Faville, Henry – Feaster, Thomas J
Faville, Henry
clergyman, and founder of the Sunday Evening Club movement, was born July 7, 1847, in Milford, Wis. He is a distinguished clergyman of Wisconsin, and now fills a pastorate in La Crosse.
Fawcett, Edgar
author, was born May 26, 1847, in New York city. He is the author of An Ambitious Woman; Fabian Dimitry; A Gentleman of Leisure; A Hopeless Case; Olivia Delaplaine; Asses' Ears; A New York Family; The Confessions of Claude; Purple and Fine Linen; A Mild Barbarian; The House at High Bridge; Social Silhouettes; The Adventures of a Widow; Tinkling Cymbals; Rutherford; Douglas Duane; Ellen Story; A Demoralizing Marriage; A Man's Will; Miriam Balestier. In verse he has published Short Poems for Short People; The Buntling Ball, a satire; Poems of Fantasy and Passion; Romance and Revery; Song and Story; Songs of Doubt and Dream; and The New King Arthur. He has also written Agnosticism, and Other Essays.
Fawcett, Lemuel S
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born June 24, 1845, in Overton, Pa. He served as a soldier in the union army; and since 1873 has practiced law in Houston, Texas, where he is judge of his county. He is a logical speaker and a well known political writer.
Fawcett, Mary Huestis
author, poet, was born in May, 1843, in Ohio.
She was educated in the Mount Pleasant seminary of Ohio, and for many years has contributed both prose and verse to periodical literature. In 1880 she published a volume of poems; and in 1890 appeared a second volume entitled Ernestine and Other Poems.
Faxon, Edgar Wade
lawyer, journalist, legislator, was born Jan. 22, 1857, near Plano, Ill. He attended the common schools and colleges of Normal and Naperville, Ill., and graduated in the Latin scientific course, and from the Chicago College of Law. He served with distinction as a member of the thirty-fifth general assembly of Illinois; and was chairman of the committee of agriculture. He was the owner and publisher of The Journal of Amboy, Ill., during 1879-81; and since 1880 has owned and conducted a farm at Fox, Ill. He is now the owner and editor of the Kendall County News of Plano, Ill.; and is a prominent and able lawyer of that city.
Faxon, Henry W
journalist, was born about 1830, in Buffalo, N. Y. In 1861 he became an army correspondent for New York papers. Among his most noted efforts were the Silver Lake Snake Story; and the A. P. L. Parin Papers.
He died Sept. 11, 1864, in Washington, D. C.
Faxon, William
journalist, public official, was born April 27, 1822, in Hartford, Conn. He was one of the editors and proprietors of the Hartford Courant; and in 1856 established the Hartford Press, the first republican paper in Connecticut. He was chief clerk of the navy department from 1861 to 1866; and assistant secretary of the navy from 1866 to 1869.
Fay, Amy
musician, author, was born in 1844, in Louisiana. She is a Chicago musician; and the author of Music Study in Germany.
Fay, Edward Allen
educator, author, was born Nov. 22, 1843, in Morristown, N. J. He has been prominent in educational work, and was editor of American Annals of the Deaf. He is the author of Concordance of the Divina Commedia, and other works.
Fay, Francis Ball
merchant, state senator, congressman, was born June 12, 1793, in Southborough, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts senate in 1842 and 1845; mayor of Chelsea in 1857; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1852 to 1853. He died Oct. 6, 1876, in South Lancaster, Mass.
Fay, Franklin Brigham
state senator, was born Jan. 24, 1821, in Southboro, Mass. In 1851 he was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature; and in 1867 served with distinction as a state senator. During 1861-63 he was mayor of Chelsea, Mass.
Fay, George H
soldier, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Feb. 24, 1842, in Hudson, N. H. During 1861-65 he served as a soldier in the civil war and became captain of the United States volunteers.
He was a member of the house of representatives of the constitutional convention of North Dakota in 1891; and has been state's attorney and county judge of McIntosh county, N. D.
Fay, James A
lawyer, jurist, was born May 10, 1813, in Northampton, N. Y.
In 1867 he was appointed judge of the criminal court. He died April 9, 1876.
Fay, John
congressman, was born in Worcester county, Mass. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1819 to 1821.
Fay, Jonas
surgeon, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 17, 1737, in Hardwick, Mass. He was author of the declaration submitted to congress. He was secretary of the state constitutional convention of that year, and a member of the council of safety; and a member of the state council from 1778 to 1785. He was judge of the supreme court in 1782; judge of probate from 1772 to 1787; and agent of the state to congress in 1777, 1779, 1781, and 1782. He died March 6, 1818, in Bennington, Vt.
Fay, Joseph Story
merchant, farmer, was born Dec. 8, 1812, in Cambridge, Mass. He was a successful merchant of Savannah, Ga., and for over forty years has been a farmer at Woods Holl, Mass.
He has reclaimed by cultivating several hundred acres of land into a magnificent forest of pine trees; and is a member of the American forestry congress.
Fay, Orlin Prentice
soldier, genealogist, was born Sept. 13, 1820, in Plattsburgh, N. Y. He received his education at the Franklin academy of his native city. He was a soldier in the union army during the civil war; and is now a pensioner.
For many years he has been a band teacher at Vermontville, Mich. He has been county and state deputy grand worthy chief Templar a of New York state; and has filled numerous other positions of trust. For several years he has been engaged on a Genealogy of the Fay Family, which will be published in 1898.
Fay, Theodore Sedgewick
journalist, diplomat, author, was born Feb. 10, 1807, in New York. He is a writer who belongs to the generation of literary New Yorkers which included Halleck, Willis, and Bryant.
He was secretary of legation at Berlin, 1837-53, minister to Switzerland 1853-61.
He has since lived in Berlin.
The novel Norman Leslie is his best known work.
Others are, Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man; The Minute Book, a record of travel; Countess Ida; Hoboken, a romance of New York; Sidney Clifton; Robert Rueful; Ulric, a volume of verse; Views of Christianity; Great Outlines of Geography; History of Switzerland; and History of the Three Germanys.
Fayerweather, Lucy
philanthropist. She attained note as a philanthropist. She died in 1892.
Fearing, Benjamin Dana
soldier, was born Oct. 10, 1837, in Harmar, Ohio.
In 1862 he was made lieutenant-colonel of the ninety-second Ohio, which he had assisted in raising, and was promoted to colonel in 1863. He defended Hoover's Gap at the head of three regiments, and distinguished himself at Chickamauga, where he was severely wounded. He was brevetted brigadiergeneral of volunteers; and commanded a brigade in Sherman's march to the sea. He died Dec. 9, 1881, in Harmar, Ohio.
Fearing, Daniel Butler
capitalist, was born Aug. 14, 1859, in Newport, R. I. He has been school commissioner and alderman of Newport, R. I.; was elected mayor in 1893; and is a director of the National Bank of Rhode Island.
Fearing, Lillien B
lawyer, poet.
She is the author of The Sleepy World and Other Poems; In the City by the Lake; and Roberta.
Fearing, Paul
lawyer, jurist, congresman, was born Feb. 28, 1762, in Wareham, Mass. He was appointed United States attorney for Washington county, Ohio territory; and in 1797 was appointed judge of probate for his county.
He was a member of the first legislative council of Ohio in 1799, and in 1801 was chosen a delegate to congress, serving until 1803. In 1814 he was appointed master commissioner in chancery, and from 1810 to 1817 was judge in one of the state courts. He died Aug. 21, 1822.
Fearn, Walter
soldier, lawyer, diplomat, was born Jan. 13, 1832, in Huntsville, Ala. He went as secretary to the United States minister to Belgium; and in 1856 was appointed secretary of the legation of the United States at Mexico. He was professor of Spanish and Italian in the university of Louisiana, when, in 1885, he was appointed United States minister resident and consul general to Greece, Roumania, and Servia.
Feaster, Thomas J
physician, banker, state legislator, was born Oct. 12, 1860, in Warsaw, Mo. He is a successful physician and banker of China Springs, Mo.; and has served with distinction as a representative in the thirty-ninth general assembly of Missouri.