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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. more songs, the words in nearly cases being his own. Some of them, like the Suwanee River, Old Kentucky Home, and Nelly Bly, are known in all Englishspeaking lands. He died Jan. 13, 1864, in ty-five or all

My

New York

City.

Foster, Stepnen Symonds, abolitionist, author, was born Nov. 17, 1809, in Canterbury, N.H. He was the author of The Brotherhood of Thieves, a True Picture of the American Church and Clergy. He died Sept. 8, 1881, in Worcester, Mass. Foster, Theodore, lawyer, United States senator, was born April S9, 1753, in Brook-

Mass. In 1789-1803 he was United States senator from Rhode Island. He died Jan. 13, 1828, in Providence, R.I. field,

Foster, Mrs. Theodosia, M. Toll Foster, educator, author, was born about 1838 in Verona, N.Y. Since 1890 she has been president of Oneida county women's temperance christian union. She is the author of His First Charge; Boynton Neighbor-

Fide Remembers; A Baker's Modern Exodus; and other works. Foster, Thomas Floumoy, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 23, 1790, in Greenborough, Ga. He was for many years a

hood; Dozen;

What

member

A

of

the

Georgia

state legislature;

and in 1829-35 and 1841-43 he was a representative from Georgia to the twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third and twentyseventh congresses. lumbus, Ga.

He

died in 1847 in Co-

Foster, Thomas J., statesman. He was a representative from Alabama to the first and second confederate congresses. In 1865 he was elected a representative from Alabama to the thirty-ninth United States congress, but did not serve. Foster, Thomas J., educator, founder. He is president of the International textbook company; and is also the founder of the International correspondence schools of Scranton, Pa. Foster, Volney William, contractor, financier, was born Feb. 27, 1848, in Aztalan, Wis. For many years he was engaged in Chicago, 111. In contracting in general 1901 he was president of the Union league club of Chicago, 111. In 1903 he was appointed United States commissioner of the international archaeological and ethnological association; and in 1904 received the same appointment from Peru. In 1904 he was the author of a bill for the establishment of a national arbitration tribunal. He

died in 1904 in Evanston,

111.

Foster, Walter Bertram, litterateur, author, was born Nov. 3, 1869, in Providence, Since 1886 he has been engaged in litR.I. erary work. He is the author of The Lost Galleon; With Washington at Valley Forge; The Treasure of South Lake Farm; In Alaskan Waters; With Ethan Allen at Ticon-

deroga; The Lost Expedition; and The Eve of

War.

Foster,

Wilbur Fisk,

was born April

495

soldier,

civil

engi-

1838, in Springfield, Mass. In 1811 he served in the first Tennessee regiment. In 1861 he was commissioned major of engineers. In 1883 he was chairman of the building committee of the Nashville exposition; and was director of the Tennessee centennial exposition of 1896-97. Foster, Wilder D., merchant, state senator, congressman, was born on Jan. 8, 1821, in Monroe, N.Y. In 1854 he was mayor of Grand Rapids, Mich.; was state senator in 1855-56. In 1871-73 he was a representative to the forty-second congress to fill a vacancy. He died Sept. 20, 1873, in Grand Rapids, Mich. Foster, William Eaton, librarian, author, was born June 2, 1851, in Brattleboro, Vt. He is a librarian of Providence, R.I. He is the author of The Civil Service Reform Movement; The Literature of Civil Service Reform in the United States; Stephen Hopkins, a Rhode Island Statesman; and Town neer,

Government

in

Rhode

13,

Island.

Fouke, Philip B., soldier, journalist, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 23, 1818, in Kaskaskia, 111. He served three terms as prosecifting attorney for his district. In 1851 he was elected a member of the Illinois state legislature. In 1859-63 he was a representative from Illinois to the thirtysixtii and thirty-seventh congresses. In 1861-62 he was a colonel in the Illinois volunteers. He died Oct. 3, 1876, in Washington, D.C. Foulke, Charles Mather, educator, merchant, manufacturer, was born July 25, 1841, in Quakertown, Bucks county, Pa. His first occupation was as teacher of the Friends school in Philadelphia, Pa.; and afterward for two years was principal of the Friends school in Quakertown. In 1861 he entered the wool business in Philadelphia, from which he retired in 1872; and since that

time he has not been engaged in any commercial business. In 1872-74 he studied art in Europe, particularly as expressed in paintings and tapestries. He subsequently made many trips abroad for the same purpose; remaining there permanently in 188287. He owns one of the largest, most varied and important collections of antique tapestries in the world. For several years past he has been occupied in writing a History of the Barberini Collections of Tapestries; a General History of Tapestries; and The Art Tapestries in America. He has fre-

quently published articles on

all

these sub-

jects.

Foulke, Elizabeth E., educator, author, powas born in Richmond, Ind. She was educated at the Friends' academy of Richmond; and at Earlham college. She is a teacher in the Richmond public schools. She is the author of Twilight Stories; Braided Straws; and a, number of songs and poems. et,