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year he was elected a bishop by the general con- ference and was consecrated and ordained by Bishop Simpson. He resided eight years in San Francisco, Cal., then moved to St. Paul, Minn,, and in 1896 to Buffalo, N,Y., meanwliile visiting South America in 1885-86, where he established missions in Paraguay, Brazil and Patagonia. In 1888 he started on a tour of the world to visit the M.E. mis- sions. During this tour he organized the Peking and Nan- king universities, vis- ited the missions of Europe, organized the first M.E. church in St. Petersburg, Russia, securing for it the protection of the government, and established a mission in Hammerfest. He was also instru- mental in founding Maclay college of theology in California, and Wesleyan university in Lin- coln, Neb. He was a delegate to the general conferences in 1873, 1876, 1880 and 1884, and in 1874 was a fraternal delegate to the general con- ference of the M.E. church, south. He was twice married : first in May, 1863, to Esther Ann War- ner, of Lavv'renceville, Pa., and secondly in 1868 to Myra, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Luke Hitch- cock of Chicago, 111. He received the degree of D D from Garrett Biblical in,stitute in 1866, and that of LL.D. from Wesleyan university. Conn., in 1875, and from Syracuse university in 1878. He partially edited Home, and Health, and Home Economics, and i^ublished TTie Fallacies of Colenso rtcnoi-cil (1861), and me7iiorial addresses upon Bi^h(>])s .Vines, fiUliert and Haven.

FOWLER, Charles Newell, representative, was born at Lena, 111., Nov. 2, 1852. He was graduated from Yale in 1876 and from Chicago law school in 1878. He was admitted to the bar in 1878 and settled in Elizabeth, N.J, He was a Republican representative from New Jersey in the 54th. ooth, 56th, 57th and 58th congresses, serving 1805-1905.

FOWLER, Frank, painter, was born in Brook- lyn. N.V, July 12, 18.52: son of John and Mar- garet (Westervelt) Fowler; grandson of Pexcel and Ann Magdalene (Aymar) Fowler, and a de- scendant of Knickerbocker and French Hugue- not families. He attended Adelphi academy, Brooklyn, and studied art with Edwin White at Florence, Italy, 1869-73. He afterward studied under Carolus Duran in Paris, and came under the influence of Yvoa at the Ecole des beaux-

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arts, having successfully passed the conconrs in that institution. While in Paris he assisted Duran in painting a ceiling for the Luxembourg, exhibited at the Salon and at the Exposition uni- verselle in 1878. In 1879 he returned to the United States, oijened a studio in New York city and engaged chiefly in portrait painting. He was elected a member of the Society of American aitists and of the Architectural league, and an asso- ciate of the National academy of design. Among his portraits are those of Samuel J. Tildeii and Roswell P. Flower in the capitol at Albany, N.Y., Gov. Frederic T. Greeuhalge of Jlas- sachusetts; Dr. Neftel (1882) ; Madame Modjeska (1884) ; a lady " At the Piano," awarded a medal at the Paris exjiosition (1889); Charles A. Dana (1894) ; and Archbishop Corrigan (1895). In 1893 he finished a ceiling decoration for the ball-room of Hotel Waldorf, New York city, three panels representing "Music"' and "The Dance." He exhibited fifteen paintings at the Columbian exposition in Chicago, 1893. He is the author of the text-books; Draicin;/ in Charcoal and Crayon (1886) ; Oil Painting (1886) ; and Portrait and Firj- we Painting (1894); and of frequent contribu- tions to the press on art subjects.

FOWLER, Harold North, educator, was born in Westfield, Mass. , Feb. 25, 1859 ; son of Samuel and Maria (Jones) Fowler; grandson of James Fowler, and a descendant of New England ances- tors for eight generations. He was graduated from Harvard in 1880, and taught in a private school in Baltimore, Md., 1880-83. He studied in Athens, 1882-83, and at the universities of Berlin and Bonn, 1883-85, He was instructor in Greek, Latin, and Greek archa;ology at Harvard college, 1885-88, professor at Philli]5s Exeter academy, 1888-93, and professor of the University at Texas, 1892-93, when he was appointed professor of Greek at the College for Women, Western Re- serve university, Ohio, He received the degi-ee of Ph.D from Bonn university-, Germany. He edited TJuicydides, Book V (1888); Platttus Men- a-chmi (1889); Qnintus Cnrtins. Books III. and IV. (1890): Allen and Greenough's Ovid (1891), and became associate editor of the American Journal of Archa:ology. He is part author of Tnell and Foxoler's First Book in Latin, and a contributor on classical and archseological subjects to the lead- ing reviews and magazines.