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and was promoted first lieutenant, Aug. 3, 1861; 

 captain, March 3, 1863; major, March 7, 1867; 

 lieutenant colonel, Aug. 8, 1882; colonel, May 18, 

 1893; and was retired, March 31, 1895. 



Elwell. John J., lawyer, born in Warren, Ohio, 

 June 22, 1820;. died in Cleveland, Ohio, March 13, 

 1900. He was graduated at Cleveland Medical 

 College, but afterward studied law and was ad- 

 mitted to the bar. He was elected to the Ohio 

 House of Representatives in 1853. He enlisted in 

 the volunteer army in August, 1861, and served 

 till the close of the civil war. He was four times 

 brevetted for meritorious service, and closed his 

 military career as brevet brigadier general. He 

 was badly injured just before the close of the 

 war and partially disabled. He was an eminent 

 authority on medical jurisprudence, and was the 

 author of Medico-legal 'Treatise on Malpractice, 

 Medical Evidence and Insanity (New York). 



Emerson, Joseph, educator, born in Norwalk, 

 Conn., May 28, 1821; died in Beloit, Wis., Aug. 

 4, 1900. He was graduated at \ale in 1841, and 

 was for a time a tutor there. In 1846 he and his 

 classmate Jackson J. Bushnell were called to 

 Beloit College. For more than a year they consti- 

 tuted the faculty, there being only three students 

 in the college, and no college buildings till 1847. 

 Prof. Emerson held the chair of Greek till the 

 time of his death. 



Endicott, William. Crowninshleld, lawyer, 

 born in Salem, Mass., Nov. 19, 1826; died in Bos- 

 ton, May 6, 1900. He was a direct descendant 

 of John Endicott, first Governor of Massachu- 

 setts. He was graduated at Harvard College in 

 1847, and was admitted to the bar in 1850. He 

 was elected to the Salem Common Council in 

 1852, and in 1857 became city solicitor. In 1870 

 he was defeated as a Democratic candidate for 

 Congress, and in 1871 and 1873 was defeated for 

 Attorney-General. In 1873 he was appointed by 

 the Republican Governor, William B. Washburn, 

 a justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, 

 and this office he held till 1883, resigning on ac- 

 count of failing health. In 1884 he was the Demo- 

 cratic candidate for Governor. In 1885 he was 

 appointed Secretary of War, and he served through 

 the term. One of the notable events of his term 

 was his appointment of what came to be known 

 as the Endicott Board on Fortifications, whose 

 elaborate plans have been to a great extent car- 

 ried out in the defenses of the cities on the At- 

 lantic seaboard. Judge Endicott had a high repu- 

 tation as a speaker, one of his notable efforts 

 being his oration, in 1878, on the two hundred and 

 fiftieth anniversary of the landing of his ancestor 

 on New England soil. 



Everett, Charles Carroll, clergyman, born in 

 Brunswick, Me., June 19, 1829; died in Cambridge, 

 Muss., Oct. 17, 1900. He was graduated at Bow- 

 doin College, and subsequently studied at the 

 University of Berlin. He was librarian at Bow- 

 doin from 1853 to 1857, and was Professor of Mod- 

 ern Languages there in 1855-'57. The next two 

 years he studied at the Harvard Divinity School, 

 and in 1859 he was ordained pastor of the Inde- 

 pendent Congregational Church, at Bangor, Me., 

 but he resigned in 1869 to become Bussey Professor 

 of Theology at Harvard University. He was dean 

 of the Divinity School from 1878 'until his death. 

 His courses in philosophy at the university were 

 as stimulating as they were highly valued. His 

 latest piece of literary work was a thoughtful 

 paper on James Martineau, in the Atlantic Month- 

 ly for September, 1900. His published books com- 

 prise The Science of Thought (1869); Religions 

 before Christianity (1883) ; Fichte's Science of 

 Knowledge: A Critical Exposition (1884) ; Poetry, 



Comedy, and Duty (1888) ; Ethics for Young Peo- 

 ple (1891) ; and The Gospel of Paul (1893). 



Everett, Erastus, educator, born in Princeton, 

 Mass., Aug. 3, 1813; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 May 7, 1900. He was graduated at Dartmouth 

 College in 1836, and removed to Baton Rouge, 

 La., and subsequently became president of the 

 College of New Orleans. In 1854 he settled in 

 Brooklyn. For several years he was a professor 

 in Rutgers Female College and a lecturer in many 

 educational institutions in New York and New 

 Jersey. He published A System of English Versi- 

 fication (New York, 1848). 



Fairfax, John Contee, eleventh Lord Fairfax 

 and Baron of Cameron, in the peerage of Scot- 

 land, born in Vaucluse, Va., Sept 13, 1830; died 

 in Northampton, Md., Sept. 28, 1900. He was 

 graduated at Princeton College and at the medical 

 department of the University of Pennsylvania. 

 He was an active practitioner as a physician in 

 his younger days, but in later years lived the life 

 of a gentleman farmer. His right to his title came 

 to him in 1869 on the death of his brother Charles. 

 Although he never assumed his title, it was offi- 

 cially recognized by the court of Great Britain. 



Fancher, Enoch L., lawyer, born in Dutchess 

 County, New York, in 1816; died in New York 

 city, Feb. 9, 1900. He was graduated at Wesleyan 

 University and studied law. He was appointed 

 a justice of the Supreme Court in 1872 to fill a 

 vacancy; on the expiration of his term in 1873 

 he was nominated on the Republican ticket for 

 the succeeding term, but was defeated. In 1874 

 he was appointed arbitrator of the Chamber of 

 Commerce, the appointment being made under a 

 special act of the Legislature, giving judicial au- 

 thority to an arbitrator to settle disputes arising 

 among members of the chamber. He was at vari- 

 ous times president of the American Bible Society, 

 president of the New York Institute for the in- 

 struction of the Deaf and Dumb, and manager of 

 the Missionary Society of the Methodist Church. 

 He published The American Republic and its Con- 

 stitutional Government. 



Fox, Junius B, educator, born in Lincolnton, 

 N. C., June 7, 1860; died in Staunton, Va., March 

 27, 1900. He was graduated at Pennsylvania Col- 

 lege, Gettysburg, in 1880; was Professor of 

 Mathematics and Natural Sciences at King's 

 Mountain High School, North Carolina, in 1880- 

 '82; occupied the same chair in Macon School, 

 Charlotte, N. C., in 1882-'84; was pastor at 

 King's Mountain, N. C., in 1881-'82, in Greene 

 County, Tennessee, in 1884-'86; and again Pro- 

 fessor of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in 

 Newberry College, South Carolina, from 1886 un- 

 til a few years ago, when he removed to Virginia. 

 He published Biography of Rev. A. J. Fox, M. D. 

 (Philadelphia,- 1885); Experimental Sciences 

 (1887); Modern Spiritualism (1889); Historical 

 Sketches of the Pastors of the Newberry Lutheran 

 Congregations (1888); and numerous newspaper 

 and magazine articles. 



Frankan, Joseph Griswold. actor, born in 

 New Haven, Conn., in 1854; died in New York 

 city, April 11, 1900. His first appearance was in 

 New Y'ork city as a member of the dramatic 

 company supporting Frederic Paulding in the 

 part of Torrali in The Fool's Revenge, at the 

 Lyceum Theater, Feb. 17, 1879. He was engaged 

 by the managers of the Madison Square Theater 

 for the stock company there instituted, and was 

 one of the original cast of Ha /.el Kirke. in which 

 he was the Met. Miggins, Feb. 4, 1880. He played 

 this part several seasons. In January, 1884, he 

 was the original of the part of Bartholomew Jones 

 in Confusion at the Fifth Avenue Theater. He 



