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Francis, Convers

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 9, 1795, in West Cambridge , Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of Watertown, Mass., and subsequently Parkman professor of pulpit eloquence at Harvard university in 1843- 63. He was the author of Life of John Eliot; Historical Sketch of Watertown; and Errors of Education. He died April 7, 1863, in Cambridge, Mass.

Francis, David Rowland

merchant, governor, was born Oct. 1, 1850, in Richmond , Ky. In 1885 was elected mayor of St.

Louis and served until 1889, when he was inaugurated governor of Missouri, having having been elected to that office the prefall. He served as governor until January, 1893, and then returned to St.

Louis, where he was engaged in commercial pursuits until appointed secretary of the interior in 1896.

Francis, Harry H

journalist, state senator, was born Feb. 24, 1852, in Michigan City , Ind. From 1886 to 1890 he was a member of the Indiana state senate; and was the founder and publisher of the Michigan City Daily and Weekly Dispatch.

He was state bank examiner from 1890 until his death, which occurred Sept. 15, 1891.

Francis, James Bicheno

engineer, author, was born May 18, 1815, in Eng- , was born May 18, 1815, in England. He was a noted hydraulic engineer of Lowell; and the author of Lowell Hydraulic Experiments; and The Strength of Cast Iron Columns. He died in 1892.

Francis, John Brown

governor, United States senator, was born May 31, 1794, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a member of the state legislature from 1821 to 1829; state senator in 1831; and governor from 1833 to 1838. He was state senator in 1842; United States senator in 1844 and 1845 , and state senator again from 1849 to 1856. He died Aug. 9, 1864, in Rhode Island.

Francis, John Francis

soldier, lawyer, was born Aug. 29, 1839. He was commissioned colonel of the eighty-first United States colored troops, served in the department of the gulf, and was brevetted brigadier -general of volunteers in 1865. He died Aug. 31, 1871, in Bangor, Maine.

Francis, John Morgan

journalist, diplomat, was born March 6, 1823, in Prattsburgh, N. Y. In 1851 he established the Daily Times at Troy. He was appointed United States minister to Greece in 1871; and was appointed United States minister to Portugal in 1882.

Francis, John Wakefield

physician, author, was born Nov. 17, 1789, in New York city. He was a physician of much prominence at one time in medical and literary circles of New York city. He was the author of Use of Mercury; Cases of Morbid Anatomy; Febrile Contagion; The Anatomy of Drunkenness; and Old New York, a volume of pleasant reminiscences. He died Feb. 8, 1861, in New York city.

Francis, Joseph

inventor, was born March 12, 1801, in Boston, Mass. To him may be conceded the first use of iron floating vessels. In 1850 two hundred persons were saved by his life-car from the British emigrant vessel Ayreshire, which was wrecked on Swan Beach.

Francis, Samuel Ward

physician, author, was born Dec. 26, 1835, in New York city. He was a physician of New York city and subsequently of Newport, R. I. He was the author of Mott's Clinics; Water; Inside and Out; Biographical Sketches of New York Surgeons and Physicians; Life and Death; and Curious Facts Concerning Man and Nature. He died March 25, 1886, in Newport, R. I.