Forbes, Eli
clergyman, was born in October, 1726, in Westborough, Mass. In 1758-59 he twice acted as chaplain of a provincial regiment, and in 1762 conducted a successful mission to the Oneida Indians, among whom he established a church and two schools. He died Dec. 15, 1804, in Gloucester, Mass.
FORBES, MRS. HARRIETTE (MER- RIFIELD), author, was born in 1856, in Massachusetts. She is a writer of Westborough, Mass., and the author of The Hundredth Town, a series of historical sketches of Westborough; and A Lily Stalk, studies of child life.