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•'rederick attended the public schools, and later mgaged as a clerk in a jewelry store. In 1880 le entered the studio of Augustus St. Gaudens as in apprentice in sculpture and he also attended
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the night life classes of the National Aca- demy of Design and the Art Students' League. He studied sculpture and paint- ing in Paris and Mu- nich, 1884-85, and in St. Gaudens's studio, New York city, 1885-86 ; and sculpture under Fal- guiere in the 6cole des Beaux Arts, and in the studio of Mercie in Paris, 1886. In 1884 he re- seived the first prize of the National Academy of >esign. New York, and in 1886 and again in 887 he received the prui d'atelier, the highest >rize open to foreigners. lie was married in ,nd Mary A. (Lines; Fairchild of New Haven,
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 * )onn. He opened a studio in Paris in 1887, and

or " Diana," his first exhibit at the salon, 1889, he eceived honorable mention. In the .same year »e received a commission for three life-size ingels in bronze for St. Paul's churcli. New York ity. In the Salon of 1891 he exhibited statues if Nathan Hale and James S. T. Stranahan, and or the latter was awarded a second gold medal, ►eing the first American to attain that honor, le was decorated with the order of St. Michael of Bavaria, 1891 ; received a first-class gold medal Q Antwerp, 1894 ; was made chevalier of the jegion of Honor of France, 1896 ; was awarded he grand prize at the Paris exp>osition, IJKK); nd received prizes and medals at the Boston and ion. He became a member of the Society of Lraerican Artists, New York, the Architectural jeague and the National Sculpture society. Lmong his more important works may he men- ioned : Pan of Rofuillion (1890); Faun with Her- ri (1892); Sir Harry Vane, for Boston public ibrary (1893); the colossal fountain at the Co- jmbian exjKwition, Chicago, containing twenty- even gigantic figures (1893); Bacchante itith nfnnt Faun (1894). rejected by the Boston ublic library and placed in the Metropolitan luseum of Art, New York ; two statuettes of hq)id (1895): figure of Victorj/ for the battle lonument of West Point, N.Y. (1895); models or the central bronze doors (1897), and a figure
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of Shakespeare (1898), for the Congressional li- brary, Washington ; colossal groups representing the Army and Navy for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N.Y., and qua- driga for the same arch (1900); two colossal groups of horses for Prospect Park (1900); statue of Gen. John B. Woodward, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (1901); and equestrian statue of Gen. Henry W. Slocum, Brooklyn (1901).

McMULLEN, Fayette, representative, was born in Virginia in 1810. He was a representa- tive from Rye Cove, Va., in the 31st. 32d, 33d, 34th congresses, 1849-55. In May, 1857, he was appointed by President Buchanan governor of Washington Territory, and held the office from September, 1857, to July, 1858, when he was re- moved. In July, 1858, he married as his second wife Mary, daughter of Isaac Wood, of Thurston county, Wash. Ty. He soon after returned to Virginia and during the civil war was a rep- resentative in the Confederate congress. After the war he was little known in public affairs. He was killed by a railroad train at Wytheville, Va., Nov. 8, 1880.

McMULLEN, John, R.C. bishop, was born in Ballynahinch, county Down, Ireland, Jan. 8, 1832. His parents removed to Canada in his in- fancy, afterward settling in Ogdensburg, N.Y., and then in Chicago, III. He was graduated from St. Mary's college, Chica- go, 111., in 1854 ; studied theol- ogy at Urban college, Rome, and was ordain- ed sub-deacon, deacon, and priest, in 1838. He also received the degree D.D. from Urban col- lege in 1858. He returned to Chicago, was -cathedral of the holy name. pastor of St. Louis church there, 1858-61 ; president of the University of St. Mary's of the Lake, 1861-65, and in 1863 commenced the erection of a new building, which was completed by the end of the year and destroyed in the great fire of November, 1872. He labored in Wilmington, 111.. 1869-70, and w;us pjistor of the ratlie.irfil of the Holy Name. 1870-72. and afterward of the new cathedral dedicated in the fall of 1876. He was appcjinted vicar-general of the diocese of Chicago, in August, 1877, was administrator of the diocese