Mississippi. How the World was Peopled, a series of ethnological
lectures.
=Fontaine, Francis.= 18--. The Exile; Etowah, a Romance of the
Confederacy.
=Foote, Andrew Hull.= _Ct._, 1806-1863. A rear-admiral of the United
States navy. Africa and the American Flag (1854). _See Life by J. M.
Hoppin, infra._
=Foote, Henry Stuart.= _Va._, 1800-1880. A prominent Mississippi
politician. He was governor of his State, 1853-54, and, though opposed
to secession, a member of the Confederate Congress, where he was noted
for his strong opposition to Jefferson Davis. Texas and the Texans; The
War of the Rebellion, or Scylla and Charybdis; Bench and Bar of the
South and Southwest; Personal Reminiscences.
=Foote, Henry Wilder.= _Ms._, 1838-1889. A Unitarian clergyman of
Boston, minister of King’s Chapel from 1861 till his death. Annals of
King’s Chapel; Thy Kingdom Come, ten sermons on the Lord’s Prayer; The
Insight of Faith. _El. Rob._
=Foote, Mrs. Mary Anna [Hallock].= _N. Y._, 1847- ----. A novelist and
illustrator whose married life has been passed chiefly in the Rocky
Mountain country, where the scene of much of her work is laid. The Led
Horse Claim, a Romance of a Mining Camp; In Exile, and Other Stories;
John Bodewin’s Testimony; The Chosen Valley; Cœur d’Alene; The Last
Assembly Ball; The Cup of Trembling, and Other Stories. _Hou._
=Foote, William Henry.= _Ct._, 1794-1869. A Presbyterian clergyman and
educator of West Virginia. Sketches of North Carolina; Sketches of the
Presbyterian Church in Virginia; The Huguenots, or Reformed French
Church; Sketches of Virginia.
=Forbes, Mrs. Harriette [Merrifield].= _Ms._, 1856- ----. A writer of
Westborough, Massachusetts. The Hundredth Town, a series of historical
sketches of Westborough; The Diary of Rev. Ebenezer Parkman.
=Forbes, Robert Bennet.= _Ms._, 1804-1889. A sea captain who was
subsequently a Boston merchant. China and the China Trade (1844);
Construction of Ships for the Merchant Service; Life Boats,
Projectiles, and Other Means for Saving Life; Seamen Past and Present;
Rambling Reminiscences; Notes on Some Few Wrecks and Rescues.
=Forbes, Stephen Alfred.= _Il._, 1844- ----. A professor of zoölogy in
the University of Illinois and State entomologist. Studies of the Food
of Birds, Fishes, and Insects; Contagious Diseases of Insects.
=Force, Manning Ferguson.= _O._, 1824-1899. Son of P. Force, _infra_.
A brigadier-general in the Federal army during the Civil War, and
subsequently a prominent jurist of Cincinnati. From Fort Henry to
Corinth; Marching Across Carolina; The Mound Builders; Prehistoric
Man; Recollections of the Vicksburg Campaign, include the most of his
writings. _Clke. Scr._
=Force, Peter.= _N. J._, 1790-1868. A journalist and historian of
Washington who began in 1833 a documentary history of the American
colonies. Thirty years’ labour was spent upon the task, and nine
volumes completed, entitled American Archives. His other works include
Tracts and Other Papers relating to the Origin of the North American
Colonies; Grinnell Land. His immense and valuable library was purchased
by Congress in 1867.
=Force, William Quereau.= _D. C._, 1820-1880. Son of P. Force, _supra_.
A meteorologist of Washington who assisted his father in preparing
American Archives, and published Builder’s Guide; The Picture of
Washington.
=Ford, Corydon La.= _N. Y._, 1813- ----. A physician of note who has
held several medical professorships, and since 1886 has been professor
emeritus in the Long Island College hospital. Questions on Anatomy,
etc.; Questions on the Structure and Development of the Human Teeth;
Syllabus of Lectures on Odontology, Human and Comparative.
=Ford, Mrs. Emily Ellsworth [Fowler].= _Ms._, 1826-1893. Daughter of
W. C. Fowler, _infra_, and granddaughter of Noah Webster. A Brooklyn
writer who has published My Recollections, a volume of verse.
=Ford, James Lauren.= _Mo._, 1854- ----. A journalist and littérateur
of New York city. Dr. Dodd’s School; The Third Alarm, are tales for
juvenile readers. Other works of his are Hypnotic Tales; The Literary
Shop; Bohemia Invaded; Dolly Dillenbeck. _Ric. Sto._
=Ford, Paul Leicester.= _L. I._, 1865-1902. Son of Mrs. Emily Ford,
_supra_. Bibliotheca Hamiltonia; Franklin Bibliography; The Honorable
Peter Stirling; The True George Washington; The Story of an Untold
Love; Janice Meredith. _Do. Ho. Hou. Lip._
=Ford, Mrs. Sallie [Rochester].= _Ky._, 1828- ----. Wife of S. H. Ford,
_infra_. A St. Louis writer whose early writings were very popular,
Grace Truman, her first book, having an extensive sale. Other works of
hers are, Romance of Freemasonry; Raids and Romance of Morgan and his
Men; Mary Bunyan, the Dreamer’s Blind Daughter; Evangel Wiseman; Ernest
Quest.
=Ford, Samuel Howard.= _Mo._, 1819- ----. A Baptist clergyman of
Memphis, Mobile, and elsewhere, living in retirement in St. Louis since
1887. The Origin of the Baptists; Servetus, Hero and Martyr.
=Ford, Thomas.= _Pa._, 1800-1850. An Illinois jurist who was governor
of his State, 1842-46. History of Illinois from 1818 to 1847.
=Ford, William Henry.= _Pa._, 1839-1897. A Philadelphia surgeon twice
president of the municipal board of health. He has published Healthy
Dwelling-Houses and How to Build Them.
=Ford, Worthington Chauncey.= _L. I._, 1858- ----. Son of Mrs. Emily
Ford, _supra_. A government statistician at Washington. American
Citizens’ Manual; The Standard Silver Dollar.
=Forester, Frank.= _See Herbert, W. H._
=Forestier, Auber.= _See Moore, Mrs. Annie._
=Forney, John Weiss.= _Pa._, 1817-1881. A journalist of Philadelphia
and Washington, of prominence as a politician, and secretary of the
United States Senate, 1861-68. Life of General Hancock; Anecdotes of
Public Men; The New Nobility, a story of England and America; What I
Saw in Texas; A Centennial Commissioner in Europe; Letters from Europe;
Forty Years of American Journalism. _Ap. Har. Lip._
=Forrester, Fanny.= _See Judson, Mrs._
=Forrester, Francis.= _See Wise, Daniel._
=Forry, Samuel.= _Pa._, 1811-1844. A physician and surgeon of New York
city. The Climate of the United States and its Endemic Influences;
Meteorology.
=Fort, George Franklin.= _N. J._, 1809-1872. A governor of New Jersey,
1850-1854. Early History and Antiquities of Freemasonry.
=Fortier, Alcée.= _La._, 1856- ----. An educator of Louisiana,
professor of Romance languages in Tulane University. Le Château
de Chambord; Gabriel d’Ennerich, an historical novelette; Bits of
Louisiana Folk-Lore; Sept Grands Auteurs de xix^e Siècle; Histoire de
la Littérature Française; Louisiana Studies; Louisiana Folk Tales. He
has also annotated college editions of several French texts. _He. Ho.
Hou._
=Forwood, William Stump.= _Md._, 1830-1892. A physician of Darlington,
Maryland. History and Descriptive Account of Mammoth Cave, with Full
Scientific Details of the Eyeless Fishes.
=Fosdick, Charles Austin.= “Harry Castlemon.” _N. Y._, 1842- ----. A
voluminous author of juvenile books, among which The Gunboat Series;
Rocky Mountain Series; Roughing It Series; The Steel Horse, or the
Rambles of a Bicycle, are but a few of the whole number. _Co._
=Fosdick, William Whiteman.= _O._, 1825-1862. A lawyer of Cincinnati,
who published Malmiztic the Toltec, a novel; Ariel and Other Poems.
=Foss, Samuel Walter.= _N. H._, 1858- ----. A writer of popular dialect
and other poems, whose home is in Somerville, Massachusetts. Back
Country Poems; Whiffs from Wild Meadows (verse). _Le._
=Foster, Charles Hubbs.= _N. Y._, 1833-1895. An actor and playwright
of New York city, who wrote more than seventy-five plays, mostly
melodramas, among which are, Twins of London; Twenty Years Dead; The
Chain Gang.
=Foster, Mrs. Hannah [Webster].= _Ms._, 1759-1840. A writer who was the
wife of John Foster, minister at Brighton, Massachusetts, 1784-1827,
and after his death a resident of Montreal. She was the daughter of
Grant Webster, a merchant of Boston, and was probably born in that
city. She wrote The Boarding School; Letters of a Preceptress; but is
remembered chiefly for having been the author of the once famous story,
The Coquette, or the History of Eliza Wharton, which was largely based
upon fact, and passed through more than thirty editions.
=Foster, John Wells.= _Ms._, 1815-1873. A geologist employed by the
United States in a geological survey of the Lake Superior region, and
subsequently a resident of Chicago. The Mississippi Valley; Mineral
Wealth and Railroad Development; Prehistoric Races of the United
States; Geology and Topography of the Lake Superior Land District (with
J. D. Whitney, _infra_). _Sc._
=Foster, Mrs. Judith Ellen [Horton].= _Ms._, 1840- ----. A lawyer and
prominent temperance advocate of Iowa. The Crime Against Ireland;
Amendment Manual (Prohibition); The American Renaissance; Republican
Contentions and Supreme Court Decisions.
=Foster, Randolph Sinks.= _O._, 1820-1903. A Methodist bishop of much
prominence in his denomination. Objections to Calvinism; Christian
Purity; Ministry Needed for the Times; Theism; Beyond the Grave;
Centenary Thoughts; Studies in Theology. _Meth._
=Foster, Robert Verrell.= _Tn._, 1845- ----. A Cumberland Presbyterian
clergyman and educator, professor of Hebrew in the Theological
Seminary at Lebanon, Tennessee, since 1877. Introduction to the Study
of Theology; Old Testament Studies; Commentary on the Epistle to the
Romans.
=Foster, Stephen Collins.= _Pa._, 1826-1864. A famous song-writer and
composer of Pittsburg and New York city. He set to music 150 or more
songs, the words in nearly all cases being his own. Some of them, like
the Suwanee River, My Old Kentucky Home, Nelly Bly, are known in all
English-speaking lands. _See Atlantic Monthly, November, 1867._
=Foster, Stephen Symonds.= _N. H._, 1809-1881. A noted anti-slavery
agitator of Worcester, Massachusetts. He married in 1845 Abby Kelly,
also noted as an abolitionist. The Brotherhood of Thieves, a True
Picture of the American Church and Clergy.
=Foster, Mrs. Theodosia Maria [Toll].= “Faye Huntington.” _N. Y._,
1838- ----. An educator of Verona, New York, who has written much for
young people. In Earnest; What Fide Remembers; A Baker’s Dozen; A
Modern Exodus, are among her works. _Lo._
=Foster, William Eaton.= _Vt._, 1851- ----. A librarian of Providence.
The Civil Service Reform Movement; The Literature of Civil Service
Reform in the United States; Stephen Hopkins, a Rhode Island Statesman;
Town Government in Rhode Island.
=Fowler, Henry.= _Ms._, 1824-1872. A Presbyterian clergyman of Auburn,
New York. The American Pulpit, a collection of sketches of American
preachers.
=Fowler, Lorenzo Niles.= _N. Y._, 1811-1896. A lecturer, editor, and
publisher of New York city who settled in London in 1863, and lectured
frequently in England from that period. Marriage, its History and
Ceremonies; Lectures on Man.
=Fowler, Mrs. Lydia [Folger].= _Ms._, 1823-1879. Wife of L. N. Fowler,
_supra_. A practicing physician for some years. Nora, the Lost and
Redeemed; The Pet of the Household and How to Save It; Familiar Lessons
on Phrenology and Physiology; Familiar Lessons on Astronomy.
=Fowler, Orin.= _Ct._, 1791-1852. A Congregational clergyman of Fall
River, noted as a temperance and anti-slavery orator, who was a member
of Congress, 1848-52. Treatise on Baptism; Historical Sketch of Fall
River.
=Fowler, Orson Squire.= _N. Y._, 1809-1887. Brother of L. N. Fowler,
_supra_, and with him a member of the New York publishing house of
Fowler & Wells, 1844-63. He was an ardent phrenologist, and wrote
much on his favourite topic. Memory and Intellectual Improvement;
Physiology, Animal and Mental; Matrimony; Self-Culture; Hereditary
Descent; Love and Parentage; Sexual Science; Amativeness; Human
Science; Creative Science; The Self-Instructor in Phrenology (with L.
N. Fowler).
=Fowler, Philemon Halstead.= _N. Y._, 1814-1879. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Utica. History of Presbyterianism in central New York; The
Presbyterian Element in our National Life and History.
=Fowler, William Chauncey.= _Ct._, 1793-1881. A Congregational
clergyman and educator of New England, who married a daughter of
Noah Webster, _infra_. Memorials of the Chaunceys; The Sectional
Controversy, or Passages in United States Political History; History
of Durham, Connecticut; Local Law in Massachusetts and Connecticut;
Essays; English Grammar; The English Language in its Elements and
Forms. _Har._
=Fowler, William Worthington.= _Vt._, 1833-1881. Son of W. C. Fowler,
_supra_. He was successively a lawyer, broker, and journalist of New
York city. Ten Years in Wall Street; Fighting Fire, the Great Fires of
History (1873); Woman on the American Frontier; Twenty Years of Inside
Life in Wall Street.
=Fox, Ebenezer.= _Ms._, 1763-1843. A Bostonian who was postmaster of
his city 1830-36, and the author of The Revolutionary Adventures of
Ebenezer Fox (1848).
=Fox, John [William].= _Ky._, 186- ----. A Cumberland Vendetta. _Har._
=Fox, Norman.= _N. Y._, 1836- ----. A Baptist minister of New York and
Missouri. George Fox and the Early Friends; Rise of the Use of Pouring
and Sprinkling for Baptism; A Layman’s Ministry; Inspiration of the
Apostles in Speaking and Writing.
=Foxton, E.= _See Palfrey, Sarah._
=Foye, James Clark.= _N. H._, 1841-1896. An educator who was a
professor of chemistry at Lawrence University from 1867. Chemical
Problems; Handbook of Mineralogy; Tables for Determination of United
States Minerals.
=France, Lewis Browne.= _D. C._, 1833- ----. A lawyer and littérateur
of Denver. Over the Old Trail; Pine Valley, a volume of short stories;
Mountain Trails and Parks in Colorado. _Cr._
=Francis, Convers.= _Ms._, 1795-1863. Brother of Mrs. Lydia Child,
_supra_. A Unitarian clergyman of Watertown, Massachusetts, and
subsequently Parkman professor of pulpit eloquence at Harvard
University, 1843-63. Life of John Eliot (_supra_); Historical Sketch of
Watertown; Errors of Education, include his principal writings.
=Francis, James Bicheno.= _E._, 1815-1892. A noted hydraulic engineer
of Lowell. Lowell Hydraulic Experiments; The Strength of Cast Iron
Columns.
=Francis, John Wakefield.= _N. Y._, 1789-1861. A physician of much
prominence at one time in medical and literary circles of New York
city. Use of Mercury; Cases of Morbid Anatomy; Febrile Contagion;
The Anatomy of Drunkenness; Old New York, a volume of pleasant
reminiscences, comprise his principal writings. _See Life by Tuckerman._
=Francis, Samuel Ward.= _N. Y._, 1835-1886. Son of J. W. Francis,
_supra_. A physician of New York city and subsequently of Newport,
Rhode Island. Mott’s Clinics; Water; Inside and Out; Biographical
Sketches of New York Surgeons and Physicians; Life and Death; Curious
Facts Concerning Man and Nature.
=Francis, Valentine Mott.= _N. Y._, 1834. Son of J. W. Francis,
_supra_. A physician of Newport who has published Hospital Hygiene.
=Francke, Kuno.= _Sg._, 1855- ----. A professor in Harvard University.
Social Forces in German Literature: a Study in the History of
Civilization. _Ho._
=Franklin, Benjamin.= _Ms._, 1706-1790. A celebrated philosopher,
statesman, and scientist who was born in Boston but went to
Philadelphia in 1723, where he worked as a journeyman printer. In
1729 he became the proprietor of The Pennsylvania Gazette, and after
that date his rise in life was rapid. He established the Philadelphia
Library in 1731, the American Philosophical Society in 1744, and was
one of the founders in 1749 of the institution which in 1753 became
the University of Pennsylvania. In 1753 he was appointed, jointly
with William Hunter, postmaster-general of the colonies. He was twice
sent to London as colonial agent for Pennsylvania, and in 1770 was
appointed agent for Massachusetts in England. In 1776 he helped draft
the Declaration of Independence. During the next nine years he was
first commissioner, then minister, to France; and was also a member of
the commission which negotiated the treaty of peace with England. He
was the discoverer of the identity of lightning with electricity, and
the inventor of the lightning-rod. As a writer his influence has been
felt throughout the world, his works including essays on politics,
religion, commerce, science, and philosophy. The Busybody is a series
of papers of the type of those in The Spectator, but furnishing much
more lively reading. Poor Richard’s Almanac, published 1732-57,
was everywhere popular, and had a great influence over the mass of
readers. The work by which he is best known, however, is his famous
Autobiography, which has been one of the most widely read books ever
printed. His Complete Works in ten volumes have been edited by J.
Bigelow, _supra_. _See Edinburgh Review, July, 1806, and August, 1817;
Contemporary Review, July, 1879; Harper’s Magazine, July, 1880; Godey’s
Magazine, 1896; Appleton’s American Biography; Parker’s Historic
Americans; Hale’s Franklin in France; Lives by Parton, McMaster, H.
Mayhew, Morse; Mignet’s Vie de Franklin, 1873; Wetzel’s Franklin as an
Economist._ _Put._
=Franklin, Benjamin.= _R. I._, 1819-1898. An Episcopal clergyman of
Shrewsbury, New Jersey. The Creed and Modern Thought; The Church and
the Era.
=Franklin, Thomas Levering.= _Pa._, 1820-1899. An Episcopal clergyman
of western New York, and more recently of Philadelphia. His writings
include an important work on The Creed, and several tractates on
Divorce.
=Frazer, Persifor.= _Pa._, 1844- ----. A distinguished geologist
attached to the State geological survey of Pennsylvania who has
published Tables for the Determination of Minerals; The Geology of
Lancaster County. _Lip._
=Frederic, Harold.= _N. Y._, 1856-1898. A novelist and journalist who
served as the London correspondent of the New York Times from 1884.
The scenes of several of his novels are placed in small American
communities. Marsena, and Other Stories; The Copperhead; The Lawton
Girl; In the Valley; Seth’s Brother’s Wife; The Damnation of Theron
Ware; March Hares. _Ap. Scr. St._
=Fredet, Peter.= _F._, 1801-1856. A Roman Catholic priest who came from
France to America in 1831, and was professor in St. Mary’s Seminary
at Baltimore from that date until his death. Ancient History; Modern
History; Original Texts and Translations of the Bible; Treatise on the
Eucharistic Mystery; Lay Baptism; Inspiration and Canon of Scripture;
Interpretation of Scripture; Doctrine of Exclusive Salvation; Necessity
of Baptism; Effect of Baptism.
=Freedley, Edwin Troxell.= _Pa._, 1827- ----. A Philadelphia writer and
compiler of books of useful information, but of small literary value.
The Business Man’s Legal Adviser; Leading Pursuits of Leading Men;
Philadelphia and its Manufactures; Opportunities for Industry; History
of American Manufactures; Common Sense in Business; Home Comforts.
_Lip._
=Freeman, Barnardus.= _G._, 1660-1743. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of
Long Island who came to America in 1700 and was especially noted for
his influence over the Indians. De Spizel der Self Kennis (Mirror of
Self-Knowledge); De Weegshale der Gerade Gods (Balance of God’s Grace).
=Freeman, Frederick.= _Ms._, 1800-1883. An Episcopal clergyman and
educator who was a Presbyterian minister in the earlier portion of
his career. History of Cape Cod; Annals of Barnstable County; Freeman
Genealogy; Civilization and Barbarism illustrated by Especial Reference
to Metacomet and the Extinction of his Race.
=Freeman, James.= _Ms._, 1759-1835. The first clergyman in the United
States to bear the name Unitarian. While a lay reader at King’s
Chapel in Boston, in 1782, he became a Unitarian in his views, and
was ordained in 1787 minister of that church, the members of which
adopted Mr. Freeman’s theology as their own, and he continued in that
office until his death. The oldest Episcopal church in New England thus
became the first Unitarian church in America. Mr. Freeman’s Sermons and
Charges were published in 1832.
=Freeman, James Midwinter.= “Robert Ranger.” _N. Y._, 1827-1900. A
Methodist clergyman of New York city who published many books for
children under the pseudonym “Robert Ranger.” Other works of his
include Illustration in Sunday-School Teaching; Handbook of Bible
Manners and Customs; Short History of the English Bible; Book of Books.
_Meth._
=Freeman, Samuel.= _Me._, 1743-1831. A jurist of Portland, Maine.
The Massachusetts Justice; Probate Directory; The Town Officer. _See
Bibliography of Maine._
=Frémont, Mrs. Jessie [Benton].= _Va._, 1824-1902. Wife of J. C.
Frémont, _infra_, and daughter of T. H. Benton, _supra_. A resident of
Los Angeles. The Story of the Guard, a Chronicle of the War; A Year of
American Travel; Souvenirs of My Time; Sketch of Senator Benton; Far
West Sketches; Will and the Way Stories. _Lo._
=Frémont, John Charles.= _Ga._, 1813-1890. A famous soldier and
politician who in 1856 was the first Republican candidate for the
presidency, and served during the Civil War as a major-general in the
Federal army. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains
in 1842, and to Oregon and Northern California in 1843-44; Frémont’s
Explorations; Memoirs of My Life. _See Appleton’s American Biography;
Lives by J. Bigelow, supra, C. Upham._
=French, Alice.= “Octave Thanet.” _Ms._, 1850- ----. A writer of
novels and short stories whose home has been in Davenport, Iowa, and
also in Arkansas. Knitters in the Sun; Otto the Knight, and other
Trans-Mississippi Stories; Stories of a Western Town; An Adventure in
Photography; Expiation. _Hou. Scr._
=French, Benjamin Franklin.= _Va._, 1799-1877. A writer of New Orleans
and subsequently of New York city. Biographia Americana; Memoirs of
Eminent Female Writers; Historical Collections of Louisiana; History
of the Iron Trade in the United States; Historical Annals of North
America.
=French, Henry Willard.= _Ct._, 1853- ----. A lecturer and
miscellaneous writer of Boston. Art and Artists in Connecticut; Our
Boys in China; Our Boys in India; Through Arctics and Tropics; Gems of
Genius; Nuna the Brahmin Girl; Lance of Kehama; Oscar Peterson; Colonel
Thorndike’s Adventures; and the novels, The Only One; Castle Foam; Ego.
_Le. Lo._
=French, John William.= _Ct._, 1809-1871. An Episcopal clergyman of
Washington, 1842-56, and from the latter date till his death professor
of ethics at West Point. He was the author of a work on Practical
Ethics.
=French, Mrs. L. Virginia [Smith].= _Va._, 1830-1881. A writer and
educator of Memphis. Wind Whispers, a collection of poems; Legend of
the South; Iztalixo, a Tragedy; My Roses, the Romance of a June Day.
=French, William Henry.= _Md._, 1815-1881. An officer who served in the
army of the United States during the Mexican, Seminole, and Civil wars.
His only published work is a manual of Instruction for Field Artillery.
=Freneau= [frē-nō´], =Philip.= _N. Y._, 1752-1832. A journalist of
New York city who, during the Revolution, produced much patriotic
verse that was very effective as well as popular, though none of it
is marked by any high degree of excellence. Poems of Philip Freneau,
written chiefly during the Late War (1786); Poems Written between the
Years 1768 and 1794; Poems Written and Published during the American
Revolution; Collection of Poems on American Affairs. Among his prose
writings are, The Philosopher of the Forest; Essays by Robert Slender.
_See American Literatures by Hart, Nichol, and Richardson._ _Cr._
=Frey, Albert Romer.= _N. Y._, 1858- ----. A writer of New York city
upon Shakesperean and dramatic topics, who has also published a work
upon Sobriquets and Nicknames. _Hou._