Foster, Stephen C – Fowler, John Edgar
Foster, Stephen C
lumber merchant, ship builder, congressman, was born Dec. 24, 1799, in Machias, Maine.
He was in the Maine legislature from 1834 to 1837, again in 1840, when he was president of the senate, and again in 1847.
He was elected to congress from Maine in 1856, serving through the thirty-fifth congress. He was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress; and was a member of the peace congress of 1861.
Foster, Stephen Collins
author, poet, was born July 4, 1826, in Pittsburg, , was born July 4, 1826, in Pittsburg, Pa.
He was a famous song writer and composer of Pittsburg and New York city.
He set to music one hundred and twentyfive or more songs, the words in nearly all cases being his own. Some of them, like the Suwanee River, My Old Kentucky Home, and Nelly Bly, are known in all English-speaking lands. He died Jan. 13, 1864 , in New York city.
FOSTER STEPHEN SYMONDS, abolitionist, author, was born Nov. 17, 1809, in Canterbury, N. H. He was a noted antislavery agitator of Worcester, Mass. He was the author of The Brotherhood of Thieves, a True Picture of the American Church and Clergy.
He died Sept. 8, 1881, in Worcester, Mass.
Foster, Theodore
lawyer, United States senator, was born April 29, 1752, in Brookfield, Mass. He was a senator in congress from Rhode Island from 1790 to 1803. He died Jan. 13, 1828, in Providence, R. I.
FOSTER, MRS. THEODOSIA (TOLI) - FAYE HUNTINGTON-educator, author, was born in 1838, in New York. She is an educator of Verona, N. Y., who has written extensively for young people. She is the author of In Earnest; What Fide Remembers; A Baker's Dozen; A Modern Exodus; and other works.
Foster, Thomas Flournoy
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 23, 1790, in Greenborough, Ga. He was for many years a member of the Georgia legislature; and was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1829 to 1835, and again from 1841 to 1843. He died in 1847, in Columbus, Ga.
Foster, Wilder D
merchant, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1821, in Monroe, N. Y. He was city treasurer and alderman of Grand Rapids, Mich Mich.; and in 1854 was elected mayor.
He was elected state senator for 1855 and was elected state senator for 1855 and 1856; again elected mayor in 1865 and 1866, and was elected to the forty-second congress to fill a vacancy, and was reelected to the forty-third congress. He died Sept. 20, 1873.
Foster, William Eaton
author, was born in 1851, in Vermont. He is a librarian of Providence, and the author of The Civil Service Reform Movement; The Literature of Civil Service Reform in the United States; Stephen Hopkins, a Rhode Island Statesman; and Town Government in Rhode Island.
Foster, William Prescott
lawyer, poet. He is a successful lawyer of , poet. He is a successful lawyer of Bar Harbor, Maine; and the author of a number of meritorious poems.
Fouke, Philip B
soldier, journalist, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 23, 1818, in Kaskaskia, Ill. He was elected prosecuting attorney for his district, and was re-elected. In 1851 he was elected a member of the Illinois legislature; and in 1856 was again elected prosecuting attorney. In 1858 he was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-sixth congress; and re-elected to the thirtyseventh congress.
Foulke, William Dudley
lawyer, legislator, author, was born Nov. 20, 1848, in New York city. He has served as a member of the Indiana state senate; president of the Indiana Civil Service Reform association; and as president of the American Woman's Suffrage association.
He is the author of Slav and Saxon.
Fouse, Levi G
underwriter, was born Oct. 21, 1850, in Morrison's Cove, Pa.
He is president of the American Faculty of Actuaries; and is the author of a system of life insurance which has plan. become popularly known as the Fouse
Foute, Robert Chester
naval officer, clergyman, was born April 14, 1841, in Greenville, Tenn. He served in the United States navy during the civil war; and attained the rank of lieutenant. He was ordained priest in 1874 in the Christ church of Savannah, Ga.; and in 1883 was elected rector of Grace church of San Francisco, Cal.
Fouts, L. M
railroad president, was born July 22, 1854, in New Washington, Ind. Since 1891 he has been president of the Weatherford, Mineral Wells and Northwestern railway.
Fowle, Daniel
printer, journalist, was born about 1715, in Charlestown, Mass.
From 1742 to 1750 he was a partner with Gamaliel Rogers, and in 1748-50 joint publisher with him of the Independent Advertiser. They were the first in America to print the New Testament. He died June, 1787, in Portsmouth, N. H.
Fowle, Robert
journalist. He was a partner with his uncle in the publication of the New Hampshire Gazette, which was the only newspaper in New Hampshire at the beginning of the revolution.
Fowle, William Bentley
educator, was born Oct. 17, 1795, in Boston, Mass . He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1843. About 1851 he opened a monitorial school in Boston, which he conducted successfully till 1860.
He died Feb. 6, 1865, in Medford, Mass.
Fowler, Andrew
clergyman, was born about 1765, in Guilford, Conn. After residing on Long Island and in Philadelphia, he became rector of churches in Spotswood, Shrewsbury, and Middletown, N. J. He died in 1851, in Charleston, S. C.
Fowler, Charles Henry
bishop, was born Aug. 11, 1837, in Canada. In 1876 he was elected editor of the New York Christian Advocate; and in 1884 was elected methodist episcopal bishop.
Fowler, Charles Newell
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 2, 1852, in Lena, Ill. He is a successful lawyer of Elizabeth, N. J.; and was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.
Fowler, Edwin
educator, founder, was born Dec. 15, 1847, in England. In 1876 he moved to New York city, where he established a semi-military school, which is especially associated with his name and reputation as an educator. In 1878 he founded the Columbian institute of New York city.
Fowler, Mrs. Fannie H
poet, was born Jan. 19, 1838, in Will county, Ill. has edited for several years the woman's department of one of the leading newspapers of Manistee, Mich. She has written poems and articles for magazines and papers, and has recently published a volume of Society Poems.
He
Fowler, Frank
artist, was born July 12, 1852, in Brooklyn, N. Y. has attained a national reputation as a successful artist; and has represented art in well-timed and valuable articles published in periodicals and books.
Fowler, George Bingham
physician, author, was born Oct. 23, 1847, in Macon county, Ala. He was a professor of physiology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons; established The Dietetic Gazette; and for six years was associate editor of The American Journal of Obstetrics. He is the author of Detection of Sugar in Urine; Use and Value of Artificially Digested Food; and other works.
Fowler, George Ryerson
surgeon, author, was born Dec. 25, 1848, in New York city. He has filled the highest positions in medical colleges and hospitals of Brooklyn and New York city. He is the author of a dozen medical works on Diseases and Surgery.
Fowler, Harriet Putnam
author, was born July 25, 1842, in Danversport, Mass. She received her education at the schools of her native town; and at Bradford Female seminary, where she excelled in rhetoric and composition. In 1879 she published a work entitled Vegetarianism, the Radical Cure for Intemperance. Then appeared from her pen a novel entitled Our Smoking Husbands and What to Do With Them. She is now collating a series of ancestral books of genealogy and heraldry, which will form a rich legacy to posterity. She is able to trace her descent through sixteen generations to Catherine Chaucer, sister of Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English poetry. She has fine poetic talent and is the author of a book of poems entitled Puritan Bluebells.
Fowler, Henry
clergyman, author, was born in 1824, in Stockbridge, Mass.
He was a presbyterian clergyman of Auburn, N. Y., and the author of The American Pulpit, a collection of sketches of American preachers. He died Aug. 4, 1872, in Vineyard Haven, Mass.
Fowler, Inman H
lawyer, state senator, was born June 7, 1834, in Eaton, Ohio. In 1876 he was elected to the Indiana state senate from the district composed of the counties of Owen and Clay, serving in the regular and special sessions of 1877 and 1879.
Fowler, John
soldier, congressman, was born in 1755. He was a soldier in the war of the revolution; and attained the rank of captain. He was a member of congress from Kentucky from 1797 to 1807. He died Aug. 22, 1840, in Lexington, Ky.
Fowler, John Edgar
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 8, 1866, in Sampson county, N. C. He read law at the university of North Carolina, and was admitted to the bar in 1894. He was formerly a free silver democrat, but upon the nomination of Mr. Cleveland in 1892, left the democratic and allied himself with the populist party. He was nominated for the state house of representatives the same year as a populist, but was defeated by seven votes. He was nominated as a populist for the state senate in 1894, and was elected. He was elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a populist.