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lin In 1882 she was married to Prof. Fabian Franklin of Johns Hopkins. The degree of I^L.D. was couferreJ upon lier bj' Vassar in 1887. She contributed articles on mathematics, logic and psychology to the American Journal o/Malhemalks, the American Journal of Fsyclioloyy, the Psychohig- ical Review and Mind (London). Her theory of the sensation of color was published in the Zcit- schriftfdr Psychologic in 1892 and also in Jlind in 1893. She also wrote reviews and editorials for various journals, including the Nation, and is the author of Woman's Education in the South, a con- tribution to WiDnmi's Work in America.

FRANKLIN, Fabian, mathematician and jotu-- nalist, was born in Hungary, Jan. 18, IS.'JS; son of Morris Joshua and Sarah (Heilprin) Franklin. He was graduated from Colmnbia in 1869; was a fellow of Johns Hopkins universitj-, 1877-79, assistant, associate, associate professor and pro- fessor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins, 1879-95, and became editor of The Baltimore Seics in 1895. In 1882 he was married to Christine, daughter of Eliphalet Ladd of Windsor, Conn. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins univer- sitj' in 1880. He published mathematical papers in The American Journal of Jlothematics and else- where, and wrote editorial and other contribu- tions to the Xa'i'ia and other periodicals.

FRANKLIN, Jesse, senator, was born in Orange county, Va., March 24, 1760. Before 1775 lie removed with his father to North Carolina and served in the Continental army throughout the Revolutionary war, rising to the rank of major. He was a member of the North Carolina house of delegates, 1794; represented his district in the 4th congress, 1795-97, and was again in the house of delegates, 1797-98. He was U.S. sena- tor, 1799-1805, and pre.sident pro tempore of that body, March 10, 1804, to Jan. 15, 1805. He served in the state senate of North Carolina, 1805-06, and was returned to the U.S. senate for 1807-13. In 1816 he was appointed by President Monroe commissioner to treat with the Chickasaw In- dians; was governor of North Carolina, 1820-21, and die I in Surry comity. N.C.. September, 1823.

FRANKLIN, Samuel Rhodes, naval officer, was born in York, Pa., Aug. 2.5, 1825; son of' Walter Semonds and Sarah (Buel) Franklin, and brother of William Buel Franklin. LT.S.A. He entered the U.S. navy as a midshipman, Feb. 18, 1841: was on board the United Staten and the store ship 7feZi>/, 1841-47; was promoted past mid- shipman, Aug. 10. 1847, and served in the Jlexican war, 1847^8. in the Mediterranean squadron, on board the Independence, 1849-52, on the brig Dol- phin. 1852, and on coast survey service, 1853-55. He was made master. April 18, 1855. and lieuten- ant. Sept. 14, 1855. He was on duty at Annapo- lis, 1854-56; with the Brazil squadron on the

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Falmouth, 1857-59; on the Macedonian, 1860-61, and on the Dacotah on the Atlantic coast, 1861-62. In March, 1862, he was in Hampton Roads, Va., as a volimteer on board the Roanoke in the en- gagement of the Confederate iron -clad JMerrimac with the U.S. fleet before the arrival of the Mon- itor. He was made executive officer of the Dacotah and took part in the attack on Sewall's Point. He was promoted lieuten- ant-commander, July 16, 1862; was in com- mand of the Aroos- took on the James river, 18G2; in the gulf on blockadi' duty, 1863; chief oi staff to Commodore Bell, 1863, and at New- Orleans, 1864. Serv- ing with Com. Henry Knox Thatcher, commanding the squadron oper- ating against Mobile in 1865, he represented the navy in the demand for the surrender of that cit}'. He was made commander, Sejit. 27, 1866; captain, Aug. 13, 1872; commodore. May 28, 1881; rear-admiral Jan. 24, 1885, and was retired Aug. 24, 1887, on reaching the age limit. His services after the civil war -were: commander of the Say- inaw in the North Pacific squadron, also com- manding the Mohican, conveying astronomers to Plover bay to observe the total eclipse of the sun, 1866-67; ordnance duty, Mare Isl*nd navj' yard, 1868-69; in command of the Wabash and of the Franklin in the Mediterranean; chief of staff to Case and Worden and hydrographer in the bureau of navigation, Washington, D.C., 1870-80; presi- dent of the board of examiners, 1883; superin- tendent of the naval observatory, 1883-85, and commander of the European station, 1886-87. He was a delegate to the international marine conference, Washington, D.C., 1889, and presi- dent of the American delegation and of the conference. He represented the republic of ' Colombia in the international congress to estab- lish a universal prime meridian. He published Memories of a Rear-Admiral Who has Served for Mare than Half a Century in the Navy of the United States (1898).

FRANKLIN, William Buel, soldier, was born in York, Pa., Feb. 27, 1823; son of Walter Semonds and Sarah (Buel) Franklin, and grand- son of Samuel and Sarah S. Franklin of Phila- delphia. Pa., and of William and Abigail Buel of Litchfield. Conn. He was graduated at the U.S. military academy at the head of the class of 1843, and was assigned to the topographical engineers