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Ferguson, Henry Clay

lawyer, was born Dec. 1, 1846, in Butler county, Ky. He has attained success as one of the leading lawyers of Texas, where he has a large practice in Denton.

Ferguson, James

civil engineer, astronomer, was born Aug. 31, 1797, in Scotland. He has been a valued contributor to discoveries in astronomy and an assistant in determining the boundary of the United States. He died Sept. 26, 1867.

Ferguson, Samuel David

bishop, was born Jan. 1, 1842, in Charleston, S. C.

In 1885 he came to the United States, and was consecrated in Grace church, New York city, in 1885. Soon afterward he returned to Cape Palmas, Liberia, and entered upon the duties of his office.

Fernald, Benjamin F

lawyer, jurist, was born July 10, 1841, in Exeter, Maine. For many years he was superintendent of schools in his native state; has been trial justice; justice of the peace; and filled various other positions of honor in his native state. He has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press.

Fernald, Charles Henry

naturalist, author, was born March 16, 1838, in Mount Desert, Maine. He is a naturalist who has been professor of zoölogy at Massachusetts Agricultural college since 1886; and is the author of Tortricidæ of North America; Butterflies of Maine; Grasses of Maine; and Sphingidæ of New England.

Fernald, Chester Bailey

author, was born in 1868. He is a littérateur of San Francisco; and the author of The Cat and the Cherub, and Other Stories.

Fernald, James Champlin

author, was born in 1838 in Maine. He is the author of The Economics of Prohibition; and The New Womanhood. FERNALD, MERRITT CALDWELL, educator, was born May 25, 1838, in South Levant, Maine. He has attained success as a noted educator.

Ferrel, William

meteorologist, author, was born in 1817 in Pennsylvania. He was a distinguished meteorologist employed at various times in the coast survey and the signal service. He was the author of Recent Advances in Meteorology; Popular Treatise on the Winds; and Motions of Fluids and Solids on the Earth's Surface. He died in 1891.

Ferrell, Thomas M

state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 1844, in Glassboro, N. J. He was a member of the state assembly in 1879 and 1880; a state senator in 1881; and was elected a representative from New Jersey to the fortyeighth congress as a democrat.

Ferris, Benjamin

author. He was a watchmaker, lived for many years in Philadelphia, and was clerk of the Philadelphia meeting of Friends. He published History of the Early Settlements on the Delaware, from its Discovery to the Colonization under William Penn. He died in 1867 in Wilmington, Del.

Ferris, Charles G

congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1841 to 1843.

Ferris, George Titus

author. He was the author of Great German Composers; Great Italian and French Composers; Great Singers; Great Violinists and Pianists; and Great Leaders.