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movement and became a pronounced free-thinker. In 

 1859 he was introduced to John Brown, whom he 

 subsequently aided with advice and funds in his ef- 

 fort to free the colored race. At the outbreak of the 

 civil war his religious views led him to contemplate 

 resigning ; but he was induced to withhold his appli- 

 cation, and, aftei a long leave of absence, he was re- 

 tired with the rank of captain in 1868 He accumu- 

 lated a large fortune, g^ave more than $50,000 in char- 

 ity, and bequeathed his estate to the poor of Boston. 



'Pitts, James Franklin, author, born in Lockport. N. 

 Y., in 1840; died there, Jan. 11, 1890. He was ad- 

 mitted to the bar in 1861, and soon afterward entered 

 the army as a private. On several occasions he dis- 

 tinguished himself and was rewarded with promo- 

 tions, and for his services in the 114th New York 

 Infantry, with Gen. Banks in Louisiana and with 

 Gen. Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, was com- 

 missioned major. _ He began his literary career while 

 a boy, continued it through the war, and followed it 

 almost exclusively afterward. Besides corresponding 

 with several newspapers, he had written for the, 

 various literary syndicates, and contributed poems, 

 sketches, and stories to " Ballou's Magazine," " Har- 



and 

 Week- 

 ly," and "Packard's Monthly." His best known 

 novels are "The Parted Veil," "A Version," "A 

 Modern Miracle," and " Captain Kidd's Gold." He 

 was also a popular Democratic campaign orator. 



Forepaugh (properly Forebaugh), Adam, showman, 

 born in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 28, 1831 ; died there, 

 Jan. 22, 1890. He began life as a butcher boy in his 

 native city, ran away from home when sixteen years 

 old, and worked in a butcher's shop in Cincinnati two 

 years, then returned to Philadelphia, and, after work- 

 ing a while at his trade, established a stage line, which 

 he conducted till 1854. He then became a horse dealer, 

 and in the first years of the civil war made consider- 

 able money furnishing horses to street railroad com- 

 panies, which were becoming crippled by the demand 

 for horses for military purposes. In 1861 he supplied 

 62 picked horses to John O'Brien for his wagon cir- 

 cus. During the next four years O'Brien oecame 

 heavily indebted to Mr. Forepaugh, and in April, 

 1865j the latter bought the circus, added to it Jerry 

 Mabie's menagerie of 2 elephants and 8 other ani- 

 mals, engaged Dan Kice for clown, and began his 

 career as a showman in opposition to Phineas T. Bar- 

 num. When he set out he had 110 horses, 14 cages of 

 animals, and 1 ticket wagon ; in 1877, when his circus 

 last traveled by wagon, it had nearly 300 employes, 

 and after that he traveled entirely by rail, using 3 

 trains of cars, and having 75 cages, 300 horses, and 

 more than 400 employes. His career as a showman 

 was one of almost uninterrupted success, and he died 

 possessed of a large amount of real estate in Philadel- 

 phia and Brooklyn. 



Fox, Daniel Miller, lawyer, born in Philadelphia, Pa., 

 June 16, 1809; died in Atlantic City, N. J., March 

 20, 1890. He received a common-school education, 

 learned the business of conveyancing, became the 

 real-estate agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- 

 pany, and was admitted to the bar in November, 

 1878. Through having large real-estate interests in 

 his charge and many estates committed to him for set- 

 tlement, he was conspicuous in public life from the 

 day of his majority. From 1830 till 1854 he was a 

 member of the board of school directors of the North- 

 ern Liberties, and for several years was president of 

 the board ; for nine years he was a member of the 

 Board of Health ; from 1858 till 1861 he was a select 

 councilman ; in 1861 and 1865 he was defeated as 

 Democratic candidate for mayor; in 1868 he was 

 elected mayor, and in a contest in the courts was the 

 only Democratic candidate declared entitled to office. 

 In 1875 he was appointed by President Grant a mem- 

 ber of an expert committee to examine the subject of 

 mail transportation. In 1881 he was active in the 

 municipal reform movement ; and in 1885 was ap- 



pointed by President Cleveland Superintendent of 

 the United States Mint in Philadelphia. 



Fransioli, Joseph, clergyman, born in Scino, Switzer- 

 land, Nov. 30, 1817 ; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 

 18, 1890. He was educated at the Seminary of Mouza, 

 in Milan, and in the College of the Pollegio, Italy- 

 was ordained a pries' of the Roman Catholic Church 

 in 1840 ; was pastor of the Church of St. Maurice twelve 

 years, and principal of the Normal School in Milan 

 two years; and settled in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1856. 

 For three years he labored in the parish of St. Charles 

 Borromeo, and was then given charge of the new 

 parish of St. Peter, with which he remained until his 

 death. Besides organizing the parish he built St. 

 Peter's Church, the old and the new St. Peter's Hos- 

 pital, St. Peter's Academy, and St. Peter's Free Kin- 

 dergarten School ; organized the League of the Cross 

 for temperance work ; and was active in promot- 

 ing many denominational and public charities. His 

 golden jubilee, celebrated June 7, 1890, in his church, 

 was continued a week, and included a public reception 

 in the Academy of Music. 



French, John E,, journalist, born in Gilmanton, N. H., 

 May 28, 1819 ; died in Bois6 City. Idaho, Oct. 2, 1890. 

 He learned the printer's trade in the office of the " New 

 Hampshire Statesman." in Concord : was publisher 

 and associate editor of the " Herald of Freedom " there, 

 one of the first of the New England anti-slavery 

 newspapers, for five years ; was editor of the " East- 

 ern Journal" in Biddeibrd, Me., for two years; and, 

 removing to Ohio in 1854, was editor of the " Tele- 

 graph," the "Press," and the Cleveland u Morning 

 Leader" for six years. In 1858-' 59 he was a member of 

 the Ohio Legislature. In 1861 he was appointed to a 

 clerkship in the Treasury Department in Washington ; 

 in 1864 was appointed by President Lincoln a member 

 of the Board of Direct Tax Commissioners for North 

 Carolina, whither he at once removed ; in 1867 was a 

 delegate to the State Constitutional Convention ; and 

 in 1868 was elected to Congress from the Nor^h Caro- 

 lina district as a Republican. At the close of his term 

 he was chosen sergeant-at-arms of the United States 

 Senate, and he held the office for nine years. In July, 

 1880, he was appointed secretary and disbursing of- 

 ficer of the Ute Commission. He had lived in Idaho 

 since his last appointment, and at the time of his 

 death was editor of the " Bois6 City Sun." 



Frothingham, Isaac H,, financier, born in Salem, 

 Mass., in 1807 ; diedin Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 20, 1890. 

 He was engaged in business in Boston till about 1 840, 

 and then removed his residence to Brooklyn, and en- 

 tered mercantile life in New York city. He was one of 

 the organizers of the Nassau Bank in Brooklyn, and its 

 president till 1865 ; was President of the Union Trust 

 Company of New York city from 1865 till 1878 ; and 

 was treasurer of the Home Life-insurance Com- 



pany 

 direi 



, treasurer of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, 

 ;ctor of the Home Fire-insurance Company, and 

 one of the largest stockholders in the Shoe and 

 Leather and the St. Nicholas National Banks in New 

 York city. During his residence in Brooklyn Mr. 

 Frothingham took an active interest in its public in- 

 stitutions. He was a founder and for many years 

 President of the Brooklyn Hospital ; a founder of the 

 Polytechnic Institute and president of its board of 

 directors for thirty-five years ; and a member of the 

 New England Society, the Art Association, and the 

 Brooklyn Library. 



Gallatin, Albert Eolaz, lawyer, born in New York 

 city, in 1799 : died there, Feb. 25, 1890. He was a son 

 of Albert Gallatin, the financier and Secretary of the 

 United States Treasury under President Madison ; was 

 educated at Princeton ; and was admitted to the bar 

 in Pennsylvania. In 1815 he accompanied his father 

 on his mission as United States minister to France, 

 and in 1826 went with him when he was appointed 

 envoy to Great Britain. He practiced law several 

 years' in Baltimore, and then returned to New York 

 city and became a member of the Board of Brokers. 

 For a long time he had charge of important financial 

 transactions for John Jacob Astor the first. 



