Felton, Samuel Morse – Fergusson, H. B
Felton, Samuel Morse
civil engineer, was born July 17, 1809, in Newbury, Mass. He became superintendent and engineer of the Fitchburg railroad in 1843, and left it in 1851 to become the president of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore road, where he remained until 1865. He died Jan. 24, 1889, in Harvard, Pa.
Felton, Samuel Morse
railroad president, was born Feb. 3, 1853, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is president of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific railway.
Fendall, Josias
governor, was born in England. In 1657 he was elected governor of Maryland, serving until 1660.
Fenn, F. M. O
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 9, 1860, in Fort Bend county, Texas. He attended the Roanoke college, Virginia, and the university of Virginia; and is the holder of the orator's medal from both institutions. He has attained success as an able lawyer of Richmond, Texas, where he has always taken great interest in the public affairs of his county and state. In 1895 he was appointed special judge for Fort Bend county, Tex., by Governor C. A. Culberson; but he declined to serve in that office, preferring to give his large legal practice the benefit of his time and ability.
Fenn, Harry
artist, was born Sept. 14, 1838, in Surrey, England. He has achieved great success as an illustrator of books. Some of his best work is contained in Picturesque America, Picturesque Europe, and Picturesque Palestine.
Fenn, Stephen S
farmer, lawyer, congressman, was born March 28, 1820, in Watertown, Conn. He was a member of the legislative council of Idaho in 1864 and 1865; district attorney in 1869; and again in the assembly in 1872, and served as speaker of the house of representatives. He was elected a delegate from Idaho to the forty-fourth congress; and re-elected to the forty-fifth congress.
Fenner, Arthur
governor, was born in 1745, in Providence, R. I. He was clerk of the superior court of the state; and was chosen governor in 1789, and served until his death. He died Oct. 15, 1805, in Providence, R. I.
Fenner, Cornelius George
clergyman, poet, was born Dec. 30, 1822, in Providence, R. I. He was a unitarian clergyman at one time in charge of a church at Cincinnati; and the author of Poems of Many Moods. He died Jan. 4, 1847, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Fenner, James
governor, United States senator, was born in 1771, in Providence, R. I. He was United States senator from 1805 to 1807, when he was elected governor of Rhode Island, which office he held for four years. He was again elected in 1824, and served seven years; and was again elected in 1844. He was a presidential elector in 1821, 1827, and 1837; and was president of the convention that framed the state constitution in 1842. He died April 17, 1846, in Providence, R. I.
Fenner, Mrs. Mary Galentine
poet, was born May 17, 1839, in Rush, N.
Y. She has written extensively both prose and verse for current publications; and is the author of a volume of Poems.
Fenno, William Augustus
actor, was born March 1, 1814, in Boston, Mass.
He appeared in Philadelphia in 1848, at the Arch Street theater, as Romeo; visited California in 1850, and went to England in 1864. He died Feb. 14, 1873, in New York city.
Fenton, Lucien J
banker, congressman, was born May 7, 1844, in Winchester, Ohio. He was superintendent of public schools in Ohio for a number of years, serving a portion of the time as one of the school examiners for Adams county; and was awarded a high-school life certificate by the Ohio state board of school examiners in 1878.
He organized the Winchester bank in 1884, and still retains connection therewith. He was appointed a trustee of the Ohio university by Governor McKinley in 1892; and was elected to the fifty-fourth, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Fenton, Reuben Eaton
congressman, governor, United States senator, was born July 1, 1819, in Carroll, N. Y. He was elected a representative in the thirtythird and thirty-fifth congresses from New York; and was re-elected to the thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, and thirtyeighth congresses. He resigned to accept the governorship of New York for 1865 and 1866, to which he had been elected; and was re-elected to the same position in 1869. He was elected a senator in congress for the term ending in 1875. He died Aug. 25, 1885, in Jamestown, N. Y.
Fenton, William Matthew
lawyer, was born Dec. 19, 1808, in Norwich, N. Y. In 1848 he was elected lieutenantgovernor of Michigan, and re-elected in 1850 and 1851. He died May 13, 1871, in Flint, Mich.
Fenwick, Benedict Joseph
bishop, was born Sept. 3, 1782, in Leonardtown, Md. In 1817 he was elected president of Georgetown college; and was at the same time rector of Trinity college.
In 1825 he was appointed second Roman catholic bishop of Boston. He died Aug. 11, 1846, in Boston, Mass.
Fenwick, Cuthbert
was born in England. He sat in the assembly of 1648, and in several others. He was speaker of the house of burgesses when it sat separate from the council in 1649. died in 1655, in Fenwick Manor, Md.
He
Fenwick, Edward D
Roman catholic bishop, was born in 1768, in St. Mary's county, Md. In 1805 Father Fenwick traversed the entire valley of the Mississippi on a tour of observation with the view of finding a suitable center for his missionary labors. He selected a farm in Kentucky, paid for it out of his private fortune, and in the spring of 1806 built on it the Dominican convent of St.
Rose of Lima. He died Sept. 26, 1832, in Wooster, Ohio.
Fenwick, John R
soldier, was born in 1780, in Charleston, S. C. He was appointed lieutenant of United States marines in 1799. He was commissioned colonel of the fourth artillery in 1822, and brevet brigadier-general in 1823. He died March 19, 1842, in France.
Ferdon, John W
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1828, in Piermont, N. Y. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1855; a state senator in 1856 and 1857; and delegate to the republican national conventions of 1864 and 1876. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-sixth congress as a republican. He died Aug. 6, 1884.
Ferguson, Benjamin H. S
clergyman, was born July 14, 1861, in Pickensville, Ala. He received his education at the Rust university of Holly Springs.
Miss., and subsequently received the degree of LL. D. He has attained success as a clergyman in the methodist episcopal church; and has been pastor in various cities in the Upper Mississippi conference.
Ferguson, Elizabeth
poet, was born in 1739 in Philadelphia, Pa. She was a writer of poems and a translator of French verse. She died Feb. 23, 1801, in Graeme Park, Pa.
Ferguson, Emory C
contractor, miner, legislator, was born March 5, 1833, in Westchester county, N. Y. He moved to San Francisco in 1854, arriving there one year later. He engaged in mining and mercantile business, but subsequently settled in Washington, where he became a successful carpenter and builder. In 1864 he was elected to the territorial legislature, has since served seven sessions, and was speaker of the house for one term. In 1884-85 he was a commissioner to the cotton centennial exposition held in New Orleans. He has been mayor of the city of Snohomish for six terms, and is now engaged in quartz mining.
Ferguson, Fenner
lawyer, congressman, was born April 25, 1814, in Nassau, N. Y. He was master in chancery in Albany, N. Y., in 1844; also master in chancery in Michigan, and a member of the Michigan legislature, and prosecuting attorney. In 1854 he was appointed chief justice of the territory of Nebraska, which office he resigned, after being elected a delegate to the thirty-fifth congress from that territory. He died in November, 1859, in Bellevue, Nebraska territory.
Ferguson, Henry Clay
lawyer, was born Dec. 1, 1846, in Butler county, Ky. He has attained success as one of the leading lawyers of Texas, where he has a large practice in Denton.
Ferguson, James
civil engineer, astronomer, was born Aug. 31, 1797, in Scotland. He has been a valued contributor to discoveries in astronomy and an assistant in determining the boundary of the United States. He died Sept. 26, 1867.
Ferguson, Samuel David
bishop, was born Jan. 1, 1842, in Charleston, S. C.
In 1885 he came to the United States, and was consecrated in Grace church, New York city, in 1885. Soon afterward he returned to Cape Palmas, Liberia, and entered upon the duties of his office.
Fergusson, H. B
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 9, 1848, in Alabama. He belongs to a family that settled in the south in colonial days, several members of which distinguished themselves in the civil and military offices of the colonies and later in the service of the young republic; his father was an officer in the confederate army, and did excellent service under Gen. Lee until the close of the struggle; graduated from the Washington and Lee university, Lexington, Va., with the degree of M. A., in 1873. He graduated from the law department of that university in 1874, and commenced the practice of his profession at Wheeling, W. Va., where he remained until the year 1882.
In 1884 he located in Albuquerque, N. M., where he has since successfully practiced his profession. He was elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a democrat.