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acter. Mr. Fairbanks was made a knight of 

 the Imperial Order of Francis Joseph during 

 the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. He built and 

 endowed St. Johnsbury Academy at a cost of 

 $200,000. 



Farley, James Thompson, an American lawyer, 

 born in Albemarle County, Va., Aug. 6, 1829 ; 

 died in Jackson, Cal., Jan. 22, 1886. He re- 

 ceived a common-school education, and when 

 quite young removed to Missouri, and thence, 

 in 1850, to California. After spending some 

 time in mining, he settled in Amador County, 

 studied law, and began practice in 1854. The 

 same year he was elected to the State Assem- 

 bly as a Whig, and before his term expired 

 was re-elected. At the beginning of the ses- 

 sion of 1856 he was chosen Speaker, being the 

 youngest man ever elected to that office in 

 California. In 1857 he joined the Democratic 

 party, with which he affiliated till the close of 

 his life. He was elected a member of the 

 State Senate in 1860, and re-elected, serving 

 eight years in all, and being president pro tern- 

 pore through one session. In 1873 he was the 

 Democratic nominee for United States Senator, 

 when Newton Booth, the Independent candi- 

 date, defeated him by four votes. He was 

 successful in 1877, and took the seat in succes- 

 sion to A. A. Sargent, March 18, 1879. In the 

 Forty-seventh Congress he was a member of the 

 committees on Commerce, Naval Affairs, and 

 Post-Offices and Post Roads,- and in the Forty- 

 eighth of those on Commerce, Naval Affairs, 

 and Transportation Routes to the Sea-board. 



Fcnn, Alary, an American editor, born in 

 Clarendon, Orleans County, N. Y., July 17, 

 1824 ; died in West Orange, N. J., July 18, 1886. 

 She was graduated at Ingham University, Le 

 Roy, N. Y., in 1845, and two years later she 

 married Samuel G. Love. But in 1855 she 

 was divorced from him, and, believing herself 

 equally free, married Andrew Jackson Davis, 

 the spiritualist. They settled in West Orange, 

 and lived together until three years before her 

 death, when Mr. Davis, alleging a flaw in her 

 divorce, sought to have their marriage annulled, 

 and, as she offered no contest, succeeded. She 

 then resumed her maiden name, Mary Fenn. 

 She was the author of several books and pam- 

 phlets, editor of " The Herald of Progress," in 

 1860-'64, and a member of Sorosis. 



Forsyth, John, an American clergyman, born 

 in 1810; died in Newburg, N. Y., Oct. 17, 

 1886. At different periods in his life he served 

 as pastor in Philadelphia, Pa., and Newburg, 

 N. Y. ; as professor in the Theological Semi- 

 nary of the Associate Reformed Church, at 

 Princeton, and at Rutgers College, New Bruns- 

 wick, N. J. ; and as chaplain and professor in 

 the Military Academy at West Point. He was 

 an invaluable counselor in places of public 

 trust and in ecclesiastical assemblies. His so- 

 cial qualities endeared him to a large circle of 

 friends in this country and in Great Britain. 



France, Robert H., an American actor, born 

 in Ireland in 1805 ; died in New York city, 



Aug. 9, 1886. Pie received a college educa- 

 tion, and early in life determined to make the 

 stage his profession. He made his firtt ap- 

 pearance, as a comedian, in the old Drury 

 Lane Theatre in London. In 1852 he came to 

 America with his wife and family, and found 

 employment in St. Charles Theatre, in the 

 Bowery, New York city, playing old men's 

 parts. He then played an engagement of two 

 years in the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., after which he returned to New 

 York city and secured an engagement in the 

 old Bowery Theatre. From this house he 

 went to Barnum's Museum, where he remained 

 six years, and then set out on a tour of the 

 States. He had at various times supported the 

 elder Booth, Mrs. Charles Kean, Charlotte 

 Cushman, and Edward L. Davenport. 



Freeman, John D., an American lawyer, born in 

 New Jersey about 1820 ; died in Cafion City, 

 Col., Jan. 18, 1886. He removed to Mississippi, 

 studied law, was admitted to the bar, was a 

 member of Congress from that State in 1851- 

 '53, and was Attorney-General of the State im- 

 mediately preceding .the civil war. The success 

 of the Vicksburg, Shreveport, and Pacific Rail- 

 road was credited to his efforts while he was a 

 member of Congress. He was the author of 

 "Freeman's Chancery Reports," and at the 

 time of his death was a candidate for appoint- 

 ment as United States Marshal for Colorado. 



Garnett, Charles F. M., an American engineer, 

 died in Norfolk, Va., March 7, 1836. During 

 the quarter of a century preceding the civil 

 war he was one of the most distinguished civil 

 engineers in the South. His education began 

 at the University of Virginia, and was contin- 

 ued at the School of Engineering in Philadel- 

 phia and Boston. In his early youth he was 

 called upon to construct the first railroad in 

 Virginia, that from Petersburg to City Point. 

 He then built the Petersburg and Weldon and 

 the Virginia and Tennessee Railroads, and while 

 engaged in the latter work he was appointed 

 Chief-Engineer of the State of Georgia. From 

 that time until 1854 he was mainly employed 

 in connection with the most prominent works 

 of improvement in the South. He afterward 

 went into the service of Brazil at the special 

 instance and request of Dom Pedro II, and de- 

 signed and built the first railroad in that coun- 

 try. On his return to the United States he 

 retired to his plantation in Hanover County, 

 Va. During the civil war he was engaged in 

 the Bureau of Engineering at Richmond, with 

 the rank of colonel. 



Goodrich, James S., an American editor, born 

 in Auburn, N. Y., in 1842 ; died there, Jan. 3, 

 1886. He learned the printer's trade in the 

 office of the Auburn "Morning News." He 

 enlisted in the Seventy -fifth Regiment of 

 New York Volunteers in 1861, and remained 

 in the service till the close of the war, acting 

 in the commissary department of the infantry 

 at Mobile in the early part of 1864, and as 

 captain of heavy artillery at Cape Hatteras in 



