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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (EARLE FOX-JENCKEN.) 



this chair, together with the office of warden of the 

 law school, tfll June, 1891, when he resigned and was 

 made professor emeritus. Prof. Dwight was a mem- 

 ber of the State Con- 

 stitutional Conven- 

 tion, and of its ju- 

 diciary committee 

 in 1867 ; was elected 

 nonresident Profes- 

 sor of Constitutional 

 Law at Cornell Uni- 

 versity, and lecturer 

 on law at Amherst 

 College in 1868 ; 

 Vice - President of 

 the State Board of 

 Public Charities, 

 and member of the 

 Commission of Ap- 

 peals in 1873; Presi- 

 dent of the State 

 Prison Association in 1874 ; member of the Commit- 

 tee of Seventy which dealt with the Tweed ring in 

 New York city ; State Commissioner to the Interna- 

 tional Prison Congress at Stockholm in 1 878 ; and 

 counsel for the five professors of Andover Theologi- 

 cal Seminary against whom complaints of heterodoxy 

 were made in 1886. He was also for many years an 

 associate editor of the " American Law Kegister," 

 and author of a large number of articles on legal 

 subjects. He was widely known as an eminent au- 

 thority on the common and civil laws and the laws 

 regulating public charities, and also on the methods 

 of legal teaching. 



Earle, Pliny, physician, born in Leicester, Mass., 

 Dec. 31, 1809 ; died in Northampton, Mass., May 18, 

 1892. He was graduated at the Pennsylvania Univer- 

 sity ; spent several years abroad studying the treat- 

 ment of the insane ; was appointed Superintendent of 

 the Friends' Hospital for the Insane at Frankford, Pa., 

 in 1840 ; was physician in Bloomingdale Asylum in 

 1844-'49 ; was appointed Professor of Psychology in 

 Berkshire Medical Institution at Pittsfield, Mass., in 

 1852; and was Superintendent of the Massachusetts 

 State Hospital for the Insane from 1864 till 1885, when 

 he retired because of advanced age. Dr. Earle was a 

 founder of the American Medical Association. He is 

 said to have been the first person that ever addressed 

 an insane audience on any subject that was not wholly 

 religious, and his policy of combining instruction and 

 amusement as a remedial agency has been adopted in 

 all modern insane institutions. He wrote numerous 

 works on the general subject of mental disorders. He 

 bequeathed $60,000 to the city of Northampton as a 

 fund, the interest of which is to be used toward 

 maintaining the Forbes Library in that city. 



Elliott, Charles, educator, born in Castleton, Scot- 

 land, March 18, 1815 ; died in Easton, Pa., Feb. 14, 

 1892. He was graduated at Lafayette College in 

 1840; spent a year at Princeton Th eological Seminary ; 

 taught at Xenia, Ohio, in 1843-'45; was appointed 

 Professor of Belles-lettres in the Western University, 

 Pennsylvania, in 1847 ; of Greek in Miami University, 

 Ohio, in 1849 ; of Biblical Literature and Exegesis in 

 the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the North- 

 west in 1863 ; and of Hebrew in Lafayette College in 

 1882. He was a member of the American Oriental 

 Society, the Philosophical Society of Great Britain, 

 and the American Society of Biblical Literature and 

 Exegesis, and a personal friend of many eminent 

 German scholars. Besides translations of Kleinert's 

 " Commentaries" and the introduction to the prophetic 

 writings in the American Lange Series, he pub- 

 lished "The Sabbath " (Philadelphia, 1866); "Inspira- 

 tion of the Scriptures " (Edinburgh, 1877) ; in co-opera- 

 tion with the Rev. W. J. Harsha, " Biblical Hermeneu- 

 tics" (New York, 1879) and " Mosaic Authorship of 

 the Pentateuch" (Cincinnati, 1884). 



Ely, Alfred, lawyer, born in Lyme, Conn., Feb. 18, 

 1815 ; died in Rochester, N. Y., May 18, 1892. He 

 removed to Rochester in 1835, was appointed clerk of 



the Recorder's court in 1840, and admitted to the bar 

 in 1841. He was elected to Congress as a Republican 

 in 1858 and 1860, and served as chairman of the Com- 

 mittee on Invalid Pensions. In July, 1861, while 

 visiting the Bull Run battle field, he was captured by 

 the Confederates, and, notwithstanding his claims for 

 exemption on account of being a member of Congress, 

 lie was taken to Richmond and confined six months 

 in Libby Prison. He was exchanged for Charles J. 

 Faulkner, the American minister to France, who had 

 been imprisoned through suspicion of disloyalty. He 

 published "Journal of Alfred Ely, a Prisoner of War 

 in Richmond" (New York, 1862). 



Faran, James Ji, lawyer, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 

 1799 ; died there, Dec. 12, 1892. He was graduated 

 at Miami University in 1831, was admitted to the bar 

 in 1833; elected to the Legislature in 1835, 1837, and 

 1838, and to the State Senate in 1839, 1841, and 1842, 

 serving the last two terms as Speaker. He was 

 elected to Congress as a Democrat in 1844 and 1840, 



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Farley, Frederick A,, clergyman, born in Boston, 

 Mass., June 25, 1800; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 

 24, 1892. He was graduated at Harvard in 1818, and 

 was the oldest living alumnus of the institution. In 

 1821 he was admitted to the bar, and after practicing 

 for several years he was graduated at Cambridge 

 Divinity School in 1827 and was ordained pastor of 

 a new Unitarian Church in Providence, R. I. He 

 preached in Providence till 1841, when he began 

 ministering to the Second Unitarian Church in 

 Brooklyn, with which he remained for nineteen 

 years ; then resigned his charge, and was chosen pas- 

 tor emeritus. lie was a Unitarian of the conservative 

 type, and was active in the intellectual and charitable 

 life of Brooklyn. 



Fayerweather, Imoy, died in Rutland, Vt., July 16, 

 1892. She was the widow of Daniel B. Fayerweather, 

 who died in New York city, Nov. 15, 1890, and be- 

 queathed $2,000,000 to charitable and educational in- 

 stitutions, and directed that a further sum, then esti- 

 mated at $3,000,000, should be placed in the hands of 

 executors for distribution among public institutions 

 according to specific, private instructions (see sketch 

 in " Annual Cyclopaedia " for 1890, page 645). Mrs. 

 Fayerweather "bequeathed all of her property to her 

 relatives. Shortly before her death an action was be- 

 gun in her name "in the Supreme Court of New York 

 to set aside the compromise which she had previously 

 made with her husband's executors, and since her 

 death some of her heirs have taken steps to continue 

 her action. 



Fitch, Graham Newell, physician, born in Le Roy, 

 N. Y., Dec. 7, 1810 ; died in Logansport, Ind., Nov. 

 29, 1892. He was educated at Middlebury and Ge- 

 neva, N. Y., studied medicine, and removed to Logans- 

 port to practice in 1834. He was elected to the Legis- 

 lature in 1836 and 1839 ; was a presidential elector in 

 1844, 1848, and 1856; professor in the Rush Medical 

 College at Chicago in 1844-'49 ; member of Congress in 

 1849-'53 ; an^ United States Senator in 1857-'61. In 

 the latter body he served as a member of the commit- 

 tees on Post Offices and Post Roads and on Indian 

 Affairs. In the autumn of 1861 he raised the 46th 

 Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, was commissioned 

 its colonel, and served till the following year, when 

 he was obliged to resign on account of injuries, lie 

 was a delegate to the National Democratic Conven- 

 tion in New York in 1868. 



Fox-Jenoken, Catharine, spiritualist, born in Bath, 

 near Lake Ontario, Canada, in 1839; died in New 

 York city, July 2, 1892. She was the second_of the 

 three Fox sisters, who attracted wide attention by 

 their alleged seances while living at Hydeville, 3C 

 miles from Rochester, in 1848. Catharine and Margaret 

 made a voluntary confession in 1888, in which they 

 asserted that the peculiar sounds which accompanied 

 these seances were produced by the manipulation of 





