Fitzgerald, Oscar Penn – Flagg, Wilson
Fitzgerald, Oscar Penn
clergyman, bishop, author, was born Aug. 24, 1829, in Caswell county, N. C. This eminent clergyman has been superintendent of public instruction of the state of California; editor of the Christian Advocate of Nashville, Tenn.; and bishop of the methodist episcopal church south. He is the author of California Sketches; Centenary Cameos; Glimpses of Truth; Christian Growth; Life of McFerrin; Dr.
Summers, A Life Study; Eminent Methodists; The Epworth Book; and other works.
Fitzgerald, Thomas
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born April 10, 1796, in Germantown, N. Y. In 1848 and 1849 he was a senator in congress from Michigan under the appointment of the governor. He died March 25, 1855, in Niles, Mich.
Fitzgerald, Thomas
journalist, dramatist, was born Dec. 22, 1819, in New York city. He began the publication of The Daily Item in 1852, and for the next forty years of his life his great energies were devoted to building up the interests of the paper in Philadelphia. He was a successful dramatist, his first play, Light at Last, being produced in 1868. He died June 25, 1891, in London, England.
Fitz Gerald, Thomas Joseph
lawyer, journalist, was born March 1, 1857, in Canada. He practiced law for five years in Chicago; and since 1887 has been engaged in journalism as Washington, D. C., correspondent, and writer for magazines and newspapers generally.
Fitzgerald, William
jurist, congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1831 to 1833, and was a member of the committee on expenditures in the treasury department. He was also judge of the circuit court of Tennessee.
Fitzhugh, Edward Henry
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 21, 1816, in Caroline county, Va. He removed to Richmond, Va., in 1861, and served in an important capacity in the quartermaster's department of the confederate army from 1861 till 1865.
Fitzhugh, George
lawyer, author, was born July 2, 1807, in Prince William, Va. He was a lawyer of Port Royal, Va.; and was the author of Sociology for the South; and Cannibals All, or Slaves without Masters. He died July 30, 1881, in Huntsville, Texas.
Fitzhugh, Nicholas
jurist, came of a Virginia family. In 1803 he was appointed a judge of the circuit court of the United States for the District of Columbia.
Fitzhugh, William
congressman, was born in 1726 in Stafford county, Va.
He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1779 to 1780. He died in 1809.
Fitzhugh, William Henry
philanthropist, author, was born March 8, 1792, in Chatham, Va. He was elected vice-president of the American colonization society, and took an active interest in it, supporting it both with voice and pen. In 1826 he published a series of essays in behalf of the cause, over the signature of Opimius, in the columns of the Richmond Inquirer. He died May 21, 1830, in Cambridge, Md.
Fitzpatrick, Benjamin
lawyer, jurist, governor, United States senator, was born June 30, 1802, in Greene county, Ga. In 1841 he was elected governor of Alabama; and in 1843 was re-elected to the same position. In 1852 he was appointed a senator in congress to fill a vacancy; and in 1855 was elected to the same position for the term ending in 1861. He retired from the senate in 1861, and took part in the rebellion. He died in November, 1870, in Antonaga county, Ala.
FITZPATRICK, JOHN BERNARD, bishop, was born Nov. 1, 1812, in Boston, Mass. He erected one of the finest orphan asylums in America, a large reformatory, a hospital, and a college. He died Feb. 13, 1866, in Boston, Mass.
Fitzpatrick, T. Y
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 20, 1850, in Floyd county, Ky. He has filled the positions of county judge, county attorney, and representative in the state legislature; was democratic elector in 1884, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Fitzpatrick, Thomas P
educator, lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Feb. 11, 1827. He served four years as a member of the Virginia state senate soon In 1884 he was elected after the war. judge of the county court of Nelson county, and received the re-election in 1890 to the same office.
Fitz Simons, Charles
soldier, business man, was born Dec. 26, 1834, in New York city. He served in the civil war and attained the rank of brigadiergeneral. He is a successful business man of Chicago, Ill.
Fitzsimons, Thomas
congressman, was born in 1741 in Ireland. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1795; and was a member of the legislature for many years.
He was president of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and of other local institutions. He died in August, 1811.
Flaget, Benedict Joseph
bishop, was born Nov. 7, 1763, in France. In 1841 he was ordained Roman catholic bishop, Bardstown, Louisville, Ky. He died Feb. 11, 1850, in Nazareth, Ky.
Flagg, Edmund
lawyer, journalist, author, poet, was born Nov. 24, 1815, in Maine. He was a lawyer and journalist of St. Louis and elsewhere, living in West Salem, Va., in recent years. He was the author of Venice, the City of the Sea, a history, his most important work. Other writings of his include North Italy since 1849; Commercial Relations of the United States; Blanche of Artois; and Edmond Dantes, sequel to Monte Cristo. a
Flagg, Edward Octavus
clergyman, lecturer, poet, was born Dec. 18, 1824, in Georgetown, S. C. He is a grandson of Dr. Flagg, a surgeon in the war of the revolution; and the son of Henry C. Flagg, a lawyer and formerly mayor of New Haven, Conn.
Previous to taking orders he studied law. After having pursued a course of civil engineering he entered Trinity college, then studied divinity; and at the age of twenty-five was ordained deacon. On being admitted to the priesthood, he became rector of Trinity church of Norwich, Conn., and while there established a church at Yantie. Dr. Flagg has been the founder of several parishes; was rector of the New York All Saints' church; and for six years was assistant of Grace church. For several years he was chaplain of the ninth regiment New York national guard. He has delivered a course of lectures on literature and history in New York and elsewhere. A collection of his poetical works was published in 1889; and six years later a second volume was issued, entitled Poems and Later Poems. He was made a doctor of law by St. John's college of Annapolis in 1898. He is the author of Rejoice for Liberty, a patriotic hymn.
Flagg, George Whiting
artist, was born June 26, 1816, in New Haven, Conn. Among his pictures are Landing of the Pilgrims; Landing of the Atlantic Cable; and Columbus and the Egg.
Flagg, Henry Collins
lawyer, journalist, was born Jan. 5, 1792, near Charleston, S. C. He took an active part in politics, opposing the federalist party in Connecticut, both as a public speaker and as editor and proprietor of the Connecticut Herald. He died March 8, 1863, in New Haven, Conn.
Flagg, Isaac
educator, author, was born in 1843 in Massachusetts. He was a professor of Greek at Cornell university in 1871-88, and has been a professor at the university of California since 1891. He is the author of The Hellenic Orations of Demosthenes; Versicles; The Seven Against Thebes, of Æschylus; and Iphigenia among the Taurians, of Euripides.
Flagg, Jared Bradley
clergyman, artist, author, was born June 16, 1820, in New Haven, Conn. He studied for a short time with his brother George, and subsequently with his uncle, Washington Allston.
When but sixteen years old he exhibited in the National Academy of Design a portrait of his father which received favorable notice from the artists and art critics of the time.
He settled in Hartford, where he became prominent as a portrait painter. He was called to the rectorship of Grace church of Brooklyn Heights, where he remained eight years. In his later life, while still pursuing his art, he devoted a portion of his time to literary work, and in 1892 published his first book, The Life and Letters of Washington Allston.
Flagg, John Foster Brewster
physician, author, was born May 12, 1804, in Boston, Mass. He was a Philadelphia physician; and the author of Ether and Chloroform and Their Employment in Surgery, Dentistry, Midwifery, etc. died Sept. 8, 1872, in West Chester, Pa.
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Flagg, Rufus Cushman
clergyman, educator, was born Aug. 3, 1846.
This eminent educator and clergyman is well known as the president of Ripon college of Wisconsin.
Flagg, Willard Cutting
agriculturist, was born Sept. 16, 1829, in Moro, Ill. He became prominent in local politics, was collector of internal revenue for the twelfth district of Illinois in 1862-69, and a member of the state senate in 1869- 73. He died March 30, 1878, in Moro, Ill.
Flagg, Wilson
naturalist, author, was born Nov. 5, 1805, in Beverly, Mass.
He was a naturalist of Cambridge; and the author of Studies in the Field and Forest; Woods and By-Ways of New England; Halcyon Days; A Year among the Trees; and A Year among the Birds.
He died May 6, 1884, in North Cambridge, Mass.