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FAULK

until March 4, 1891. In 1887 he built with his brother the Texas state capitol, for wliioh they received three million acres of land which they turned into a ranch and stocked with 150,000 cattle. He died in Cliicago, Sept. 34, 1903.

FARWELL, Nathan Allen, senator, was born in Unity, Maine, Feb. 24. isrj. He attended the public schools, was admitted to the bar, and established himself for the practice of his profes sion in Rockland, Maine. He was a Republican state senator, 1853, 18.54, 1861 and 1863, was pi'es ident of tliat body in 1861, and was a member of the lower house of the state legislature, 1860 1863 and 1864. He was a delegate to the Repub lican national convention in Baltimore, 1864, and to the Loj'alists' national convention in Pliila delphia, 1866. He filled the vacancy in the U.S senate caused by the resignation of William Pitt Fessenden, serving from Dec. 5, 1864, to Marcli 3, 1867. At the expiration of his term as U.S. sen- ator he retired from political life and afterward devoted his time to the shipping trade and to the marine insurance business. He died in Rock- land, Maine, Dec. 9, 1893.

FASQUELLE, Jean Louis Francois Benoit, educator, was born in Guines, France, Sept. 19, 1808. He was educated in Paris and German}-. In 1827 he took up his residence in England and in 1833 received from the College of Barnstaple the degree of LL.D. In 1834 he immigrated to the United States and settled in Michigan, where he was a teacher of languages. He was professor of modern languages and literature in the University of Michigan, 1846-63, and libra- rian, 1853-54. He published Fascjnelle's French Course, the first of his series of French text-books (1851); A Colloquial French Header (1852); fol- lowed by Telemaqne, Napoleon, Racine, Manual of French Conrer.^filUins and Shorter Cnnrse in French He died in Ann Arbor, IVIieli., Oct. 1, 1863.

FASSETT, Cornelia Adele Strong, painter, was born in Owasco, N.Y., Nov. 9, 1831. She studied painting in New York city and afterward under Matthieu and other artists in Paris and Rome. About 1855 she returned to the United States and opened a studio in Chicago. 111. In 1875 she removed to Washington, D.C., where she executed her most noted work, "The Elec- toral Commission in Open Session " (1877-80), which was purchased bj' the Senate committee on library in 1886, for 57,.500, and hung in the capitol at Washington, D.C. In 1873 she was elected a member of the Chicago academy of design. In addition to the work mentioned she painted portraits of Vice-President Henry Wilson, Mr. Justice Miller. 51r. Justice Field, Chief-Jus- tice Waite President Garfield, Gen. John A. Logan, Clara Barton and otliers. She died in Washington, D.C, Jan. 4. 1898.

FAULK, Andrew Jackson, governor of Da- kota, was born in Jlilfonl, Pike county. Pa., Nov. 26, 1814; son of Jolin and Margaret (Heiner) Faulk. His father was an accomplished scholar and educator, and liis mother was the grand- daughter of Gen. Daniel Brodhead, a Revolution- ary soldier in com- mand of the western department of the army and a direct de- scendant of Capt. Daniel Brodhead, of the British army which captured New York from the Dutch in 1664. IIi3 parents removed to Kittan- ning, Pa., while he was a child and he learned the trade of printer and was editor of the Arm- strong Dcmocrat,18'i7- 43. He read law, was admitted to the bar and became interested in state politics as a Democrat, but opposed the extension of slavery. He sup- ported Fremont in 1856 and Lincoln in 1860. In 1861 he was appointed bj- President Lincoln post- trader to the Yankton Indian reservation, Dakota territory, and in 1863 by building a blockhouse and (!alling to his aid friendly Indians and U.S. troops he prevented a massacre such as had met the settlers of Minne.sota, and finally drove the hostile Indians out of the territory. He returned to Kittanning, Pa., in 1864, and engaged in the oil business. In August, 1866, he was appointed by President Johnson governor of the territory of Dakota and superintendent of Indian affairs. In March, 1807, his name was sent to the senate for confirmation and was favorably acted upon he having received the endorsement of the terri- torial legislature. He furnished valuable infor- mation to the Indian peace commissioners whose two years of labor resulted in the treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868. He encouraged the opening and developing of the mineral resources of the Black Hills during his administration and lived to see the region redeemed from savage control and formed into three commonwealths populated by hardy and honest white settlers. In 1867 he visited Washington with sixty chiefs and head men of the Sioux nation at the request of the war department, and presented the Indians to the President and the heads of the departments. He retired from ofl[ice in 1869, was mayor of Yankton in 1871, and also served as alderman, as U.S. court commissioner, as clerk of both the U.S. and territorial courts and as president of the Dakota bar association. He spent his decliii-