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Fitzhugh, William Henry – Flagler, Henry N

Fitzhugh, William Henry

philanthropist, author, was born March 8, 1792, in Chatham, Va. He was elected vice-president of the American colonization society, and took an active interest in it, supporting it both with voice and pen. In 1826 he published a series of essays in behalf of the cause, over the signature of Opimius, in the columns of the Richmond Inquirer. He died May 21, 1830, in Cambridge, Md.

Fitzpatrick, T. Y

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 20, 1850, in Floyd county, Ky. He has filled the positions of county judge, county attorney, and representative in the state legislature; was democratic elector in 1884, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Fitzsimons, Thomas

congressman, was born in 1741 in Ireland. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1795; and was a member of the legislature for many years.

He was president of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and of other local institutions. He died in August, 1811.

Flaget, Benedict Joseph

bishop, was born Nov. 7, 1763, in France. In 1841 he was ordained Roman catholic bishop, Bardstown, Louisville, Ky. He died Feb. 11, 1850, in Nazareth, Ky.

Flagg, Edmund

lawyer, journalist, author, poet, was born Nov. 24, 1815, in Maine. He was a lawyer and journalist of St. Louis and elsewhere, living in West Salem, Va., in recent years. He was the author of Venice, the City of the Sea, a history, his most important work. Other writings of his include North Italy since 1849; Commercial Relations of the United States; Blanche of Artois; and Edmond Dantes, sequel to Monte Cristo. a

Flagg, George Whiting

artist, was born June 26, 1816, in New Haven, Conn. Among his pictures are Landing of the Pilgrims; Landing of the Atlantic Cable; and Columbus and the Egg.

Flagg, Henry Collins

lawyer, journalist, was born Jan. 5, 1792, near Charleston, S. C. He took an active part in politics, opposing the federalist party in Connecticut, both as a public speaker and as editor and proprietor of the Connecticut Herald. He died March 8, 1863, in New Haven, Conn.

Flagg, Isaac

educator, author, was born in 1843 in Massachusetts. He was a professor of Greek at Cornell university in 1871-88, and has been a professor at the university of California since 1891. He is the author of The Hellenic Orations of Demosthenes; Versicles; The Seven Against Thebes, of Æschylus; and Iphigenia among the Taurians, of Euripides.

Flagg, Rufus Cushman

clergyman, educator, was born Aug. 3, 1846.

This eminent educator and clergyman is well known as the president of Ripon college of Wisconsin.

Flagg, Willard Cutting

agriculturist, was born Sept. 16, 1829, in Moro, Ill. He became prominent in local politics, was collector of internal revenue for the twelfth district of Illinois in 1862-69, and a member of the state senate in 1869- 73. He died March 30, 1878, in Moro, Ill.

Flagg, Wilson

naturalist, author, was born Nov. 5, 1805, in Beverly, Mass.

He was a naturalist of Cambridge; and the author of Studies in the Field and Forest; Woods and By-Ways of New England; Halcyon Days; A Year among the Trees; and A Year among the Birds.

He died May 6, 1884, in North Cambridge, Mass.

Flagler, Henry N

oil producer, refiner, was born about 1830 in Canandaigua, N. Y. When he was admitted to partnership in the oil refining firm of Rockefeller, Andrews and Flagler of that city, his future was assured. The Standard Oil Co. succeeded the firm to which Mr. Flagler belonged, and he has been prominently identified with its management since its organization.