Suffolk county. Setauket, N.Y. Floyd, Richard, legislator, governor, was born Dee. 29, 1703. He served in the Virginia state legislature in 1847-49 and 1853; and was governor of Virginia in 1850-53. He died in Virginia. Floyd, Richard, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1736. He was judge of the common pleas in 1764; and colonel of the militia of SufHe died June 30, 1791, in folk county.

ed through the Mexican war; and was brevetted first lieutenant for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Molino del Key. He served during the civil war as major of the eleventh United States infantry; and rose to the rank of colonel in 1863. He was the author of Letters from the Far East. He died in 1903 in New York City. Fluegel, Maurice, litterateur, author. He the author of Thoughts on Religious Rights and Views; Spirit of Biblical Legislation; The Messiah-Ideal; Israel the Bibliis

and other works. Ewald, educator, philologist, author, was born Aug. 4, 1863, in Germany. Since 1893 he has been professor of English philology at the Leland Stanford university of California. He is the author of Sidney's Astrophel and Defense of Pesy; and several other works. Flugler, Thomas T., congressman, was born in New Y^ork. He served in the New York state assembly in 1843-43; and was a

cal People; Fliigel,

representative in congress in 1853-57. He died in New York. Flusser, Charles W., naval officer, was born in 1833 in Annapolis, Md. In 1847 he was a midshipman; and in 1861 took command of the gunboat Commodore Perry. He subsequently took part in the shelling of Franklin, Va. He was killed April 18, 1864, in a naval engagement near Plymouth, N.C. Flye, Edwin, merchant, congressman, was born March 14, 1817, in New Castle, Maine. He was educated in "the public and private schools of New England. He became a successful merchant of

of the New York state senate. died Aug. 4, 1831, in Oneida county, N.Y.

a member

He

Floyd-Jones, De Lancey, soldier, author, 20, 1826, in Queens county, In" 1846 he was commissioned second jj_Y. lieutenant of the seventh infantry. He serv-

was born Jan.

New

Castle,

Maine;

and

filled

numerous

local positions of trust

and honor. In 1858 he

was a member

of the state house of representatives and served on several imjXIaine

New

Brunswick, Maine. Floyd, Robert Mitchell, journalist, business man, author, was born March 28, 1849, in New Orleans, La. He served eight years in the seventh regiment New York national guard. He is vice-president of the international grocers' association of the world; and owner and editor of the Trade Press List of Boston, Mass. He is the author of Songs of the Apple Tree. Floyd, William, congressman, was born Dec. 17, 1734, in Brookhaven, N.Y. In 177477 and 1778-83 he was a delegate from New York to the continental congress, and signed the declaration of independence. In 1789-91 he was a representative from New York to the first congress; and was for three years

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portant committees. In 1876-77 he was a rep-

resentative Maine

from

the forty-fourth congress to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of James 0. Blaine. He took his seat Dec. 4, 1876. Flynn, Dennis Joseph, educator, clergyman, college president, was born in 1856 In 1883 he was ordained in Louisville, Ky. priest. In 1899 he was a member of the faculty; and since 1905 has been president of the Mount St. Mary's college at Emmitsburg, Md. to

Flynn, Dennis

T., journalist,

congressman,

was born Feb. 13, 1863, in Phojnixville, Pa. He removed to Oklahoma territory in 1889. He was commissioned postmaster of the which position he still held and 1899-1903 he was terdelegate from Oklahoma to the fifty-

city of Guthrie;

when

in 1893-97

ritorial