Fernald, Benjamin F – Fessenden, Thomas Amory De- Bloise
Fernald, Benjamin F
lawyer, jurist, was born July 10, 1841, in Exeter, Maine. For many years he was superintendent of schools in his native state; has been trial justice; justice of the peace; and filled various other positions of honor in his native state. He has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press.
Fernald, Charles Henry
naturalist, author, was born March 16, 1838, in Mount Desert, Maine. He is a naturalist who has been professor of zoölogy at Massachusetts Agricultural college since 1886; and is the author of Tortricidæ of North America; Butterflies of Maine; Grasses of Maine; and Sphingidæ of New England.
Fernald, Chester Bailey
author, was born in 1868. He is a littérateur of San Francisco; and the author of The Cat and the Cherub, and Other Stories.
Fernald, James Champlin
author, was born in 1838 in Maine. He is the author of The Economics of Prohibition; and The New Womanhood.
Fernald, Merritt Caldwell
educator, was born May 25, 1838, in South Levant, Maine. He has attained success as a noted educator.
Ferrel, William
meteorologist, author, was born in 1817 in Pennsylvania. He was a distinguished meteorologist employed at various times in the coast survey and the signal service. He was the author of Recent Advances in Meteorology; Popular Treatise on the Winds; and Motions of Fluids and Solids on the Earth's Surface. He died in 1891.
Ferrell, Thomas M
state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 1844, in Glassboro, N. J. He was a member of the state assembly in 1879 and 1880; a state senator in 1881; and was elected a representative from New Jersey to the fortyeighth congress as a democrat.
Ferrin, Chester M
soldier, physician, was born Sept. 27, 1837, in Holland, Vt. He has filled the positions of school trustee, superintendent of schools, commissioner of insane for the state of Vermont, and for thirty years has been secretary of the Eighth Vermont Regiment association. He served three years in the civil war, and is now commander of Sherman post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Essex, Vt. He has been successfully engaged in the practice of medicine since 1865, and since 1872 at Essex Junction, Vt. In 1897 he was elected a member of the Vermont state legislature.
Ferris, a. F
banker, state legislator, was born in 1865 in Perrysburg, N. Y. In 1872 he moved to Minnesota, where he is president of the First National bank of Brainerd. In 1891 he was secretary of the game and fish commission, and vicepresident of the Brainerd board of trade. He has also served two terms as a member of the state legislature.
Ferris, Benjamin
author. He was a watchmaker, lived for many years in Philadelphia, and was clerk of the Philadelphia meeting of Friends. He published History of the Early Settlements on the Delaware, from its Discovery to the Colonization under William Penn. He died in 1867 in Wilmington, Del.
Ferris, Charles G
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1841 to 1843.
Ferris, George Titus
author. He was the author of Great German Composers; Great Italian and French Composers; Great Singers; Great Violinists and Pianists; and Great Leaders.
Ferris, George W
civil engineer, inventor, was born in 1858. He was the inventor of the Ferris wheel that was the wonder of engineering at the world's fair in Chicago. He died of typhoid fever Nov. 22, 1896, in Pittsburg, Pa.
Ferris, Isaac
clergyman, was born Oct. 9, 1798, in New York city. He settled in Albany in 1824-36, and at the Market street church, New York, in 1836-53.
Ferris, John Charles
horticulturist, author, lecturer, was born Jan. 2, 1835, in Chenango Forks, N. Y. He received his education in the common schools of New York and Illinois. He served as a member in the third territorial legislature of Wyoming. He served for over three years in the civil war, and is the present commander of the J. W. Mc- Kinzie post number 81, Grand Army of the Republic, department of Iowa. For three terms he was president of the Northern Iowa Horticultural society, and is now connected with the Iowa State Horticultural society. He has written extensively on subjects of horticulture and has lectured on that and kindred topics.
Ferris, John Mason
clergyman, was born Jan. 17, 1825, in Albany, N. Y.
He became editor of the Christian Intelligencer in 1883, and treasurer of the foreign mission board in 1886. He is the author of a History of Foreign Missions.
Ferriss, Orange
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 26, 1814, in Glens Falls, N. Y. He was appointed surrogate of his county for four years; in 1851 was elected, under the new constitution, judge of Warren county, and twice re-elected, holding the office twelve years in all. In 1866 he was elected a representative from New York to the fortieth congress, and was re-elected to the fortyfirst congress. In 1880 he was appointed second auditor of the United States treasury.
Ferry, Dexter Mason
seedsman, was born Aug. 8, 1833, in Lowville, N. Y.
He organized the firm of D. M. Ferry and Co. in 1867. In 1879 the house was incorporated with Mr. Ferry as president. He is also president of the First National bank, the Union Trust company, the American Harrow company, the American Blower company, the National Pin company, and other corporations.
Ferry, Elisha P
governor, was born Aug. 9, 1825, in Monroe, Mich. He resided at Waukegan until 1869, when he removed to the territory of Washington.
In 1872 he was appointed governor of the territory, and reappointed in 1876, serving until 1880; and was elected again in 1889.
Ferry, Orris Sanford
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born Aug. 15, 1823, in Bethel, Conn. In 1849 he was appointed judge of probate for the district of Norwalk, and was elected to the state senate in 1855 and 1856. In 1856 he was appointed state's attorney for the county of Fairfield, which position he continued to fill until 1859, when he was elected a representative to the thirty-sixth congress from Connecticut. He served with distinction as a colonel and brigadier-general in the war for the union. In 1866 he was elected a senator in congress for the term commencing March, 1867, and ending in 1873. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866 and to the soldiers' convention, held at Pittsburg in 1872. He was re-elected to the United States senate for six years, for a second full term. He died Nov. 21, 1875, in South Norwalk, Conn.
Ferry, Thomas White
congressman, United States senator, was born June 1, 1827, in Mackinaw, Mich. He was elected to the state legislature and to the state senate in 1856.
In 1864 he was elected a representative from Michigan to the conthirty ninth congress; was re-elected to the fortieth, fortyfirst and forty-second congresses, but did not take his seat in the latter, as he was chosen a sena- 2 tor in congress for the term ending in 1877, and was re-elected senator for the term ending in 1883.
Ferry, William Montague
clergyman, was born Sept. 8, 1796, in Granby, Mass. In 1834 he purchased, with others, a tract of land in the Grand river valley, where he founded a settlement and went extensively into the manufacture of lumber. He died Dec. 30, 1867, in Grand Haven, Mich.
Fess, Simeon Davidson
educator, lecturer, author, was born Dec. 11, 1861, in Lima, Ohio. He is favorably known as a popular lecturer. He is the author of A Compendium of United States History, and Outlines of Physiology and Hygiene.
Fessenden, Francis
lawyer, soldier, was born March 18, 1839, in Portland, distinction Maine. He served with through the civil war, and was bresubsevetted major-general. He was subsequently appointed secretary of the treasury, and now practices his profession of law in Portland, Maine.
Fessenden, Samuel
soldier, lawyer, was born in Rockland, Maine. He was appointed second lieutenant in the fifth Maine battery, Jan. 18, 1865. He is a lawyer and politician in Stamford, Conn.
Fessenden, Samuel
lawyer, philanthropist, was born July 16, 1784, in Fryeburg, Maine. In 1815-16 he was in the general court of Massachusetts, and in 1818-19 represented his district in the Massachusetts senate. For fourteen years he was major-general of the twelfth division of Massachusetts militia. He died March 13, 1869, in Portland, Maine. was
Fessenden, Samuel Clement
clergyman, lawyer, congressman, born March 7, 1815, in New Gloucester, Maine. In 1856 he established the Maine Evangelist; in 1858 entered upon the practice of law; and soon after was elected judge of the municipal court of Rockland. He was elected a representative from Maine to the thirty-seventh congress. In 1865 he was appointed a member of the board of examiners of the patent office.
Fessenden, Thomas
clergyman, author, was born in 1739 in Cambridge, Mass. He became pastor in Walpole, N.
H., which charge he held from 1767 till 1813. He was author of The Science of Sanctity, and The Boston Self-Styled Gentlemen-Reviewers Reviewed. He died in 1813.
Fessenden, Thomas Amory De- Bloise
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 23, 1826, in Portland, Maine. In 1858 he was appointed aide-de-camp to the governor of Maine. In 1860 he was elected to the Maine legislature, and in 1861 was chosen attorney for the county of Androscoggin, which position he held until 1862, when he was elected a representative from Maine to the thirty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy. He died Sept. 28, 1868, in Lewiston, Maine.