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iug years in the same house that had been the executive mansion during his three years' admin- istration of the affairs of the territory. He was married in 1835 to Charlotte McJIatt of Washing- ton count}', Pa., who, with four childi-en, survived him. He died at Yankton, Dak.. Sept. 4, 1898.

FAULKNER, Charles James, representative, was born in Martinsburg, Berkeley county, Va. , July 3, 1SU6; son of Maj. James and Sarah (Mac- kay) Faulkner. He was graduated from George- town university, D.C., in 1823, and was admitted to the bar in 1839. He was a member of the Virginia house of delegates, 1833-33; of the state senate, 1841-43, and was again elected to the house of delegates in 1848, during this term introducing a bill which was passed and sent to congress and which developed into the fugitive slave law of 1850. He was a member of the con- vention which met to revise the state constitu- tion m 18.50, represented his district in the 33d, 33d, 34tli and 35th congresses, 1851-59; and was appointed U.S. minister to France by President Buchanan in 1857, accepting the position in 1859. On his return from Paris in August, 1801, after settling his accounts with the government as minister, and being given by Mr. Seward, secretary of state, a pass to his home in Virginia, he was arrested by order of the secretary of war, Simon Cameron, ostensibly to be held as a hostage for Treasurer Henry S. McGraw of Pennsylvania, who had been captured at the first Bull Run fight. He was then confined in Fort LaFayette, New York harbor, and afterward in Fort War- ren, Boston, until his exchange for Representa- tive Alfred Ely of New York, on Dec. 9, 1861. He accepted the position of adjutant-general on the staff of " Stonewall " Jackson. While acting in that capacity he wrote twenty of the twen- ty-two published reijorts of that distinguished leader. With the death of General Jackgon Mr. Faulkner remained at the residence of his son-in- law, the Hon. Thomas S. Bocock, in Appomattox, until the surrender of the army of General Lee. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of West Virginia, 1873, represented his district in the 44th congress, 1875-77, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the nomina- tion for governor of West Virginia and for United States senator. He was married to Mary Wagner, daughter of Gen. Elisha Boyd He died in Boyd- ville. W. Va,, Nov. 1, 1884. '

FAULKNER, Charles James, senator, was born in Boydville, Berkeley county. Va., .Sept. 31, 1817; son of Charles James and Mary Wagner (Boyd) Faulkner; and grandson of Maj. James Faulkner and of Gen. Elisha Boj'd. He went abroad with his father in 1859 and studied in Paris and Switzerland. Returnin,g to the United States in 18(51 he went south after the arrest of his father

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by the U.S. authorities, entered the Virginia mil- itary institute in 1862 and served with the cadets in the Confederate army at the battle of New Market. He afterward served as an aide on the staffs of Gens. JohnC. Breckinridge and Heniy A. Wise. After the war he studied under his father at Boydville and was graduated in law from the University of Virginia in 1808. Tlie same year he was admitted to the West Virginia bar and be- gan the practice of his profession at Martinsburg. He was judge of the 13th ju- dicial district, 1880- 87, and was elected to a seat in the U.S. senate to suc- ceed Jolmson N. Cam- den, serving, 1887-93. He was re-elected in 1893 for the term expir- ing March 3, 1899. He was permanent chairnuni of the Democratic state convention of 1888, chair- man of the state convention of 1893, and chair- man of the Democratic congressional campaign committees of 1894 and 1890. He was married, Nov. 25, 1869, to Sallie, daugliter of John Winn of Charlotteville, Va., and they had five children. Mi's. Faulkner died in Washington, D.C., March 31, 1891, and on Jan. 3, 1894, he was married to Virginia Fairfax, daughter of H. C. Whiting of Hampton, Va. He was a member of the commit- tees on appropriations. District of Columbia, i:u- migration, Indian depredations, privileges and elections and on the select committee on Potomac river front in the 55tli congress. In September, 1898, he was appointed by President McKinley a member of the Canadian commission in place of Senator Gray, transferred to the Paris peace com- mission.

FAUNCE, Daniel Worcester, clergyman, was born in PlynunUh, ila.s.s. . Jan. 3, 1839; son of Peleg and Olive (Finney) Faunce; grandson of Peleg Faunce, and a descendant of " Elder Faunca," ruling elder of the first Puritan church at Plymouth for forty years. He was long the town clerk, and he it was who by knowledge of his father and of the first settlers, identified '■ Plymouth Rock." Daniel Worcester was grad- uated at Amherst in 1850 and was a student at Newton theological institution, 1851-53. He was ordained pastor of the Somerville Baptist church in August, 1853, and was pa.stor there one year. He was pastor of Pleasant street church,^ Worcester, Mass., 18.54-60; at Maiden, 1800-66;' First church. Concord, N.H., 1866-75;