Field, Eugene – Fields, William C
Field, Eugene
journalist, author, poet, was born in 1850 in Maine. He was a journalist and author of Chicago whose writing has received much undiscriminating and damaging praise. He was the author of The Denver Tribune Primer; Culture's Garland; A Little Book of Profitable Tales; A Little Book of Western Verse; Second Book of Verse; Love Songs of Childhood; With Trumpet and Drum (verse); Echoes from the Sabine Farm (with R. M. Field); Songs and Other Verse; A Second Book of Verse; and The Holy Cross, and Other Tales. He died in 1895 in Chicago, Ill.
Field, George Washington
lawyer, author. He was the author of Iowa County and Township Officers; Law of Damages; Private Corporations for Pecuniary Gain; Law of Private Corporations; Constitution and Jurisdiction of United States Supreme Courts; Field's Lawyers' Briefs; Field's Medico-Legal Guide for Doctors and Lawyers; and Legal Relations of Infants in the State of New York. He died in 1889.
Field, Henry Martyn
clergyman, author, was born April 3, 1822, in Stockbridge, Mass. He is a congregational clergyman, and editor of the New York Evangelist, whose writings are chiefly concerned with his extensive travels. He is the author of From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn; From Egypt to Japan; Story of the Atlantic Télegraph; Among the Holy Hills; Our Western Archipelago; The Barbary Coast; On the Desert; Old Spain and New Spain; Gibraltar; Bright Skies and Dark Shadows; Summer Pictures, from Copenhagen to Venice; Blood is Thicker than Water; and The Irish Confederates, or the Rebellion of 1798. He is a brother of Cyrus W. Field.
Field, Henry Martyn
physician, educator, author, was born Oct. 3, 1837, in Brighton, Mass. He is a physician and professor in Dartmouth Medical school.
Evacuant Medication is his only publication.
Field, James Gaven
lawyer, was born Feb. 24, 1826, in Walnut, Va. He was attorney for the commonwealth in his native county from 1860 till 1865.
Since the war he has been attorney-general of the state.
Field, Jesse Southwick
lawyer, was born Oct. 3, 1862, in River Falls, Wis.
In 1886 he graduated from the law department of the university of Wisconsin, and received the degree of LL. B. He is a successful lawyer of Prescott, Wis.; has been district attorney of his county, and takes a prominent part in the public affairs of his city, county and state.
Field, Joseph M
actor, dramatist, author, was born in 1810 in London, England. He was an actor and dramatist of St. Louis, and the author of The Drama in Pokerville, and Other Stories. He died Jan. 30, 1856, in Mobile, Ala.
Field, Kate
journalist, author, was born in 1854, in St. Louis, Mo. In 1890 she established a literary and critical journal at Washington, which she entitled Kate Field's Washington. She died in 1897.
Field, Marshall
merchant, was born in 1835, in Conway, Mass. His stone building is believed to be the largest wholesale store in the world. He recently gave $1,000,000 towards the great museum in the art building at the world's fair grounds, now known as the Field Columbian museum.
Field, Martha Reinhard Cath- Erine Cole
journalist, was born May 25, 1855, in Lexington, Mo. In 1881 she became associated with the Picayune, and her Correspondence Club in that journal has attracted national attention.
Field, Mary Katherine Kem- Ble
journalist, author, was born in 1838 in St. Louis, Mo. She was a journalist of Washington, and the author of Planchette's Diary; Ten Days in Spain; Pen Photographs of Dickens's Readings; Hap- Hazard, Travel Sketches; History of Bell's Telephone; Adelaide Ristori, a Biography; and Life of Fechter.
Field, Matthew C
journalist, was born in 1812 in London, England. He was for several years one of the editors of the New Orleans Picayune, and contributed numerous articles in prose and verse to southern periodicals. He died in 1844, at sea.
Field, Maunsell Bradhurst
lawyer, author, was born in 1822 in New York. He was a lawyer of New York city, and in 1864 was second assistant secretary of the treasury. He was the author of Adrian (with G. P. R. James); Poems; and Memories of Many Men and Some Women, a volume of entertaining gossip.
He died Jan. 24, 1875, in New York city.
Field, Moses W
merchant, congressman, was born Feb. 10, 1828, in Watertown, N. Y. He was elected to the fortythird congress as a republican. In 1875 he presented to the city of Detroit a lot of forty acres of land for a public park.
Field, Nathaniel
physician, was born Nov. 7, 1805, in Jefferson county, Ky.
In 1829 he moved to Jeffersonville, Ind., where he practiced his profession until his death. In 1838-39 he was a member of the state legislature. He organized the city government of Jeffersonville, established several churches, serving as pastor for forty years without compensation. He was the author of numerous medical works and lectures. He died Aug. 28, 1888, in Jeffersonville, Ind.
Field, Richard Stockton
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 30, 1803, in White Hill, N. J. He held a seat in the United States senate from that state, for a few months, in 1862-63 to fill a vacancy, and was then appointed judge of the district court of the United States for the district of New Jersey. He died May 25, 1870, in Princeton, N. J.
Field, Samuel
merchant, philanthropist, was born Aug. 12, 1823, in Delaware county, Pa. For many years he has belonged to the presbyterian board of education, and has taken a leading part in the establishment of the hospital under the management of that denomination.
Field, Stephen Johnson
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Nov. 4, 1816, in Haddam, Conn. He located in Marysville, Cal., in 1850, and was elected first alcalde of that city.
He was elected to the second legislature, and was member of the judiciary committee and framed the laws creating the judicial system of that state.
From 1851 to 1857 he practiced his profession, and was then a elected a judge of the supreme court for six years, from Jan. 1, 1858. A vacancy occurring on the bench, he was appointed judge to fill it on the 13th of October, 1857; became chief justice in 1859, and in 1863 was appointed to his present position.
Field, Thomas Warren
educator, author, was born in 1820 in Onondaga Hill, N. Y. He was an educator of Brooklyn who was superintendent of public schools there, 1873-81, and was the author of Pear Culture; Historic and Antiquarian Scenes in Brooklyn; and Essay Toward an Indian Bibliography. He died Nov. 25, 1881, in Onondaga Hill, N. Y.
Field, Walbridge Abner
lawyer, congressman, was born April 26, 1833, in Springfield, Vt. He was assistant United States attorney in Boston from 1865 to 1869; was then appointed assistant attorney-general of the United States, and resigned in 1870. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the fortyfifth congress, but his seat was successfully contested by Benjamin Dean. He was elected to the forty-sixth congress as a republican.
Field, William Hildreth
lawyer, author, was born April 16, 1843, in New York city. In 1863 he graduated from Union college, and two years later graduated from the Columbian college law school, with the degree of B. L. The same year he was admitted to the bar, and has attained success in the practice of law. He edited the ninth volume of Edmonds' Statutes, and has tried many cases in which his construction has settled the law of the state by the decision of the court of appeals. In 1887 he was president of the Xavier Union, which, under his administration, transformed into the Catholic club of the City of New York. was
Fielder, George B
soldier, congressman, was born July 24, 1842, in Jersey City, N. J. He served in the civil war. He was elected register of the county of Hudson in 1884, and re-elected in 1889. He was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Fielder, Mrs. Lizzie Davis
poet, was born Jan. 20, 1856, in Wytheville, Va.
She is the author of a number of poems.
Fields, Mrs. Annie Adams
author, poet, was born in 1834 in Massachusetts. She is a Boston littérateur, and the author of Under the Olive, a volume of verse; The Singing Shepherd, and Other Poems; A Shelf of Old Books; Whittier, Notes of his Life and Friendships; Memoir of J. T. Fields; How to Help the Poor; and Authors and Friends.
Fields, James Thomas
publisher, author, poet, was born Dec. 31, 1817, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a well-known publisher of Boston who edited the Atlantic Monthly in 1862-70; and was the author of Yesterdays with Authors; Underbrush, a collection of essays; and Ballads, and Other Verses. Reminiscences of his life were published in A Memoir by Mrs. Fields.
He died April 24, 1881, in Boston, Mass.
Fields, William C
merchant, congressman, was born Feb. 13, 1804, in New York city. He was sixteen years a justice of the peace in the town of Laurens, and subsequently supervisor of the town.
In 1866 he was elected a representative from New York to the fortieth congress.