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is a life member of the historical and archaeological society of Ohio; and resides in Marietta, Ohio. FoUett, John Fassett, lawyer, congress-

man, was born

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Franklin county, Vt. He representative in the Ohio legislature in state

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and re-elected 1865, 1868, and in the latter year was speaker. In 1883-85 he was a representative from Ohio to the fortyeighth congress. He resumed the practice of law after leaving congress. In 1880 he was elected democratic a, elector at large for in

Ohio on the Hancock and English presidential ticket. Folsom, Abby, reformer, author, was born about 1792 in England. She became noted as an advocate of anti-slavery reform. She was the author of Letter from a Member of the Boston Bar to an Avaricious Landlord. She died in 1867 in Rochester, N.Y. Folsom, Charles, clergyman, educator, diplomat, was born Dec. 24,- 17'94, in Exeter, N.H. He became chaplain in the United States navy; and midshipman's teacher of mathematics on the ship Washington in 1816. He was charge d'affaires in Tunis in 1817-19. He died Nov. 8, 1872, in Cambridge, Mass. Folsom, Charles Follen, physician, educator, author, was born April 3, 1842, in Haverhill, Mass. He was a physician of Boston; and a professor in the Harvard Medical school in 1877-85. He was the author of Mental Diseases; and Present Aspect of the Sewage Question Applied to Boston. He died Aug. 20, 1907, in Boston, Mass. Folsom, Charles William, soldier, civil engineer, was born April 17, 1826, in Cambridge, Mass. He served in the national army during the civil war. He was receiver of railroads in Virginia and Tennessee for the United States government in 1869; and in 1870-73 was superintendent of Mount Auburn cemetery, near Boston. He was employed in the sewer department of Boston from 1876. Folsom, George, state senator, diplomat, antiquarian, author, was born May 23, 1802, In 1844 he was a in Kennebunk, Maine. member of the New York state senate. He was the author of Sketches of Saeo and Biddeford, Maine; Dutch Annals of New York; Letters and Dispatches of Cortes, translated from the Spanish; and Political Condition of Mexico. He died March 27, 1869, on Rome, Italy.

Folsom, Joseph L., soldier, was bom May He was one of 19, 1817, in Meredith, N.H. the first to appreciate the discovery Of gold in California; and imparted the news offic-

Folsom City, on to the government. the American river, near the locality where gold was discovered, was named for him. He died July 19, 1855, in San Jose, Cal. Folsom, Justus Watson, educator, entomologist, author, was born Sept. 2, 1871, in Cambridge, Mass. In 1908 he was associate and since 1908 has been associate assistant professor of entomology at the university He is a fellow of the American of Illinois. association for the advancement of science. He is the author of Entomology, with Special Reference to Its Biological and Economic Aspects; and numerous technical Monographs. ially

Folsom, Montgomery Morgan, journalist, author, poet, was born Jan. 31, 1857, in HaHe is on the editorial staff of the hira, Ga. Atlanta Constitution. He was the author of Scraps of Song and Southern Scenes, a He died collection of poems and sketches. July 2, 1899, in Atlanta, Ga. Folsom, Nathaniel, soldier, congressman, was born in 1726 in Exeter, N.H. He was a brigadier-general during the siege of Boston in 1775. In 1774-80 he was a delegate from New Hampshire to the continental congress; was a councilor in 1778; and was presideni; of the convention which framed the constitution of New Hampshire in 1783. He died May 26, 1790, in Exeter, N.H. Folsom, Nathaniel Smith, clergyman, author, was born March 12, 1806, in Portsmouth, N.H. He was the author of CritInterpretation of the ical and Historical Prophecies of Daniel; and other works. He died in New Hampshire. Folsom, Norton, physician, author, was born April 15, 1842, in Boston, Mass. He was surgeon of the forty-fifth colored troops in 1864-65; and was acting medical director of the twenty-fifth army corps, receiving the brevet of lieutenant-colonel. He was the resident physician at the Massachusetts general hospital in Boston in 1869-76; and since then has practiced his profession in that city. He is the author of Essays on the Senses of Smell and Taste; and Plans

and Suggestions for Johns Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore.

Folsom, Mrs. Susannah Sarah, author, po-

She edited volumes thirteen and fourteen of the Child's Friend; and wrote an Ode for Ladies Fair. She also contributed to Miss A. W. Abbot's Autumn Leaves; and to Arthur Oilman's The Cambridge of 1776. She died in Cambridge, Mass. Foltz, Mrs. Clara Shortridge, lawyer, lecturer, was born July 16, 1849, in Henry county, Ind. She went before the California legislature of 1877-78, and secured the passage of an act permitting women to practice law; and was the first to take adet.

vantage of it. Foltz, Jonathan Messersmith, surgeon, was born April 25, 1810, in Lancaster, Pa. In 1870-71 he was president of the naval medical board.

He became

medical director