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the Piscataqua colony, who came from England and settled in Portsmouth, N.H., about 1630. His father was a farmer and a ship owner. His early life was spent at the old homestead, known as "St. Sauveur," one of the first French settle- ments on the coast of Maine. From 1854 to 1859 he followed the sea. ^^"^^^ At the breaking out

I v\ of the civil war he

si enlisted in the navy,

/jraj where he spent three

»' years in the South

) Atlantic squadron.

' . During this time he

com[)leted his col- "] legiate studies, and on returning home he pursued a course in zoology under Louis Agassiz, and later studied and .-€>. %3.¥MlA^uJlJb travelled extensively in Europe. He was principal of the academy in Litchfield, Maine, 1865-66 ; of the academy in Houlton, Maine, 1866- 71 ; filled the chair of natural history in the Maine state college at Orono, 1871-86, and was elected professor of zoology in the Massachusetts state agricultural college at Amherst, in 1886. Upon the establishment of the Hatch experiment station in connection with this college, he was appointed the entomologist and took charge of the insectary in connection with his other duties. He made a study of the microlepidoptera or small moths, of which he gathered the largest private collection in the world. He published numerous papers on insects in the scientific journals of America and Europe, and prepared a monograph of the tortricidse of the world, and a monograph of the pyralidas of North America. Ha was elected a member of many scientific societies in the United States and Europe. He received from Bowdoin college the honorary degree of A.M. in 1871, and from the Maine state college that of Ph.D. in 1887. He published: Cdkilngve of the Tortriddm of North America (1883) ; Butterflies of Maine (1881) ; Grasses of Maine (1885) ; Sphingidce of New Enyland (1886) ; Orthoptera of New England (1888); Crambidw of North America (1896) ; Piero- phorida; of North America (1898).

FERNALD, Chester Bailey, author and play- wright, was born in Charlestown, Mass., March 18, 1869; son of Frank Lysander and Mary Eliza- beth (Remick) Fernald; grandson of William Salisbury and Sarah Ann (Hanscom) Fernald, and a direct descendant of Dr. Renald Fernald, who landed at Kittery, Maine, 1626-30, and set- tled in Portsmouth. N.H., about 1630: and also of Andrew Pepperell of Kittery. His father m

prominent naval constructor, built the U.S.S. Maine and other U.S. vessels. The son attended various preparatory schools in Philadelphia, Pa., SomerviUe, Mass., and Washington, D.C., and matriculated at Harvard in 1889, but did not en- ter. He travelled extensively in the United States, was for four- years engaged in ship draughting under his father, and was Washing- ton correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle, 1893-94. On Jmie 13. 1896, he was married to Josephine Harker, a native of San Francisco, and a graduate of Vassar college. He is the author of numerous contributions to the leading period- icals; and published: The Cat and the Cherub (1896), which was dramatized and had a long run, The Yclloni Bargee (1898) and The MootiVujlU Blossom, a Japanese romajitic comedy.

FERNALD, Henry Torsey, educator, was born in Litchfield, Maine, Ajjril 17, 1866 ; son of Charles Henry and Maria E. (Smith) Fernald, and grandson of Eben and Sophronia (Wasgatt) Fernald. He was graduated from the University of Maine, S.B., 1885, S.M., 1888. and from Johns Hopkins university, receivingthe degree of Ph.D. in 1890. He was elected a member of the So- ciety of naturalists ; the American morphological society, and the Association of economic ento- mologists. He devoted special attention to eco- nomic entomology and was state zoologist o£ Pennsylvania, 1898-99. He was professor of zoology in the Pennsylvania state college, 1890- 99, and in 1899 was made professor of entomology in the Massachusetts agricultural college, and associate entomologist of the Massachusetts Hatch experiment station.

FERNALD, James Champlin, author, was born in Portland, JIaine, Aug. 18, 1838; son of Judge Henry B. and Mabel (Collins) Fernald; grandson of Anthony Fernald of Portland, and a descendant of Dr. Renald Fernald, who settled in Portsmouth, N.H., about 1630. He was gradu- ated at Harvard in 1860 and at the Newton theo- logical institution in 1863. He was ordained pastor of the Baptist church, Rutland, Vt., in 1864 and was pastor at various places in Maine and Ohio for twenty years. He was married first, April 29, 1869, to Mary B. Griggs of Rutland, Vt., who died June 7, 1870; and secondly, June 18. 1873, to Nettie S. Barker of McConnellsville, Ohio. He edited synonyms, antonyms and prep- ositions in the Standard dictionary; was editor- in-chief of the Student's {Standard Dictionary and of the Standard Intermediate Dictionary and for a time editor of the Ilomiletic Seview. His pub- lished works include: Economics of Prohibition (1889) ; Tlie New WomanJiood (1891) ; English Syno- nyms, Antonyms and Prepositions (1894); The Spaniard in History (1899); The Imperial Pepnhlic (1899).

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