OBITUARIES, AMEK1CAX. (FLANDERS FRAZAR.) 



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t'*n Hospital for Incurables, at Spuyten Duyvi], 

 which lias accommodations for over 300 patients, 

 and is free to the pour <if New York city. 

 Flanders. Benjamin Franklin, lawyer, born in 



Bristol. X. II.. Jan. 20. 1*10: died near Xew Or- 

 leans. La.. March 13, 1896. He was graduated at 

 Dartmouth College in 1S42. and in the following 

 year removed t< Xew Orleans, where he studied 

 law and was admitted to the bar. In 1862 he was 

 compelled to leave the city because of his strong 

 Union sentiments, but on its capture he returned 

 and was made city treasurer by the Federal author- 

 ities. While holding this office he was elected to 

 Congress as a Unionist, and served through the few 

 last days of the session that ended March 4. IH;:'.. 

 In that year he was appointed supervising agent of 

 the United States Treasury Department for Louisi- 

 ana. Mississippi, and Texas, and he held the office 

 till 1866. For six months in 1867 he was military 

 Governor of Louisiana. He was Mayor of Xew 

 Orleans in 1870-' 73. and Assistant Treasurer of the 

 United States there in 18?3-'85. 



Ford. Austin E., journalist, born in Boston, 

 Mass., Aug. 31, 1857 : died in Xew York city. Sept. 

 17. 1896. He received a collegiate education, and 

 in 1874 became associated with his uncle, Patrick 

 Ford, publisher of " The Irish "World," of Xew 

 York city. During the ensuing twenty-one years 

 he was employed as managing editor of " The Irish 

 World,'' editor of " The Xew York Freeman's Jour- 

 nal." and contributor to cyclopaedias, reviews, and 

 syndicate publications, and also engaged in the pub- 

 lishing business. His political career began in 1882, 

 when he was an unsuccessful Republican candidate 

 for Congress. Two years afterward, at the request 

 of James G. Elaine, he opened the Republican presi- 

 dential campaign in Xew York by presiding at the 

 Chickering Hall meeting of young men about to 

 cast their first votes for President. In the same 

 campaign he was a leader in the revolt of Irish 

 voters from Mr. Cleveland to Mr. Blaine. He or- 

 ganized the public welcome to Mr. Blaine on his 

 arrival at Xew York from Europe in 1888 : was 

 one of the speakers at the Congress of Religions in 

 Chicago in 1893 : was a second time defeated for 

 Congress in 1894: and had been a Fire Commis- 

 sioner of Xew York city since May. 1894. 



Foster. John Younsr. journalist, born in Clin- 

 ton. X. J.. June !'.. 1SU : died in Xewark. X. J.. 

 Xov. 13, 1896. He received a common-school edu- 

 cation : removed to Somerville in 1846 and there 

 learned the printer's trade, and since 1853 had lived 

 in Xewark. In the last year he secured a place on 

 the ' Daily Mercury." winch ho left to become a re- 

 porter on the Xew York ''Evening Post." and sub- 

 sequently was editor of the " Xew York Mail." He 

 was editor of the " Drawer " in " Harper's Month- 

 ly " in the early part of the civil war. and resigned 

 to become chief editorial writer on the Xewark 

 ' Daily Advertiser." After the war he was editor 

 for several years of the Xewark ' Evening Courier." 

 and since 1879 he had been editor of "Frank Les- 

 lie's Illustrated Xewspaper.' 1 For twenty-five years 

 he was secretary of the Republican State Committee 

 of Xew Jersey, and he had held the same office on 

 the Xational Committee. He was a forcible writer, 

 an effective public speaker, and a man of excep- 

 tional executive ability. From the outbreak of the 

 civil war till his death he was widely noted as a 

 speaker on patriotic, political, temperance, religious, 

 and literary topics. He compiled, " Xew Jersey in 

 the Rebellion " (1867). 



Fowler, Edward B.. military officer, born in 

 Xew York city in 1827: died iii Brooklyn. X. Y.. 

 Jan. 16, 1896. He received a public-school educa- 

 tion, and when eighteen year old formed a military 

 organization known as the " Union Blues," which 



became a part of the 14th Regiment of Xew York 

 Militia in 1847. when lie was given a lieutenant's 

 commission. When the regiment volunteered for 

 the civil war lie went with it as lieutenant colonel, 

 and after the first battle of Bull Run he succeeded 

 to the command. He was engaged in v 

 and skirmishes, in all of which he was in command 

 either of the regiment or the brigade to which it 

 \\as attached. At the second Bull Run he 

 seriously wounded, and again at Gettysburg, where 

 he rendered services for which he was biw 

 brigadier general. He was mustered out of t In- 

 service June 6, 1864. In boyhood Gen. Fowler 

 showed a fondness for mathematics, and his whole 

 business life was spent in work based thereon. 



Fowler, Lorenzo Niles. phrenologist, born in 

 Cohocton, Steuben County. X. Y.. June 23. 1811 ; 

 died in West Orange, X. J.. Sept. 2. 1896. He was 

 a younger brother of Orson Squire Fowler, the 

 phrenologist ; was educated at Amherst College, 

 and in 1835 was associated with his brother in open- 

 ing an office in Xew York city for the development 

 of the new science, and, in the following year, in 

 writing and publishing ' Phrenology Proved, Il- 

 lustrated, and Applied." In 1838 the brothers estab- 

 lished the " American Phrenological Journal,'' pub- 

 lished first in Philadelphia and afterward in Xew 

 York city, from which they both retired in 1863. 

 In the last year Lorenzo settled in London, Eng- 

 land, where he resided till a month before his 

 death, when he returned to the United States. Be- 

 fore going to London he had lectured extensively 

 on phrenology. He was author of a " Synopsis of 

 Phrenology and Physiology" (1844); "Marriage: 

 Its History and Philosophy, with Directions for 

 Happy Marriages " (1846) : a'nd " Lectures on Man." 



Fraser. Robert, actor, born in Xew York city in 

 1842: died there Aug. 4. 18U6. He was of Irish 

 parentage, and from early boyhood exhibited traits 

 that made him popular. His first theatrical experi- 

 ence was as a scenic artist. He first went on the 

 stage as a minstrel end man. and subsequently was 

 understudy for George Fox, the actor and panto- 

 mimist. For many years he arranged the Christmas 

 pantomimes at Carncross & Dixie's house in Phila- 

 delphia, and took the leading part in the perform- 

 ances. He was also popular as a stage manager, 

 especially when large operas or unusual spectacular 

 pieces were to be produced. Mr. Fraser was author 

 of the plays "Heinrich Hudson." "Little Puck." 

 and " Starlight," among others, and of many short 

 stories in current periodicals. 



Frazar. Douglas, military officer, born in Dux- 

 bury. Mass., in 1836 ; died in Somerville. Mass., 

 Feb. 20. 1896. He received a private-school educa- 

 tion in Boston ; went on a four-years' voyage round 

 the world before the mast, and when twenty-one 

 years old, as captain, took the bark " Maryland," 

 fitted out for him by his father, from Boston to 

 China. On his arrival in 1859 he became junior 

 partner in the house of Frazar & Company. He 

 was present at the capture of Pekin by the allied 

 French and English forces in 1860. In the early 

 part of the civil war he returned home. He went 

 to X'ew York, took part in suppressing the draft 

 riots, and was commissioned major of the 13th 

 X"ew York Cavalry. Subsequently he was commis- 

 sioned colonel of a South Carolina colored regi- 

 ment, and at the close of the war he was bre vetted 

 brigadier general of volunteers. Soon afterward he 

 was sent on a special mission to the freedmen in 

 Yirginia, where he spent two years in establishing 

 schools and otherwise assisting the colored people. 

 He was city auditor of Somerville in 1872-'86. Gen. 

 Frazar contributed to periodicals, published in 

 book form "The Log of the ' Maryland,"' ;> Perse- 

 .verance Island." and " Practical Boat Sailing." 



