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the I'lilti-il State* iluriiiir tin- lutti-r part i.l' tin- civil 

 war to enter tin- national army, hut tin- struuu'le 



!>eforc his arrival, lie then established him 

 .-eh in 1'ii-im as a mining and civil n.-im < T. and 

 wa- tir-i iii.'Mi.'i-'l in eon-.! riict'm:: ii part of th. 

 and I'lu-iti.- Railroad. In IM'.S 'i;;i In- was fir-' 

 ant tn (ii-n. Charles I'. St. ni. . then making survey. 

 t'i'i- tin- Florida Ship Canal, and personally surveyed 



iti-; in l^T-'lu- was engineer in chief in charL-e 



of the la\ itii: i>f the douhlc track lor the New Y"ik 



i 1 and Hudson Hivor Hail nail from Alhany to 



Buttalo; and subsequently In- was consulting expert 



llll'l !ir>! ais!alit to lien. Stone in luiildillir the 

 pcdc-tal tor the Biirtholdi statue, assistant to lien. 

 McClcllall \\llell the latter was chief engineer of the 



New York l>ock Department, and at the time of hia 



death was engineer in chief of the Alabama Coal 

 and Iron < 'oiimany. 



Fisher. Oharlee, actor. l>rn in Suffolk, England, in 

 1816; died in New York citv, .hine In, iv.U. He 

 made histirst appearance on tlie stage at the 1'riiicess 

 Theatre, in London, in 1S44, and his first American 

 appearance at Burton's Theatre, in New York, as Fer- 

 ment, in The School of Kcforin,' 1 ,,n Aiiir. :H), 1852. 

 ])tiriiiLr this interval he hud ]ila\eil with success in 

 the jirincipal London theatres. Ills reception in the 

 t'nited States was so cordial that he decided to re- 

 main here, and, after making toure of the large ci tie,-., 

 lie joined the Wallack company in l^tll. He there 

 succeeded to the characters of the elder Waleot, 



acccptahh a- .losi-jih Surface, Triplet in " Mask- ami 

 Face-." (iraves in " Money," and in " Rosedalc,'' and 

 many other Wallack plays, lie joined Auirustin 

 Daly's company in 1^7^, and was active in it till the 

 aotomn of 1890, when advancing age caused him to 



retire permaneiitlv from the sta^c. While with Mr. 

 I>aly he played the parts of the first old men, and 

 had bat one rival, John Gilbert Someofhis Shake- 

 spearian parts \verc memorable for thorough study and 

 careful acting ; in the old comedies lie was strong. 

 Ilis Fulstatt', Sir Peter Teazle, old Adam in "As 

 You Like It," the Ghost in Hamlet.'' Larocque in 

 " The Romance of a Poor Young Man," and the Par- 

 son in " The Squire" will long be remembered. 



Fit*, Benjamin Rutherford, painter, horn in New York 

 city in ls,w ; died in 1'econic, L. I., Dec. 27, 1891. 

 He studied painting in the National Academy of De- 

 sign and in the Uoyal Academy of 1'aintin^', in Mu- 

 nich. when- he took two medals tor excellence. In 

 1885 he returned to New York city, and was at once 

 oho-.cn a pi-ofe.-.-or in the Art Students' League, with 

 which he was connected till his death. lie was a 

 member of the Society of American Artists, the 

 American Water-color Society, the Architectural 

 League, the Art Students' League, the National Acad 

 emy of Design, and of the Salmagundi and Loto- 

 Clulis. During his short art ean-er Mr. Fit/ painted 

 portraits .if many of the host known people of New 

 York city, and showed particular strength and grace 

 in female portraiture. 



Flasch, Elian, clenrvman, born in Ret/stadt. Havana, 

 July 16, 1831 ; died in La Cross.-. Wis.. Sept. :t. iv.'l. 

 He was Drought up on a farm ; came with his parents 

 to the United States in 1847; was educated in the 

 College >(' Notre Dame. Indiana, tin- Pro-seminary 

 in Milwaukee, and the Seminary of St. Francis; and 

 wa- ordained a Roman Catholic priest Dec. !>'>, IW.i. 

 He was master of discipline and a professor in the 

 Seminary of St. Francis in isc.o '1:7 ; ensured in mis- 

 sion KM orphan-asylum work till 1>74: then be- 

 came spiritual director of the seminary and I'rofess- 

 or of Moral Theology at St. Francis, and waa a]>p<>int- 

 ed rector of the ooUeffe in is7'.i. < >n Amr. -t. l^si. 

 he was appointed Hishi>]> of La Cro c. w here he re- 

 mained till his death, lie had over 55,000 pcr-ons 

 under his care, and over 1-jo chun-he-. and under his 

 administration many charitable, religious, and odu- 

 eaiioiial institutions were established in his di 



Flint, Franklin Foster, military ortieer, horn in New 

 Hampshire, April i".i. 1>-J1 : died in Chicago. 111., 

 Sept. 15, 1891. He was graduated at the United 



1 iipi-.iiit.-.l ad lii-utt-n- 



ant I'.th I nil'-.l Mad-. Iniiiiili \ in i--H;uu^j.i 

 l.-l li.-iiteiiunl, O.-t. |-.'. 1M7 : cnptain. > , 

 major 1-ith t'nit.-d Stati-i. Infiin'i IMl- 



lii-uteiiaiit colonel 7th Inlaiii ,; mid 



eolt.nel 4th Infantry, July B, lH58;and wu- 

 at his own re.juest. April 'l I. , M th.- 



Scminolc War in Florida, tin- KMMW diatttrbcDOM 



in I860, the Utah expedition in l *'*. the < ur-.n \ u l 



le\ i-xpedition in l'.o, and in ceveral Indian .-um- 



paigiis in the Went. In tl ivil war In- 



mand at Louisville in I -;.'. and afteruanl of the 

 depot, at Alton ami of the defense* of Cincinnati. 

 Florence, William James, an a>-toi- who.,- real name 



' rnard Conlin, lprn in Alhanv, N. Y.. ' 

 ls:$l;die.l in Philadelphia, Pa.. Nov. .'(. \H:>\.' He 

 showed a love for ue. ting and for the drama at an 



early age. He found his way t<> New York when he 

 was sixteen years old, where- lu learned a trade, hut 

 demoted all his leisure time to private theatricals and 

 to the attains of the Murdoch Dramatic Association. 

 His first appearance on the professional stage was 

 made at Richmond, Va., Dec. 4, 1849, as Peter in the 

 "Stranger." In the spring of the following year lie 

 became a member of the company at Nihlo's (Jarden, 

 New York, under the management of Hrou^ham and 

 Chippendale, and his first part was Ilallagon. in a 

 drama by Brougham called Home." produced May 

 13, 1850. When Mroiigham opviu-d the Lyceum Thea- 

 tre, New York, atterward Wallack's Theatre, and the 

 Broadway Theatre, on the corner of Broadway and 

 Broome Street, Dec. -JH, lfC)i, Florence ap|ieaml in 

 an after-ji'u-ee called " The Lii:ht (iuard. or Woman V 

 Rights." He made his tirst decided hit at this house 

 on April -2'2, 1S51, when he appeared as a rvd-shirtod 

 fireman in a ]>lay of the period called A How at the 

 Lyceum." Duriiitr tlie following season he was at 

 the IJroadw ay Theatre, New York, Ketweeii Anthony 

 isince Worth'i and Pearl Street.-, opeiiin-r on Au-r. "". 

 1852. as Lord Tinsel in "The Hunchback' 1 t<> the 

 Julia of .Julia Dean and the Master Walter of F. H. 

 Coiiway. Later he supported Forrest. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Barney Williams, and Mrs. Mowutt. On .Jan. '. 

 he married Miss Malvina Pray, with whom lie wa- >< 

 pleasantly associated in a loiiir and honorable dra- 

 matic career. They first played together at the Na- 

 tional Theatre. Chatham Street. New York, on June 

 18,1853. ap]H-uring as the Irish Hoy and Yankee (iirl, 

 where they met with irn-at success, which ! 

 them on an extensive tour through tlie rnited Stato. 

 In ls:,t; they first appeared in London. atDniry Lane 

 Theatre, where Mrs. Florence, as a specimen of Ameri- 

 can help in the " Yankee Housekeeper." amused and 



