Froelich, Solomon – Frye, Joseph
Froelich, Solomon
clergyman, author, was born May 29, 1750, in Red Hook, N. Y. He was the author of The Trial of Universal Charity by a Jury; and other religious works. He died Oct. 8, 1827, in New Jersey.
Fromentin, Eligius
lawyer, jurist, United States senator. He was a senator of the United States from Louisiana from 1813 to 1819; and in 1821 was judge of the criminal court of New Orleans, and was appointed judge of the western district of Florida. He died Oct. 6, 1822, in New Orleans, La.
FRONABARGER, BENJAMIN BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, educator, clergyman, college president, was born March 10, 1860, in Butler county, Ala. He received his education at the Masonic Male and Female institute, and at the Eagleville college, Tennessee. He has attained success as a baptist clergyman, and has filled pastorates in four churches. Since 1885 he has been president of the Springtown Male and Female institute, Texas, and still fills that position.
Frost, Charles Christopher
botanist, author, was born in 1806, in Brattleboro, Vt. He devoted his leisure hours to astronomy, geology, mineralogy, meteorology, and botany, especially the last named study, to which he gave the last half of his life. He was joint author with Edward Tuckerman of a Catalogue of Plants growing without Cultivation within Thirty Miles of Amherst College.
He died in 1880.
Frost, George
jurist, was born April 26, 1720, in New Castle, N. H. He was judge of the court of common pleas of Stafford county from 1773 to 1791; was for many years chief justice; and was a delegate to the continental congress from 1777 to 1779, and councilor from 1781 to 1784. He died June 21, 1796, in Durham, N. H.
Frost, Joel
congressman, was born in New York. He served in the state assembly in 1806 and 1808; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1823 to 1825.
Frost, John
soldier, jurist, was born May 5, 1738, in Kittery, Maine. He served in the revolutionary war, and attained the rank of colonel. He was appointed one of the justices of the court of sessions in York county, Maine, and was a member of the council of the governor of Massachusetts. He died in July, 1810, in Kittery, Maine.
Frost, John
educator, author, was born Jan. 26, 1800, in Kennebunk, Maine.
He was an educator of Philadelphia; and the author of Beauties of English History; Beauties of French History; Wild Scenes in a Hunter's Life; Pioneer Mothers in the West: The Presidents of the United States; Pictorial History of the United States; and History of the World.
He died Dec. 28, 1859, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Frost, Margaret Fulton Al- Corn
educator, philanthropist, was born in 1809, in Ireland. She attained success in educational work as principal of the Westerly academy, Rhode Island; and as principal of the Seabury seminary of New York city. She was a philanthropist, and a pioneer for woman's advancement; was one of the first women of her time to obtain a classical education, and throughout her life worked for temperance, peace and social purity. She died in 1891.
Frost, Richard Graham
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 29, 1851, in St. Louis, Mo. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.
Frost, Rufus Smith
merchant, state senator, congressman, was born July 18, 1826, in Marlborough, N. H. He was state senator in 1871 and 1872; and was a member of the governor's council in 1873 and 1875. He was for many years a director of the North National bank of Boston, and a trustee of the Boston Five Cent Savings bank. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-fourth congress.
Frost, William Goodell
educator, clergyman, college president, was born July 2, 1854, in Le Roy, N. Y. During 1879-91 he was professor of Greek in the Oberlin college; and since 1892 has been president of Berea college, Ky.
Frothingham, Ellen
author, was born March 25, 1835, in Boston, Mass.
She has published several fine translations from Lessing, Auerbach, Goethe, and Grillparzer.
Frothingham, James
painter, was born in 1781, in Charlestown, Mass. His works had sale chiefly in New York and Salem. His copy of Stuart's Washington was much admired, and his original portraits were praised for fidelity of coloring. He died Jan. 6, 1864.
Frothingham, Nathaniel Lang- Don
clergyman, author, was born July 23, 1793, in Boston, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of Boston whose writing displays singular grace and refinement. He was the author of Deism or Christianity; Sermons in the Order of a Twelvemonth; and Metrical Pieces, Original and Translated. He died April 3, 1870, in Boston, Mass.
Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 26, 1822, in Boston, Mass. He was at one period art critic for the New York Tribune. He was the author of Stories from the Lips of the Teacher; Stories from the Old Testament; The Religion of Humanity; The Cradle of the Christ; Memoir of W. H.
Channing; The Safest Creed; Beliefs of the Unbelievers; Creed and Conduct; The Spirit of the New Faith; The Rising and the Setting Faith; Visions of the Future; Lives of Gerrit Smith, George Ripley, Theodore Parker; History of New England Transcendentalism; Boston Unitarianism; and Recollections and Impressions. He died in 1895.
Frothingham, Richard
journalist, author, was born Jan. 31, 1812, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a journalist and local historian of Charlestown, Mass.; and the author of History of the Siege of Boston; The Rise of the Republic; History of Charlestown; Life of General Joseph Warren; and The Command in the Battle of Bunker Hill. He died Jan. 20, 1880, in Charlestown, Mass.
Frothingham, Washington
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 28, 1822, in Fonda, N. Y. He is a presbyterian clergyman of Albany; and the author of Atheos, or Tragedies of Unbelief; The Martel Papers; and Scenes in the Reign of Terror.
Fruitnight, John Henry
physician, author, was born Nov. 9, 1851, in New York city. He was among the organizers of St. John's Guild for Children, is the author of numerous papers and monographs.
Fry, Cary Harrison
soldier, was born Aug. 20, 1813, in Garrard county, Ky. He was brevetted brigadier-general United States army in 1867, and from 1869 till his death was chief paymaster of various military divisions. He died March 5, 1873, in San Francisco, Cal.
Fry, George Thomson
lawyer, orator, legislator, was born March 12, 1843, in Mossy Creek, Tenn. He received his education at the Halston college of New Market, Tenn. During 1861-65 he was a confederate soldier; and was in all the principal battles; and was desperately wounded and disabled for field service at the battle of Jonesboro, Ga. He was first lieutenant in company C, thirty-seventh regiment, Tennessee volunteers, C. S. A.; was promoted in 1862 to captain of company H, of the same regiment; and in 1863 was made colonel of the seventh confederate regiment. In 1866 he was admitted to the bar and practiced in Atlanta, Ga. During 1876-78 he represented Fulton county in the Georgia legislature.
In 1890 he moved to Chattanooga, Tenn.
He has distinguished himself as an able advocate in both civil and criminal law; is a democratic orator of renown; and celebrated as a writer on the Science of National Finance, and Political Economy.
Fry, Jacob
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1835 to 1839; and was at one time auditor-general of the state. He died Nov. 28, 1866, in Norristown, Pa.
Fry, James Barnet
soldier, author, was born Feb. 22, 1827, in Carrollton, Ill.
He was a colonel and brevet major-general in the United States army, and was retired from active service in 1881, and thereafter lived in New York city. He was the author of Sketch of the Adjutant-General's Department in 1775-1875; Historical and Legal Effects of Brevets in Great Britain and the United States from their Origin in 1692; Army Sacrifices; Mc Dowell and Tyler in the Campaign of Bull Run; Operations of the Army under Buell; and New York and Conscription. He died in 1894.
Fry, Joseph Reese
banker, composer, author. He was largely instrumental in raising the Union League brigade at a gloomy period of the civil war. He was the author of A Life of Zachary Taylor.
He died in June, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Fry, Joshua
soldier, was born in England. He made a map of Virginia; and in 1752 was a commissioner to treat with the Indians at Logstown. He died May 31, 1754, while conducting an expedition against the French.
Fry, Speed Smith
soldier, jurist, was born Sept. 9, 1817, in Mercer county, Ky. At the beginning of the civil war he organized the fourth Kentucky regiment in the national army, and served as its colonel till March 21, 1862, when he was promoted to brigadier-general of volunteers.
Fry, William Henry
journalist, composer, was born in August, 1815, in Philadelphia. He was editor of the Philadelphia Ledger; The Sun; and the New York Tribune. He was the author of Leonora, an opera produced at the Chestnut Street theater in 1845. He died Dec. 21, 1864, in the West Indies.
Frye, James
soldier, was born in 1709, in Andover, Mass. He served at the capture of Louisburg in 1745, and commanded the Essex regiment at the beginning of the revolution, taking an active part in the battle of Bunker Hill. He died Jan. 8, 1776.
Frye, Joseph
soldier, jurist, was born March 30, 1712, in Andover, Mass.
He was a justice of the peace and a member of the general court of Massachusetts, and was an ensign in Hale's regiment at the capture of Louisburg in 1745. He died in 1794, in Fryeburg, Maine.