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 HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Foulke, William Dudley, lawyer, legisla20, 1848, in New York City. He has served as a member of the Indiana state senate; has been president of the Indiana civil service reform associator, author,

was born Nov.

and as president of the American woman's suffrage association. He is the author of Slav and Saxon; and other works. Foulkrod, William Walker, merchant, manufacturer, congressman, was born about 1850 in Frankfort, Pa. He began his career in the wholesale dry goods business. He is president of the Frankfort mutual fire insurance company. He was a member of the canal commission appointed to report upon a plan for a canal connecting Philadelphia with the ocean. In 1907-11 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to tion;

the sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a republican.

Fountaine, Samuel Warren, soldier, was born Dec. 13, 1846, in Parkersburg, W. Va. In 1870 he graduated from the United States military academy. He served in the civil war; and in 1905 was retired with the rank of brigadier-general.

Foumier, Alexis Joseph, landscape paintfounder, was born July 4, 1865, in St. Paul, Minn. He studied art in the Julian academy of Paris, and was a pupil of Benjamin Constant and Jean Paul Laurens. er, artist,

He has

attained a national reputation as a noted landscape painter; and is art director of the Eoycroft shops at East Aurora, N. Y. He was the founder of the Minnesota art league; is a member of the American art association of Paris; and a member of the society of western artists. He is represented in permanent collections in Vanderbilt university of Nashville, in the Minneapolis society of fine arts, in the Pennsylvania academy of science, in the St. Paul public library, in the Albright gallery of Buffalo, and in many private collections.

Fouse, Levi Garner, organizer, insurance president, Avas born Oct. 21, 1850, in Morrison's Cove, Pa. He is the originator of a system of life insur-

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He is pres21, 1850, in Morrison's Cove, Pa. ident of the American faculty of actuaries. He

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the author of a system of

life insur-

known as the Fouse plan. Foust, Benezet Forst, soldier, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1861 he was first lieutenant and adjutant in the eighty-eighth regiment Pennsylvania infantry; and in 1865 attained the rank of brigadier of volunance which has become popularly

teers.

Fpust,

Julius

Isaac,

educator,

college

was born in 1865, in Graham, N.C. In 1894-1902 he was superintendent of the Goldsboro schools; in 1902-07 was professor president,

of pedagogue in the state normal and industrial college at Greensboro; and since 1907 has been president of that institution. He has been president of the North Carolina association of city school superintendents; and is also president of the North Carolina teachers' association. Foute, Robert Chester, naval officer, clergyman, was born April 14, 1841, in Green-

Tenn. He served in the United States navy during the civil war; and attained the rank of lieutenant. He was ordained priest in 1874 in the Christ church of Savannah, Ga.; and in 1883 was elected rector of Grace church of San Francisco, Cal. Fowke, Gerard, archaeologist, author, was ville,

born about 1715 in Charlestown, Mass. In has made explorations on Vancouver's Island and Siberia. He is the author of Archseological History of Ohio. Fowle, Daniel, printer, journalist, was born about 1715, in Charlestown, Mass. In 1742-50 he was a partner with Gamaliel Rogers; and in 1748-50 joint publisher with him of the Independent Advertiser. They were the first in America to print the New Testament. He died June, 1787, in Portsmouth, N.H. Fowle, Daniel G., governor. In 1890-91 he was thirty-fifth governor of North Carolina.

Fowle, Robert, journalist, publisher.

He

was a partner with his uncle in the publication of the New Hampshire Gazette, which was the only newspaper in New Hampshire at the begining of the revolution.

He

died

New

Hampshire. Fowle, William Bentley, educator, legislator, was born Oct. 17, 1795, in Boston, Mass. He was a member of the Massachuin

setts state legislature in 1843.

About

1851,

he opened a monitorial school in Boston, which he conducted successfully until 1860. He died Feb. 6, 1865, in Medford, Mass. Fowler, Andrew, clergyman, theologian, was born about 1765 in Guilford, Conn. After residing on Long Island and in Philadelphia, he became rector of churches in Spotswood, Shrewsbury, and Middletown, N.J. He died in 1851 in Charleston, S.C. Fowler, Charles Evan, civil engineer, contractor, author, was born Feb. 10, 1867, in Bartlett, Ohio. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools; and graduated from the State university of Ohio; and studied civil engineering. Since