Flournoy, Thomas Stanhope – Foley, Stephen A
Flournoy, Thomas Stanhope
soldier, congressman, was born in Virborn in Virginia. He was a representative in conin congress from that state from 1847 to 1849; 1847 to 1849; and participated in the great rebellion. great rebellion.
He died March 13, 1883, in Pittsylvania in Pittsylvania county, Va.
Flower, Benjamin Orange
journalist, author, was born in 1859, in Illi- 1859, in Illinois. He is the author of Civilization's of Civilization's Inferno, or Studies in the Social Cellar; Lessons Learned from Other Lives; The Other Lives; The New Time; Persons, Places and Ideas; The Century of Sir Thomas More; and More; and Gerald Massey, Poet, Prophet, and Mys- , and Mystic.
Flower, Frank Abial
curator, author, was born May 11, 1854, in Cottage, , in Cottage , N. Y. He is a Wisconsin statistician, -curator of the state historical society , and the author of Old Abe, the Wisconsin War Eagle; Life of Matthew H. Carpen- H. Carpenter; and History of the Republican Party.
Flower, George
pioneer, was born about 1780, in England. He founded the founded the city of Albion; and built the first buildfirst building, of the log cabin order, being a tavern a tavern and blacksmith shop combined. He died combined. He died Jan. 15, 1862, in Grayville, Ill.
Flower, Roswell Pettabone
merchant, congressman, was born Aug. 7, born Aug. 7, 1835, in Theresa, N. Y. He was elected He was elected a representative from New York to the York to the forty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy; a vacancy; declined a renomination. He gave fifty gave fifty thousand dollars to the St. Thomas Home Thomas Home of New York city.
Flowers, Samuel Bryce
soldier, physician, was born Oct. 31, 1835, in , 1835, in Wayne county, S. C. He served as surserved as surgeon in the confederate army during the during the civil war. He has contributed to the Philto the Philadelphia Medical and Surgical Reports, and to the Virginia Medical Monthly.
Floy, James
clergyman, botanist, author, was born Aug. 20, 1806, in New 1806, in New York city. He was a methodist clergymethodist clergyman of New York city; prominent as a as a botanist and as an anti-slavery leader, and the author of Guide to the Orchard to the Orchard and Fruit Garden; Occasional Sermons, etc.; and Literary Remains. He died . He died Oct. 14, 1863, in New York city .
Floyd, Archibald Campbell
journalist, was born Nov. 16, 1857, in , 1857, in Granville county, N. C. He is the editor is the editor of the Daily News of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Floyd, Charles A
congressman, was born in New York. He served in the He served in the assembly of that state in 1836 and 1838; and was a representative in congress from congress from 1841 to 1843.
Floyd, David Richard Floyd- Jones
lawyer, state senator, lieutenantgovernor, was born in 1813. He was a He was a member of assembly for New York in New York in 1841, 1843, and in 1857; state senator in senator in 1844-47; and lieutenantgovernor of New York in 1863-64. He died Jan. 8, 1871.
Jan. 8, 1871.
Floyd, Escar
lawyer, was born July 22, 1873, in Pittsburg. He received his edreceived his education in the common schools, Bellview schools, Bellview academy, and the university of Virginia. of Virginia.
He has attained success as an able lawyer as an able lawyer of Birmingham, Ala., where he takes a takes a prominent part in the public affairs of public affairs of his county and state.
Floyd, John
soldier, congressman, was born Oct. 3, 1769, in Beaufort, S. C.
Beaufort, S. C.
He was brigadier-general of militia from of militia from 1813-14; and subsequently major-general.
He served several terms in the state legthe state legislature; and was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1827 to 1829. 1827 to 1829.
He died June 24, 1839, in Camden county , Ga.
Floyd, John
congressman, governor, was born in 1770, in Jefferson county, Va. county, Va.
He was a representative in congress from congress from Virginia from 1817 to 1829; served many ; served many years in the legislature of that state; and that state; and was governor of Virginia from 1829 to from 1829 to 1834. He died Aug. 16, 1837, in Sweet 1837, in Sweet Springs, Va.
Floyd, John B
soldier, state legislator, governor, was born June 1, 1807, in 1, 1807, in Blacksburg, Va. From 1847 to 1849 he 1847 to 1849 he served in the Virginia legislature; and legislature; and was governor of Virginia from 1849 to from 1849 to 1852. He was secretary of war in the adwar in the administration of President Buchanan. He Buchanan. He was one of the first to join the rebellion, in which he took a leading part as a brigpart as a brigadier-general. He died Aug. 26, 1863, in , 1863, in Abingdon, Va.
Floyd, John G
congressman, was born in New York. He served in the asserved in the assembly of that state; and was a reprea representative in congress from New York New York from 1839 to 1843, and from 1851 to 1853. to 1853.
Floyd, Richard
colonist, was born about 1620, in Wales. He was the first of He was the first of the Floyd family on Long Island, and a Island, and a man of intelligence and vigor. He died vigor. He died about 1690, in Setauket, N. Y.
Floyd, Richard
soldier, jurist, was born May 12, 1661, in Setauket, N. Y. , N. Y.
He was appointed judge of the common the common pleas in 1723, and was also colonel of the of the militia of Suffolk county. He died Feb. . He died Feb. 28, 1737, in Setauket, N. Y.
Floyd, Richard
legislator, born Dec. 29, 1703. He served in the state in the state legislature in 1847-49 and 1853, and was and was governor of Virginia in 1850-53 .
Floyd, Richard
jurist, was born in 1736. He was judge of the common pleas common pleas in 1764, and colonel of the militia of Sufmilitia of Suffolk county. He died June 30, 1791, in 30, 1791, in New Brunswick, Maine.
Floyd, William
congressman, was born Dec. 17, 1734, in Brookhaven, N. Y. , N. Y.
He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1774 to 1783, and signed the signed the Declaration of Independence. He was a He was a representative in congress from York from 1789 to 1791; and was for three for three years a member of the New York state York state senate. He died Aug. 4, 1821, in Oneida in Oneida county, N. Y.
Flugler, Thomas T
congressman, was born in New York. He served in the He served in the assembly of that state in 1842 and 1843; and was a representative in congress from 1853 to 1857.
Flusser, Charles W
naval officer, was born in 1833, in Annapolis, Md. In , Md. In 1847 he was a midshipman; and in 1861 ; and in 1861 took command of the gunboat Commogunboat Commodore Perry. He subsequently took part in the shelling of Franklin, Va. He was killed April 18, 1864, in a naval engagement near Plymouth, N. C.
Flye, Edwin
merchant, congressman, was born March 4, 1817, in Newin Newcastle, Maine. He was a member of the member of the state house of representatives in 1858; in 1858; and was elected a representative from Maine to the forty-fourth congress, to fill , to fill a vacancy.
Flynn, Dennis T
journalist, congressman, was born Feb. 13, 1862, in , 1862, in Phoenixville, Pa. He removed to Oklaremoved to Oklahoma territory in 1889, and was commiswas commissioned postmaster of the city of Guthrie, of Guthrie , which position he still held when elected held when elected a delegate to the fifty-third congress He was re-elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a republican.
Flynn, Patrick
soldier, business man, was born May 11; 1834, in Ireland. 1834, in Ireland.
In 1844 he emigrated to America; received his education in the to America; received his education in the Buffalo schools, and removed to Rockford, Ill., in 1859. In 1861-62 he recruited and raised two full companies for the nineteenth regiment Illinois volunteer infantry. He was the original captain of the Mulligan guards; served under General Sherman; and was severely wounded at the battle of Ezra's Church, near Atlanta, in 1854; , in 1854; and was promoted to major. He has . He has served as sheriff of Winnebago county, Winnebago county, Ill., for two terms; and for twenty-eight years has been connected with the Rockwith the Rockford Insurance company.
Fobes, Perez
educator, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 21, 1752, in Bridge- , in Bridgewater, Mass. He was the author of Topoof Topographical Description of Raynham, Mass.; Raynham, Mass.; and other historical works. He died works. He died Feb. 23, 1812, in Bridgewater, Mass.
Fobes, Philena
educator, was born Sept. 10, 1811, in Onondaga county, N. Y. county, N. Y.
In 1843 she was chosen principal of Monprincipal of Monticello seminary, holding that position until 1866.
Fogg, George G
lawyer, diplomat, United States senator, was born May 26, born May 26, 1815, in Meredith, N. H. In 1846 he was In 1846 he was elected to the state legislature, and soon , and soon afterwards secretary of state, when he , when he became editor of the Independent Democrat. In 1861 he was appointed minister resident to Switzerland, returning in Noin November, 1865; and in 1866 was appointed a appointed a senator in congress from New Hamp- New Hampshire, to fill a vacancy. He died Oct. 5, Oct. 5, 1881, in Concord, N. H.
Fogo, William
soldier, journalist, state legislator, was born June 18, 1841, 18, 1841, in Columbiana county, Ohio. He served Ohio. He served as a soldier during the civil war. After civil war. After the war he resumed newspaper work, and work, and is now one of the veteran editors of Wiseditors of Wisconsin. He has also served as a member a member of the Wisconsin state legislature .
Foley, James B
congressman, was born in Kentucky. Having taken up his taken up his residence in Indiana, he was elected a repelected a representative in congress from that state from that state in 1827.
Foley, John Samuel
Roman catholic bishop, was born Nov. 5, 1833, in 5, 1833, in Baltimore, Md. He was commissioned by commissioned by Archbishop Spalding to establish a new establish a new congregation in the western part of Baltipart of Baltimore, and built for it the church of St. church of St.
Martin, one of the finest in the city, also the city, also taking an active interest in educational in educational matters.
Foley, Margaret E
sculptor, was born in New Hampshire. She made por- She made portrait busts of S. C. Hall, Charles Sumner, She executed and Theodore Parker. She executed cameo work, medallions of William and Mary Howitt, Longfellow, Bryant; and Bryant; and ideal statues of Cleopatra, Excelsior, and Excelsior, and Jeremiah. She died in 1877, in Austria. , in Austria.
Foley, Stephen A
lawyer, jurist, banker, was born Aug. 27, 1840, in Logan , in Logan county, Ill. For nine years he was county he was county judge, and a resident at Lincoln, which is Lincoln, which is the county seat; he declined office theredeclined office thereafter, and has since operated in land with in land with success. The Lincoln National bank is National bank is managed by him as president, and the , and the stocks of local gas and electric light comelectric light companies.