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Fitts, Oliver – Fitzhugh, William

Fitts, Oliver

jurist. He was a citizen of Mississippi; and in 1810 was appointed United States judge for the territory of Mississippi.

Fitz, Henry

telescope-maker, was. born in 1808 in Newburyport, Mass. In 1835 he made his first reflecting telescope,. and in the winter of 1844 invented a method of perfecting object-glasses for refracting telescopes, constructing the first one: out of the bottom of an ordinary tumbler.

He died Nov. 6, 1863, in New York city.

Fitzgerald, John F

lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 11, 1865, in Boston, Mass. He was a member of the Boston common council of 1892; and was elected a member of the Massachusetts state senate in 1893 and 1894. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat.

Fitzgerald, Louis

soldier, merchant, was born May 31, 1838, in New York city. He entered the United States service as first lieutenant in the eleventh regiment New York volunteers, served throughout the war and attained the rank of brigadier-general. He was for several years president of the New York Mercantile Trust company, and is connected with a number of prominent corporations of that city.

Fitzgerald, Marcella A

poet, was born Feb. 23, 1845, in Canada. She is the author of Poems, a volume which contains her best productions.

Fitzgerald, Oscar Penn

clergyman, bishop, author, was born Aug. 24, 1829, in Caswell county, N. C. This eminent clergyman has been superintendent of public instruction of the state of California; editor of the Christian Advocate of Nashville, Tenn.; and bishop of the methodist episcopal church south. He is the author of California Sketches; Centenary Cameos; Glimpses of Truth; Christian Growth; Life of McFerrin; Dr.

Summers, A Life Study; Eminent Methodists; The Epworth Book; and other works.

Fitzgerald, Thomas

soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born April 10, 1796, in Germantown, N. Y. In 1848 and 1849 he was a senator in congress from Michigan under the appointment of the governor. He died March 25, 1855, in Niles, Mich.

Fitzgerald, William

jurist, congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1831 to 1833, and was a member of the committee on expenditures in the treasury department. He was also judge of the circuit court of Tennessee.

Fitzhugh, Edward Henry

lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 21, 1816, in Caroline county, Va. He removed to Richmond, Va., in 1861, and served in an important capacity in the quartermaster's department of the confederate army from 1861 till 1865.

Fitzhugh, George

lawyer, author, was born July 2, 1807, in Prince William, Va. He was a lawyer of Port Royal, Va.; and was the author of Sociology for the South; and Cannibals All, or Slaves without Masters. He died July 30, 1881, in Huntsville, Texas.

Fitzhugh, Nicholas

jurist, came of a Virginia family. In 1803 he was appointed a judge of the circuit court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

Fitzhugh, William

congressman, was born in 1726 in Stafford county, Va.

He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1779 to 1780. He died in 1809.