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John Lee, who came from Essex county. Eng- land, iu 1634. His father, Eliphaz Fay, was president of Waterville college, afterward Colby university, 1841—14. Henry was an lionorary graduate from the University of Rochester in 1857, and received the degree of A.M. fiom tliat institution in 18.)9. He took up his resi- dence in Newport in 18.')4, and there estab- lislied his school for boys, which became one of the most prominent college preparatory schools in \ merica. During the liod of the civil .^:ir, aside from his regular school duties, he prepared a large number of young men to enter the U.S. naval academy. His success was so marked that the secretary of the navy made a personal recogni- tion of the fact. The school continued under his management until lie retired in IST.'J. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions at Baltimore, in 1864, and Philadelphia in 1872. He was appointed bj' President Grant a member of the board of visitors to the U.S. military acad- emy in 187.5. He was one of the original mem- bers of the board of state charities and correction ; a member of the Rhode Island general assembly, 187.5-80; lieutenant-governor of the state, 1880- 84; again a member of the general assembly, 1884-85, and in that body was the chairman of the committee on education, and a member of the finance committee. He was a member of the s:'hool board; superintendent of the public schools of Newport ; a director in the Redwood library, 1874-97, and vice-president of the lilirai-y, 1885-97. He was jiostmaster of Newport, 1889-93, and a director of the First National bank for twenty years. He was a frequent contributor to the press on educational, literarj' and political subjects. He was married in 1864, to Ida, daugh- ter of William and llary Alexandria (Jones) Gar- land of Baltimore, Md. He died in Newport, R.I., Sept. 8, 1897.

FAY, Jonas, patriot, was born at Hardwick, Mass.. Jan. 38, 1737; son of Stephen and Ruth (Child) Fay; grandson of John and Elizabeth (Welhngton) Fay, and great-grandson of John and Mary (Briglmm) Fay. who came from Wales to Boston, arriving on the Speedwell. June 27, 16.56. The Fays were of French origin, having fled to Wales during the Huguenot persecution. Jonas served in 1756 in the French war as clerk

in Capt. Samuel Robinson's company of Mas.sa- chusetts troops at Fort Edward and Lake George. He afterward studied mediciu° and in 1766 was among the early settlers of Bennington, Vt., where he practised his profession. In 1772 he was appointed a delegate from Bennington and neighboring towns to appear before Gov. William Tryon of New York and urge him to discontinue his violent proceedings against the Vermont set- tlers. In March, 1774, he was clerk of the con- vention of settlers which drew up resolutions to defend their cause and their leaders by force, Allen, Warner and others having been threatened by the New York assembly with outlawry and death. In 1775 he accompanied Ethan Allen'^ expedition to Ticonderoga as surgeon. In Jan- uary, 1776, he was clerk to the convention at Dorset and drew up the petition to congress to be allowed to serve the patriot cause independent of New York. He was secretary of the conven- tion of July, 1777, that framed the constitution of Vermont and during the summer of that year was a member of the council of safety. Between 1777 and 1782 he was four times an agent of the state to the continental congress. He was a member of the governor's council, 1778-85; judge of the supreme court in 1782, and judge of pro- bate, 1782-87. He then returned to the i>ractice of medicine at Bennington, removing to Char- lotte in 1800, to Pawlet a few years later and finally returning to Bennington. He was twice married: first. May 1, 1760, to Sarah, daughter of Capt. John Fassett, and secondly, Nov. 20, 1777, to Mrs. Lj'dia Safford. He was joint author with Ethan Allen of A Concise IlefutatioH of the Claims of Xew Hampshire, Massachtisetts and Keto York to the Territory of Vermont (1780). He died at Ben- nington, Vt.. :March 0, 1S18.

FAY, Theodore Sedgwick, author, was born in New York city, Feb. 10, 1807. He attended the public schools and studied law. In 1828 he became a.ssociate editor of the Xew York 3Iirror, under the joint control of hunself, George P. Morris and Nathaniel P. Willis, his principal con- tributions to the paper afterward being a series of letters written while travelling in Europe, 1831—11. He was secretary of the American lega- tion at London, England, 1836, at St. Petersburg, Russia, 1837-41, at Berlin, 1841-53, and minister- resident at Berne, Switzerland, 1853-61, after which he removed to Berlin where he lived in retirement until his death. In addition to a series of essays on Shakespeare, he published: Dreama and Beveries of a Quiet Man (1832); T7ie Minute-Book (1833); Norman Leslie (1835); Sydney aifton (1839); Covntess Ida (1840); Hohoken, a liomance (1843): Bohert Biiefiil (18U) : IHrie. or the Voiees. n volume of poems (1851); Views of Christianity (18.56); History of Sicitzerland (1860);