Francis, Joseph – Franklin, Robert Stillman
Francis, Joseph
inventor, was born March 12, 1801, in Boston, Mass. To him may be conceded the first use of iron floating vessels. In 1850 two hundred persons were saved by his life-car from the British emigrant vessel Ayreshire, which was wrecked on Swan Beach.
Francis, Orin W
lawyer, business man, legislator, was born Jan. 14, 1848, in Lewis county, N. Y. He received a thorough education and graduated from the high school of Faribault, Minn. He is a successful lawyer and real estate dealer of Fargo, N. D. He served with distinction as a member of the legislature of North Dakota in 1896-97, and was chairman of the judiciary committee. He was president of the first board of trustees of the North Dakota Agricultural college, and has held several public positions of honor. He received the second highest number of votes in the republican legislative caucus for United States senator in January, 1897.
Francis, Samuel Ward
physician, author, was born Dec. 26, 1835, in New York city. He was a physician of New York city and subsequently of Newport, R. I. He was the author of Mott's Clinics; Water; Inside and Out; Biographical Sketches of New York Surgeons and Physicians; Life and Death; and Curious Facts Concerning Man and Nature. He died March 25, 1886, in Newport, R. I.
Francis, Tench
merchant, was born in Fansley, Md. He became the first cashier of the Bank of North America, which office he held until his death. He died May 1, 1800, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Francis, Tench
lawyer. He settled in Philadelphia, was attorney-general of Pennsylvania from 1741 to 1755, and recorder of Philadelphia from 1750 to 1755.
He died Aug. 16, 1758, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Francis, Turbutt
soldier, was born in 1740. He was a lieutenant in the British army, but during the revolutionary war fought for independence, and rose to the rank of colonel. He purchased one thousand acres of land in Maryland. He died in 1797.
Francis, Valentine Mott
physician, author, was born April 25, 1834, in New York city. He was a physician of Newport who has published Hospital Hygiene.
Francis, William H
lawyer, state senator, jurist, was born Aug. 29, 1839, in South Norwalk, Conn. He was corporation counsel of Newark, N. J., in 1871-75; and represented Essex county in the New Jersey senate in 1879-81. In 1884 he was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Dakota territory.
Francisco, Peter
soldier, was born in 1761. He served as a soldier in the continental army. He saved the life of Col. Mayo, and received a present from that officer of one thousand acres of land on Richland Creek, Ky. He died in 1832 in Richmond, Va.
Francke, Kuno
educator, author, was born in 1855 in Schleswig. He is a professor in Harvard university; and the author of Social Forces in German Literature; and A Study in the History of Civilization.
Frank, Augustus
merchant, congressman, was born July 17, 1826, in Warsaw, N. Y. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-sixth congress, and was re-elected to the thirtyseventh and thirty-eighth congresses.
Frank, George P
manufacturer, was born June 11, 1852, in Granville, N.
Y. In 1875 with his brother he moved to San Francisco, where he embarked in the agricultural implement business, under the firm name of Frank Brothers. In 1895 he was elected mayor of Portland, Ore.
Frank, Melvin Porter
lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 26, 1841, in Gray, Maine. He was twice a member of the Maine house of representatives, and for one term was speaker of the house.
Frank, Nathan
lawyer, congressman, author, was born Feb. 23, 1852, in Peoria, Ill. He, was elected to the fiftyfirst congress as a republican.
Frank, Royal T
soldier, was born in Maine. He is the successor of Gen.
Merritt as commandant of Governor's Island.
Frank, Thomas
bishop coadjutor of Tennessee, was born Sept. 17, 1856, in Jackson, Miss. He was elected professor of ecclesiastical history in the university of the South in 1882, chaplain of the university in the following year, and vicechancellor in 1890.
Franklin, B. J
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in Mason county, Ky. He served in the confederate army as a captain; and in 1871 was elected circuit attorney for the twenty-fourth circuit of Missouri. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Missouri to the fortyfourth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Franklin, Benjamin
philosopher, statesman, scientist, author, was born Jan. 17, 1706, in Boston, Mass. After various vicissitudes, when seventeen years of age he went to Philadelphia, and became a printer. With the help of Gov. Sir William Keith, he visited England, where he remained nearly two years. In 1732 he commenced the publication of Poor Richard's Almanac, which he continued until 1737; and after that established a newspaper. He held the various offices of state printer, clerk of the general assembly, and postmaster of Philadelphia. He was the father and patron of the Philosophical society, and of the Pennsylvania university and hospital. In 1741 he published the General Magazine.
In 1744 he was elected to the provincial assembly, holding the office ten years; in 1758 concluded a treaty with the Indians at Carlisle. He became postmaster-general of America. He was sent to England as an advocate and agent for the province on two occasions, remaining there eleven years. On the breaking out of the revolution he returned to America, and took an active and important part in public affairs; was a signer of the declaration of independence; a delegate to the continental congress in 1775 and 1776; and in 1778 was sent to France in a diplomatic capacity, where he remained until 1785.
He was next elected governor of Pennsylvania and wasa member of the convention which framed the federal constitution, and signed that instrument. He made important discoveries in electricity; wrote and published much on a variety of themes, and his Life, Writings and Correspondence, issued in ten volumes, are an important feature in all the best libraries of the country. He died April 17, 1790, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Franklin, Benjamin
clergyman, author, was born in 1819 in Rhode Island.
He is an episcopal clergyman of Shrewsbury, N. J.; and the author of The Creed and Modern Thought; and The Church and the Era.
Franklin, Edward C
physician, author, was born March 12, 1822, in Flushing, N. Y. He has attained prominence as a successful physician and surgeon of Michigan, and served during the civil war as a surgeon of the Missouri volunteers. He is the author of a work entitled The Science and Art of Surgery.
Franklin, Jesse
soldier, governor, United States senator, was born March 24, 1760, in Orange county, Va. He represented Virginia in congress from 1795 to 1797, and then returned to the legislature. From 1799 to 1805, and from 1807 to 1813, he was a United States senator.
In 1820 he was elected governor of North Carolina. He died in September, 1823, in Surry county, N. C.
Franklin, John
soldier, legislator, jurist, was born Sept. 26, 1749, in Canaan, Conn. He was a captain during the revolutionary war; and subsequently was several times a member of the Connecticut assembly. He died March 1, 1831, in Athens, Pa.
Franklin, John H
lawyer, journalist, was born July 5, 1853, in Macomb, Ill. At the age of twenty-one he was admitted to the bar; and in 1876-77 was city attorney of his native city. In 1879 he moved to Junction City, Kas., and the following year was elected state's attorney for Geary county. In 1882 he was the republican nominee for state senator from that district; and the same year established The Junction City Republican, now one of the leading papers of Kansas.
In 1885 he became connected with The Record, and subsequently with The Journal, of Russell, Kas. He served for five years as a regent of the State Normal school; was city attorney of Russell in 1884, and the following year was mayor of the city. In 1889 he was appointed deputy auditor in the war department in Washington, D. C., and is now auditor.
Since 1893 he has made Toluca his place of residence.
Franklin, John P
farmer, educator, clergyman, was born July 26, 1859, in Clinton, La. He graduated from the Gammon seminary of Atlanta, Ga.; has attained success as a school teacher and a clergyman, and now fills a pastorate in Lumberton, N. C.
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Franklin, John R
lawyer, congressman, was born May 6, 1820, in Worcester, Md. He served in the state legislature of Maryland in 1843, and also in 1849, when he was elected speaker. 1851 he was chosen president of the board of public works of the state; and was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1853 to 1855.
Franklin, Meshack
state senator, congressman. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1807 to 1815. He served in the house of commons of that state in 1800; and in the state senate in 1828 and 1829. He died Dec. 18, 1839, in Surry county, N. C.
Franklin, Robert Stillman
state senator, was born Aug. 4, 1836, in Newport, R. I. For many years he has been secretary of the board of health of his native city; president of the common council, and for four terms was its He served with distinction for mayor. two years in the Rhode Island state senate.