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America. He died April 16, 1901, in Somerville, Mass. Fulton, John, clergyman, author, was born April 2, 1834, in Scotland. He was professor of canon law at the Episcopal divinity school in Philadelphia. He was the author of Letters on Christian Unity; Index Canonum; The Laws of Marriage; Documentary History of the Episcopal church in the Confederate States; The Beautiful Land, a description of Palestine; and The Chalcedonian Decree. He died in 1907 in Philadelphia, Pa. Fulton, John H., congressman,

was born

In 1833-35 he was a representative from Virginia to the twentythird congress. He died Jan. 28, 1836, in Abington, Va. Fulton, Robert, engineer, inventor, was born July 26, 1765, in Lancaster county. Pa. He invented a machine for spinning flax; another for makin Abington, Va.

ing ropes; and was proprietor of the first panorama exhibited in Paris. Though others had previously conceived the idea of steam navigation, Fulton was the first who successfully realized

sity,

Kentucky

institutions.

In

and other was lecturer

state university

1893-94 he

and professor of elocution and oratory at the Ohio state university; since 1890 has filled that position in the Ohio Wesleyan university; and since 1894 has also been dean of the Ohio Wesleyan school of oratory. He was one of the founders and is now president of the national association of elocutionists; and organized and for three terms was president of the Ohio state association of elocutionists. For five years he was president of the Ohio inter-collegiate debating league. He is joint-author of Fulton and Trueblood's Chart of Vocal Expression; Fulton and Trueblood's Practical Elements of Elocution; and various other works. Fulton, William S., soldier, lawyer, goverUnited States senator, was born June In 1829 he 2, 1795, in Cecil county, Md. was appointed secretary of the territory of Arkansas; and in 1836 governor. In 183545 he was United States senator. He died Aug. 15, 1844, in Little Kock, Ark. nor.

Funk, Benjamin F., soldier, congressman, was born Oct. 17, 1838, in Funk's Grove, 111.

He

served during the civil

war

as a private

Clermont,

in the sixty-eighth Illinois infantry. He was elected mayor of Bloomington in 1871, and was re-elected six times consecutively.

sometimes called Fulton's Folly, launched

In 1893-95 he was a representative to the fifty-third congress as a republican.

in 1807, was the first river. He died

was born

it.

The

steamboat on the Hudson

Feb. 21, 1815, in New York City. Fulton, Robert Burwell, educator, scientist, was born April 8, 1849, in Seranton county, Ala. In 1875-1906 he was professor of physics and astronomy, and in 18921906 was chancellor in the university of Mississippi. Since 1906 he has been superintendent of the Miller school of Virginia. In 1899 he was president of the Southern educational association. He is the author of numerous addresses and articles on educational subjects. Fulton, Robert Irving, educator, elocutionist, lecturer, author, was born March 19, 1855, in Leesburg, Va. In 1876 he graduated from Bethel military academy, Va.; in 1877 was a law student at the university of Virginia; and studied elocution under the most eminent of teachers in America and Europe. In 187884 he was associateprincipal, and in 188492 director and owner of the Fulton and Trueblood's school of oratory at Kansas City, Mo. In 188S-90 he was also instructor in elocution at the Ohio Wesleyan university, Missouri state univer-

Funk, Isaac Kaufman, clergyman, author, Sept.

10,

1839, in Clifton, Ohio. >

He graduated from Wittenburg

college;

and

received the degrees of D.D. and LLXt. In

1867-72 he filled various pastorates; the last

of

which was in N.Y. He

Brooklyn,

was

editor-in-chief of periodicals; and was editor-inchief of the new edition of the Standard

various

Dictionary.

He

is

the

chairman of the editorial board that is producing the Jewish Encyclopedia. He was the founder and editor of the Metropolitan Pulpit. In connection with his publishing house he has founded the Voice; the Missionary Review; and the Literary Digest. He is the editor of Tarry Thou Till I Come. He is the author of The Next Step in Evolution;

The

Widow's

Mite;

and

Other

Psychic Phenomena.

Funke, Otto, soldier, was born in GerIn 1861 he became captain of the eleventh regiment Illinois cavalry; and in 1865 attained the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers. He died Nov. 27, 1885. Funkhouser, A. Paul, educator, clergyman, founder, was bom Dec. 10, 1853, near Day-

many.