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Foote, Thomas Moses – Forbes, Robert Bennet
Foote, Thomas Moses
journalist, diplomat, was born in 1809, in Clinton, N. Y. In 1849 he was appointed charge d'affaires to New Grenada; and in 1852 was appointed to the same position near the government of Austria. He died Feb. 20, 1858, in Buffalo, N. Y.
Foote, Wallace Turner
lawyer, congressman, was born April 7, 1864, in Port Henry, N. Y. He is now at the head of the firm of Foote, Stokes and Owen, doing a general law business at that place. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Foote, William Henry
clergyman, educator, author, was born Dec. 20, 1794, in Colchester, Conn. He was a presbyterian clergyman and educator of West Virginia, and the author of Sketches of North Carolina; Sketches of the Presbyterian Church in Virginia; The Huguenots, or Reformed French Church; and Sketches of Virginia. He died Nov. 18, 1869, in Romney, W. Va.
Foran, Martin Ambrose
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 11, 1844, in Susquehanna county, Pa.
He was city prosecutor of Cleveland from 1875 to 1877; was an unsuccessful candidate for police judge in 1881; and was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a democrat.
Forbes, Charles Edwin
philanthropist, was born Aug. 25, 1795, in Bridgewater, Mass. He attained a national prominence as a philanthropist. He died Feb. 13, 1881, in Northampton, Mass.
Forbes, Edwin
artist, was born in 1839, in New York city. Since 1878 he has devoted himself to landscape and cattle pictures. His later works are Early Morning in an Orange County Pasture; Roughing; On the Meadows; and Evening in the Sheep Pasture.
Forbes, James
congressman. He was a delegate from Maryland to the continental congress from 1778 to 1780.
Forbes, John
librarian, was born in 1771, in Scotland. He was librarian of the New York society library, being prominent during that time among literary men in New York city. He died Oct. 4, 1824, in New York.
Forbes, John Franklin
educator, college president, was born June 13, 1853, in Middlesex, N. Y. He was professor of Greek and Latin in the state normal school at Brockway, N. Y., which position he resigned in 1885 to accept the presidency of the recently established De Land academy, subsequently John B. Stetson university, of De Land, Fla.
Forbes, John Murray
clergyman, was born in 1806. In 1869 he was elected dean of the General Theological seminary, resigning from that office in 1872. He died in 1885 in Elizabeth, N. J.
Forbes, Robert
clergyman, lecturer, was born Nov. 13, 1844, in Canada. He is a successful clergyman of the methodist episcopal church, and now fills a pastorate in Duluth, Minn. He has been a presiding elder; chaplain of the Minnesota senate; and orator and grand chaplain of the grand lodge of the A. F. and A. M.
He is a brilliant public lecturer, and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Forbes, Robert Bennet
merchant, author, was born in 1804, in Massachusetts. He was a sea captain, and subsequently a Boston merchant. He was the author of China and the China Trade; Construction of Ships for the Merchant Service; Life Boats, Projectiles, and Other Means for Saving Life; Seamen Past and Present; Rambling Reminiscences; and Notes on Some Few Wrecks and Rescues.