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JReaders (1883); Stephen Hopkins, a B.I. Statesman

(1884); Beferences to Political and Economic J'opics

(1885); Beferences to the History of Presidential Ad- ministrations, 27S9-1SSS (1885); Toicn Govern- ment in B.I. (1886); Beferences to the Constitution of the U.S., with an Appendix (1890); Public Siip- port of Public Libraries (1891); Some B.I. Contri- butions to the Intellectual Life of the Last Century (1892).

FOULKE, William Dudley, author, was born in New York city, Nov. 30, 1848; son of Thomas and Hanuali S. Foulke, and a descendant of Ed- ward Fouike of Gwj-nedd, Pa., 1698. He was graduated at Columbia college in arts in 1869, and in law in 1871. He practised law in New York and New Jersey until 1876, when he moved to Richmond, Ind., to take charge of the law depart- ment of the Pitts- burg, Cincinnati & St. Louis railway company. In 1883 he was elected a mem- ber of the Indiana state senate, and in 1885 he intro- duced the first civil-service reform bill in the Indiana legislature, which, however, did not pass. In the same year he organized the Indiana civil-service reform association and be- came its first president. In conjunction with ■Oliver P. Morton and Louis Howland as a com- mittee from this association he conducted an investigation into the management of the In- diana hospital for the insane at Indianapolis, which resulted in the disclosure of abuses after- ward investigated by the legislature. In 1889 he was appointed chairman of the special com- mittee to the National civil-service reform league charged with the investigation of the condition of the federal civil service under the administra- tion of President Harrison, the other members of the committee being Charles J. Bouajjarte, Ricli- ardH. Dana, Wayne MacVeagh and Sherman S. Rogers. The committee published reports upon congressional patronage, the patent office, the post-office department and the censvis bureau. In the spring of 1891. Mr. Foulke was elected president of Swarthmore college, Pennsylvania, but declined the appointment. He is the author of Slav and Saxon (1887), a monograph upon the history of the development of Russian civiliza- tion; and of a biography of Oliver P. Morton, war governor of Indiana (1893). He was elected president of the American Proportional Repre- eentation league.

FOULON, Irenseus Dielsechristo, physician, was born in La Fere (Aisne), France, Oct. 16, 1849; son of the Rev. Irenfie A. J. and Lydia (Bezin) Foulon. His parents emigrated to the United States in 1858, settling in Madison county, 111. Irenajus was graduated at Shurtleff college, A.B., 1870, and A.M. 1874; at the St. Louis law school, LL.B., 1873; and at the Homoeopathic medical college of Missouri, M. D., 1890. He was professor of medical jurisprudence at the last named institution, 1875-94, and was elected pro- fessor of pediatrics in 1894. He was professor of French, Illinois state university, 1871-73; practised law in St. Louis, Mo., 1873-91, and prac- tised medicine in East St. Louis after 1891. He was a member of the East St. Louis board of education, 1898-3901; was founder and the first editor of Le Pntriote, St. Louis; editor of KunkeVs Musical Beview for several j'ears, and of the Clin- ical Reporter, 1888-95 and after 1897. He trans- lated Gallavardin's Homa-opathic Treatment of Alcoholism (1890).

FOWLE, Daniel Qould, governor of North Carolina, was born in Washington, Beaufort county, N.C., March 3, 1831. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1851, admitted to the North Carolina bar in 18.54, and settled in Raleigh to practise his profession. At the open- ing of the civil war he enlisted in the Confeder- ate army as a private, rose to the rank of major in the commissary department, and assisted in organizing the 31st North Carolina regiment, of wliich he was made lieutenant-colonel. At the battle of Roanoke Island, Feb. 8, 1863, he was made a prisoner of war, but was soon paroled. In October, 1863, he was elected a representative in the state legislature of North Carolina, was then made adjutant-general of the state, served a second term in the legislatiire, and in 1865 was appointed judge of the superior court by Gov- ernor Holden. This was made a life term by the legislature, but he I'esigned the office in 1876. He was governor of North Carolina 1889-91. He died at Raleigh, N.C., April 8, 1891.

FOWLER, Charles Henry, ME. bishop, was born in Burford, Brant county, Ontario, Aug. 11, 1837; son of Horatio and Harriet (Rj'an) Fowler; and grandson of John and May Fowler and of Henry and Ruth (Patterson) Ryan. He was grad- uated valedictorian from Genesee college. Lima, N. Y., in 1859, and from the Garrett Biblical in- stitute, Evanston, 111. , in 1801. Sliortlj' afterward he was admitted to the Rock River conference of theM.E. church, and held pastorates in Chicago till 1873. He was president of Nortliwestern imiversity, Evanston, 111., 1873-76; editor of the New York Christian Adi^ocate, 1876-80; and cor- responding secretary of the missionary society of the M.E. church, 1880-84. In May of the latter