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EWERS, Ezra P .:
Colonel U. S. Army; born in New York, April 13, 1837; appointed from the army; actual rank, private, sergeant and first sergeant Company E, First Battalion, Nineteenth Infantry, Jan. 18, 1862, to Dec. 4, 1863; second lieutenant, Nineteenth In- fantry, Oct. 31, 1863; accepted, Dec. 4, 1863; first lieutenant, March 16. 1864;
transferred to Thirty-seventh Infantry, Sept. 21, 1866; captain Sept. 12, 1866; transferred to Fifth Infantry, May 19, 1869. Brevet rank, brevet first lieutenant, June 26, 1863, for gallant services in ac- tion at Hoover's Gap, Tenn .; brevet cap- tain, Nov. 25, 1863, for gallant and meri- torious services in the battles of Chat- tanooga, Tenn .; major, Nineth Infantry, March 7, 1893; lieutenant-colonel, May 16, 1899; retired, April 13, 1901. Address, Owenton, Owen County, Ky.
EYTINGE, Rose:
Actress; born Philadelphia, Pa., Sept., 1835; began career as amateur, Brooklyn, 1852; connected with Hough's Dramatic Company, and Green Street Theatre, Al- bany; 1862 played first time in New York, at Olympia Theatre; also associated with Edwin Booth; 1868-9 leading lady in Wal- lack's Company, in parts of Nancy Sykes, Lady Gay Spanker, Beatrice, etc .; be- sides other leading roles, has played as Rose Michel, as Gervaise in "Drink," and in "Felicia," at the Union Square Thea- tre, New York City; 1880, played in Eu-
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rope; 1884, through United States; mar- ried, first to David Barnes, second, George H. Butler, United States consul-general to Egypt; third, Cyril Searle. Author of "It Happened This Way" (novel), "Gold- en Chains" (play), and many dramatiza- tions of standard works. Address, 214 W. 83d St., New York.
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FACKLER, David Parks:
Consulting actuary; born Virginia, April 4, 1841; son Rev. David Morris Fackler and great-grandson of a Revo- lutionary officer; graduated in 1859, Col- lege City of New York (A.M.); proposed, 1862, the method of dividing surplus now used by all United States' life insurance companies; 1872, asked by twenty com- panies (New York Life, Equitable, etc.), for an opinion; 1877, appointed actuary to commission of policy holders examining Equitable Life Assurance Society; 1889, brought about the formation of the Actu- arial Society; 1900, employed as its con- sulting actuary by one of the depart- ments of the United States Government; member Actuarial Society of America (second president, 1891 to 1893); corres- ponding member Institute of Actuaries, England; Institute of Actuaries, France. Residence, 157 West 73d St .; office, 35 Nassau St., New York.
FAIRCHILD, Charles StebbIns:
Banker; was born in Cazenovia N. Y., April 30, 1842; graduated from Howard, 1863; studied law; admitted to bar, 1865; member of firm Hand, Hale, Swartz and Fairchild; 1874 deputy attorney-general of New York; 1876 attorney-general; 1880-85, practiced his profession in New York City; 1885 assistant secretary of treasury, subsequently becoming acting secretary; April 1, 1887, appointed secretary of treas- ury by President Cleveland; is president of New York Security Company, Trust Company; director of Lincoln Trust Com- pany, National City Bank, and New York Life Insurance Company. Residence, 10 W. 8th St.,; office, 46 Wall St., New York.
FAIRCHILD, Herman Le Roy:
Professor of geology, University of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y. since 1888; born at Montrose, Pa., April 29, 1850, of New England parentage; his father, Harmon Canfield F., came from an old Connecticut family; his mother, Mary A. Bissell, was of a Rhode Island family, though immediately from Cooperstown, N. Y .; up to nineteen years of age his life was spent on a farm, the maternal homestead, in Brooklyn, Pa .; after one year in a railroad clerkship in Scranton, Pa., he entered Cornell University and graduated in 1874 with degree of bachelor of science; for two years, 1875-76, he filled
the chair of natural science in Wyoming Seminary, at Kingston, Pa., and then re- moved to New York City, where for eleven years he engaged in scientific work, spe- cially in the private schools of the city and in Cooper Union; has held the fol- lowing offices in scientific societies: Sec- retary of the New York Academy of Sci- ences, 1885-88, and editor of the Transac- tions; president, Rochester Academy of Sciences, 1889-1902; secretary Geological Society of America since 1890; local sec- retary American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, 1888 and 1892; sec- retary of the Council, 1893; general sec- retary, 1894, and vice-president and chair- man of section E (geology) 1898; has published over seventy papers on geologi- cal and biological subjects, specially on the Glacial Geology of Western New York; History of the New York Acad- emy of Sciences; Revision of LeConte's Elements Geology, 1903. Address, University of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y.
FAIRCHILD, Julian D .:
President of the Kings County Trust Company, was born in Stratford, Conn., April 17, 1850; he attended the public schools in Stratford and New Haven until he was thirteen years of age, when he en- tered the employ of a large hardware manufacturing company in New Haven, remaining with this company for three years, filling the position of office boy, entry clerk and assistant bookkeeper; at seventeen years of age, with the money he had saved, he started a tea, coffee and spice store for himself in New Haven; at twenty-one years of age he became secretary of the Quinnipiac Fertilizer Company, of New Haven and New Lon- don, Conn .; in 1874 he sold his interest in this company and came to New York, joining the E. Frank Coe Fertilizer Com- pany, and he eventually became president of the company; in 1894 he sold his inter- est in this concern, having been elected in May, 1893, to the presidency of the Kings County Trust Company, in which institution he has been interested since its inception; Mr. Fairchild is a director of the Bedford Bank, Edison Electric II- luminating Company, of Brooklyn, and president of the Union Ferry Company; in 1896 Mr. Fairchild was offered the Democratic nomination for mayor of Brooklyn, but his business interests would not permit of his acceptance; he was ap- pointed by Mayor Van Wyck one of the commissioners from Brooklyn of the new East River Bridge, now in process of building, and is treasurer of the same; he is a regent of the Long Island College Hospital, president of the Brooklyn Cen- tral Dispensary, a trustee of the Brook- lyn and Montauk Clubs, and also a mem- ber of the Chamber of Commerce and the Carleton and Dyker Meadow Clubs. Ad- dress, Kings County Trust Company, Brooklyn, N. Y.
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FAIRLAND, James Remington:
Organist and composer; born Philadel- phia, Pa., Jan. 23, 1838; began study of organ with Charles Boyer; organist of Western Methodist Church, later of Tab- ernacle Baptist, and organist and choir director of Clinton Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia; at twenty, went to Paris, studying piano under Prudent and Marmontel, voice culture under Michael Masset and harmony under Danhauser; later at Florence under Babellini; was four years United States consul at Zu- rich; 1867 returned to United States, be- coming musical director in several church- es, Washington, D. C., subsequently called to New York and filling similar position in churches of the Ascension, St. Ignatius', Rutgers, Riverside Presbyterian and Mes- siah; composer of various songs, oratorios and operas; received from King Karl of Würtemburg great gold medal for art and science; member of Manuscript Society; Council of American Guild of Organists; married, 1866, to Marion Kerr, daughter of Judge David Higgins of Ohio; second, Melusina Therese Muller. Address, 5 W. 101st St., New York.
FANCHER, Albert T .:
Republican State Senator, representing the Fiftieth Senatorial District; was born in the town of Leon, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., Jan. 18, 1859; was educated at Chamberlain Institute, Randolph, N. Y .; his present business is that of farming and the production of oil; he is president and manager of the National Oil and Gas Company, whose operations are largely in the Ohio and Indiana oil fields. Was elected supervisor of his native town in 1881, and held the office for four years; elected county clerk in 1885, and held that office for three years; in 1898 was elected Assemblyman from the Second Assembly District, Cattaraugus County, and served in that capacity for four years; in 1902 elected State Senator; was appointed a member of the following committees of the Senate: Chairman of the committee on Indian Affairs, member of Railroads, Insurance, and Internal Affairs. Address, Little Valley, Cattaraugus County, N. Y.
FANNING, Willlam Joseph:
Lawyer; born in the village of Crescent, Saratoga County, New York, on July 12, 1850, where he spent his childhood and received his preliminary training; in 1870 entered office of James F. Crawford, a prominent attorney of Cohoes, N. Y .; later attended law school of University of the City of New York, from which he gradu- ated in 1873 and was admitted to the bar; he entered at once into co-partnership with his former preceptor at Cohoes, James F. Crawford, under the firm style of Crawford & Fanning; seeking a wider field, in 1880 he moved to New York City, and has since been practicing there alone; there his practice is largely devoted to
corporation law. He was prominent in organizing, is counsel for and director in, the Electrical Company of America, and several of its sub-companies; he also as- sisted in the incorporation of nearly all the electric vehicle companies of this city, is attorney for the Consolidated Railway Electric Lighting and Equipment Com- pany, and counsel and director in many electrical companies; he has organized and is director in the Waldorf Importation Company, and is counsel for the Hotel Association of the City and State of New York. He was school trustee of the Eighteenth Ward of New York City, 1887 until 1891, and in 1895 Mayor Strong of- fered him an appointment as city magis- trate for four years, but owing to the duties of his practice declined the ap- pointment. Address, 31 Nassau St., New York.
FARGO, James Congdel:
Expressman; born Pompey, N. Y., May 5, 1829; brother of William George Fargo, expressman; 1844-48, employed in firm of Wells & Company, Buffalo; 1848 trans- ferred to Detroit; subsequently to Chi- cago; becoming agent and manager of American Express Co .; 1866-81 general superintendent of that company in New York City; 1881 president; also president of Merchants' Despatch and Transporta- tion and director of other railroad and express companies. Address, 56 Park Ave., New York.
FARLEY, Harriet (Mrs. Donlevy) :
Author; born Claremont, Sullivan Coun- ty, N. H., 1815; began to earn living at 15, spending leisure time in reading and writing; editor of the Lowell Offering, 1840-48; became contributor of New Eng -. land Offering 1841, another of its con- tributors being Lucy Larcom; subsequent- ly became editor, finally proprietor of paper; published "Shells from the Strand of the Sea of Genius" (1848); "Mind Among the Spindles" (1849); "Fancy's Frolics; or Christmas Stories Told in a Happy Home in New England" (1880) ; married John Intagilo Donlevy, inventor (died 1872). Address, Borough Park, Brooklyn, N. Y.
FARLEY, John Murphy:
Roman Catholic archbishop; born New- town, Hamilton, Ireland, April 3, 1842; studied at St. Macartan's College, Monag- han; at St. John's College, Fordham; at St. Joseph's Seminary, Troy, and at Am- erican College, Rome; ordained priest at Rome, June, 1870; assistant rector of St. Peter's Church, New Brighton, Staten Island, 1870; secretary to Archbishop Mc- Closkey, 1872-84; private chamberlain (monsignor) to pope, 1884; vicar-general of New York Archdiocese 1892; prothonot- ary apostolic 1895; auxiliary bishop of New York, 1895; bishop (of Zeugma), 1895;
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appointed by administration of New York Sept. 15, 1902; became archbishop of New York, 1903. Author "Life of Cardinal Mc- Closkey," also wrote "Neither Generous nor Just Why Church Property Should Not be Taxed." Address, 452 Madison Ave., New York.
FARMAN, Elbert EII:
Jurist; born New Haven, Oswego Coun- ty, N. Y., April 23, 1831; prepared at Lima, N. Y .; graduated Amherst, 1855; studied law at Warsaw, N. Y., being ad- mitted to bar, 1858; traveled abroad, 1865-67; returned, 1867, becoming dis- trict attorney of Wyoming County, N. Y .; 1876 consul general at Cairo, Egypt; and member of International Commission to revise international codes; subsequently appointed by President Garfield, judge of international courts of Egypt; also on International Commission to investigate damage claims of war of 1882; as a re- sult of his efforts was brought to New York the obelisk, "Cleopatra's Needle," now in Central Park; decorated by Khe- dive grand officer of the Imperial Order of the Medjidieh; delivered political ad- dresses in Presidential campaigns, 1856- 1888. Address Warsaw, N. Y.
FARRELLY, Patrick:
General manager American News Co .; was born, County Cavan, Ireland, in 1840, His father, Owen Farrelly, was the master of
a private school in . Ireland; in consequence of the political disturbances of 1848 he found his business seriously interfered with and Ireland so distracted that he felt it advisable to emigrate from that country. He came to America, settled at Penn Yan, N. Y., and there himself educated his sons; after some years spent in this locality, he re- moved with his family to New York City, where his son Patrick engaged as a news- boy on the Erie Railroad, and shortly af- ter, about 1854, entered into the business of wholesale news-dealer as a member of . the firm of Hamilton, Johnson & Farrelly. In 1:55 the New York Ledger began to undermine the prosperity of the rival weeklies; its agents were the firm of Ross & Tousey; on the retirement of Mr. Ross, Sinclair Tousey and his son joined the firm of Dexter & Brother, news agents, under the firm name of Sinclair Tousey & Co .; into this firm came, soon afterwards, that of Hamilton, Johnson & Farrelly; thus the three strongest firms were blend- ed into one, and rapidly developed that business of news distribution upon which they had previously entered. In 1864 sev- eral minor houses joined, and out of this combination came the American News Company. Patrick Farrelly is manager of the company, also a member of Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade and Transportation. Address, American News Company, Chambers St., New York.
FARRINGTON, William George:
Protestant Episcopal clergyman; born New York City, Dec. 15, 1832; graduated Columbia College, 1853, at General Theo- logical Seminary, New York, 1856; or- dained deacon. and priest, 1856, becoming rector at huntington, L. I .; 1858-62, as- sistant of Trinity Parish, New York; 1863- 70, rector of Christ Church, Hackensack, N. J., organized by him; later rector at Newark and Orange, N. J .; from 1877 to 1889 rector at Bloomfield; since 1889 on editorial staff of The Churchman. Au- thor of "The Historical Church," 1861. Received degree of D. D. from College of William and Mary, 1872. Address, 47 La- fayette Place, New York.
FARLEY,, Philip H .:
Superintendent of the executive special agency department of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York; was born in the City of New York, Oct. 15, 1849; received his education in the public schools and the College of the City of New York, after leaving which he was for a time engaged in the dry goods com- mission business. He entered the ser- vice of the Mutual Life in April, 1889, as , an executive special agent; became in- spector of agencies in 1895, and was ap- pointed to his present position in the same year; was president of the Life Under- writers' Association of New York in 1900. He has had a long experience with the National Guard of the State of New York, resigning as first lieutenant in the Twen- ty-second Regiment in 1880. Residence, 425 West End Ave., New York.
FAWCETT, Edgar:
Author; born New York City, May 26, 1847; educated by private tutor and in public schools, New York City; graduated Columbia, 1867; is poet and novelist, hav- ing begun writing from an early age; member of Union Club, New York; among his poetical works are: "Short Poems for Short People" (1870); "'Fantasy and Pas- sion" (1878); "Song and Story" (1884); "'Romance and Recovery" (1886) ; "The Buntling Ball," "The New King Arthur" (1885); author also of the novels "Pur- ple and Fine Linen" (1873) ; "Ellen Story" (1876); "A Hopeless Case" (1881) ; "A Gentleman of Leisure" (1882) ; "An Am- bitious Woman" (1883); "Rutherford"
"Social Silhouettes" (1885) ; "Romance Bridge" (1887); "Miriam Balestier," etc. Address, 17 Langham Portland Place, London, England.
FAY, Sigourney W .:
A leading merchant in the woolen busi- ness in New York City; was born in Bos- ton, 1836, and received education in the schools of that city. Obtained a position in the house of Lawrence, Stone & Co., Bos- ton, with whom he remained actively en- gaged until about twenty-four years of age. In 1860, having the capital to engage
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in commercial life on his own account, he came to New York in company with Mr. Stone, one of his recent employers. Here a partnership was organized, under the firm name of Stone, Bliss, Fay & Allen, for the purpose of conducting a dry goods business. At the end of ten years the firm. was reorganized under the title of Perry, Wendell, Fay & Co., the business gradually changing from general dry goods to the woolen commission line, to which it has long been confined. In 1878 the firm became known by its present name of Wendell, Fay & Co. Aside from his .firm connections Fay Mr. is connected with several financial con- cerns, being a director in the Hanover National Bank and trustee of Citizens' Savings Bank; member of Union League, Merchants', and Sons of the American Revolution. Residence, 35 West 50th St .; office, 82 Worth St., New York.
FAYANT, Frank Hix:
Author and journalist; born in Fort Plain, N. Y., Jan. 16, 1876; son of Frank and Anna (Hix) Fayant; studied at Clin- ton Liberal Institute, Cascadilla School, Cornell University; 1895-98, connected with the Utica Morning Herald; 1898, on the war staff of the New York Sun in the West Indies; 1900, on the European staff of the New York Herald, in London; 1902, traveling in Europe for American magazines. He is writer on industry and finance for American and English periodi- cals. Member of Cornell University Club of Great Britain. Address, 25 Broad St., New York; 10 Norfolk St., W. C., Lon- don, England.
FEARONS, George Hadsall:
Lawyer, general attorney, Western Union Telegraph Company; general coun- sel, Southern Bell Telephone and Tele- graph Company, and American District Telegraph Company, of New Jersey, and many other corporations; born Newport, Ky., Nov. 9, 1853; son of Judge George R. and Jennie P. Fearons; graduated from St. Xavier's College, Cincinnati, O., 1871, A. M., and afterwards pursued his stud- ies in Europe. Married. Residence, West End, N. J .; law offices, 195 Broadway, New York.
FEATHERSON, Maurice:
Appointed Dock Commissioner, New York, by Mayor-elect Mcclellan. to hold office Jan. 1, 1904, to Jan. 1, 1906. Born about 1863 and educated in the public schools; later became master mechanic in New York Fire Department; elected to State Senate, 1895. and was re-elected three times; was Water , Purveyor under Mayor Gilroy. Address, 32 Broadway, New York.
FELT, Ephraim Porter, D.Sc .:
New York State entomologist; son of Charles Wilson and Martha Seeth (Ropes)
Felt; was born at Salem, Jan. 7, 1868, his father's family being among the early settlers of that section, and his mother's residing in and about New York City. Dr. Felt's earlier years were spent in eastern Massachusetts; he was gradu- ated from the Agricultural College in 1891; that summer he was in the employ of the Gypsy Moth Commission as spe- cialist in entomology, entering Cornell University in the fall; he was elected a fellow in natural history the following spring, made a member of the Sigma Xi, an honorary scientific society, a year later, and was awarded the degree of doctor of science in 1894; he taught the natural sciences at the Clinton Liberal Institute, Fort Plain, N. Y., in 1893-95, at which latter time he was appointed assistant to" the New York State entomologist, acting State entomologist in April, 1898,
and State entomologist the following Dec .; he married Helen Maria Otterson, of Berlin, Mass., in June, 1896, and has a daughter and one son. The influence and usefulness of the office has been greatly extended since he took charge of it in 1898; he has contributed many popular articles to the agricultural press, is an ed- itor of the Country Gentleman, has pre- pared six annual reports besides a num- ber of important bulletins and other pa- pers. He is a fellow of the American As- sociation for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Association of Economic Entomologists (president in 1902), New York Entomological Society, Entomolog- ical Society of Washington, and of the Entomological Society of France; he is also president of the Entomological So- ciety of Albany, of which he is one of the founders. Address, Geological Hall, Albany, N. Y.
FERNALD, James Champlin:
Clergyman, editor, author; was born in Portland, Me., Aug. 18, 1838; descended from some of the oldest English settlers of Eastern New Hampshire and Western Maine; graduated from Harvard in 1860, taking the first Bowdoin prize for Eng- lish composition, and having held high rank in his class as a writer throughout his college course. He entered Newton Theological Institution in 1860, graduat- ing in 1863, having spent much time at intervals with the Union army at Fred- ericksburg, Gettysburg, and elsewhere, as a volunteer nurse, in the work of the Massachusetts Soldiers' Relief Association and similar organizations. He was or- dained to the Baptist ministry at Rutland, Tt., in 1864. Married Miss Mary B. Griggs, of Rutland, in 1869 (she died June 7, 1870); June 18, 1873, he married Nettie S. Barker, of McConnelsville, O., the daughter of Charles Barker, a descendant of an old New England family. Was for a time acting pastor at Waterville, Me., the seat of Colby University, then, .after a year in Europe, pastor at Granville, O., the seat of Denison University (Baptist);
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he was afterward pastor at Springfield and other places in Ohio, until, in 1889, he removed to New York to engage in literary work. He was for four years one of the staff of the Standard Dictionary, as editor of synonyms, antonyms and prepositions; afterwards spent two years as editor-in-chief of the Students' Stand- ard Dictionary, selecting and defining €5,000 words from the 300,000 of the larger work; has since prepared several other abridgments, the Standard Inter- mediate, Primary, etc .; also the Classic Speller, Scientific Side-Lights, 1901; for a time editor Homeletic Review; associate editor Columbia Cyclopædia. Author of "The Economics of Prohibition," 1890; "The New Womanhood," 1894; "Syno- nyms, Antonyms and Prepositions of the English Language," 1895; "The Spaniard in History," 1898; "The Imperial Repub- lic," 1898; "Home Training of Children," 1898; "True Motherhood," 1900. He U spending the winter of 1903-04 in Wash- ington. D. C., as literary editor of The Standard Encyclopædia of Temperance and Prohibition; residing at 151 U St., N. W. Permanent residence, Jewett Ave., W., New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y .; office, 30 Lafayette Place, New York.
FERNOW, Bernhard Eduard:
Forestry expert and consulting forest engineer; born in Inowraçlaw, Province of Posen, Prussia, Jan. 7, 1851; son of Eduard and Louise (Nordman) Fernow; graduate from gymnasium at Bromberg, forest academy at Münden; studied law at University of Königsberg; served in the army during the Franco-German War and became lieutenant of reserves; six years in Prussian forestry department. Immigrated to America in 1876; engaged in metallurgical business, establishing a factory in Brooklyn in 1879; in employ of Cooper, Hewitt & Co., from 1879 to 1883 in Pennsylvania, managing timber lands and acting as consulting forest en- gineer, making reports on timber lands, etc .; secretary of American Forestry As- sociation 1883-7; chairman executive com- mittee till 1898, first vice-president since. Chief of division of forestry, U. S. De- partment of Agriculture, 1886 to 1898; director of the first professional forestry school in this country, the New York State College of Forestry at Cornell Uni- versity, 1898 to 1903; received an honor- ary LL.D. from Wisconsin 1897, and from Queen's University, Canada, in 1903; fel- low of American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science; life member of American Institute of Mining Engineers; honorary . curator of National Museum; honorary member of Academy of Science of St. Petersburg, of English Aboricul- tural Society and of Pennsylvania For- estry Association, and active member of various scientific societies. Author of "Economics of Forestry" and many off- cial reports, bulletins and other publica- tions of professional and propagandist
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