Fiester, S. F – Finkelnburg, Gustavus A
Fiester, S. F
educator, poet, was born Jan. 17, 1855, in Williamsport, Pa.
He received his education at the Williamsport high school, and the Iowa State Normal school. At the age of fifteen he entered educational work; was county superintendent for eight years in Waverly, Iowa, and is now a professor in Washington, D. C.
He has traveled in every state of the Union, and across British America; has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press; and his poems have been incorporated in several standard works.
Filbert, Ludwig Spang
physician, inventor, was born March 12, 1825, in Berks county, Pa. In 1871 he gave up the practice of medicine, and organized the Vulcanized Paving company of Philadelphia, of which he has since been president. He invented an artificial stone paving, that is recognized as the best known lining for the largest reservoir basis.
Fillmore, John Comfort
musician, author, was born in 1843 in Connecticut. He was a musician of Milwaukee, and the author of History of Piano- Forte Music; New Lessons in Harmony; and Lessons in Musical History.
Fillmore, Millard
thirteenth president of the United States, was born Jan. 7, 1800, in Cayuga county, N. Y. In 1829 he was elected to the New York assembly, and held the office three years.
He was married to Abigail Powers in 1826. In 1832 he was elected to the national house of representatives. He was again elected in 1836, and re-elected in 1838-40. He was defeated for governor of New York in 1844. In 1847 he was elected comptroller of the state, and in 1848 was elected vice-president of the United States. Upon the death of President Taylor he became president, and took the oath of office July 10, 1850. At the expiration of his term, March 4, 1853, he returned to his home in Buffalo, and in 1856 was a candidate for the presidency, but was beaten. He died March 8, 1874.
Fillmore held office sixteen years. He was economical, and died rich.
Filon, Michael
banker, railroad president, was born March 3, 1820, in Auburn, N. Y. He was president of the Rochester and Lake Ontario railroad; mayor of Rochester in 1862-63, and in 1889 was elected president of the East Side Savings bank. He died July 14, 1893.
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Filson, John
author, explorer, was born in 1747 in Chester county, Pa. was an early explorer of the western country, and the author of The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucky; Map of Kentucky; and Topographical Description of the Western Territory.
Finch, Charles J
farmer, legislator, was born Aug. 28, 1862, in Story county, Iowa. He was elected a member of the third state legislature of Wyoming in 1894, and received the re-election in
Finch, Francis Miles
jurist, author, poet, was born June 9, 1827, in Ithaca, N. Y. He was a New York jurist and dean of the law school of Cornell university since 1892. He has published a number of poems, among which Nathan Hale and The Blue and the Gray are well known.
Finch, H. Stanley
lawyer, jurist, was born July 24, 1853, in Stamford, Conn.
In 1879 he was admitted to the bar, and has attained success in the practice of law in his native city. He has been justice of the peace, and since 1887 has been judge of the court of probate.
Finch, Isaac
state legislator, congressman, was born in New York. He was a member of the assembly of that state in 1822 and 1824, and was a representative in congress from New York from 1829 to 1831.
Finck, Henry Theophilus
journalist, author, was born Sept. 22, 1854, in Bethel, Mo. He is a musical journalist of New York city, and the author of Wagner and Other Musicians; Romantic Love and Personal Beauty; Chopin, and Other Musical Essays; Lotus-Time in Japan; The Pacific Coast Scenic Tour; and Spain and Morocco.
Findlay, James
soldier, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1775 in Franklin county, Pa. He was receiver of public moneys in Cincinnati district from the first establishment of land offices until 1824. He was colonel of the second Ohio volunteers in 1812, serving under General Hull at Detroit. He was a representative in congress from 1825 to 1833; and was candidate for governor in 1834. He died Dec. 28, 1835, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Findlay, John
congressman, was born in Franklin county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania, from 1823 to 1827.
Findlay, John King
lawyer, jurist, author, was born May 12, 1803, in Mercersburg, Pa. He was recorder of Lancaster in 1841-45, judge of the Philadelphia district court in 1845-51, and president of the third judicial district of Pennsylvania in 1857-62. He published an enlarged edition of Archbold's Law of Nisi Prius in two volumes. He died Sept. 13, 1885, in Spring Lake, N. J.
Findlay, John Van Lear
state legislator, was born Dec. 21, 1839, in Williamsport, Md. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1861 and 1862; and in 1866 was appointed collector of internal revenue at Baltimore. He was city solicitor from 1876 to 1878; and was the orator for Maryland at the centennial exposition in 1876. He was elected to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.
Findlay, William
governor, was born June 20, 1768, in Mercersburg, Pa.
In 1807 he was chosen treasurer of Pennsylvania, and in 1817 became governor of that state.
Findley, Samuel
clergyman, educator, author, was born Oct. 26, 1818, in West Middletown, Pa. He was an associate reformed clergyman and educator, and the author of Rambles Among the Insects.
Findley, Thomas Maskell
educator, clergyman, college president, was born September 29, 1847, in West Mahoning, Pa. In 1883 he was appointed president of the university of southern Dakota, at Pierre, which he had founded and organized. In 1885 he became pastor of the Ninth Presbyterian church, St.
Paul, Minn.
Findley, William
governor, United States senator, was born in Franklin county, Pa. He was governor of Pennsylvania from 1817 to 1820, and was a senator in congress from that state from 1821 to 1827. He died Nov. 14, 1846.
Findley, William
congressman, author, was born about 1758 in Ireland.
He was a member of congress from Pennsylvania from 1791 to 1799 and from 1803 to 1817. He published a Review of the Funding System in 1794, and a History of the Insurrection of the Four Western Counties of Pennsylvania, in 1796. He died April 5, 1821, in Greensburg, Pa.
Findley, William Thornton
clergyman, was born June 2, 1814, in West.
Middletown, Pa. He has held pastorates at Chillicothe, Springfield, and Xenia, Ohio, and Newark, N. J.; and in 1867-68 edited the Family Treasure, published in Cincinnati.
Fine, John
lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born Aug. 26, 1784, in New York city. He settled in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., and was a judge in that county for eighteen years, from 1821 to 1839, and again in 1844. He was county treasurer from 1821 to 1833, and a state senator in 1848. He was a representative in congress from 1839 to 1841. He published a volume of law lectures. He died Jan. 4, 1867, in Ogdensburg.
Finerty, John F
journalist, congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1846, in Ireland. He settled in Chicago, Ill.; was field correspondent of the Chicago Times in four Indian wars, including the campaign against Sitting Bull in 1876, and the famous Sibley scout in the Big Horn Mountains. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-eighth congress.
Finger, Michael Sidney Mich- Ael
merchant, banker, state senator, was born in May, 1837, in Lincoln county, N. C. He is a successful merchant and banker of Newton, N. C. He has served as a member of the house of representatives, and in 1880 was elected for a second time to the state senate.
Fink, Albert
civil engineer, was born Oct. 27, 1827, in Frankfort-on-the- Main. He designed and supervised the building of the first important iron bridges in this country, that over the Monongahela river and the viaduct over Trey Run.
Fink, Frederick
artist, was born Dec. 18, 1817, in Little Falls, N. Y. He painted many excellent genre pictures, the most notable of which are The Artist's Studio; The Shipwrecked Mariner; and The Negro Wood-Sawyer. He died in 1849.
Fink, William E
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1822 in Ohio. He was elected to the senate of Ohio, and in 1852 was a member of the national convention which nominated General Scott for the presidency. In 1861 he was again elected a state senator. In 1862 he was chosen a representative from Ohio to the thirty-eighth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth and the forty-third congresses.
Finkelnburg, Gustavus A
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born April 6, 1837, in Prussia. He served one year in the volunteer army during the rebellion. He was elected to the Missouri state legislature in 1864, and re-elected, and acted as speaker pro tem. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-first congress, and was re-elected to the forty-second congress. 1