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member of the state constitutioual convention of 1S44, and later a state senator. He was governor of New Jersey, 1851-54, and was subsequently ap- pointed judge of the court of errors and appeals, and a member of the prison reform committee. He received the degree of A.M. from the College of New Jersey in 1847. He published: Early History and Antiquities of Freemasonry (1875). He died in New Egypt, N.J., April 23, 1873.

FORT, Qreenberry Lafayette, representative, was born in French Grant, Scioto county, Ohio, Oct. 11, 1825. He removed to Illinois in 1834 and was admitted to the bar in 1847, practising in Lacon, 111. He held several minor political offices and in 1857-61 was judge of Marshall county. He served throughout the civil war in the army of the Tennessee, being quartei'master- general in Sherman's march to the sea. In 1866 he was mustered out of the .service with the rank of colonel and the brevet rank of brigadier- general of volunteers. He served in the Illi- nois senate in 1866, and was a representative in the 43d, 44th and 45th congresses, 1873-79. He died in Lacon, 111., Jan. 13. 1883.

FORTIER, Alcee, educator and author, was born in St. James Parish, La., June 5, 1856; son of Florent and Edwige (Aime) Fortier, and descended from an old French family established in Louisiana about 1740. He was educated in New Orleans and attended the University of Vir- ginia for a short time. He was professor of French in the New Orleans public high school in 1878; prin- cipal of the academ- ical department of the University of Louisiana in 1879; professor of French at the Univer.sity of Louisiana, afterward 1 the Tulane university,

^' '^' I'a,<^^_^ 1880-94, and was ' £^-i^^ made professor of Ro-

mance languages at the same institution in 1894. He was one of the earliest members of the Modern language asso- ciation of America, and in 1898 was president of the association, writing numerous papers for its publications. He was also elected president of the American folk lore society in 1894, and was vice president of the American dialect society. He was made corresponding secretary of the New Orleans academy of sciences; member of the board of civil service commissioners of the city of New Orleans: president of the Louisiana his torical society; president of the Catholic winter school of America, president of I'Athfenfe Loui-

sianais; delegate for Louisiana of 1' Alliance Fran- 9ai.se, and a member of the state board of education from 1888 to 1896. He received the degree of Litt.D. from Washington and Lee university and was made oificier d'Academie by the French government. He published a number of papers in i(/oder« Language Notes; in the Journal of American Folk-Lore, in Comptes- Hendus lie VAthenee Louisianais; and in educa- tional journals. He lectured in English and in French at Tulane university and elsewhere, and published: Le Chateau cle Chambord (1884); Ga- briel d' Ennerich (1886); Sept Grand Auteurs du XIX" Siecle (1889); Bits of Louisiana Folk-Lore (1889); A Few Words about the Creoles of Louisiana {ISd'i); Histoire de la Litterature Fran^aise (1893); Louisiana Studies (1894); Louisiana Folk-Tales (1895); Voyage in Europe (1896); Precis de V His- toire de France. He also edited for colleges De Vi;;iiy"s Le Cachet Rouge, Corneille's Pnhjeiicte, MoWire's Femmes Savantcs, and wrote a history of the Louisiana Territory (1903).

FORWARD, Chauncey, repre.sentative, was born at Old Granby, Conn., Feb. 4, 1793; son of Samuel and Susannah (Holcomb), grandson of Abel and Hannah (Phelps), great-grandson of Samuel and Deborah (Moore), and great-grand- son of Daniel and Anne Forward, who came to Windsor, Conn., from Devonshire, England, in 1666. He removed with his father to Ohio in 1800 and thence to Greensburg, Pa He was edu- cated at Jefferson college, Canonsburg, Pa., was admitted to the bar at Pittsburg, Pa., in 1817, and practised at Somerset, Pa. He served re- peatedly as a representative and senator in the state legislature; was elected as a Democrat a repre.sentative from Pennsylvania in the 19th congress in place of Alexander Thomson, re- signed, and was re-elected to the 20th and 21st congresses, serving 1836-31. In 1831 he was appointed by Governor Wolf protonotary and recorder of Somerset counts'. While continuing his law practice he became a well known Camp- bellite lay-preacher. His daughter Marj- was married to Judge Jeremiah Sullivan Black in 1838. He died at Somer.set, Pa, Oct. 19, 1839.

FORWARD, Walter, cabinet officer, was born in Old Granby, Conn., Jan. 24, 1873; son of Samuel and Susannah (Holcomb) Forward. He was educated at the village academy and removed to Pittsburg, Pa., in 1803, where he became editor of the Tree of Liberty, a Democratic newspa])er. He was admitted to the Pittsburg bar in 1806 and in 1822 was elected a representative in the 17th congress to fill a vacancy caused by the resig- nation of Henry Baldwin. He was re elected to the I8th congress, serving 1822-25, and in 1837 was a delegate to the state constitutional con- vention. President Harrison appointed him first