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Folsom, Nathaniel Smith

clergyman, author, was born March 12, 1806, in Portsmouth , N. H. He has contributed to current literature, and published Critical and Historical Interpretation of the Prophecies of Daniel, and other works.

FOLSOM, MRS. SUSANNAH SARAH, author, poet. She edited volumes thir- , poet.

She edited volumes thirteen and fourteen of the Child's Friend, and wrote an Ode for Ladies Fair. She also contributed to Miss A. W. Abbot's Autumn Leaves, and to Arthur Gilman's The Cambridge of 1776. lawyer, lecturer, was born July 16, 1849, FOLTZ, MRS. CLARA SHORTRIDGE, in Henry county , Ind. She went before the California legislature of 1877-78, and secured the passage of an act permitting women to practice law, and was the first to take advantage of it.

FOLTZ, JONATHAN MESSERSMITH, surgeon, was born April 25, 1810, in Lancaster, Pa. In 1870-71 he was president of the naval medical board. He became medical director in 1871, and chief of the bureau of medicine and surgery, with the rank of commodore. He died April 12, 1877, in Philadelphia, Pa.