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March 19, 18G5, '" for effective services during the campaigns of Georgia and Nortli Carolina."' He was aide-de-camp to Gen. Henry \V. Slocum in the march to the sea and through the Carolinas. He spent the years 1866-67 at Wesleyan university, Delaware, Ohio, and was grad- uated at Cornell luii- versity in 1869, in the first class gi-aduated from that institution. He then went to Cin- I • 1 1 1 uati, where he was admitted to practise law Oct. 14, 1869. He was judge of the Cincinnati superior court, 18T9-«3; an unsuccessful candi- date for governor of Ohio in 1883; was elected governor in 1885; re- elected in 1887 and defeated again in 1889. He was an unsuccessful candidate for U.S. senator in 1893 and was elected to that office, Jan. 15, 1896, to succeed Calvin S. Brice, taking his seat March 4, 1897. He was chairman of the committee to examine the several branches of the civil service, and a member of the committees on foreign relations, on Pacific railroads, to es- tablish the University of the United States, and on transportation routes to the seaboard. He was a delegate to the Republican national con- ventions of 1884, 1888, 1893 and 1896, being chair- man of the Ohio delegation in 1884 and 1888, and chairman of the committee on resolutions in 1892 and 1896, nominating William McKinley for Pres- ident in 1896. On May 23, 1898, his father. Henry S. Foraker, died at Hillsboro, Oliio. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Marietta college in 1886.

FORBES, Edwin, artist, was born in New York city, in 1839. In 1857 he began to study art and two years later became a pupil of A. F. Tait. He was with the army of the Potomac, 1861-64, as si^ecial art correspondent for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Xeiospaper, and an exhibition of copper- plate etchings of his sketches made during this time won a medal at the Centennial exposition of 1876. The first proofs of tliese sketches were afterward purchased by the government and placed in the war department at Washington. Among those most familiar to the public are: "The Reliable Contraliand "'; ' Coining Through the Lines"; "A Night March"; and "The Reveille." His scene in the battle of the Wil- derness, called the "Lull in the Fight," was exhibited at the National academy of design. New York citv, and at the Boston Athe-

ncBum in 1865. He was made an honorary mem- ber of the London etching club in 1877. He opened a studio in Brooklyn, N. Y., and after 1878 gave liis attention to landscape and cattle paint- ing, his paintings of this period including: Early Morning in an Orange Counttj Pasture (1879): On the Skirmish Line; Houghing; On the Meadows (1880); and Evening in the Sheep Pasture (1881). He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Marcli 6, 1895.

FORBES, John Franklin, educator, was born in Middlesex, Yates county, N.Y''., June 13, 1853; son of the Rev. Merrill and Maria Jane (Palmer) Forbes, and grandson of Philo and Nancy (John- son) Forbes, and of George and Mary (Hallett) Palmer. His emigrant ancestor, James Forbes, was born in CuUoden, Scotland, in 1610-12, and his first Amer- ican ancestor, James Forbes of Hartford, Conn., died Nov. 27, 1692. John F. P'orbes entered the freshman class of the Univer- sity of Rochester in 1871, and one year later accepted the position of teacher of mathematics in Mid- dlebury, N.Y'., acad- emy, where he re- mained for six months and then became principal of the Union school at Castile, N.Y'. In 1874 lie went to Europe and studied and travelled in Germany, Austria, Italy and France, returning in 1875 to the principalship of the Union school at Castile for a year. He then re-entered the University of Rochester as a junior and was graduated in 1878. He was elected principal of the high school at Mount Morris, N.Y'., in the fall of 1878, but was almost immediately called from this position to that of professor of Greek and Latin in the State normal school at Brockport, N.Y'., which he held from 1878 to 1885, resigning to accept the presi- dency of De Land, Fla., academy, afterward the John B. Stetson university. In 1879 he was mar- ried to Ida A. Higbie, daughter of Abijah Higbie of Penfield, N.Y. In 1895-96 lie spent a year abroad in extensive travel, also pursuing the study of educational problems, especially in Germany and France. The honorary degree of Ph.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Rochester in 1SS7.

FORBES, John Murray, clergyman, was l)oin in New York city. May 5, 1807: son of James Grant and Ehsabeth (Blackwell) Forbes, and grandson of John Murray Forbes. He was grad-