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1863. He taught in the provinces for four years and then became acting professor of niatheiuatics iu Northwestern university, Evanston, 111. In 1868 he resigned to become assistant astronomer at the U.S. naval observatory at Washington, D.C., and in 1878 was appointed professor of matliematies in the U.S. navy, with the rank of lieutenant. He was elected to meml)ershii) in many scientific societies and published numerous papers on astronomy.

FRISSELL, Mollis Burke, educator, was born in Amenia, N. Y., July 14, 1>>.)1: son of the Rev. Aiuasa C. and Lavinia (Barker) Frissell, and a descendant of Capt. William Frissell, and Capt. William Barker, both soldiers in the Revolution- ary war. He was educated at Dr. Dwight's school, New York city, and at Phillips academy, Andover, Mass. He was graduated from Yale in 187-t, taught in a school on the Hudson, 1874-76, and was graduated from Union theological semi- nary in 1879. He was ordained bj- the Presbytery of Newark, Oct. 12. 1880, and was assistant pas- tor of the Madison Avenue Presbj'terian church. New Y'orkcity, in 1880; chaplain of the Hampton normal and agricultural institute, Hampton, Va., 1880-93, and was elected principal of the same in 1893. He received the degree of D.D. from Harvard in 1893, and was elected a member of the Century association. New York, in 1899.

FRISTOE, Edward T., educator, was born in Rappahannock county, Va.. Dec. 16, 1830. He was graduated at the Virginia military institute in 1849, and from the University of Virginia in 185.5. He was professor of mathematics at Columbian university, W'ashington, D.C., 18.5.5- 60, and professor of mathematics, physics and astronomy, also librarian at the University of Missouri, 1860-62. During the civil war he served in the Confederate army. In 1865 he re- turned to Columbian university as professor of chemistry, physics and natural history. To this chair was added that of chemistry and toxicology iu the National medical college in 1871; that of general and analytical chemistrj- in the Corcoran scientific school in 1884; and that of chemistry in the dental school iu 1887. Besides these regular professorships in the Columbian university, he was acting professor of mathematics there, 1872- 82: also professor of chemistry in the National college of pharmacy, Washington, D.C., 1872-84; and the latter year -was appointed dean of the Corcoran scientific school. In 1H72 the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Willian^ Jewell college. He died in Washington, D.C.. July 31, 1892.

FRITSCHEL, Constantine Sigmund, clergy- man, was lioni in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Dec. 2, 1833; son of Martin Heiuricli Fritschel. He was graduated al the Mission institute of

Neuendettelsau, Bavaria, in 1854, was ordained! ro the Luthei-an ministry, April 23. 18.54, at Ham- Ijurg, and shortly afteiward emigrated to the United .States. In 1854-55 he was professor in the Evangelical Lutheran tlieological seminary, DubiKiue. Iowa, where in September, 18.54, he assisted in organizing the Iowa synod, of which he was chosen first secretary. In the fall of 1855 he re- moved to Platteville, W^is., where he or- ganized a Lutheran congregation. From this place he gathered and served congrega- tions in Hazelgreen, Menominee. Galena, and Brush Creek which grew into churches supporting separate ministers. In the fall of 1856, he was called to the pastorate of the Lutheran St. Matthew's congregation, Detroit, Mich. In the fall of 1858 he returned to the theological seminarj' which had been reor- ganized as W^artburg seminarj' and was then located at St. Sebald, Iowa, and afterward at Mendota, 111., and in connection with his brother he directed that institution from that time. In 1889 he removed with the seminary to Dubuciue, Iowa. In 1860 he was sent to Europe by the Sj'nod of Iowa to solicit help for the seminary; in 1866 was sent abroad again on special church work, and a third time in 1870. He was a mem- ber of the church book committee and one of the representatives of the Iowa s_vnod at the Milwau- kee colloquium, 1868. He was married in 1856 to Margaretha, daughter of Conrad Prottengeier of Menominee, III. The degree of D.D. was con- ferred upon him by Muhlenberg college, Allen- town. Pa., in 1879. In company with his brother Gottfried he established at Mendota, III., in 1876. and became associate editor of Kiichliche Zeitschrifl. He published essays and sermons. He die<l in Dubuque. Iowa, April 26. 1900.

FRITSCHEL, Gottfried VVilhelm Leonhard, clergyman, was born in Nurc-mlicrg, Bavaria, Dec. 19. 1836; son of Martm Heinrich Fritschel. He was graduated from the Universit.v of Er- langen, Bavaria, in 1856, and the following,j-ear emigrated to the United States where he was ordained to the ministry and became a professor in the Wartburg seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran synod of Iowa and adjacent states, Dubuque, Iowa. In 1858 the seminary was re- moved to St. Sebald. Iowa, and again in 1874 to Mendota, 111. Throughout those years and at those places Dr. Fritschel performed the labors of