Fleming, Maybury – Flickinger, Samuel Jacob
Fleming, Maybury
dramatic critic.
He is a dramatic critic, on the editorial staff of the New York Mail and Express.
Fleming, Thomas
soldier, was born in 1727, in Botetourt county, Va. He was a revolutionary soldier, and attained the rank of colonel. He died in August, 1776.
Fleming, William
jurist, congressman, was born in 1734. He became judge of the general court and presiding judge of the court of appeals; and served as a delegate from Virginia to the continental congress in 1779-81. He died February 2, 1824.
Fleming, William Henry
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 18, 1856, in Augusta, Ga. He was elected superintendent of the public schools of Augusta and Richmond county, Ga., in 1877-80. He was elected to the state legislature from Richmond county in 1888, 1890, and 1892, and again elected in 1894, and was speaker of the house. He was elected president of the Georgia State Bar association in 1894, and at the annual meeting in 1895 delivered an address on the Ethics of the Bar in Relation to the State. He was chosen in 1895 grand commander of the Knights Templar for the state of Georgia, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
FLEMING, WILLIAM MAYBURY, actor, was born Sept. 29, 1817, in Danbury, Conn. He became known chiefly for his personations of Romeo, Claude Melnotte, Edgar in King Lear, the Bastard in King John, Hamlet, Richelieu, Sir Giles Overreach, Sir Edward Mortimer, Mathias in The Bells, Rolla, Jack Cade, and a few special roles of poetic character. He died May 7, 1866, in New York.
Fleming, Williamina Paton
astronomer, author, was born May 15, 1857, in Scotland. In 1879 she became connected with the Harvard college observatory.
She is the author of a work entitled Annals of the Observatory.
Flenniker, Robert P
jurist, was born in Pennsylvania. He was appointed a justice of the United States court for the territory of Utah, residing at Salt Lake City.
Fletcher, Alice Cunningham
ethnologist, was born about 1845 in Boston, Mass. Under the care of the Woman's National Indian association, Miss Fletcher established a system by which small sums of money were lent to such Indians as wished to buy tracts of land and build houses. She has published numerous papers and monographs.
Fletcher, Asaph
physician, was born June 28, 1746, in Westford, Mass.
He was elected in 1780 to the convention that framed the constitution of Massachusetts, and labored earnestly to introduce into that instrument the principle of absolute freedom of worship. He died Jan. 5, 1839, in Cavendish, Vt.
Fletcher, Austin Barclay
lawyer, was born March 13, 1852, in Mendon, Mass. He was treasurer and later president of the leading corporation in the wool and leather business in New York city.
FLETCHER, BENJAMIN. He was governor of New York, and lived in the seventeenth century.
Fletcher, Charles
manufacturer, was born Nov. 20, 1840, in England. He has erected one building after another, until six large mills now stand upon the grounds of the Providence Worsted Mill company. Other industrial interests have been managed and promoted by him, including the Saranac, the National and the Fulton Worsted mills, and in 1886 he bought the Narragansett hotel, the principal public house in Providence.
Fletcher, Duncan Upshaw
lawyer, legislator, was born Jan. 6, 1859, in Sumter county, Ga. He is a successful lawyer of Jacksonville, Fla.; was president of the city council in 1889-91; mayor of that city in 1893-95; and in 1893 served with distinction as a member of the Florida state legislature.
Fletcher, George Henry
lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 18, 1860, in Mankato, Minn. In 1881 he graduated from the university of Michigan with the degree of B. A.; and in 1883 was admitted to the practice of law in Minneapolis, Minn. During 1887-91 he was president of the Union League of Minneapolis; and in 1893 served with distinction as a member of the Minnesota house of representatives, and was chairman of the judiciary committee.
Fletcher, George Nichols
lumberman, was born Dec. 13, 1813, in Ludlow, Vt. He is president of the International Sulphite Fiber and Paper company of Detroit, and of the Rumford Falls Power company of Maine. He is also working gold mines in Arizona.
Fletcher, Horace
clergyman, was born Oct. 28, 1796, in Cavendish, Vt. He was one of the most useful and respected ministers in his native state. He was chosen state senator in 1855. He died November 27, 1871.
Fletcher, Isaac
congressman. He was formerly a member of the Vermont legislature; was a member of congress from that state from 1837 to 1841. He died Oct. 19, 1842, in Lyndon, Vt.
Fletcher, James Cooley
clergyman, author, was born in 1823 in Indianapolis, Ind. He is a presbyterian clergyman, missionary to Brazil in 1851-54, and author with D. P. Kidder of the once very popular work, Brazil and the Brazilians, which first appeared in 1857, and reached an eighth edition in 1868.
Fletcher, Josiah Moody
manufacturer, poet, was born Jan. 14, 1828, in Halifax, Mass. In 1843 he engaged in the bookselling and publishing business in Nashua, N. H.; and since 1854 has been engaged in the manufacture of furniture.
He is president of the Fletcher and Webster Furniture company, and proprietor of the Nashua Novelty works. He is the editor of several gift books, and in 1890 published a volume of poems entitled A Thousand Songs of Life, Love, Home and Heaven.
JULIA FLETCHER, CONSTANCE (GEORGE FLEMING), author, was born in 1859. She is a novelist whose home is in Rome, and is the author of Kismet; The Head of Medusa; Mirage; Vestigia; Andromeda; The Truth About Clement Ker; and For Plain Women Only.
Fletcher, Loren
manufacturer, merchant, state senator, congressman, was born April 10, 1833, in Mount Vernon, Maine. He was elected to the state legislature in 1872 and re-elected seven times; the last three terms served as speaker, having been unanimously elected the last term. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress.
Fletcher, Miles J
was born in 1828, in Indianapolis, Ind. In 1860 he was elected superintendent of public instruction for the state of Indiana.
Fletcher, Richard
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1788, in Cavendish, Vt. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature; a representative in congress from 1837 to 1839, and judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts from 1848 to 1853. He died June 21, 1869, in Boston, Mass.
Fletcher, Robert
anthropologist, author, was born in 1823, in England. He is an eminent anthropologist of Washington and the author of Paul Broca and the French School of Anthropology; Prehistoric Trephining and Cranial Amulets; Human Proportion in Art and Anthropometry; Some Recent Experiments in Serpent Venom; The New School of Criminal Anthropology; and Tattooing Among Civilized People.
Fletcher, Ryland
state senator, governor, was born Feb. 18, 1799, in Cavendish, Vt. He was governor of Vermont from 1856 to 1858; served in each branch of the legislature of Vermont; and was a presidential elector in 1864. He died Dec. 19, 1885, in Proctorsville, Vt.
Fletcher, Thomas
soldier, congressman. He was a member of the Kentucky legislature from Montgomery county in 1803, 1805, and 1806; and was a general in the war of 1812. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky in 1816 and 1817; and again a member of the legislature in 1817, 1820, 1821, and 1825.
Fletcher, Thomas Clement
soldier, governor, was born Jan. 21, 1827, in Jefferson county, Mo. In 1865-69 he was governor of Missouri, and issued the proclamation abolishing slavery in that state.
Fletcher, William Baldwin
physician, author, was born Aug. 18, 1837, in Indianapolis, Ind. He is a physician, and since 1883 has been superintendent of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane.
He is the author of Cholera, Its Characteristics, History, etc.
Flett, Florence Lillian Gil- Lette
dramatist, poet, was born Oct. 3, 1851, near Birmingham, Mich. She is the only child of Mrs. Lucia Fidelia Woolley Gillette, an eminent divine and poet. She received a thorough education in music and in languages; was a successful teacher; and attained success in the dramatic profession in England, the continent and the United States. After her marriage to Mr. George A. Flett of England, she retired to domestic life. In conjunction with her mother she has published a volume entitled Floating Leaves.
Flick, James P
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 28, 1845, in Bakerstown, Pa. He was a member of the seventeenth general assembly of Iowa; and served as district attorney of the third judicial district of Iowa for six years. He was elected to the fifty-first congress, and re-elected to the fifty-second congress as a republican.
Flickinger, Daniel Krumler
clergyman, bishop, author, was born in 1824, in Sevenmile, Ohio. He is a clergyman belonging to the sect of united brethren, and since 1885 a foreign missionary bishop of that faith. He is the author of Off-hand Sketches of Men and Things in Western Africa; Ethiopia; and The Church's Marching Orders.
Flickinger, Samuel Jacob
journalist, was born Feb. 14, 1848, near Millville, Ohio. For two years he was telegraph editor of the Dayton Journal; and in 1878 became a reporter on the Ohio State Journal of Columbus. In 1884 he assumed charge of that publication as managing editor, and his life work is shown in that journal. He is considered an authority on Ohio politics, and renders good service to the republican committees.