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first president of Ohio Weslej'an female college, Delaware, Ohio, 1853-a5. Resigning the last named position because of ill health, he removed to a farm in Mitchell county, Iowa, and was subse- quently county judge, lieutenant-governor of the state, and president, and in 1803 acting secretaiy of the state board of education. He was ap- jiointed by President Lincoln a member of the board of visitors to the U.S. military academy in 1863; was editor of 27je lotm Schoul Journal. 1863- <)7, and state superintendent of public instruction, 1884-66. In 1845 he married Maria M. Peck of De Witt. N. Y. He died in Waverly, Iowa, Oct. 3, 1873. FAWCETT, Edgar, author, was born in New York city. May 2(>, 1847, .son of Frederick and Sarah (Lawrence) Fawcett; grandson of Thomas Fawoett, and a descendant of Capt. James Law- rence, U.S.N., knownas "Don'tgive-up-the-ship" Lawrence. He was graduated from Columbia, A.B.. 1867, A.M., 1870. He travelled consid- eralily in Europe and became well known as a writer of short stories, poems and novels. He is also the author of several suc- cessful plays. His published works in- clude; Novels: Purple (Hid Fine Linen (1873); mien Story (1874); A Hopeless Case (1880); ^ Gentle- man of Leisure (1861); An Heir to Millions (1883); .4)1 Ambitious Woman (1883); Rutherford (1884); Tinkling Cymbalo (^IHSi); The Adventures of a Widow (1884); The Confessions of Claud (1886); A Xe-w York Family (1886); The House at High Bridge (1887); The Adopted Daughter (1887); A 3Ian's Will (1888); Miriam Balestier (1888); Douijlas Dunne (1889); The Evil That Men Do (t8,SU); Snlarion (1890); A Daughter of Silence (1890); Diridfld Lives (1890); A Demoralizing Mar- riage {WM); Women Must Weep (\%91); Loaded Dice (1891); American Push (1892); A Bound Un- varnished Tale (1893); Fabian Dimiti-y (1894); A New Nero (1894); Outrageous Fortune (1894); A Mild Barbarian (189.5); The Ghost of Guy Tliyrle (1895): Her Fair Fame (1895); Life's Fitful Fever (1896); A Romance of Old New York (1897); Two Daughters of One Pace (1897); and New York (1898). Essays: Social Silhouettes (1886); and Agnosticism and Other Essays (1889). Poems: Fantasy and Passion (1878); Romance and Rrrery (1886); and Songs of Doubt and Dream (1891). Humorous verse: The Buntling Ball (1885); and Tlie New King ArtMir (1886).

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FAXON, Charles Edward, botanical artist, was born in Roxbury, Mass., Jan. 21, 1846; son of Elisha and Hannah Mann (Whiting) Faxon; grandson of Elislia and Ruth (Cobb) Faxon, and a direct descendant from Tliomas Faxon of Eng- land, who settled in Braintree, Mass., before 1647. He was graduated from Lawrence scientific school. Harvard university, S.B., 1867, and re- ceived the honorary degree of A.M. from Har- vard in 1897. He was instructor in botany in Harvard, 1879-84, and assistant in charge of the Arnold arboretum from 1881. He was elected a lueniber of the American academy of arts and sciences; of the Boston natui-al history society and of the New England botanical club. He l)roduced the plates of Sargenfs Silva of North America (1890-99); Eaton's Ferns of North America (1877-80); Garden and Forest (1888-89); Sargenfs Forest Flora of Japan (1894), and plates for the leading botanical journals.

FAY, Francis Ball, representative, was born in Southborough, Mass., June 13, 1793. He was a market man in Boston. 1813-17, and a merchant in Southborough, 1817-31. He .served as postmaster and town treasurer of Southborough, 1817-31; was deputy sheriff of Worcester county, 1824-30; was a state representative, 1830-31, 1834-36 and 1840, and a state senator, 1843-45 and 1868. In 1831 he removed to Chelsea, where he bought the first ferry boats running between that place and Boston. In 1853 he was elected a Whig repre- sentative in the 33d congress to fill a vacancy, serving till March 3, 1853. He was the first mayor of Chelsea in 1857, declining re-election. In 1851 he endowed the Fay free library at South- borough, Mass. , later was one of the founders of the State industrial school for girls at Lancaster, Mass., and was connected with the latter institu- tion as commissioner, trustee and treasurer, 1854- 64. In 1858 he removed to South Lancaster, Mass., where lie died Oct. 6, 1876.

FAY, Heman Allen, soldier, was born in Ben- nington, Vt., in 1778; son of Jonas and Lydia (Safford) Fay. He was graduated from the U.S. military academy in 1808, and served on garrison duty during the war of 1813-15. In 1816 he was appointed chief forage-master of the northern division of the army and in 1818 was stationed at Albany, N.Y., as U.S. military store-keeper. He published: An Oficial Account of Battles Fought Between the Army and Navy of the United States and Great Britain in lS12-lo (181.5). He died in Ben- nington, Vt., Aug. 20, 1865.

FAY, Henry Harrison, educator, was born in New Paltz, Ulster county. N.Y., April 5, 1835; son of the Rev. Dr. Eliphaz and IMaiy Helen (Lee) Fay, and a descendant on the paternal side from Samuel Morse, who came from England to New England in 1635, and on the maternal side from