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also built schoolhouses in Pulaski and Kockcastle 

 Counties, Kentucky. (Some of these buildings 

 were burned by mobs, and often the schools were 

 broken up by violence. He lived to enjoy the 

 respect and reverence of the men who were his 

 bitterest opposers, many of whom since the war 

 have moved to Berea to educate their children. 

 Dr. Fee, in his Autobiography, has vividly told 

 of his early struggles. 



Fisher, William Alexander, jurist, born in 

 Baltimore, Md., Jan. 8, 1837; died there, Sept. 20, 

 1901. He was graduated at Princeton in 1855, 

 and in 1858 was admitted to the bar in his native 

 city. He achieved a national reputation as a 

 lawyer, and became a leader of the conservative 

 element of the Democratic party in his State. 

 He was elected to the State Senate in 1879. In 

 1882, in the attempt to reform the judiciary, he 

 was elected to the Supreme bench of Baltimore 

 on the tickets of the regular Democratic party 

 and of the Independent Republicans and Demo- 

 crats. 



Fisk, Franklin W., clergyman and educator, 

 born in Hopkinton, Vt., in 1820; died in Chicago, 

 111., July 4, 1901. He was graduated at Yale in 

 1849, and after teaching for a short time there 

 he accepted the chair of Sacred Rhetoric in the 

 seminary at Beloit, Wis. Oct. 6, 1858, he was 

 called to a similar place in Chicago Theological 

 Seminary, then organizing. He held this profess- 

 orship till 1900, and was president of the insti- 

 tution for the last thirteen years of its incum- 

 bency. Upon his resignation he was made pro- 

 fessor emeritus. He was one of the best known 

 theologians and educators in the West. 



Fiske, John, author, born in Hartford, Conn., 

 March 30, 1842; died in Cambridge, Mass., July 

 4, 1901. He was the only child of Edmund Brews- 

 ter Green, of Smyrna, Del.,, and 'Mary Fiske 

 Bound, of Middletown, Conn. The father edited 

 newspapers in Hartford, New York, and Panama, 

 where he died in 1852. His widow married Edwin 

 W. Stoughton, of New York, in 1855. The son's 

 name was originally Edmund Fiske Green; in 

 1855 he took the name of his maternal great- 

 grandfather, John Fiske. He lived in Middle- 

 town, Conn., during his childhood, and was 

 graduated at Harvard in 1863, and at Harvard 

 Law School in 1865, having been already ad- 

 mitted to the bar in 1864, but he never practised 

 law to any extent. He delivered a course of 

 lectures on Positive Philosophy at Harvard in 

 1869, and in the following year he was an in- 

 structor in that institution. From 1872 to 1879 

 he was assistant librarian, and after his resigna- 

 tion he was made a member of the Board of Over- 

 seers of the university. After 1881 he lectured 

 annually on American history at Washington 

 University, St. Louis, Mo., and after 1884 held 

 a non-resident professorship of American History 

 in that institution. He lectured on American 

 history at University College, London, in 1879, 

 and at the Royal Institution of Great Britain 

 in 1880, and after 1871 he delivered hundreds of 

 lectures, chiefly upon American history, in the 

 United States and Great Britain. His inquiries 

 into the philosophy of human progress led him 

 to a careful study of the doctrine of evolution, 

 and it was as an expounder of that doctrine that 

 he was first known to the public. His career as 

 an author began in 1861, with an article on Mr. 

 Buckle's Fallacies, published in the National 

 Quarterly Review. He was afterward a frequent 

 contributor to periodicals. His published works 

 are Myths and Mythmakers (1872); Outlines of 

 Cosmic Philosophy (2 vols., 1874) ; The Unseen 

 World (1876); Darwinism and Other Essays 



(1879); Excursions ol an Kvolui ionist (IH83)- 

 The Destiny of Man (Issj,; i ... ,,, ...j , (io( J 

 (1885); American I'olitie.il ,- .,,. -j he 



Critical Period ol' American Hi 

 War of Independence (iss'jj : o) 



New England (IHSi), iN'jsj ; Civil ' 

 the United States ( I-S'JO) ; The Ann 

 tion (2 vols., 1891; illustrated edi 

 The Discovery of America (2 vol.-., 1-'.- 

 tory of the United States for School-, MV.M,; 

 Edward Livingston Vouinans (1S94); Ol.i 

 ginia and her Neighbors (2 vols., JiS ( J7; illus- 

 trated edition, 1901); The Critical Period (l,V.t7, , 

 The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America (2 

 vols., 1899); Through Nature to God (1899); 

 A Century of Science (1900) ; The Mississippi 

 Valley in the Civil War (1900). He edited, with 

 James Grant Wilson, Appletons' Cyclopaedia of 

 American Biography. 



Fitz, E. B., actor, died in Chicago, Feb. 14, 

 1901. He made his first appearance in 1871 in 

 the war drama entitled Home and Country, after- 

 ward playing with small companies in the United 

 States until 1879, when he joined the Barlow, 

 Wilson, Primrose and West Minstrels, and ap- 

 peared with that company for several years in 

 all parts of the country. At the conclusion of 

 this engagement he entered the vaudeville field, 

 with his wife, Kathryn Webster, where he soon 

 won a prominent place, making musical sketches 

 his specialty. After considerable experience in 

 this work, Mr. Fitz became associated at different 

 periods, with Hallen and Hart, Rich and Harris, 

 Ezra Kendall, and the Two Johns Company. In 

 1890, in partnership with the late Dan Shelby, 

 he produced A Breezy Time, a successful farce- 

 comedy. After the first season with this piece, 

 Mr. Fitz assumed sole control of it, and at the 

 time of his death three traveling companies were 

 playing it under his management. 



Flohr, William Henry, theatrical manager, 

 born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1836; died in 

 New York city, Jan. 4, 1901. In early boyhood 

 he removed with his parents to Boston, and at 

 the age of seventeen obtained a place as flyman 

 in the Boston Theater. After serving a long ap- 

 prenticeship in the mechanical department of that 

 house he became assistant to W. H. Curtis, an 

 old actor, in the costuming business. In 1869 he 

 was engaged by Edwin Booth as his assistant 

 stage-manager and master of wardrobe, and he 

 remained Mr. Booth's most trusted lieutenant 

 nearly twenty-four years. He knew the lines and 

 business of all the plays in that tragedian's reper- 

 toire, rehearsed the various stock companies- with 

 which Mr. Booth appeared, and was in full charge 

 of the minor details of every production. On Oct. 

 12, 1872, at the Lyceum Theater, Lewiston, Me., 

 where the company was engaged to open the new 

 house, Mr. Flohr was badly burned in putting out 

 a fire that was discovered under the stage just 

 as the performance was beginning. For this serv- 

 ice, which averted a fearful catastrophe, he re- 

 ceived a handsome reward. In the intervals 

 caused by Mr. Booth's absence on his European 

 tours Mr. Flohr managed companies in Phila- 

 delphia, and in 1876 he accompanied Lawrence 

 Barrett on a tour to the Pacific coast. After 

 leaving Mr. Booth, Mr. Flohr was stage-manager 

 of the Park Theater and the Grand Opera-House, 

 and later superintendent of the new American 

 Theater, all in New York city. 



Ford, Albert Matthew, tide calculator, born 

 in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 6, 1841; died in Salem, 

 N. J., Nov. 11, 1901. He was educated by pri- 

 vate tutors, and later at the Hilt School, Potts- 

 toWn, Pa. He early devoted much time to mathe- 



