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Frelinghuysen, Theodore

lawyer, United States senator, was born March 28, 1787, in Millstown, N. J. He was attorney general of New Jersey from 1818 to 1829; a presidential elector in 1829; and a senator in congress from New Jersey from 1829 to 1835. He was chancellor of the university of New York from 1839 to 1850. He was the candidate of the Whig party for vice-president upon the ticket with Henry Clay; and in 1850 was elected president of Rutgers college, where he officiated until his death. He died April 12, 1862, in New Brunswick.

FREMONT, MRS. JESSIE BENTON, author, was born in 1824 in Virginia. She is a resident of Los Angeles; and the author of The Story of the Guard, a Chronicle of the War; A Year of American Travel; Souvenirs of My Time; Sketch of Senator Benton; Far West Sketches; and Will and the Way Stories.