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Fay, Franklin Brigham – Febiger, John Carson

Fay, Franklin Brigham

state senator, was born Jan. 24, 1821, in Southboro, Mass. In 1851 he was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature; and in 1867 served with distinction as a state senator. During 1861-63 he was mayor of Chelsea, Mass.

Fay, George H

soldier, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Feb. 24, 1842, in Hudson, N. H. During 1861-65 he served as a soldier in the civil war and became captain of the United States volunteers.

He was a member of the house of representatives of the constitutional convention of North Dakota in 1891; and has been state's attorney and county judge of McIntosh county, N. D.

Fay, James A

lawyer, jurist, was born May 10, 1813, in Northampton, N. Y.

In 1867 he was appointed judge of the criminal court. He died April 9, 1876.

Fay, John

congressman, was born in Worcester county, Mass. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1819 to 1821.

Fay, Joseph Story

merchant, farmer, was born Dec. 8, 1812, in Cambridge, Mass. He was a successful merchant of Savannah, Ga., and for over forty years has been a farmer at Woods Holl, Mass.

He has reclaimed by cultivating several hundred acres of land into a magnificent forest of pine trees; and is a member of the American forestry congress.

Fayerweather, Lucy

philanthropist. She attained note as a philanthropist. She died in 1892.

Fearing, Benjamin Dana

soldier, was born Oct. 10, 1837, in Harmar, Ohio.

In 1862 he was made lieutenant-colonel of the ninety-second Ohio, which he had assisted in raising, and was promoted to colonel in 1863. He defended Hoover's Gap at the head of three regiments, and distinguished himself at Chickamauga, where he was severely wounded. He was brevetted brigadiergeneral of volunteers; and commanded a brigade in Sherman's march to the sea. He died Dec. 9, 1881, in Harmar, Ohio.

Fearing, Daniel Butler

capitalist, was born Aug. 14, 1859, in Newport, R. I. He has been school commissioner and alderman of Newport, R. I.; was elected mayor in 1893; and is a director of the National Bank of Rhode Island.

Fearing, Lillien B

lawyer, poet.

She is the author of The Sleepy World and Other Poems; In the City by the Lake; and Roberta.

Fearn, Walter

soldier, lawyer, diplomat, was born Jan. 13, 1832, in Huntsville, Ala. He went as secretary to the United States minister to Belgium; and in 1856 was appointed secretary of the legation of the United States at Mexico. He was professor of Spanish and Italian in the university of Louisiana, when, in 1885, he was appointed United States minister resident and consul general to Greece, Roumania, and Servia.

Febiger, Christian

soldier, was born in 1746, in Denmark. He served in the revolutionary war, retiring from active service Jan. 1, 1783, and was brevetted brigadier-general in the following September. He died Sept. 20, 1796, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Febiger, John Carson

naval officer, was born Feb. 14, 1821, in Pittsburg, Pa. He served in the United States navy during the civil war; attained the rank of commodore; and in 1882 he was made rear admiral in the United States navy.