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 FRANKLIN

FRAZEE

as brevet 2d lieutenant. He served in the Mexi- can war on the start' of Gen. Zachary Taylor as a itopographical engineer, and during the battle of Buena Vista, Feb. 23, 1847, he distinguished him- self for his daring in reconnoissance and as dis- patch aid to the commanding-general, receiving for such services the brevet of 1st lieuten- ant, Feb. 23. 1847. His early promotions were 2d lieutenant, Sept. 21, 1846; 1st lieutenant, March 3, 18.")3, and captain,, \ July 1, 18.)7. In the

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lirYd V^C^^-c/xi'^ tary of the lighthouse board ; assistant pro- fessor at the U.S. military academy, West Point; and just before the outbreak of the civil war was in Wasliington as supervising engineer in the con- struction of the additions to tlie national capitol ii.ul in the erection of the treasury and post- oiilca buildings. His first service in the volun- t^-er army was as commander of a brigade at Bull Run. July 21, 1881, where his conspicuous action i-i t'.ie neighborhood of the Heniy house attracted the attention of the war department. His joro- motions at this time were: colonel of the 12th infantry. May 14, 1861 ; brigadier-general of vol- unteers. May 17, 1861, and major-general of vol- unteers. July 4, -1862. He commanded a division ill General McClellan's army, operating on the Peninsula, and when the army was reorganized into corps, he was made commander of the 6th jirray corps. The battles in which he took part M-ere : West Point, May 7 ; Savage's station, June 20; White Oak Swamp, Jmie 30, and Malvern Hill, Jidy 1. He was next under McClellan in command of the left of the army at Ci-ampton's Gap, Md. . September 14. and was with the army at the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862. Under Burnside lie commanded the left grand division, made up of the 1st and 6th corps, at the battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862 He received the censure of the congressional committee on the conduct of the war, and handed in his re.signation to the President. Burnside at the same time offered his resignation in the army which the President also refused to accept. Franklin was on waiting orders until July, 1863, wlien he was ordered to report for duty, and on August 15, he was gi-fen the command of the 19th army corps and directed its operations, under General Banks,

in the Red River expedition of 1804. At Sabine Cross Roads, La., April 8, 1864, he was severely wounded and was obliged to return home where he was on sick leave until Dec. 2, 1804. He was then placed on duty as president of the retiring board at Wilmington, Del., where he served till Nov. 9, 186.]. While an invalid he was on a train of the Baltimore & Philadelphia road, July 11, 1864, when the train was held up by Confederate raiders, and he was captured, but he made his escape the same night. He received brevets of brigadier- and major-general for gallant services during the war; was major-general of volunteers from July 4, 1862, until Nov. 9, 186.5, and resigned from the regular army as colonel of the 12th in- fantry, March 15, 1866. He was made vice-presi- dent of the Colt Firearms company of Hartford, Conn., in which city he made his home. He was president of the commission for laying out Long Island City, N.Y., 1871-72, and of the commission for building the state house, Hartford, 1872-73. He was a presidential elector in 1876; a state commissioner to the Centennial exposition, 1876; adjutant-general of the state, 1877-78; was elected president of the board of managers of the Na- tional home for disabled volunteer soldiers in 1880, and was U.S. commissioner to the Paris exposition, 1889, where he received the decora- tion of grand officer of the Legion of Honor, Oct. 20, 1889. He afterward served as a du-ector of the Panama raihoad company. lie died in Hartford, Conn., March 8, l!JO:i.

FRANSIOLI, Joseph, clergyman, was born in Ticino, Switzerland. Nov. 30, 1817. He attended the seminaries at Monza and Milan, and the College of the PoUegio, Italy ; was made a priest in 1840, was pastor of St. Maurice church, 1840-52, and principal of a normal school at Milan, with 300 teachers under him, 1852-54. He immigrated to America, .settled in the diocese of Brooklyn, N. Y. where Bishop Laughlin made him an assistant in St. Charles Borromeo parish until 1859, when he was given the parish of St. Peter, of which he was the first pastor. Here he accomplished a great work, building up the parisli till it was the largest in the diocese with a congregation of over 17,000. He built St. Peter's church, two free hospitals, a free academy, a free library, and a free kindergarten school; the buildings and gromids alone costing over half a million dollars. He celebrated his golden jubilee Jime 7, 1890, the occasiop occupying a week and including a pub- lic reception in the Academy of music in which citizens of all religious creeds took part. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 18, 1890.

FRAZEE, John, sculptor, was born in Rail- way, N.J., July 18, 1790. He started in business as a .stone-cutter at New Brunswick, N.J., but removed to New Y'ork city, where he began mar-