Roose, F. F
educator, author, was born July 3, 1855, in Moline, Ill. In 1884 he founded the Lincoln Business college, Nebraska; and in 1891 founded the Lincoln Normal university, the construction of which cost one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For three years he was president and owner of the Omaha Business college. He was one of the founders of the Woodmen of the World; and he is now the supreme commander of the Fraternal Union of America. ROOSEVELT, HILBORNE LEWIS, organ-builder, was born Dec. 21, 1849, in New York city. He established factories in New York city, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and built some of the largest organs in the United States, including that in Garden City cathedral, Long Island, and Grace church, New York city, each of which contains twenty miles of electric wire. He died Dec. 30, 1886, in New York city.