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Fordney, Joseph Warren, businesa man, congressman, was born Nov. 5, 1853, in Blackford county, Ind. He has been extensively engaged in the lumber business for many years; and owns an ice plant at Hartford, Ind. In 1899-1911 he was a representative from Michigan to the fifty-sixth fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a republican.

Fordyce, Samuel Wesley, soldier, financier, was born Feb. 7, 1840, in Guernsey county, Ohio. He was a private in the civil war; and rose to a captaincy of cavalry. At the close of the war he established the banking house of Fordyce and Eison of Huntsville, Ala.; and

the president of the St. Louis southwestern railway company. is

Foreman, Allan, journalist, dramatic ic,

crit-

was born Sept. 27, 1860, in MatLong Island, New York. He was ed-

founder,

tituck.

ucated in the private schools

and by tutors

Brooklyn, N.Y. tended Williams in



atcol-

lege, and there specialized in economics

and English literature. is a dramatic critic and contributor to current periodicals and is

He



a member of the Long Island historical society. As a critic, correspondent, editor publisher, syndicator and traveler he has held a prominent place in the journalistic world for more than a quarter of a century. In 1884 he founded the Journalist and has since been its editor. He has traveled throughout Europe, North Africa and Asia; and has visited nearly every place of interest on the North American continent.

Foreman, James Milton, physician, surgeon, was born April 13, 1829, in Jefferson county, Va. He was educated at the university

Virginia;

of

and in 1853 graduated from the Jefferson medical is

a,

cian

college.

Jonesburg, is

a

He

successful physiand surgeon of

Mo.

member



and

of vari-

ous

medical societies. takes an active part in the public and business affairs of his

He

county and state, and ranks high in his city,

He contributes extensively to medical and current literature; and is the author of numerous Monographs. profession.

Forepaugh,

Adam, showman.

He

was

well known throughout the United States as the manager and proprietor of a great

traveling menagerie and circus. Jan. 24, 1890, in Philadelphia, Pa.

He

died

Foresman, John Oakes, educator, clergyman, was born May 18, 1835, in Lycoming county, Pa. After receiving his education at the Western Reserve college of Ohio he entered into educational work. In 1858 he became a teacher in the Delaware Indian mission school; and in 1860 became a missionary in the Rocky mountains. He is a successful clergyman of the methodist episcopal church at Horton, Kan. Forest, John Anthony, clergyman, bishop, was born Dec. 25, 1838, in France. He was

pastor for thirty-three years at HalletsTex.; and in 1895 was consecrated catholic bishop of San Antonio.

ville,

congressman, was bom was a representative from Tennessee to the twentythird and twenty-fourth congresses. He died Aug. 31, 1845, in Tennessee. Forgan, David Robinson, banker, author, was born April 16, 1862, in Scotland. Since 1907 he has been president of the National city bank of Chicago, 111. He has written much on banking subjects. He is the author of Banking as a Profession; and other Forester,

John

in Tennessee.

B.,

In 1833-37 he

Addresses.

Forgan, James Berwick, banker, was bom April 11, 1853, in Scotland. In 1892 he became vice-president of the first national bank of Chicago, 111.; and succeeded Lyman J. Gage as president of that institution. He is also president of the first trust and savings bank and other institutions of Chicago, 111.

Forman, David, soldier, jurist, was bom near Englishtown, N.J. He commanded the New Jersey militia at Germantown. After the war he was a judge of the county court; and a member of the council of state. He died about 1812 in New Jersey. Forman, Emily Shaw, author, poet. She

was

vice-president of the Boston Browning She is the author of a volume of poems ilustrated by Fidelia Bridges. club.

Forman, Joshua, manufacturer, legislator, founder, was born Sept. 6, 1777, in Pleasant Valley, N.Y. In 1807 he was elected to the New York state legislature; and in 1808 founded the celebrated Plaster company of Camillus. He was the founder of the city of Syracuse. He died Aug. 4, 1848, in Rutherfordton, N.C.

Forman, Justus Miles, artist, author, was born Nov. 1, 1875, in Genesee county, N.Y. He is the author of The Garden of Lies; Journey's End; and The Stumbling Block. Forman, Samuel Eagle, educator, author, was born April 29, 1858, in Brentsville, Va.

He has been

principal of high schools in Salisbury, Md.; was principal of high schools in Bristol, Conn.; and in 1900 became director of teachers institutes for Maryland.

He



is

the author of First Lessons in Civics