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Church, and was assigned to Madras, India. She 

 married there the Rev. D. O. Ernsberger, a mis- 

 sionary, and with him was instrumental in found- 

 ing the Madras orphanages. 



Etheridge, James, gynaecologist, born in St. 

 Johnsville, N. Y., March 20, 1844; died in Chi-^ 

 cago, 111., Feb. 10, 1899. He was Professor of 

 Gynaecology at Rush Medical College. In 1887 he 

 was president of the Chicago Medical Society, and 

 in 1890 of the Gynaecological Society. He was 

 also connected with many other professional 

 bodies, and contributed to medical journals. 



Eustis, James Biddle, diplomatist, born in 

 New Orleans, La., Aug. 27, 1834; died in New- 

 port, R. I., Sept. 9, 1899. He was a son of George 

 Eustis, Chief Justice of Louisiana, was educated 

 in Brookline, Mass., and at Harvard Law School, 

 and was admitted to the bar in 1856. He prac- 

 ticed in his native city till the beginning of the 

 civil war. Entering the Confederate service, he 

 was judge advocate on the staff of Gen. Magruder 

 till 1802, and thence till the close of the war on 

 that of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. After the war 

 he served in each house of the State Legislature. 

 In 1876 he was elected United States Senator to 

 nil an unexpired term. After a tour of Europe 

 he became Professor of Civil Law in the Univer- 

 sity of Louisiana, and served till 1884, when he 

 was again elected to the United States Senate. 

 Here he was a member of the Committee on For- 

 eign Relations. In March, 1893, he was appointed 

 minister to France. He had charge of the pro- 

 tracted negotiations which resulted in the par- 

 don of John L. Waller, ex-United States consul 

 in Madagascar, who had been sentenced to twenty 

 years' imprisonment on a charge of having ille- 

 gally communicated with the Hovas during the 

 French campaign. On the expiration of his term, 

 in 1897, Mr. Eustis engaged in law practice in 

 New York. While studying law T he had trans- 

 lated into English the Institutes of Justinian, 

 and after the war he translated Guizot's History 

 of Civilization. 



Fairbairn, Robert Brinckerhoff, educator, 

 torn in New York city, May 27, 1818; died in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 27, 1899. He was gradu- 

 ated at Washington (now Trinity) College, Hart- 

 ford, Conn., in 1840, studied at the General Theo- 

 logical Seminary, New York city, and became 

 rector of Christ Church, Troy, N. Y. Thence he 

 went to St. John's Church, Stillwater, N. Y., 

 which he left in 1853 to become principal of Cats- 

 kill Academy. Ten years later he accepted the 

 professorship of Mathematics in St. Stephen's Col- 

 lege, Annandale, N. Y., of which he was subse- 

 quently president twenty-eight years. Under his 

 administration the college rose from the grade 

 of a primary school to that of an advanced in- 

 stitution, with property worth $500,000. He re- 

 tired in 1891. He received the degree of D. D. 

 from Trinity College in 1864, and LL. D. from 

 Delaware College in 1876 and Columbia in 1887. 

 Among his best-known works are The Child of 

 Faith, College Sermons, and The Doctrine of 

 Morality in its Relation to the Grace of the 

 Gospel. 



Farrand, Harriet Augusta, author, born in 

 Bridgeport, Vt., June 7, 1832; died in Chicago, 

 111., May 19, 1899. At an early age she removed 

 to Ypsilanti, Mich., and she was graduated at 

 the Michigan State Normal School in 1857. She 

 became known as a writer of short stories, and 

 in 1870 joined the editorial staff of the Advance, 

 in Chicago, of which journal she eventually be- 

 came associate editor. Her published books in- 

 clude The Moravian Indian Boy (Philadelphia, 

 1868); The Berry Pickers; and Little Hands. 



Fearn, John Walker, diplomatist, born in 

 Huntsville, Ala., Jan. 13, LS32; died in Hot 

 Springs, Va., April 8, 1899. Jle was graduated 

 at Yale College in 1851, and two years later was 

 admitted to the bar in Mobile. In 1854 he was 

 appointed secretary of the United States legation 

 in Brussels, and in 1856-'58 he held the similar 

 post in Mexico. During the civil war he served 

 the Confederacy in a diplomatic relation as well 

 as in the army, where he attained the rank of 

 lieutenant colonel on the staff of Gen. Joseph 

 E. Johnston. After the war he practiced law in 

 New Orleans^till he was elected Professor of 

 French, Spanish, and Italian in the University of 

 Louisiana. In April, 1885, he was appointed min- 

 ister to Greece, Roumania, and Servia, and in 

 1891 chief of the department of foreign affairs 

 for the World's Columbian Exposition. 



Ferrero, Edward, soldier, born in Granada, 

 Spain, of Italian parents, Jan. 18, 1831; died in 

 New York city, Dec. 11, 1899. He came to New 

 York city with his parents in 1832. His father 

 opened a dancing school, which became fashion- 

 able, and the son, succeeding him, became one of 

 the most successful dancing masters of his day. 

 He also taught his art at West Point. When 

 the civil war began he became lieutenant colonel 

 of the llth New York Regiment. Soon afterward 

 he raised " the Shepard Rifles " the 51st New 

 York Regiment of which he became the colonel. 

 He participated in Burnside's expedition to Roa- 

 noke island, commanded a brigade at Newbern, 

 was in the Virginia campaign with Pope, and was 

 a conspicuous figure at the battle of South Moun- 

 tain. For bravery at Antietam he was made a 

 brigadier general of volunteers, Sept. 19, 1862, 

 and after participating in several other battles 

 he was brevetted major general on Dec. 2, 1864. 

 He served at Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, and 

 Knoxville, and solely with a compass for a guide 

 he led, the 9th Corps to Cincinnati. When the 

 famous mine was exploded in front of Peters- 

 burg Ferrero's colored division was selected to 

 make the assault. The effort was what Grant 

 had styled " a stupendous failure," and in his 

 Memoirs he says it was " all due to inefficiency 

 on the part of the corps commander and the in- 

 competency of the division commander who was 

 sent to lead the assault." A court of inquiry 

 decided that the failure was due in part to Gen. 

 Ferrero " for want of readiness for the assault, 

 not going with his troops, but remaining in a 

 bombproof." Gen. Ferrero was mustered out of 

 service a few months later. After his retirement 

 he returned to New York city, leased a building 

 at Twenty-eighth Street and Broadway (now the 

 site of the Fifth Avenue Theater), and converted 

 it into a ballroom, which was known as Apollo 

 Hall. In this hall were held balls and other 

 social gatherings of the exclusive social set. In 

 1872 he gave up his lease and took the ballroom 

 of Tammany Hall. He took charge of the Lenox 

 Lyceum, Jan. 1, 1889, and retired in May, 1899. 

 He was a member of the Loyal Legion and of 

 the Grand Army of the Republic. 



Field, Stephen Johnson, jurist, born in Had- 

 dam, Conn., Nov. 4, 1816; died in Washington, 

 D. C., April 9, 1899. He was a grandson of Capt. 

 Timothy Field of the Revolutionary army, a son 

 of the Rev. Dr. David Dudley Field, and a brother 

 of David Dudley, Cyrus West, and Henry Martyn 

 Field. When thirteen years old he went with 

 his sister and her husband, the Rev. Josiah 

 Brewer, to the missionary station in Smyrna, and 

 while living there he learned the Greek, Turkish, 

 French, and Italian languages and took part in 

 the relief work during an epidemic of cholera. 



