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lie became manager of the Ilolliday Street Theater in 

 Baltimore, where he made his headquarters for twenty 

 years, in the meantime inaugurating the system of 

 circuit theaters. He built a theater in Washington, 

 1). ('., in 1856; leased the theater in Richmond, Va., 

 in 1857; built three other theaters in Washington; 

 erected the Grand Opera House in Baltimore in 1871 ; 

 took the management of the Broad Street Theater in 

 Philadelphia, Pa., in 1878 ; and for a time controlled 

 the Fifth Avenue Theater in New York city. On the 

 -site of his first theater in Washington, which was 

 burned down, he erected the one in which President 

 Lincoln was shot in 1865. After the tragedy the 

 building was taken by the Government, and John and 

 his brother Henry were imprisoned for about a month. 

 Subsequently the Government paid him $100,000 for 

 the building. 



Fredericks,' Charles De Forest, photographer, born in 

 New York city in 182-3; died in Newark, N. J., May 

 25, 1894. He received a partial collegiate education, 

 and while employed in a banking house took lessons 

 in daguerreotypirig, and purchased an outfit. In 1843 

 he went to Venezuela with a small assortment of 

 general merchandise to sell, taking his camera with 

 him. At Angostura the customs officers, who never 

 had seen a camera, refused to pass it without a duty 

 greater than its value, and Mr. Fredericks decided to 

 reship it to New York. The principal merchant of 

 the place, whose child had just died, hearing of the 

 camera and the wonderful things claimed for it, paid 

 the duty and besought Mr. Fredericks to take a pic- 

 ture of his dead child. A successful plate was made 

 in the presence of the principal citizens, and the news 

 of the wonderful feat was so widely- spread that Mr. 

 Fredericks shipped his merchandise to a brother, and 



fave his whole attention to making daguerreotypes, 

 ubsequently he spent nine months voyaging up the 

 Orinoco river and down the Amazon, at the instigation 

 of the Governor of the province of Rio Negro. After 

 spending a year recruiting his health in New York, he 

 returned to Para, conducted a gallery there for six 

 months, and afterward visited Marinham, Pernambuco, 

 Bahia, Rio do Janeiro, Porto Allegre, Buenos Ayres, 

 Montevideo, and other places. In 1853 he established 

 a gallery in Paris, and he was the first person there 

 that made life-size heads and employed artists to 

 finish them in pastel. At the end of that year he 

 formed a partnership in New York city with Mr. J. 

 Gurney, with whom he had studied daguerreotyping. 

 In 1855 this partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Fred- 

 ericks established a gallery that became famous, on 

 Broadway, opposite the Metropolitan Hotel, and 

 afterward opened branch studios in Havana and 

 Paris. In 1876 he located at No. 770 Broadway. Mr. 

 Fredericks brought to the United States, under con- 

 tract, many talented artists. 



Frost, Rufiis S., philanthropist, born in Marlborough, 

 N. H., July 18, 1826; died in Chicago, 111., Marcli 6, 

 1894. He removed to Boston, Mass., in 1833, was 

 educated in the public schools there, and in Newton 

 Academy ; became a clerk in the wholesale dry -goods 

 house of J. H. & J. Osgood, and was admitted to the 

 firm on attaining his majority. After various business 

 changes, he organized the present firm of Kufus S. 

 Frost & Co., general commission merchants, in 1866, 

 and also became interested with the late Gov. Haile 

 of New Hampshire in the manufacture of woolen 

 goods at Hinsdale, N. H. During his entire business 

 career he lived in Chelsea. In 1866 and 1867 he was 

 elected mayor; in 1871 and 1872 a State Senator; in 

 1873-'74 was a member of Gov. Wash burn's executive 

 council ; and in 1875-'76 was a member of Congress. 

 His last political service was as a delegate to the Na- 

 tional Republican Convention in 1892. He had been 

 President of the National Association of Woolen 

 Manufacturers for seven years, of the Boston Board 

 of Trade for two years, and of the New England Con- 

 servatory of Music for eight years. Mr. Frost ac- 

 quired large wealth, and was a liberal benefactor. In 

 1867 he presented his native town with a public li- 

 brary building, 2,000 volumes, and an endowment of 

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$5,000, and in 1890 he founded a public hospital in 

 Chelsea, in which patients may be treated under any 

 school of medicine, as preferred. He bequeathed 

 $5,000 to the town of Marlborough for the benefit of 

 the library ; $r>,000 to the Congregational Church in 

 Marlborough ; $5,000 to Frost Hospital in Chelsea ; 

 $2,500 to the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital in 

 Boston; $6,000 to Wellesley College: $2,000 each to 

 the First Congregational Church in Chelsea and the 

 Massachusetts Home Missionary Society, and smaller 

 sums to several other institutions. 



Fry, James Barnet, military officer, born in Carroll- 

 ton, 111., Feb. 22, 18.27 ; died in Newport, R. I., July 

 11, 1894. He was graduated at the United State's 

 Military Academy, July 1, 1847, and was commis- 

 sioned brevet 2d lieutenant, 3d Artillery. In the 

 regular army he was promoted 2d lieutenant, Aug. 20, 

 1847 ; 1st lieutenant, Feb. 22, 1851 ; captain and assist- 

 ant adjutant general, Aug. 3, 1861 ; major and lieu- 

 tenant colonel, April 22 and Dec. 31, 1862 ; and colonel, 

 March 3, 1875; and was retired July 1, 1881. In the 

 volunteer army he was appointed colonel and aid-de- 

 camp, Nov. 14*, 1861 ; was commissioned colonel and 

 provost-marshal general, March 17, 1863 ; promoted 

 brigadier general^ April 21, 1864 ; and relieved from 

 duty as provost- marshal general on the termination of 

 that office by law r , Aug. 27, 1866. During his active 

 career he was brevetted colonel for gallantry at Bull 

 Run brigadier general for the battles of Shiloh, Tenn., 

 and Perry ville, Ky., and major general for services in 

 the provost-marshal general's department during the 

 civil war, all on March 13, 1865. He served as chief of 

 staff to Gens. McDowell and Buell ; took part in the 

 pursuit of the Confederates under Gen. Bragg ; was in 

 the battle of Shiloh ; at the siege of Corinth ; in the 

 operations in Kentucky and northern Alabama ; and 

 as provost-marshal general entered on the rolls of the 

 army 1,120,621 soldiers, and collected $26,366,316 for 

 the Government. After the war he was adjutant 

 general of the Divisions of the Pacific, the Missouri, 

 and the Atlantic, and the Department of the East 

 respectively, till retired. Gen. Fry was author of 

 " Sketch of the Adjutant General's Department, 

 United States Army" (New York, 1875); "The His- 

 tory and Legal Effects of Brevets in the Armies of 

 Great Britain and the United States " (1877) ; " Army 

 Sacrifices ; or, Briefs from Official Pigeonholes " ; 

 " Compulsory Education in the Army " ; " Operations 

 of the Army under Buell, and the Buell Commis- 

 sion * J ; " McDowell and Tyler in the Campaign of 

 Bull Run " ; " New York and the Conscription " ; and 

 " Military Miscellanies." His " Final Report of the 

 Operations of the Bureau of the Provost-Marshal 

 General " was published by Congress in 1866. 



Fursch-Madi, Emma, opera singer, born in Bayonne, 

 France, in 1847 ; died in Warrenville, Somerset Coun- 

 ty, N. J., Sept. 20, 1894. She developed strong musical 

 talent when a child, became a pupil in the Paris Con- 

 servatoire, and made her first public appearance in 

 the symphony concerts of the Societe des Concertes, 

 in which she attracted attention as a singer of the 

 music of Beethoven, Mozart, Handel, Gltick, and 

 Haydn. In 1871 she first appeared in opera, at the 

 Grand Opera House in Pans, singing the part of 

 Marguerite in "Faust." This opera was followed 

 by "Robert," " Les Huguenots," " Der Freischntz," 

 and " Don Giovanni," in each of which she won higli 

 praise for the purity and dignity of her style. At the 

 close of her second season at the Grand Opera House 

 she was chosen by Verdi to create the part of Aiida in 

 the French language at the Theater Royal in Brus- 

 sels, and in this she achieved probably the greatest 

 triumph in her career. The opera was presented 

 72 times in succession, and when it was withdrawn 

 she was engaged on a five years' contract at the 

 Theater dela Monnaie, in the same city. In 1879 she 

 appeared in Italian opera at Covent Garden, London, 

 where she remained till 1882, and then came to the 

 United States under the management of Col. J. H. 

 Mapleson, making her first appearance at the Acad- 

 emy of Music. During the season of 1883-'84 she 



