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 FRANCKE

FRANKLIN

June 8, 1899, as successor to the Rt. Rev. Jolin Hazen White, transferred to the new see of Mich- igan Cit3^ He was consecrated at Evausville, Ind., Sept. 21, 1899, by Bishops McLaren, Sey- mour, Davies, Nicolson, White and Burton. He received the degree of D.D. from Nasliotah and from Northern Illinois college in 1899.

FRANCKE, Kuno, author, was born in Kiel, Germany, Sept. 37, 1805 ; son of Wilhelni Samuel and Marie (Jensen) Francke. He was prepared for college at the Gymnasium of Kiel and was a student at the Univei'sity of Kiel, Berlin, Jena and Munich, receiving his Ph.D. degree from the last-nauied in 1878. He was a teacher at the Gymnasium of Kiel, 1880-83; associate editor of the Moniiineuta Germaiikv Ilistorica, Berlin, 1883- 8-1; instructor in German at Harvard university, 1884-87 ; assistant professor of German, 1887-92, assistant professor of German literature, 1893-96, and was elected j^rofes-sor in 1896. He was elected a member of the American historical association and of the Modern language association of Amer- ica. He was married in 1889 to Katherine Gil- bert. He is the author of: Zur Oeschichte dcr Schulpocsie (las 12. und 13. Jahrhnderts (1878); De Il'imni in Cererem Jloriu riri iliitione (1882) ; LibelU il, nil'. Fontincmn ct h,ijici;/lnnim (1890); Social /•'.)/v,s in German LiiirtilKi-c (1.S9); (rUmjwcs of Modern German Cuiliiri: (1898), and numerous magazine articles.

FRANK, Royal Thaxter, soldier, was born in Gr.ay. Jlaiue, May 6, 18:;(>, .son of Aljiheus and Naomi (Stim.son) Frank; grandson of James and Roxilana (White) Frank of Gray, Maine, and a descendant of Thomas and Anna (Babbage) Frank of Falmouth, Maine, where they settled prior to 1737. He was graduated from the U.S military academy in 1858 as liievet 2d lieutenant of the 5th infantry. He was promoted 2d lieutenant and as- signed to the 8th in- fantry, Oct. 19, 1858 ; 1st lieutenant, May 14, 1861; captain, Feb. 37, 1863; was transferred to the 1st U.S. artillery, Dec. 35, 1870 ; promoted major, Jan. 3, 1881; lieutenant-colonel and assigned to the 2d artil- lery Jan, 25, 1889; colonel, and assigned to the 1st artillery. Oct, 25, 1894. and brigadier-general, Oct. 18. 1899. He served in the civil war, 1861- 65, and was brevetted major for gallant service in the Peninsula campaign, and lieutenantcolo-

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nel for gallant service at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1863. He commanded the U.S. artillery school at Fort Monroe, 1888-98, and was a member of the board of ordnance and fortification, 1895-98. In the Spanish-American war he was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers. May 4, 1898, and succeeded General Merritt in command of the military department of the East, serving in May and June, 1898 ; was in command of the 1st division of the 3d army corps, July and August, 1898; 3d army corps, September and October, 1898; commanded the department of the Gulf from April to October, 1898; the 2d division, 4th cori)s, November, 1898, to January, 1899, and the 4th corps, February anil March, 1899.

FRANKLIN, Benjamin, diplomatist, was born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 17, 1706; son of Josiah (b. 16.55) and Abiah (Folger) (b. 1667) Franklin, and grandson of Thomas Franklin (b. 1598) and of Peter (b. 1617, d. 1690) and Mary (Morrell) Fol- ger. The Franklins emigrated from Banbury, England, in 1682, and the Folgers from Norwich, England, in 1630. Both families settled in Massa- chusetts, Josiah Franklin being a soap-boiler and tallow-chandler in Boston with a family of seven children, before he married as his second wife Abiah Folger. They had ten children. Benja- min was the seventh child and the youngest son and he says: "I found from the parish register at Ecton, Eng- land, that I was the youngest son of the youngest son for five genei'a- tionsback. '■ As he was the tenth son of his father he was intended for the service of the church and he attended the Boston gram- mar school. His father finding he could not af- ford to give him

a college training removed him from the school after a year's attendance and had him taught writing and arithmetic by George Brownell. He mastered the first but failed in the latter. He was then ten years of age and determined to go to sea, which plan was frustrated by his father who employed him in the tallow chandlery where he continued the distastef>il work for two years. He then worked for a time with his cousin, a cut- ler; but when his elder bi-other James arrived from England with a printing outfit, he decided

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