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 HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN, BIOGRAPHY. the Springfield union of Massachusetts. He is the author of By-ways of Literature; Confessions of a Male Flirt ; also Wedded by

Wire;

Man

Proposes but

Woman

Deposes;

Where Titania Eules; The Asbestos Society Sinners; Matrimonial Monologues; and other works. Fogler, William H., lawyer, jurist. In 1898-1905 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Maine; and resided in Rockland, Maine. He died in 1902 in Rockland, Maine. Foley, James B., congressman, was born in Kentucky. In 1857-59 he was elected a representative from Indiana to the thirtyfifth congress. He died in Indiana. Foley, James William, journalist, author, poet, was born Feb. 4, 1874, in St. Louis, Mo. In 1892 he began newspaper work on the Tribune of Bismarck, N.D. He is the author of Prairie Breezes; Songs of School Days; and other works. Foley, John Samuel, clergyman, bishop, was bom Nov. 5, 1833, in Baltimore, Md. He built the church of St. Martin, one of the Since 1888 finest in the city of Baltimore. he has been Roman catholic bishop of Detroit, Mich. Foley, Margaret E., sculptor, artist, was born in New Hampshire. She made portrait busts of Charles Sumner, Theodore Parker, and others. She executed cameo work, medallions of Longfellow and Bryant; and ideal statues of Cleopatra, Excelsior, and Jeremiah. She died in 1877 in Austria. Foley, Thomas, clergyman, bishop,, was born in 1823 in Baltimore, Md. After 1848 he was chancellor of the arch-diocese of Baltimore. In 1867 he was appointed vicargeneral; and subsequently of the diocese of Chicago, 111. He died in 1879 in Baltimore,

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Md. Folger, Charles James, lawyer, jurist, cabwas born April 16, 1818, in Nantucket, Mass. In 1844 he was appointed first judge of the court of common pleas of Ontario county; and was elected county judge of Ontario county in 1851. He was elected a state senator in 1861, and was four times re-elected. He resigned in 1869; and was appointed United States assistant treasurer at New York City. He was associate judge of the state court of appeals in 1870-80; was then chief judge of that court; and resigned, and in 1881-84 he was secretary of the United States treasury. He died Sept. 4, 1884, in Geneva, N.Y. Folger, Peter, litterateur, author, was born in 1617 in England. He settled successively at Watertown, Martha's Vineyard, and in 1663 at Nantucket. He is rememLooking-Glass for bered as the author of the Times, a ballad. He died in 1690 in inet officer,

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Nantucket, Mass. Folger, Walter, state senator, congressman, was bom June 12, 1765, in Nantucket, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts

senate in 1809-15 and 1822;

and

in

477

1817-21 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the fifteenth and sixteenth congresses. He died Sept. 8, 1849, in Massachusetts. Folger,

William Mayhew, naval

was born May

He

officer,

19, 1844, in Massilon, Ohio.

war

as a midshipto the grade of master in 1866. Two years later he became a lieutenant, and passing through the intermediate grades he was promoted to the rank of captain in 1898; and commanded the protected cruiser New Orleans in the war with Spain. Folk, Edgar Estes, clergyman, author, was bom Sept. 6, 1856, in Haywood county, Tenn. He has held pastorates in Murfreesboro, Tenn.; in Millersburg, Ky.; and in Albany, Ga. He is the author of Plan of Salvation; and The Mormon Monster. Folk, Joseph Wingate, lawyer, governor, was born Oct. 28, 1869, in Brownsville, Tenn. He graduated from Vanderbilt university; and in 1890 moved to St. Louis and began the practice of law. In 1901-05 he was district attorney at St. Louis, Mo.; and a prominent member of the democratic party. He was governor of the state of Missouri in 1905-09. Folkmar, Daniel, sociologist, anthropologist, author, was born Oct. 28, 1861, in Roxbury. Wis. In 1898-1902 he was professor of anthropology at Brussels, Belgium. In 1904 he was lieutenant-governor of Lepanto-Bontoe, P.I. He is the author of Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology. FoUen, Charles Theodore Christian, educator, author, was born Sept. 4, 1796, in Germany. He was German instructor at Harvard university in 1830-34, but lost his position on account of his anti-slavery opinions; and in 1836 was ordained as a unitarian clergyman. He was the author of German Reader; and Practical German Grammar. He died Jan. 13, 1840, in Long Island Sound. Follen, Mrs. Eliza Lee Cabot, author, was born Aug. 1, 1787. in Boston, Mass. She was the author of Sketches of Married Life; Twilight Stories, a volume of excellent juvenile tales; The Well-spent Hour; The Skeptic; Poems; To Mothers in the Free States; Anti-Slavery Hymns and Songs; Home Dramas; Little Songs for Little

served during the civil

man; and was promoted

People; and The Old Garret Stories. She died Jan. 26, 1860, in Brookline, Mass. Follett, David Lyman, lawyer, jurist, was born July 17, 1836, in Sherburne, N.Y. In 1874 he was elected a justice of the supreme court; and was chief judge of the court of appeals of the state of New York. He died Julv 5, 1899, in Norwich, N.Y. lawyer, jurist, Follett, Martin Dewey, was born in 1826 in Enosburg, Vt. In 1859 he began the practice of law in Ohio; and in 1883 was elected judge of the state supreme court of Ohio. In 1866 and in 1868 he was a democratic nominee for. congress.