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FRENCH, Thomas, educator, was born in Cincinnati, Oluo, Jan. 13, 1848; son of Thomas anJ Ann (Xeeves) Frencli, who came to America from England in 1835; and grandson of James and Mary Ann (FerrLs) Frenidi, and of Richard and Sarah (Bryant) Neeves of England. He was prepared for college at the Woodund high school, Cincinnati, and was graduated at Har- vard in 1873. He studied science and mathe- matics in Munich, Berlin and Heidelberg, 1872-76, taking the degrees Ph.D. and M.A. at Heidel- berg in 1876. He was assistant in physics, Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, 1876-78; professor of physics and mathematics, Urbana university, Ohio, 1878-83, and accepted the chtiir of physics in the University of Cincinnati in 1883. He was consulting electrician for the city of Cincinnati, 1889-i)0. and became joint editor and publisher of Terrestrial MiHjnetism and Atmospheric Electricity. He was elected a fellow of the American associa- tion for the advancement of science in 1883, and au associate member of the American institute of electrical engineers in 1893. He was married, Dec. 27, 1878, to Laura Sullivan Hildreth, daugh- ter of the Hon. A. E. Hildreth of Cambridge, Mass.

FRENCH, William Henry, soldier, was born in Baltimore, JIil.. Jan. 13. 181.J. He was grad- uated at the U.S. militarj- academy in 1837; served in the Seminole war, Florida, and on the Canada frontier as 2d lieutenant of artillery. 1837-38; was promoted 1st lieutenant, and served as assistant adjutant-general on the staff of General Patterson and as an aide on the staff of Gen. Franklin Pierce. He was brevetted captain for his gallantry at Cerro Gordo, and major for services rendered at the capture of the City of Mexico. He was afterward in garrison and on frontier duty till early in 1861, wlieu lie was transferred from Fort Duncan, Texas, to Key AVest, Fla.; and was shortly after- ward commissioned brigadier-general of volun- teers, and assigned toMcClellan's army operating against Richmond, Va., 1863. He served through the peninsular campaign, and at Antietam was given by his old commander a division m Sum- ner's corps, which he also commanded at Freder- icksburg tinder Bumside. In October, 1862, lie was promoted major general of volunteers, and in July, 1863, to the command of the 3d army corps which he directed in its ojierations at Mine Run from November, 18('>3, to May. 1864. wlien he was mustered out of the voliuitecr service. He was on the Pacific coast with the 2d U.S. artil- lery, 186.")-72, liaving reached the rank of lieuten- ant-colonel. He was in command of Fort AIcHenry, Baltimore. Md.. and on July 1, 1880, was promoted colonel and retired at his own request. He died in Baltimore, Md., May 30, 1881.

FRIEZE, Henry Simmons, educator, was l)orn in Boston. Mass., .Si'pt.!■), 1817; sou of Jacob Frieze. He was gradiuited from Brown in 1841, and remained there as tutor, 1841-44. He was associate principal of the University grammar school. Providence, R.I., 1844-.54, and in the latter year accepted the chair of the Latin language and literature in the University of Michigan. He was acting president of that institution, 1869- 71; also during President James B. Angell's ab- .senceas U.>S. minister to China, 1880-83, and again in 1887-88, when President Angell was serving on the committee to arrange a treaty with Great Britain in settlement of the fisheries dispute. He was a member of the American philosophical so- ciety and of other learned societies. He received the degree of LL.D. from Chicago university and from Kalamazoo college in 1870, from Brown in 1883, and from the University of Michigan in 1885. Besides numerous contributions to periodicals he published: Ancient and Modern Education; Life and Works of Henry riiilip Tappan; Notes on the Tenth and Twelfth hooks of Quintilian (1867); and Giovanni Duprc, the Story of a Florentine Sculptor (1886). He edited VirriiVs yEneid (1860). He died at Ann Arbor, Mich., Dec. 7, 1889.

FRINK, Henry Allyn, educator, was born in Amherst, M,-iss., May 23, 1844; son of Henry and Elizabeth (AlU-n) Frink, and grandson of Samuel Frink and Mehitable (Ames) Frink of Old Deer- field, Mass., and of Fitz-John and Deborah (Phelps) AUyn, of Windsor, Conn. His first paternal ancestor in America came from Scotland early in the eighteenth century and settled in Saybrook, Conn. His first maternal ancestor in America, Matthew Allyn, was born in Devon, England, in 1605; married, in 1636, Margaret Wj-att, a descendant of Henry I., of England; came to Cambridge, Mass., in 1632; was a repre- sentative in the general court in 1636; removed to Hartford, Conn., in 1637; was one of tiie orig- inal custodians of the charter of Connecticut; was a commissioner to the United Colonies, 1660 and 1664; held .several other prominent local offices, and died in 1670. Henry Frink was pre- "pared for college at the Binghamton, N. Y., acad- emy and entered the sopliomore class of Hamilton college, Clinton, N.Y., in 1868. In the early part of his junior year in Hamilton he accepted a posi- tion as teacher in the Brooklyn polytechnic insti- tute and did not return to college until the beginning of the senior year, Notwithstanding this absence he was graduated in 1870, with the valedictory and the theological honor of the prize medal oration, and the phenomenal rank of seven- teen i«)ints al)ove the next highest rank in the cl.iss He taught in the Brooklyn polytechnic institute. 1870-72: was adjunct professor of logic, English literature and oratory at Hamilton col-