Funkhouser, a. Paul – Gage, Alfred Payson
Funkhouser, a. Paul
educator, journalist, statesman, was born Dec. 10, 1853, near Dayton, Va. Although licensed to preach since he was sixteen years of age, he is best known as an educator.
He founded the Shenandoah institute of Dayton, Va., and was superintendent of the Rockingham county schools for three years, winning the only Peabody silver medal given for the most efficient school work in the state. He also served as president of Western college, Iowa; and for fifteen years has been manager of the Shenandoah Valley Chautauqua assembly, which he founded. He started the State Republican in 1883. He was a delegate, to the national republican convention at Chicago in 1888; presidential elector in 1892; state canvasser in 1896; and republican candidate for the state senate in 1895.
Funston, C. M
journalist, jurist, was born in 1854, in Washington county, N. Y.
He is the editor and owner of The Sun of Flagstaff, Ariz. He has been county judge, commissioner of immigration, and has held various other public positions of honor.
Funston, Edward H
soldier, farmer, congressman, was born in 1836, in Clark county, Ohio. In 1861 he entered the union army as a lieutenant, and served throughout the civil war. He was a representative in the Kansas legislature in 1873-75, and in the latter year was speaker of the house. In 1880 he was elected a state senator, and was made president of the senate pro tempore. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Kansas to the forty-eighth congress, to fill a vacancy, and was re-elected to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, and fiftysecond congresses as a republican.
Furman, Gabriel
lawyer, state senator, was born Jan. 23, 1800, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1827 he was appointed a justice of the Brooklyn municipal court, which office he held for three years. He served as state senator in 1839-42. He published Notes, Geographical and Historical, relative to the Town of Brooklyn. He died Nov. 11, 1854, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Furman, James Clement
educator, college president, was born Dec. 5, 1809, in Charleston, S. C. In 1843 he accepted a professorship in the Furman Theological institution. When the institution was expanded into Furman university at Greenville, S. C., he was made its president.
Furnas, Elwood
educator, public official, was born Feb. 22, 1840, in Montgomery county, Ohio. He received his education in the district schools of his county; and at the age of nineteen began teaching school.
He has filled all the public positions of honor in the gift of the public, including township, county, state and national public offices of honor. He was chairman of the auditing board of the Story County Farmers' Mutual Fire and Lightning association, and vice-president and director of the same; president of the Story County Farmers' institute, and organizer of the same; and since 1893 has been president of the Farmers' National alliance. He has written extensively for the leading agricultural publications in America; and has addressed various agricultural bodies and societies.
Furnass, R. W
governor. He was governor of Nebraska from 1873 to 1875.
Furness, Mrs. Helen Kate Rog- Ers
author, was born July 26, 1837, in Philadelphia, Pa. She was a Shakespearean scholar of Philadelphia who published A Concordance to the Poems of Shakespeare. She died Oct. 30, 1883.
Furness, Horace Howard
author, was born Nov. 2, 1833, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a distinguished Shakespearean scholar of Philadelphia, widely known in the literary world for his scholarly and exhaustive variorum editions of King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, and Midsummer Night's Dream.
Furness, William Henry
clergyman, author, was born April 20, 1802, in Boston, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of Philadelphia; and from 1825 to 1875 pastor of the unitarian church in that city. A theologian of radical views, but reverent temper. He was the author of The Unconscious Truth of the Four Gospels; Jesus and His Biographers; History of Jesus; Thoughts on the Life and Character of Jesus; The Story of the Resurrection Told Once More; The Power of Spirit; Discourses; The Veil Lifted and Jesus becoming Visible: Verses; Translations and Hymns; The Faith of Jesus; and much-admired translation of Schiller's Song of the Bell. a
Furness, William Henry
artist, was born May 21, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa. He established himself in Philadelphia as a portrait-painter, but later removed to Boston, Mass., where he attained a high rank in his profession. He died March 4, 1867, in Cambridge, Mass.
Furniss, John P
physician, surgeon, was born Sept. 24, 1841, in Columbus, Miss. In 1860 he graduated from the university of Mississippi, and received the degree of B. A. He served as assistant surgeon in the confederate service during the civil war. He has been state medical referee for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance company of Newark, N. J.; member of the state board of health; and is now one of the leading physicians of Alabama, in which state he has a large practice at Selma.
Furst, Charles Siegfried
merchant, journalist, was born in May, 1850, in Germany. In 1873 he established a large mercantile house in Jersey City, N. J.; and in 1893 he became president of the Jersey City Daily Democrat association. He has been prominently identified with every public movement for the benefit and improvement of Jersey City.
Futhey, John Smith
lawyer, antiquarian, author, born Sept. 3, 1820, in Chester county, Pa. He was a lawyer and antiquarian of Eastern Pennsylvania; and the author of History of Chester County; and Historical Collections of Chester County. He died in 1888.
Fyan, Robert W
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 11, 1835, in Bedford county, Pa. He served in the union army during the civil war, rising to the rank of colonel; and at the close of the war was appointed circuit attorney of the fourteenth judicial circuit of Missouri. In 1866 he was elected judge of that circuit, and was re-elected in 1868, 1874 and 1880. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1875; and was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-eighth, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat. He died July 28, 1896, in Marshfield, Mo.
Gabb, William More
paleontologist, author, was born Jan. 16, 1839, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1868 he undertook a survey in Santo Domingo for the Santo Domingo Land and Mining company, remaining on the island from 1869 to 1872. He published an extended memoir On the Topography and Geology of Santo Domingo. He died May 30, 1878, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Gabriels, Henry
educator, bishop, was born Oct. 6, 1838, in Belgium. For thirty years he was the professor of theology and president of St. Joseph seminary of Troy, N. Y. In 1892 he was consecrated bishop of Ogdensburg.
Gadsden, Christopher
congressman, was born in 1724 in Charleston, S.
C. He was elected to the New York congress of 1765, to petition against the stamp act; and a delegate from that state to the continental congress from 1774 to 1776. He was elected governor of the state, but declined to serve on account of his age. He died Aug. 28, 1805, in Charleston, S. C. CHRISTOPHER ED- GADSDEN, WARDS, journalist, bishop, author, was born Nov. 25, 1785, in Charleston, S. C.
He was elected bishop, and was consecrated in Trinity church, Boston, Mass., in 1840. He edited for several years the Gospel Messenger, published a tract on The Prayer-Book as it Is, and three valuable charges to the clergy, and an essay on the life of Bishop Dehon. He died June 24, 1852, in Charleston, S. C.
Gadsden, James
soldier, merchant, diplomat, was born May 15, 1788, in Charleston, S. C. In 1820 he was appointed inspector-general of the army, with rank of colonel. He was appointed minister to Mexico in 1853, and negotiated the Gadsden Purchase, now known as Arizona, for ten million dollars. He died Dec. 26, 1858, in Charleston, S. C.
Gadsden, John
lawyer, state legislator, was born March 4, 1787. He was a member of the South Carolina legislature, and also held the office of United States district attorney. He died Jan. 31, 1831.
Gadsden, Philip Henry
lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 4, 1867, in Charleston, S. C. He has served with distinction as a member of the South Carolina state legislature; and is president of the Charleston Street Railway company.
Gaffney, Margaret
philanthropist, was born about 1825, in Baltimore, Md. In 1852 she opened an orphan asylum in New Orleans, and gave to orphans of whatever denomination her three largest homes for children, and a home for the aged and infirm. She was the first woman in this country to be honored by the erection of a marble statue to her memory. She died Feb. 9, 1882.
Gage, Alfred Payson
educator, author, was born April 15, 1836, in Hopkinton, N. H. He is engaged in educational work, and is the author of a series of Text-Books on Physics.
GAGE, MRS. FRANCES DANA [BAR- KER], suffragist, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 12, 1808, in Marietta, Ohio. She was a prominent advocate of woman suffrage who lectured much on that subject as well as upon temperance and anti-slavery. She was the author of Elsie Magoon, a temperance story; Poems; Gertie's Sacrifice; Nightcaps, a Series of Books; and Sparks Upward. She wrote much over the signature Aunt Fanny. She died Nov. 10, 1884, in Greenwich, Conn.