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 I'OLSOM

FOLTZ

ueutal congress, 177-1-75, 1777-78 and 1779-80; ii councillor in 1778; president of the New Hamp- shire constitutional convention in 1783, and cliief justice of the coui-t of common pleas. He died at Exeter, N.H., May 26, 1790.

FOLSOM, Nathaniel Smith, clergyman, was born in Portsmouth, N.H., March 13, 1806; sou of Nathaniel and Mary (Smith), grandson of Josiah and Elizabetli (Gilman), great-grandson of Jonathan and Anna (Ladd), great^ grandson of Deacou Johu and Abigail (Perkins), and great^ grandson of Johu Folsom, who was bap- tized iu Hingham, England, in 1615, came to Hingham, Mass., in 1638, removed to Exeter, N.H., in 1650, and married Mary, daughter of Edward Gilman. He was graduated from Dart- mouth in 1828, from Audover theological seminary in 1831, and was ordained to the Con- gregational ministry at Bedford, Mass., in 1831. He was a missionary in Liberty county, Ga. , 1831-33, pastor of a Presbyterian church at Cleveland, Ohio, 1832-33, a professor in Lane theological seminary, 1833; professor of saored literature in the Western Eeserve college, 1833-36; pastor of a Congregational church at Frances- town, N.H., 1836-38; at Providence, R.I., 1888- 40; and pastor of a Unitarian church at Haverliill, Mass., 1840—16. He was editor of the Christian Uegister, 1846-48; professor of biblical literature at Meadville theological seminary, 1849-61; and a teacher and pastor at Concord, Mass., 1862-68. He took up his residence in Boston in 1875. He received the degree of D.D. in 1879. Among his publications are: Critical and Historical Interpre- tation of the Prophecies of Daniel (1842); Transla- tion of the Four (iosjwls (rev. ed., 1885). He died in Asheville. N.C, Nov. 10, 1890.

FOLSOM, Norton, iihysician, was born in Boston, Mass., Aiiril 15, 1842; son of Charles and Susannah Sarah (McKean) Folsom; grandson of James and Sarah (Gilman) Folsom, and of Prof. Joseph and Amy (Swasey) McKean; and a de- scendant in the 8tli generation from John Folsom of Hingham, England, and Hingliam, Mass. He became a medical cadet, U.S.A., in October, 1861, and served one year. He was graduated from the Harvard medical school in 1864, became surgeon of the 45th regiment, U.S. colored troops, and acting medical director of the 2oth army corps, being brevetted lieutenant-colonel. At the close of the civil war he entered the Mexican army as a surgeon. In 1866 he became assistant pliysician in Taunton lunatic hospital. He returned to Bos- ton in 1869 and was resident physician at the Massachusetts general hospital until 1876. In 1863 he wrote an Essay on the Senses of Smell and Taste which won the Boylston society prize. He published Plans and Sniiriestions for Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore (1875).

FOLTZ, Clara Shortridge, lawyer, was born in Henry county, Ind., July 16, 1849; daughter of the Rev. Elias W. .Sliortridge. She attended Howe seminary. Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and after- ward became a teacher. In 1864 she was married and in 1872 i-emoved to Oregon and later to San Josfi, Cal. She contributed to the Keto Xorthicest and to the San Josii Jlercury. In 1876, being obliged to support herself and five children, she Ijegan to lecture and to study law. In 1878 she secured the passage, by the Califoi-nia legislature, of an act permitting women to practise law, and was admitted to the California bar, Sept. 5, 1878. In 1880 she I'emoved to San Francisco, where she spoke for the Republican party during the politi- cal campaigns of 1880, 1882 and 1884. In 1886 she allied herself with the Democratic party and lectured in Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa. In 1887 .she started the San Diego Daily Bee, which she edited and managed tmtil its consolidation with the Union. She retui-ned to San Francisco in 1890 and practised there until January, 1896, when, upon motion of Benjamin F. Tracy, be- fore the ajipellate division of the supreme court, she was admitted to the New York bar, and opened an office in New York city.

FOLTZ, Jonathan Messersmith, surgeon, was born m Lancaster, Pa., April 25, 1810; son of Jonathan Foltz. He was graduated from Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia, in 1830, and on Ajiril 4, 1831, was conuuissioned assistant surgeon in t!ie U.S. na^'y and attached to the frigate Potomac, then under orders to proceed to Smnatra to punish the natives for preying upon American conmierce. He landed with the storming party and was commended in the of- ficial disimtch sent by Captain Shubrick to the department at Washington, D.C. He was commissioned surgeon in 1838 and was given charge of the U.S. naval hospital at Port JIahon in the Mediterranean. He was next attached to the frigates Baritan and Brandywine as fleet sur- geon of the Brazil squadron, accomimnying the former frigate to the Gulf of Mexico in 1846-47, and taking part in the Mexican war. He was again at- tached to the navy yard and marine barracks at Wash- ington, 18 11 4 7; to the Jamestown of the Brazil squadron, 1851-54; and was fleet surgeon of the Western Gulf squadron, 1861-63, serving on the Santee, the Xiarjara, and with Admiral Farragut on the Hartford. He was president of the naval medical board, Philadel- phia, Pa., in 1867, and also in 1870-71; accom- panied Admiral Farragut to Europe on the J^mnklin, 1867-70, as fleet surgeon; and on Oct.