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Elizabeth (Hunsicker) Fetterolf. He attended Freeland seminary, CoUegeviUe, Pa., and after teachmsi; m the pubhc schools, he returned to Freeland sennnary m lSfi2 as professor of mathe- matics. In 1865 he

became principal of that institution,

wliich was incorpo- rated into Ursinus college in 1869 and continued in his charge tiU 1870. He was principal of An- dalusia seminary in Bucks county, Pa., 1871-80; vice-presi- dent of Girard col- lege, Philadelphia, Pa., 1880-83; and in the latter year was chosen presi- /r dent of tliat insti- tution. The honorary degree of A.M. was con- ferred upon him by Lafayette college in 1866, that of Ph.D. by the same institution in 1879 and that of LL.D. by Delaware college in 1886.

FEUCHTWANGER, Lewis, chemist, was born in Fiirth, Bavaria, Jan. 11, 1805. He was gradu- ated from the University of Jena with the degree of M.D. in 1827 and two years later removed to New York city where he practised his profession and also conducted a German pharmacy, the first to be opened in that city. He introduced into the United States the alloy called "German Silver." In 1887 he was permitted by the government to issue a quantity of nickel one-cent pieces to demonstrate his theory that nickel was a desira- ble metal for use in small coins. Subsequently a number of nickel three-cent pieces were issued but were not circulated. He was a diligent col- lector of minerals and a frequent contributor to scientific periodicals. He published : A Pojmlar Treatise on Gems (1838) ; Elements of Mineralogy (1839) ; Treatise on Fermented Liquors (1858) ; and Practical Treatise on Sobihle or Water Glass (IS'iO). He died in New York city, June 25, 1876.

FEW, Ignatius A., educator, was born in Columbia county, Ga., April 11, 1789, sonof C'apt. Ignatius Few, a Revolutionary soldier. He was educated at the College of New Jersey, studied law, served as colonel in the war of 1812, and practised law, 1815-28. He was an itinerant minister in the South Carolina and Georgia M. E. conferences, 1828-85, and in 1837 was active in founding Emory college and was its first presi- dent, 1837-39. He received the degree of LL.D. from Wesleyan university in 1838, and was a del- egate to the general conference of 1844. He died in Athens, Ga., Nov. 28, 1845.

FEW, William, senator, was born in Balti- more county, Md., June 8, 1748; a direct descend- ant from WilUam Few, who came to America with William Penn and settled in Pennsylvania. He removed with his parents to North Carolina in 1758 and there acquired his education chiefly through his own efforts. In 1776 he removed to Georgia and at once identified hunself with pub- lic affairs. He was a representative in the Geor- gia legislature in 1777, 1779, 1783 and 1793; a member of the executive council, 1777; and in 1778 engaged in the expedition conducted by General Howe and Governor Houstoun for the subjugation of East Florida. He was elected surveyor-general of Georgia in 1778, and in the same year was appointed commissioner of confis- cated estates and senior justice of Richmond county. In 1779 he became lieutenant-colonel of the count}' militia and was actively engaged in resisting the advance of Colonel Campbell upon Augusta, in guarding the frontiers of Georgia and in resisting the jjredatory attacks of the British, Tories and Indians He was a delegate to the Continental congress, 1780-82 and 1785-88. He assisted in reconstructing the state government of Georgia in 1781; was admitted to the bar in Savannah in 1784; was a delegate to the Phila- delphia convention for revising the constitution of the United States in 1787; and in 1788 was a member of the Georgia convention which rati- fied the constitution of the United States. In 1788 he was elected a United States senator, and drew the .short term, serving from March 4, 1789, to March 2, 1793. In 1796 he was appointed a judge of the second judicial circuit of Georgia. He removed to New York city in 1799, and in 1801-04 was a member of the general assembly of New York. In 1804 he was appointed commis- sioner of loans. He was an aldfrman, 1813-14; director of the Manhattan bank, 1804-14, and president of the city bank, 1814. He died at the residence of his son-in-law, Albert Chrystie, a*^ Fishkill-on-Hudson, N.Y.. July 16, 1828.

FEWKES, Jesse Walter, ethnologist, was born in Newton, Ma.ss., Nov. 14, 1850; son of Jesse and Susan Emeline (Jewett) Fewkes, and grandson of Benjamin I'ewkes of Nottingham- shire, England. He was graduated at Harvard in 1875, and received the degrees of Ph.D. and A.M. in natural history in 1877. He was a stu- dent of zoology at Leipzig and VUla Franca, 1877-80; and was assistant in the Museum of comparative zoology, engaged .in special re- search, 1880-89. He studied marine zoology at the Newport marine laboratory for seven consec- utive simimers, and visited Dry Tortugas, the Bermuda Islands and Santa Barbara, Cal., for the same purpose. During the summer of 1889 he was attached to the Station Zoologique at