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 FOLKJIAR

FOLLEN

ordnance, 1889-93. He commanded the York-toii-n in Bering sea and Cliina, 1894-96; and was com- missioned lighthouse inspector for the 11th district, April 19, 189G. He was promoted cap- tain, Feb. 6, 1898, was assigned to the command of the protected cruiser Xew Orleans of the North Atlantic squadron in April, 1898, served with the flj-ing squadron under Rear- Admiral Schley in Cuban waters from May 9 to May 30, 1898, and after that date was connected with the North Atlantic squadron, under Admiral Sampson, in the operations against Cervera"s fleet and its final destruction.

FOLKMAR, Daniel, educator, was born in Roxbury, "Wis., Oct. 28, 1861. He attended Albion (Iowa) seminary, and was graduated from Western college, Iowa, in 1884. He was principal of public schools at Pattersonville, Iowa, 1883-84; edited and published the Blue Blanket, at Bangor, Dak., 1884-83; was connected with the Helena Indepfmlcnt and the Butte Inter- Monntain; was principal of public schools at Pony, Mont., 1886-87; was editor and publisher of the Daily Inter-Idaho at Hailey, 1887-88; was a student at Harvard divinity school, 1888-89; a fellow in psychologj' at Clark university, Worcester, Mass., 1889-90; president and pro- fessor of political science and psychology at Normal university, Evausville, Ind., 1890-92; professor of social science at Western Michigan college. Grand Rapids, 1892-93, and president of the same in 1893; a lecturer in sociology at the University of Chicago, 1893-9.5; professor of psychology and pedagogy at the State normal school, Milwaukee, Wis., 189.5-98, and was made professor of anthropology at 1" Uni%"ersit6 Nou- velle. Brussels, Belgiimri, in 1898. He studied anthropology and sociology in the universities of Paris, Berlin and Leipzig, in the British museum, and at the National library at Paris, 1899-1900. He became a fellow of the Royal statistical soci- ety of London; a member of the American asso- ciation for the advancement of science; the American academy of political and social sci- ence; the American statistical association: the American institute of civics; the American economic association; the National conference of charities and corrections. 1894-95; the National educational association; the Wisconsin academy of sciences, arts and letters; the Anthropological society of Washington and the Anthroiiologische Gesellschaft in Wien. He was married, Aug. 29, 1895, to Elnora Cuddeback who had been princi- pal and professor of pedagogy in several colleges and she continued her studies and lectures abroad in the same schools with her husband. 1898-1900. She i-eceived the degree of D.Soc.Sc. from the Universitj' of Brussels, 1899. .She is the author of: Education as Based upon Philosophical

Anthropology. Professor Folkmar is tiie nuthor of: Introduction to Pliilosophical Anthropologi/; Applied Aiithropoloijii. In 1903 lie was appointed an assistant in the Philippine civil service.

FOLLEN, Charles Theodore Christian, edu- cator, was liorn in Hesse. Germany. Sept. 4, 1796; son of Christopher Follen, jurist. He stud- led at Giessen in the prejiaratory school and entered the university, whence he enlisted in a corps of riflemen. He reentered the university, and was graduated in 1817. He was a Liberal in politics and was obliged to leave Germany. In Paris he made the acquaintance of Lafayette and in 1820 was obliged to leave France. He was professor of Latin in the canonal school, Grisons, Switzerland; was transferred to the University of Basle as professor of civil law, and in 1834, the Swiss government being no longer able to protect him from the Russian, Austrian and Prussian governments, he fled to America and was instructor in German at Harvai-d, 1825- 30, in etiiics, history and ecclesiastical history, 1838-30, and professor of German languages and literature, 1830-35. He also studied divinity under Dr. W. E. Channing and began preaching in 1828. He was obliged to leave Harvard in 1835 on account of his outspoken anti-slavery senti- ments. He was ordained a Unitarian minister in 1836 and preached occasionally in Boston, New York and Washington; in 1840 he was settled. over the parish in East Lexington, Mass., and lost his life that year in the burning of the sound steamer Lexington while en route from New York to Boston. He was married to Eliza Lee, daugh- ter of Samuel Cabot of Boston, an autlior of con- siderable repute and an advocate of the abolition of slavery, who after the death of her husband edited his complete works, published in five vol- umes in 1842. He died Jan. 13, 1840.

FOLLEN, Eliza Lee Cabot, author, was born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 15, 1787; daughter of Samuel Cabot of Boston. She received an ex- cellent school training; was married in 1828 to Charles Theodore Cliristian Follen, then in- structor in German in Harvard college. After her husband's death she, by her own exertions, fitted their son, Charles Christopher Follen (born 1838, died 1872), for Harvard, where he was graduated in 1849. Mrs. Follen was an active member of the American Unitarian association and an earnest abolitionist. She edited the Child's Friend, 1843-50. prepared a memoir of her hus- ' band, published in 1843, and the following books: A Well-Spent Hour (1837); The Skeptic (1835); ■ Poems (1839); To Mothers in the Free States (1855); Anti- Slavery Hymns and /Sony's (185.5); Twilight Stones (18.58): and Home Dramas (18.59). She edited her husband's works (5 vols.. 1843). She died in Brookline, Mass., Jan. 26, 1860.