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offices of James Hooker and David Graham, Jr. of New York, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1840. He was a school commissioner in New Y'ork city. 1870-73; judge of the supreme court of New Y'ork, 1872-74, and judge of the court of arbitration, 1874-92. He was a member of the Union league club of New Y'ork city, 1874- 94; a delegate to the general conference of the M. E church in 1880, and served as president of the American bible society and of the New Y'ork institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb. In June, 1840. he was married to Mary A. NicoU of New Windsor, N.Y'. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Wesleyan uni- versity in 1803. He is the author of: Address on Laws Relating to Religious Corporations in the State of Xew York (\>>i~i(i): MidAmerican Repub- lic. He died in New York city. Feb. 9. 1900.

FANCHER, Frederick Bartlett, governor of North Dakota, was born in Orleans countj', N.Y' , April 2, 1853; son of Tillotson and Julia (Ken- yon) Fancher; and grandson of Richard and Catherine Augusta Fancher. He attended the State normal school, Y''psilauti, Mich., 1867-70; was engaged in the insiirance business in Chicago, 1871-81, and began farming on a large scale in North Dakota in 1881. He was elected governor of North Dakota by the Republican party in 1899. He was president of the board of trustees of the North Dakota hospital for the insane for six years, president of the Constitutional conven- tion in 1889, and insurance commissioner, 1894-98.

FANEUIL, Peter, merchant, was born in New Rochelle, N.Y'., iu 1700; son of Benjamin and nephew of Andrew Faneuil, French Huguenots who settled in Westchester county, N.Y., in 1690 and founded the town of New Rochelle. They removed to Boston, Mass., in 1701. and became prosperous merchants. Peter succeeding to the business. He took an active interest in the sub- ject of a public market which had begun to be

buildings and in a few years they were torn down or sold. In 1740 at a public meeting Mr. Faneuil proposed to erect at his own expense a suitable market-house and present it to the town. The opposition to the project was so strong that while the citizens gave him a unanimous vote of thanks for his offer, on a vote to accept the gift it was carried by only seven votes. The market-house was designed by the artist Smibert and was two years in building (1740-43). The first public use made of the audience hall was the funeral oration of the donor, March 14, 1743, when John Lovell, the famous schoolmaster, was the orator. On Dec. 30, 1760, the accession of George III. to the throne of England was celebrated from the bal- cony of Faneuil hall by a blare of trumpets, while the forts in the harbor fired a salute, and the same day a state dinner was served in the hall. In 1761 the hall was destroyed by fire and was rebuilt by the town, largely through the proceeds of a lottery, in 1763. In 1767 upon the repeal of the stamp act it was brilliantly illuminated. In 1768 the citizens held a revolutionary meeting in the hall to provide ways and means for resisting the oppression of England and the indignity of quartering British troops in the colony. On the citizens refusing to lodge the soldiers, they were quartered in Faneuil hall in October, 1768, and during the occupation of Boston by the British the soldiers and loyalists used it as a theatre. During the Revolution it was used as the meet- ing place for the patriots and it thus became known as the "cradle of

American lib- erty." In 1805 the hall was re- modeled after designs by Bul- finch and in 1822 the first city govern- ment of Boston was organized

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agitated as early as 1717 and he was largely re- sponsible for the appropriation of £700 made by the town in 1734 to build market houses. The hucksters and country people refused to use these

there. The hall continued to be used for patriotic meetings and many of the reform movements of the nineteenth century were born and nurtured within its walls. Peter Faneuil died in Boston, Mass., March 3. 1743.

FANNIN, James W., soldier, was born in North Carolina about 1800; son of James W. Fannin. He was liberally educated and when he reached his majority migrated to Georgia and thence to Texas, where in 1834 he settled upon a plantation. He was a companion of Colonel Bowie and was given a commission in the Texan army as captain. He was in the engagement at