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1879. and was professor of Greek there, 1879-92. He visited England, Germany. Greece and the Holy land, 1891-92, and in 1892 was elected pres- ident of Berea college. Ky. . after declining the call to the presidency of several far more desirable and less dif- ficult positions. He bravely met the financial panic of 1893 ; announced his purpose to make the college attractive to northern students, and adapted its work to the special needs of the whites of the great central moun- tain region of the south, a class of in- habitants hitherto almost neglected. He in- troduced normal, industrial and university ex- tension work and increased the attendance from 3-iO to 700 students. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Wooster university, Ohio, in 1891, and that of D.D. from Oberlin in 1894.

FROTHINQHAM, Arthur Lincoln, archKolo- gist and educator, was born in Boston. Mass., June 31, 18.59; .son of Arthur Lincoln and Jessie (Pea- body) Frothingham. He received his early edu- cation in the academy of the Christian brothers in Rome, Italy, 1868-73. He took special courses in the Oriental languages at the Catholic semi- nary of S. ApoUinare, and at the Royal university of Rome. 1875-81, and in Germany, 1880-83. He was fellow in Semitic languages and lecturer in archaeology at Johns Hopkins university, 1882- 8.5, and was called to the professorship of archasol- ogy and history of art at the College of New Jersey, in 1887. Ancient history was added to his chair in 1898. He received the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. in the Arabic and Syriac languages and in Christian archaeology from the University of Leipzig in 1883. He was secretary of the Archceological institute of America in 1884. He foimded and was editor and owner of Tlie Ameri- can Jnurnal of Archa'ology, 188,5-96, and was founder of the Princeton College Bulletin. He was associate director of the American School of Classical Studies at Rome (1895-96), which he was largely instrumental in foundin.g. He was a director of the American Oriental society, and was elected a member of the German archaeo- logical institution, and many other learned societies. He is the author of: Mecliei-al Art Iiiven- tiiries of the Vatican (1882) ; A History of Scniptnre (1896) ; of several monographs in Syriac; historic sketches of sculpture and painting in the Icono- f/raphic Encyclopaedia and contributions to Ameri-

can, English, French and Italian periodicals in the fields of archaeology and the history of art as well its in the .Semitic langviages.

FROTHINQHAM, Nathaniel Langdon, clergy- man, was born in Boston. Mass.. July 23. 1793; son of Ebenezer and Joanna (Langdon) trothing- ham. He was graduated from Harvard in 1811, taught for a few months in the Boston Latin school, and was instructor in rhetoric and ora- tory at Harvard, 1812-1.5. On March 15, 1815, he was ordained pastor of the first Congregational (Unitarian) church, Boston, and held the pastor- ate vmtil 1850, when failing health forced him to retire from active work. He was married in 1818. to Ann Gorham, daughter of Peter Chardon Brooks of Boston, Mass. He was an overseer of Harvard, 1819-50 ; a member of the Massachusetts historical society, and a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences Harvard conferred upon him the degree of S.T.D. in 1836. His pub- lished works besides separate sermons and ad- dresses and contributions to periodicals, include : Deism of Christianity (1845); Sermons in the order of a Tu-elvemonth (1,8,52); and Metrical Pieces Translated and Original (1855). He died in Bos- ton, Mass., April 4. 1870.

FROTHINQHAM, Octavius Brooks, author, was burn in Boston, Mass.. Nov. 26, 1822; son of Nathaniel Langdon and Ann Gorbam (Brooks) Frothingham. He was graduated from Harvard in 1843, from the divinity school in 1846. and was ordained a Unitarian minister, March 10. 1847. He was pastor of the North church, Salem, Mass. , 1847-55 ; at Jersey City, N.J., 1855-59, and of the Third Unitarian Con- gregational, later called the Indepen- dent Liberal, church. New York city, 1860- 79. He was one o." the foimders and the first president of the Free Religious Association, organized in 1867. lU health required him to withdraw from the ministry in 1881, and after that he devoted himself to literarj- work. He was a member of the Massachusetts historical society. His publications include, besides nu- merous sermons: Stories from the Lipsnf the Teacher (1863) ; Stories of the Patriarchs (1864) ; ChihVs Book of Tteliginn (1866) ; Tlte Religion of Ilnmanity (1873); Life of Theodore Parker (1874); Transcen- dentalism in New England (1876); The Cradle of the Christ (1877); Life of Gerrit Smith (1878); Life of George Ripley (1882); Memoir of William Henry

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