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■which received favorable comment from the press of Chicago. 111., where it was executed and exhibited. His first imi»rtant order, received in 1873, was the " Min- ute Man," unveiled at Concord, Mass., April 19, 1875, for which he was paid SIOOO. He then worked a year in Florence, Italy, under Thomas Ball, and while there made his ideal figure of '■ Sleeping En- dymion. ' ' He was I next engaged upon .„,,,., .i ' colossal ideal figures

for public build-

Mo., Philadelphia, Pa., and Boston, Mass., and later made brief visits, for study, in Paris. In 1879 he modelled, from life, the bust of Emerson for Harvard Memorial hall and later that of Alcott for the Concord library. In 1892 he completed the high relief '" Death and the Sculptor," erected as a monument to Martin Milmore in Forest HilLs cemetery, for

I'hich he was awarded a medal from the Paris salon. He produced the statue of General Cass for the capitol at Washing- ton ; that of Tliomas Starr MILMORE MEMORIAL. King for San

Franci.sco, Cal. ; the ideal figure of John Harvard for the university grounds, unveiled Oct. 15, 1885, and many busts, statues and casts placed in public buildings tliroughout the United States. For the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago, in 1893, he made the colossal statue of the Republic and other works. His later commissions include : an equestrian statue of General Grant for Fair- mount park, Philadelphia. Pa., 1898; .statues of History and of Herodotus, for the Congressional library at Washington ; a full-length statue of Rufus Choate for the city of Boston, unveiled in October, 1898; the Gallaudet statue for the Columbian institution for the deaf and dumb, Washington; the John Boyle O'Reilly statue, dedicated in Boston in August, 1896: the Richard M. Hunt memorial. Central park. New York : three pairs of bronze doors for the entrance of the Boston public library; and a statue of Wash-

ington for the Paris exposition in 1900. Dart- mouth conferred upon him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1898. He was elected a member of the Academia of San Luca in 1899, being the first American to receive that honor.

FRENCH, Ferdinand Courtney, educator, was born in Berkeley. Mass., Dec. 1-t, 1861; son of Cicero Rodney Crane and Harriet (Crane) French ; and grandson of Rodney French of New Bedford, Mass. He was graduated from Brown university in 1885 and was principal of high schools at Westminster, Mass., 1885-86, and at Johnston, R.I., 1886-88. He was a student at the Universities of Berlin and Strassburg, 1889-90; instructor in mathematics and psychology at Brown, 1890-91 ; a fellow in the Sage school of philosophy at Cornell, 1891-92; professor of philosophy at Colgate university, 1892-94, and became professor of philosophy at Vassar college, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 1894. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Cornell in 1893. He is the author of The Concept of Law in Ethics (doctor's thesis) (1892) ; and of contributions to the Fhilo- sophical Seviem and the ^4)HC)'tcn)i Journal of Theol- ogy-

FRENCH, Henry Flagg, jurist, was born at Chester, N.H., Aug. 14, 1813; son of the Hon. Daniel and Sarah W. (Flagg) Bell French. He was educated at academies in his native state and at Hingham, Mass., and studied law in the office of his father and at Harvard law school. He was admit- ted to the bar in 1835 and practised | in Chester un- til 1840 when he removed to Portsmouth

and thence in 1843 to Exeter, N.H. He was county solicitor, 1838^8, and bank commis- sioner, 1848-53. He was a justice of the court of common pleas, 1855-59, removing to Concord, Mass., in the latter year. He was district attor- ney for Suffolk county, 1862-05, and was presi- dent of the Mas,sachusetts agricultural college in 1865-66. In 1876 he was appointed by General Grant second assistant secretary of the U.S. treasury and held the office until 1885, when he returned to Concord, Mass. He was married to Anne, daughter of Chief -Justice Richardson. He died in Concord, Mass., Nov. 29, 1885.

FRENCH, John William, educator, was born at New Haven, Conn., Nov. 9, 1809. He was graduated from Trinity college in 1833 and from the General theological seminary in 1835. He was ordained in 1835; was professor of rhetoric and librarian at Bristol college. Pa., 1835-36; rector of St. Paul's church, Portland, Maine, 1836-39;