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 FLAXDRAU

FLEET

Treatise on Maritime Law (1852); Treatise on the Law of Shipping (lSo3); Chief Justices of the United States Supreme Court (1855-58); Memoirs of Cum- berland (1856); An Exposition of the Constitution of the United States (1860); Treatise on the Princi- ples of Insurance (1871).

FLANDRAU, Charles Eugene, jurist, was born in New York city, July 15, 1828; son of Thomas H. and Elizabetii (Macomb) Flandrau; grandson of Alexander Macomb of New York, and a nephew of Gen. Alexander Macomb, com- mander-in-chief of the United States army. He attended the schools of Georgetown, D.C., where he spent his youth, and was a sailor before the mast, 1841—44. He was employed at a trade, 184.5^7; studied law at Whitesboro, N.Y., and in 1851 was admitted to the bar. In 18.53 lie re- moved to St. Paul, Minn., to practise his profes- sion. He was a member of the 7th territorial council of Miime.sota, 1856; U.S. agent for the Sioux Indians, 1856-57; a member of the Minne- sota constitutional convention in session, July 13 to Aug. 29, 1857; and judge of the supreme court of Minnesota territory from April 23, 1857, to May 24, 1858, after which he was continued by election upon the bench of the state supi'eme court as associate justice until 1864, when he re- signed. In 1862 his eflforts saved the town of New Ulm, Minn., from a massacre b}' the jSioux Indians. He was elected president of the first board of trade of Minneapolis in 1SG7 and was chairman of the Democratic state central com- mittee, 1868-6!).

FLASCH, Kilian Caspar, R.C. bishop, was born in Retzstadt, Bavaria, July 16, 1831. He emigi-ated to the United States with his parents, who were farmers, in 1847, and began his prepara- tion for the priesthood at the College of Notre Dame. Ind. He entered the provincial seminary of St. Francis de .Sales, Milwaukee, where lie completed liis theological studies, and was or- dained a priest at La Crosse, Sept. 16, 1859, by Bishop Heuiii. He was made missionary priest at Laketown, New Coelu, Milwaukee county, Wis., where he laid the foundation for St. James's church and a i)arochial school under the direc- tion of a lay-teacher. In 1860 he was elected master of discipline and professor in the Salesia- num. resigning in 1867 to become chaplain in St. Emelianus's male orphan asylum and boys' home, St. Francis, near Milwaukee. He was made spiritual director of St. Francis de Sales seminaiw and professor of moral theologj- in 1874; became rector of the seminary in 1879. r.nd on Aug. 24, 1881. was consecrated bishop of La Crosse as successor to the Most Rev. Michael Heiss, who was promoted coadjutor of the metro- politan of Milwaukee, March 14, 1880. He died at La Crosse, Wis., Aug. 3, 1891.

FLEET, Alexander Frederick, educator, was born ill King and yueen county, Va., in 1843; sou of Dr. Benjamin and Maria Louisa (Walker) Fleet. His father. Dr. Benjamin Fleet, born Jan. 25, 1818, and died March 8, 1865, was a pliysician and magistrate in King and C^ueen county, state of Virginia. His first ancestor in America was Capt. Henry Fleet, who came to Virginia about 1621, and was a member of the Maryland legis- lature and of the Virginia house of burgesses. He received his education at Fleetwood and Aber- deen academies, Va., and at the University of Virginia, which he left in 1861 to enter the mili- tary service of the Confederate states. He re- mained in the service throughout the entire period of the war, and at its close he returned to the university, where he studied, 1865-67. He was a teacher at Kemuore school, Fredericks- burg, Va., 1867-68; and had charge of the depart- ment of Greek in the William Jewell college 1868-73. He also served as chairman of the fac ulty. He was president of the Bajitist female college at Lexington, Mo., 1873-79; was professor of Greek in the Missoxiri state university, Colum- bia, Mo., 1879-90, and in 1890 foimded and became superintendent of the Missouri militaiy academy at Mexico, Mo. In 1891 he was president of the Missouri state teachers' association. In 1896, upon the destruction by fire of the Slissouri mil- itary academy, he transferred Jiis school to Cul- ver, Ind., and united with the Culver military academy, of which he had twice been superin- tendent. This school in 1900 had an enrollment of 220 cadets.

FLEET, Thomas, printer, was born in Shrop- shire, England, Sept. 8, 1685. He was a printer in Pudiling Lane, Bo.ston, Mass., 1712-31. He re- moved in 1731 to the corner of Water street, where he had built a mansion and printing house, and in 1733 he became proprietor of the ]\'eekly Eehearsnl which in 1735 was changed to the Bos- ton Eoeninr/ Post. He was for a long time cred- ited with having published "Songs for the Nursery; or Mother Goose's Melodies for Chil- dren ■' (1719). This fable grew out of the fact that he was married June 8, 1715, to Elizabetii Goose, the daughter of a wealthy Boston mer- chant, and his mother-in-law Mrs. (or Mother) Goose, was said to have invented the rhymes for the amusement of Mr. Fleet's infant son. The first edition of "'Mother Goose's Melodies" printed in this country appears to have been that issued iu 1787 by Isaiah Thomas of Worcester, Mass., from a copy of the book printed in England in 1765 by Tliomas Newbury. Thomas Fleet's son Thomas succeeded him in the printina: business and in 1779 established Fleet's Annual J!er/ister which was continued by his descendants till 1801. Thomas Fleet died in Boston. Mass., Julv 21, 1758.