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French, C. E. G

lawyer, jurist. He was an early emigrant to California, and in 1875 was appointed from that state as chief justice for the United States court for the territory of Utah.

French, Daniel Chester

sculptor, was born April 20, 1850, in Exeter, N. H. His sculptures include The Minute Man of Concord, an heroic statue in bronze, which was unveiled in Concord in 1875; The May Queen; Elsie Venner; The Waking of Endymion; and a lifesize statue of Gen. Lewis Cass, for the National Memorial gallery at Washington.

French, Edwin Ruthven

clergyman, state senator, was born Dec. 13, 1828, in Chesterville, Maine. He has served two terms as a member of the Maine state senate.

French, Ezra B

congressman, was born in New Hampshire. He became secretary of state of Maine; and was a representative from Maine to the thirty-sixth congress. He was also a member of the peace congress of 1861; and was appointed second auditor of the United States treasury. He died April 24, 1880.

French, Francis Ormond

banker, was born Sept. 12, 1837, in Chester, N. H. In 1867 he was a member of the banking firm of Foote and French; and in 1888 became president of the Manhattan Trust company of New York city.

French, George Hazen

educator, author, was born March 19, 1841, in Onondaga county, N. Y. Since 1878 he has been curator of the museum of the southern Illinois State Normal university of Carbondale, Ill. He is the author of Butterflies of Eastern United States, besides a great many articles contributed to leading entomological journals.

French, Henry Flagg

banker, lawyer, jurist, college president, author, was born Aug. 14, 1813, in Chester, N. H.

He was appointed assistant district attorney for Suffolk county in 1862, and held the office until 1865, when he was elected the first president of the Massachusetts Agricultural college.

In 1876 he was appointed assistant secretary of the United States treasury, at Washington, and continued in that office under successive administrations. In 1857 he published a treatise on Farm Drainage.

French, Henry Willard

lecturer, author, was born in 1853 in Connecticut. He is a lecturer and miscellaneous writer of Boston; and the author of Art and Artists in Connecticut; Our Boys in China; Our Boys in India: Through Arctics and Tropics; Gems of Genius; Nuna the Brahmin Girl; Lance of Kehama; Oscar Peterson; Colonel Thorndike's Adventures; and the novels, The Only One; Castle Foam; and Ego.

French, Mansfield

clergyman, educator, college president, journalist, was born Feb. 21, 1810, in Manchester, Vt.

He was the founder of Marietta college, Granville Female seminary, and princi pal of Circleville Female college, Ohio.

He was president of the Xenia Female college and agent for Wesleyan university. He died March 15, 1876, in Pearsalls, L. I.

French, Richard

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Kentucky. He became a prominent judge in that state, and the town of Frenchburg was named for him. He was a member of the legislature from Clark county in 1820 and 1822; a presidential elector for Jackson in 1829; and was a representative in congress from 1835 to 1837; and again from 1847 to 1849.

French, Thomas N

journalist, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 14, 1837, in Randolph, Mass. In 1884 he founded The Commercial Advertiser and Gazette of La- Fayette, Ind., of which he was editor and owner; and in 1886 became the editor and owner of The Times of Alexandria, Ind.

He is a successful lawyer of Alexandria; and in 1894 was elected justice of the peace.