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Folsom, Joseph L – Foot, Samuel Alfred

Folsom, Joseph L

soldier, was born May 19, 1817, in Meredith, N. H. He was one of the first to appreciate the discovery of gold in California and to impart the news officially to the government.

Folsom City, Folsom City, on the American river, near where gold was discovered, was named for him. He died July 19, 1855, in San Jose , Cal.

Folsom, Mrs. L. A

poet, was born July 23, 1844, in Milford, Maine. She is the author of a number of poems, and is engaged as a writer for various newspapers.

Folsom, Montgomery M

journalist, poet, was born Jan. 31, 1857, in Ha- , poet, was born Jan. 31, 1857, in Hahira, Ga. He was employed on the Atlanta Constitution, and is now on its editorial staff.

In 1888 he published Scraps of Song and Southern Scenes, a collection of poems and sketches.

Folsom, Nathaniel

soldier, congressman, was born in 1726, in Exeter, N. H. He was a brigadier-general during the siege of Boston in 1775. He was a delegate to the continental congress in president of the convention which framed 1774-80; was a councilor in 1778; and was the constitution of New Hampshire in 1783. He died May 26, 1790, in Exeter, Ν. Η.

Foltz, Samuel

merchant, was born Sept. 18, 1859, in Hillsdale, Mich. In 1888 he opened branch stores in Otsego and Schoolcraft, Mich.; but in 1892 ne three stores, and established the largest lished the largest clothing house in Kalamazoo county. cator, author, was born Feb. 14, 1833, in

Folwell, William Watts

edu- WATTS, edu- Romulus, N. Y.

He is an educator of Minnesota, and the author of Public Instruction in Minnesota; and Lectures on Political Economy.

Fonerden, John

physician, educator, was born in 1804, in Baltimore, Md.

He was professor of obstetrics in Washington university of Baltimore in 1845-46; and resident physician of the Maryland hospital for the insane from 1846 till his death. He died May 6, 1869, in New York city.

Fones, Daniel Gilbert

merchant, banker, was born Aug. 19, 1837, in De- , was born Aug. 19, 1837, in Decatur, Ga. Upon the outbreak of the civil war he entered the confederate service.

After the war he resumed business at Little Rock , Ark., under the firm name of is also president of the German National Fones Brothers Hardware company. He bank.

Fones, James A

merchant, was born Nov. 6, 1839, in Decatur, Ga. He was. president of the Little Rock Electric Light company; and for thirty years was prominently connected with the business affairs of Little Rock.

Fontaine, Edward

clergyman, author, was born in 1814, in Virginia. He was an episcopal clergyman of Mississippi, and sippi, and the author of How the World , a series of ethnological lectures. He died in tures. He died in 1884.

Fontaine, Francis

author. He was the author of The Exile; and Etowah, a Romance of the Confederacy.

Foot, Samuel Alfred

lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born Dec. 17, 1790, in Watertown, N. Y. He was district attorney for Albany county in 1819-21. He was judge of the court of appeals in 1851, and in 1856-57 served two terms in the legislature legislature, where he introduced resoluthe Dred Scott decision. He died May 11, 1878, in Geneva, N. Y.