FLORIDA. 



FOGG, GEORGE G. 



301 



By the census returns, the estimated amount 

 of merchantable pine long-leaved pine (Pi- 

 mis australis) standing May 31, 1880, was as 

 follows : 



COUNTIES. 



No. of feet, 

 board-measure. 



Alachua 525,000,000 



Baker .. 144,000,000 



Bradford 183,000,000 



Brevard 68,000,000 



Calhoun 81,000,000 



Clay ... 7T,000,000 



Col urn Diu 455,000,000 



Dnval 67,000,000 



COUNTIES. 



No. of feet, 

 board-meajure. 



Madison 122,000,000 



Manatee 200,000,000 



Marion 815,000,000 



Nassau 104,000,000 



Orange 87.000.000 



Polk 210,000,000 



Putnam 121,000.000 



St. John's 66,000,000 



Kscambia 90,000,000 ' Santa Kosa 218,000,000 



Hamilton 811,000,000 Sumter 103,000,000 



Hernando 142,000,000 , Suwannee 622,000,000 



Hillsborough 162,000,000 | Tuylor. . . 218,000,000 



"olusia 



Volusia 59,000,000 



Wakulla 72,000,000 



Walton 409,000,000 



Washington 187,000,000 



Total 6,615,000,000 



Holmes 150,000,000 



Jackson 233,000,000 



Jefferson 23,000,000 



Lafayette 425,000,000 



Levy 846,000,000 



Liberty 75,000,000 



Cut for the census year ending May 81, 1881 (ex- 

 cluding 77,500,00!) feet, estimated, grown in Ala- 

 bama, and sawed in Western Florida) 208,054,090 



In this estimate no account is made of timber 

 remaining on lands which have been cut over, or 

 of that injured by the manufacture of turpentine. 



The months of January and February were 

 marked by exceptionally cold periods, and 

 much damage was done to orange-groves and 

 tropical plants. It was estimated that there 

 would be shipped from the State this year not 

 less than 75,000,000 if not 80,000,000 oranges, 

 and that the yield would exceed this amount 

 by 5,000,000. The yield in eight counties in 

 Eastern Florida and Sumter County would not 

 be less than 40,000,000, while Western and 

 Southern Florida would produce 30,000,000 

 more. 



Judge A. A. Knight, supervisor of the cen- 

 sus for Florida, to whom was also assigned 

 the duty of preparing the orange statistics of 

 the State, furnishes the following figures: 



and 2 Indians ; in Nassau County, 3 Chinese and 6 Indians ; 

 in St. John's County, 2 Chinese ; in Volusia County, 1 In- 

 dian. 



No returns were received from fourteen of 

 the thirty-nine counties. With the exception 

 of Nassau, the counties not reporting are 

 situated in Middle and West Florida. The 

 oranges were valued at $15 a thousand, and 

 the average yield per tree was 154. Within 

 the next five years, the number of bearing 

 trees and their yield will probably be increased 

 five-fold. 



FOGG, GEORGE GILMAN, born at Meredith, 

 New Hampshire, May 26, 1813 ; died at Con- 

 cord, N. H., October 12, 1881. Having received 

 from his parents, who were in humble circum- 

 stances, a good preparation for college, he en- 

 tered Dartmouth, from which institution he 

 graduated in 1839. Mr. Fogg then read law 

 with Hon. Warren Lovel and Stephen Carr, of 

 Meredith, and commenced practice, at Gilman- 

 ton, in 1842. At an early age he engaged ac- 

 tively in politics, and entered the career which 

 subsequently conducted him to a position of 

 eminent distinction among the public men of 

 New Hampshire. Originally a Democrat, he 

 became one of the most influential workers in 

 the organization known as Independent Demo- 

 crats. In January, 1845, the Texas question 

 caused the withdrawal of John P. Hale from 

 the Democratic party. The next month an or- 

 ganization was effected, at Exeter, by malcon-. 

 tent Democrats, who refused to consent to Mr. 

 Hale's rejection on account of his antislavery 

 views. This new party took the name of Inde- 

 pendent Democrats, nominated Mr. Hale for 

 Congress, published an address and resolutions, 

 and boldly appealed for support to their breth- 

 ren throughout the State. At the election in 

 the month following the Democrats chose three 

 of their four candidates for Congress on a gen- 

 eral ticket, but failed to elect the nominee in 

 place of Mr. Hale. A special election was or- 

 dered to fill the vacancy, and, pending the can- 

 vass, the supporters of Mr. Hale established an 

 organ at Manchester, which was called "The 

 Independent Democrat." Soon after, the pa- 

 per was removed to Concord, and Mr. Fogg, 

 having been a contributor to the same, was 

 made its editor. He then abandoned his pro- 

 fession, removed to Concord, and became a 

 regular journalist, and continued such until 

 1861, when he was appointed Minister to Switz- 

 erland by President Lincoln. As a newspa- 

 per writer Mr. Fogg exerted a strong influence 

 in and out of his own State. His intimate 

 knowledge of the Democratic party gave him 

 a vast advantage in the faction to which he had 

 allied himself, and enabled him to contend suc- 

 cessfully with the experienced politicians ar- 

 rayed against it. In 1845 several unsuccessful 

 attempts were made to fill the congressional 

 vacancy. At the State election in March, 1846, 

 the Independents succeeded in choosing to the 

 Legislature a sufficient number of Representa- 

 tives and Senators to hold the balance of power 

 between the two old parties, and also, having a 

 candidate of their own in the field for Governor, 

 to defeat the Democratic nominee for that office. 



