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Faber, Leander B., lawyer, Jamaica, L. I.; residence, 75 Alsop St., born in Jamaica, Nov. 5, 1867. Educated in Jamaica and New York City. (Married.) Member of the firm of Monfort & Faber. Police justice of the village of Jamaica, 1889-93. Director of counsel, Queen County Trust Co. Trustee Jamaica Savings Bank. Member of Jamaica Club, Knights of Columbus and Royal Arcanum.

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Fagan, Charles A., lawyer, born Pittsburgh, July 1, 1859; son of Thomas Jefferson and Mary McLaughlin Fagan; educated at Pittsburgh Catholic College and Ewalt College ; married Mary Kane of Pittsburgh, Feb. 11, 1888; vice-president German National Bank of Pittsburgh; the Iron City Sanitary Manufacturing Co.; the Pittsburgh "Post"; the Pittsburgh "Sun"; director East End Savings and Trust Co.; Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Ship Canal Co.; Anthracite Coal Co.; the Natalie and Mt. Carmel R. R. Co. of Scranton ; pres. Wheatley Hills Land Co. of N.Y.; asst. dist. atty. of Allegheny County, 1888-95; Dem. presidential elector, 1892; Chin. Dem. Co. Com., 1894-96; del. at large, Dem. Nat. Con., 1896; pres. Pittsburgh Hospital; div. Boys' Industrial School of Allegheny Co.; Clubs : Duquesne, Union, Pittsburgh Country, Oakmont Country, Press. Home, North Highland Ave. and St. Marie St. Office, Frick Bldg. Annex.

Fagan, Charles Paden, district passenger and ticket agent Texas & Pacific Ry. Office Dallas, Tex. Born Dec. 6, 1855, at Lyons, Ia. Educated at Cornell University and United States Naval Academy. Entered railway service March, 1874, since which he has been consecutively to Feb., 1882, successively clerk, etc., freight and ticket office Chicago & North Western, Chicago Clinton & Dubuque, and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rys. at Clinton, Ia.; May to Sept., 1883, local ticket clerk general ticket office Burlington, Cedar_ Rapids & Northern Ry.; Sept., 1883, to May 1, 1884, rate and division clerk same office; May 1, 1884, to May 1, 1885, chief clerk same office ; May 15, to July 15, 1885, ticket auditor Mexican Central Ry.; July 15, 1885, to April 1, 1887, rate clerk Missouri Pacific and Texas & Pacific Rys., Galveston and Dallas, Tex.; April, 1887, to Jan. 1, 1895, successively southwestern passenger agent Wabash Ry. and traveling passenger agent Texas & Pacific Ry. at Dallas, Tex.; Jan. 1, 1895, to Sept. 1, 1898, traveling passenger agent Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Ry. at Dallas, Tex.; Sept. 1, 1898, to Jan. 1, 1900, chief clerk general passenger office Texas & Pacific Ry.; Jan. 1, 1900, to Oct. 15, 1911, assistant general passenger agent same road; Oct. 15, 1911, to date district passenger and ticket agent same road. 

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Fagnani, Charles Prospero, educator, clergyman and author of New York City, where he was born Oct. 29, 1854. In 1873-79 he taught in the public schools of New York City. In 1882-86 he filled pastorates in New York and Yonkers, N.Y. Since 1892 he has been a professor in the Union Theological Seminary of New York City. He is the author of A Primer of Hebrew.

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Fahnestock, James Frederick, was born in Gettysburg, Pa., Oct. 16, 1859. He is the son of James F. Fahnestock, descended from the early German settlers of Pennsylvania, and Sarah Gates Lord, a direct descendant from Elder William Brewster, of "Mayflower" fame, and one of the five signers of the compact, and also in direct descent from Governor Haynes and Governor Willis, two of the earliest Colonial governors in New England. Mr. Fahnestock moved to Philadelphia soon after the battle of Gettysburg and received his education in the public schools. He was graduated from the Philadelphia high school in June, 1879. In September, 1879, Mr. Fahnestock entered the employ of Peter Wright & Sons, General Agents for the American Line of steam-ships, and the International Navigation Co., operating the Red Star Line. In July, 1884, upon the acquisition of the Inman Line by the International Navigation Co., he inaugurated their voucher system and was placed in charge of the adjustment of through freights between the ocean carriers and the railroads. In January, 1902, when the International Navigation Co. assumed full charge of its own affairs, he was made assistant treasurer at Philadelphia. In December, 1902, upon the merger of the various steamship lines and the formation of the International Mercantile Marine Co., Mr. Fahnestock was appointed assistant treasurer and removed to New York. In October, 1907, upon the retirement of Mr. James S. Swartz, who had been treasurer of the International Navigation Co. and its successors for more than thirty years, he succeeded to the treasurership of the International Mercantile Marine Co. On Dec. 9, 1908, Mr. Fahnestock was appointed assistant treasurer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and assigned to duty at the New York office. On March 23, 1909, he was elected treasurer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., succeeding Mr. Henry Tatnall, who, in turn, succeeded Captain John P. Green as vice-president, in charge of finances. Mr. Fahnestock is a member of the-Society of Mayflower Descendants, Society of Colonial Wars, the Orpheus and Merion Cricket Clubs and Racquet Club of Philadelphia.

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Fairbairn, Russel L., general passenger agent Canadian Northern Ry. Lines East of Port Arthur. Office, Toronto, Ont. Born Nov. 24, 1880, at Stillwater, Minn. Educated in common and high schools, Stillwater, Minn. Entered railway service 1900, since which he has been consecutively to June, 1908, with Great Northern Ry., as division or apportionment clerk, train auditor, assistant rate clerk and chief rate clerk general passenger department; June, 1908 to September, 1910, chief clerk general passenger department Canadian Northern Ry. at Winnipeg, Man.; September, 1910 to May, 1911, district passenger agent at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; May, 1911 to June 1, 1912, assistant general passenger agent same road, lines east of Port Arthur at Toronto, Ont. ; June 1, 1912, to date, general passenger agent same lines, and Canadian Northern Steamships Limited at Toronto.

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Fairbanks, Charles Warren, former vice-president of the United States, born on a farm near Unionville Center, Union Co., 0., May 11, 1852; son of Loriston M. and Mary A. (Smith) Fairbanks. He was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, O., in 1872 in the classical course. Mr. Fairbanks was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio in 1874; re-moved to Indianapolis in the same year, where he practiced his profession until his admission to the United States Senate. He never held public office prior to his election to the United States Senate in 1897; was elected a trustee of the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1885. He was chairman of the Indiana Republican State Conventions in 1892 and 1898 was unanimously chosen as the nominee of the Republican caucus for United States Senator in the Indiana Legislature in January, 1893, and subsequently received his entire party vote in the Legislature, but was defeated by David Turpie, Democrat; was elected to the United States Senate, Jan. 20, 1897, to succeed Daniel W. Voorhees, Democrat; took his seat March 4, 1897, and was re-elected in 1903. He was appointed a member of the United States and British Joint High Commission which met in Quebec in 1898, for the adjustment of Canadian questions, and was chairman of the United States High Commissioners; was a delegate-at-large to the Republican National Convention at St. Louis- in 1896, and was temporary chairman of the convention; was a delegate-at-large to the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia in 1900, and was chairman of the committee on platform; was a . delegate-at-large to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1904, and was chairman of the Indiana delegation; was a delegate-at-large to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1912 and was chairman of the committee on resolutions; was unanimously nominated at the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1904 for vice-president of the United States, and elected on the ticket with Theodore Roosevelt, receiving 337 of the 476 electoral votes, to 139 for Henry Gassaway Davis of West Virginia, the Democratic candidate. Mr. Fairbanks resigned as United States Senator from Indiana to take effect March 4, 1905, at noon, on which day and hour he took the oath as vice-president of the United States. He was presented by the Republicans of Indiana as a candidate for the nomination for the presidency in 1908. His term of office expired March 4, 1909, and in company with Mrs. Fairbanks he made a tour of the world. Upon their return he devoted himself largely to semi-public work. He is a trustee of the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, O., the American University, Washington, D.C., and DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind. He is president of the Board of Trustees of the Methodist Hospital at Indianapolis, and president of the Indiana Forestry Association. He was chosen by Congress as a regent of the Smithsonian Institution.

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Fairchild, George Winthrop, congressman, was born in Oneonta, Otsego County, N.Y., May 6, 1854, the son of the late Jesse Fairchild, who came from Connecticut, being a direct descendant of Thomas Fairchild, who settled in Stratford, Conn., in 1639; his mother is a granddaughter of Thomas Morenus, a revolutionary soldier, and daughter of Jeremiah Morenus, a veteran of the war of 1812; is married; was elected to the sixtieth, sixty-first and sixty-second congresses; and re-elected to the sixty-third congress as a Republican; and resides in Oneonta, N.Y.

Fairchild, Julian D., banker, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; born Stratford, Conn., April 17, 1850; educated in public schools of Stratford and New Haven, Conn., President Kings County Trust Co., Union Ferry Co.; vice-president Mortgage Bond Co.; director Lawyers' Title Insurance and Trust Co., Metropolitan Casualty Co., East River Savings Bank, Eagle Warehouse and Storage Co. Was offered Democratic nomination for mayor of Brooklyn, 1896, but did not accept it; appointed one of commissioners from Brooklyn of the new East River Bridge. Trustee Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; regent of Long Island College Hospital; president Brooklyn Central Dispensary. Member, Chamber of Commerce. Clubs : Brooklyn, Montauk.

Fairchild, Samuel William, of firm of Fairchild Bros. & Foster; pharmaceutical chemist, financier; born Stratford, Conn., 1853; descendant of Thomas Fairchild of England, who settled at Stratford in 1832, and of Lieut. Thomas Elwood, who served under Paul Jones. Ph.G., 1873, and Ph.M., 1908, of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy; Sc.M., Columbia University; president College of Pharmacy of the City of New York, 1890-1896 ; founder of the Fairchild Scholarships for students of pharmacy in England. Veteran of Seventh Regiment, N.G., State of New York; commissioner representing New York at World's Columbian Exposition, 1893; trustee of Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 1909; member of New England Society of New York; of Society of Sons of the Revolution. President of James Pyle & Sons; chairman of Committee on International Trade and Commerce of Chamber of Commerce of New York; director Market-Fulton National Bank; trustee of Bowery Savings Bank. Trustee of Home for Incurables at Fordham, N.Y.; vice-president of .the Sevilla Home for Orphan Children ; trustee of the Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, New York. Clubs: President of Union League Club of New York; president of Princess Anne Club of Virginia ; member of the Metropolitan, Lawyers', Sleepy Hollow (New York) ; Metropolitan Club of Washington, D.C.; Virginia Club (Norfolk) ; Southside Sportsmen's (Long Island); Devonshire Club of London, England; Travelers' (Paris). Address : 74 Laight St., N.Y. City.

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Fairclough, George Herbert, organist and composer, of St. Paul, Minn., was born Jan. 30, 18'69, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He studied three years in the Berlin Royal Academy of Music. He has been organist of leading churches in Hamilton and Toronto ; and is now organist of St. John's Episcopal church and also of the Jewish temple of St. Paul Minn. He is head of the piano department of the Macalister Conservatory of Music, and has a large private class of pupils.

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Fahhead, J.E., superintendent car service, Kansas City Southern Ry. Office : Kansas City, Mo. Born Aug. 4, 1879, at Urbana, Ill. Educated in the public schools of Covington, Ky.  Entered railway service Nov. 1, 1900, since which he has been consecutively to May, 1902, clerk to trainmaster Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. at Huntington, W.Va.; May to Oct., 1902, clerk to train-master same road at Covington, Ky.; Oct., 1902, to Dec., 1903, stenographer in office of general manager Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Ry. at Cincinnati, O.; Dec., 1903, to July, 1904, secretary to president Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Ry. at Pittsburgh, Pa.; July, 1904, to Jan., 1905, chief clerk to superintendent same road; Jan. to Dec., 1905, secretary to general manager Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Ry. at Cincinnati, O.; Dec., 1905, to Feb., 1907, secretary to president Kansas City Southern By.; Feb., 1907, to Aug. 1, 1912, chief clerk to general manager and vice-president and general manager; Aug. 1, 1912, to date, superintendent car service same road.

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Faison, John Miller, congressman, was born near Faison, N.C., April 17, 1862. He was elected to the sixty-second and sixty-third congresses.

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Falconer, J. A., United States congressman at large from Washington, was born in 1869 in Canada. He is a manufacturer of shingles ; and has been a member of the State Legislature. He was elected to the sixty-third congress for the term of 1913-15, and resides in Everett, Wash.

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Fall, Albert Bacon, United States senator from New Mexico, was born Nov. 26, 1861, in Frankfort, Ky. He has been associate justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico, and served in the Spanish-American War. He was elected a member of the United States Senate for the term of 1913-19, and resides in Three Rivers, N.M. rancher, E. A., banker, merchant; born, Hillsboro, Texas; Sept. 25, 1865; son of Alexander and Mary E. (Morrison) Fancher; graduated from Baylor University, Waco, Texas; married, Seymour, Texas, March 24, 1897, Lura B. Bedford; four children. President and director of the First State Bank of Bomarton, Texas; director West Texas Supply Co., Commonwealth Bonding and Casualty Co.; stockholder Farmers' National Bank of Seymour, Texas, Seymour Cotton Oil Co., Seymour Compress Co., Seymour Flouring Co., and Amicable Life Insurance Co., of Waco, Texas; also president and director of Farmers National Bank,-Seymour, Texas. Democrat. Knight of Pythias. Address: Seymour.

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Farley, Andrew G., lawyer ; born, Tecumseh, Nebr., Jan. 28, 1875; son, Andrew J. and Elizabeth (Alinger) Farley. LL.B., Campbell Univ., 1900. Married, Louise Schmidt, April 10, 1902, at Dodge City, Kas. County Atty., seven years, Hodgeman Co., Kas., and four years of Garfield Co., Wash.. Member K. of P., I. O. O. F., W. O. W. Republican. Address: Pomeroy, Wash.

Farley, Robert E., lawyer, banker; born, Fort Plain, N.Y., Sept. 28, 1871; son of Worthington S. and Helen Hall (Moyer) Farley. Father was a prominent hardware merchant of Fort Plain, and master of Fort Plain Masonic Lodge seventeen years; mother an authoress, who, under pseudonym of "Ernest Gil-more," wrote many stories and books; grandson of John H. Moyer, former president Fort Plain National Bank (one of the oldest banks in Mohawk Valley) ; cousin of late James S. Sherman (vice-president of U.S.) ; great grandson of Dr. Jonathan Sherman of Utica, N.Y.; early education in public and private schools; graduated Clinton Liberal Institute, Fort Plain (president, valedictorian), 1888; Rutgers College, A.B. (rhetorical honor) president of class, 1892; A.M., 1895; New York Law School, LL.B. (cum laude), 1894, and admitted to bar May 15, 1894; married, Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec., 1897, Grace Hazard Colvin (daughter of William S. Colvin, then president of Hazard Powder Co.) ; four children. Senior member of firm Farley & Rumsey, of White Plains, N.Y., and New York City; director and former president Gramatan National Bank of Bronxville ; president Scarsdale Estates, Gedney Farm Company, Country Life Permanent Exposition, Scarsdale Construction Co., Westchester Land Exchange; trustee White Plains Public Library; treasurer and director Westchester Syndicate. Member Bar Association City of New York, Westchester County Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, Society of Medical Jurisprudence of New York; governor of White Plains Hospital; chairman Fort Slocum Committee of Y.M.C.A.; director and former president of Lake Mahopac Protective Association ; member Delta Phi Fraternity ; former president Rutgers College Alumni Association; president Gedney Farm Country Club, Westchester Beach Club. Clubs : Scarsdale Golf and Country (director) ; University, New York Athletic, Transportation; Lake Mahopac Golf, Gedney Farm Country (governor) ; County Tennis Club of Westchester (governor); Westchester Beach Club (director). Summer residence: Canopus Island, Lake Mahopac, N.Y. Residence : White Plains, N.Y. Offices : White Plains and Country Life Permanent Exposition, Grand Central Terminal, N.Y. City. 

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Farnsworth, Harry B., physician and surgeon; born, Hull, Ill., Aug. 13, 1875; son, Harvey Wayne and Elizabeth (Kingsbury) Farnsworth. Educated, public schools, Kansas City, Mo.; attended Union College, College View, Nebr., 1891-96; M.D., Am. Med. Missionary College, Chicago, and Battle Creek, Mich., 1900; practiced profession in Madison, Wis., Detroit, Mich., and has been located in Missoula since 1904. Married, Ethel Terry Reeder, Sept. 24, 1902, at College View, Nebr. Member : Am. Assn. for the Advan. of Science, National Geographic Soc., Missoula County Med. Soc., Montana Med. Assn., Am. Med. Assn. Res.: 128 S. Fifth St., W. Office : Montana Bldg., Missoula, Mont.

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Farr, John Richard, congressman, was born July 18, 1857, in Scranton, Pa. He served five terms in the Pennsylvania State Legislature. He was elected to the sixty-second and sixty-third congresses as a Republican.

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Farragut, Loyall, author, of New York City, was born in Norfolk, Va., 1844, son of Admiral David G. Farragut and Virginia L. Farragut. He was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1888, but later resigned and was in the employ of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Mr. Farragut is author of: Life of David Glasgow Farragut, First Admiral of the United States. He is a member of the Naval Order of the United States, American Geographical Society, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy and the Century Association and the University Club. He married in New York, in 1869, Gertrude Metcalfe.

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Farrar, Lilian K. P., born, Newton, Mass.; parents, Jefferson C. and Sarah Deane Pond; educated Newton High School, Claverack Academy, Boston University; graduated Cornell University Medical School, 1900; licensed New York, 1900; New Jersey, 1902; degrees A.B., M.D., postgraduate Austria, 1902-03-04; medical examiner N.Y. Life Ins. Co. and North Amer. Life Ins. Co.; instructor diseases of women, N.Y. Post-Grad. Med. School and Hosp.; gynecologist Post-Grad. Disp.; member Co. Med., A.M.A., Women's N.Y. City, Women's State Med. ; regular, allopathy ; specialty, gynecology and obstetrics. Residence and office : 40 W. 96th St., N.Y. City. Hours : 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tel. Riverside 350.

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Farrington, Wallace Rider, newspaper man; born, Orono, Me., May 3, 1871; son of Joseph Rider and Ellen Elizabeth (Holyoke) Farrington. B.S., Univ. of Maine, 1891. Married, Catherine McAlpine Crane, Oct. 26, 1896, at Honolulu, Hawaii. Vice-pres. and gen. bus. mgr. Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Clubs : Commercial, Honolulu Ad. (pres.). Member: Chamber of Commerce of Honolulu (1st vice-pres.). Pres. Board of Regents College of Hawaii. Address : 1807 Anapuni St.; office : Honolulu Star Bulletin, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Farrington, William Hyatt, publisher, of 25 Park Place, New York City, was born, N.Y. City, July 24, 1838 ; s. William H. and Frances Child (Francis) Farrington; ed. private schs., m. N.Y. City, Oct. 24, 1860, Sophie, daughter of Thos. Farrington Devoe; children : Fannie, b. 1863; William H., b. 1871; Thomas Coggeshall, b. 1878; Helen Congdon, b. 1881. Has pursued a business and literary life; trustee, sec. and treas. D. Van Nostrand Co. Mem. N.Y. City Charity Org'n Soc. ; Nat. Geog. Soc. (Washington, D.C.), N.Y. State Hist. Ass'h, Am. Museum of Natural History, N.Y. Acad. of Science, Met. Museum of Art (N.Y.), Nantucket (Mass.) Hist. Ass'n, Hort. Soc. of N.Y.

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Favour, Alpheus Hoyt, lawyer, of 43 Cedar St., New York City, was born, Natick, Mass., Oct. 8, 1880; s. Richmond and Josephine (Temple) Favour; ed. Natick, Mass., public schs., Amherst Coll., B.S., 1903 ; N.Y. Law Sch., LL.B., 1905 ; m. Kenton, 0., Sept. 25, 1907, Ethel Lamber ; children : Catharine, b. April 24, 1909 ; Mary Temple, b. Nov. 9, 1910. Mem. Ass'n Bar, City of N.Y., Amherst Ass'n, Phi Delta Theta. Clubs : Nipnischen.

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Fay, Charles Spencer, general freight agent Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Rd. and Steamship Co. and Louisiana Western Rd. (Southern Pacific Co.). Office New Orleans, La. Born Oct. 23, 1867, at Minden, La. Educated at the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, La. Entered railway service 1889 as clerk traffic department Atlantic System Southern Pacific Co., since which he has been consecutively chief rate clerk, chief clerk, assistant general freight agent and is now general freight agent Louisiana Lines same" company, viz.: Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Rd. and Steamship Co. and Louisiana Western Rd., also G. F. A. of So. Pac. Co., Atl. S.S. Co. line to Havana, Cuba and so. frt. agt. N.O., N.Y. lines of same Co.

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Faymonville, Bernard, insurance man; born Bowmanville (now a part of Chicago), Cook County, Ill., March 24, 1860; son Tillman J. and Katherine (Fisher) Faymonville; ancesters prominent in iron mining and smelting industry, Ardennes and Rhine Provinces. Educated public schools, Bowmanville, Ill., 1865-73; two years' course in preparatory school of Prof. J. P. Lauth, Chicago. Married Dora Belle Ries, April 19, 1881, at San Jose, Cal. Worked in real estate and brokerage office, 1875-77. Moved to Fresno, Cal., 1877. Special agent Pacific Coast Fireman's Fund Ins. Co., 1882 ; assistant secretary Fireman's Fund, 1887-90 ; secretary, 1890-93; second vice-pres., 1893; first vice-pres., 1900-13 ; pres. of the Board of Underwriters of the Pacific, pres. Under-writers Fire Patrol, and of the Underwriters Inspection Bureau; has been supervisor and pres. Board Fire Commissioners of San Francisco. Clubs : Pacific Union, Bohemian, Olympic, San Francisco Golf and Country, Presidio Golf. Address : San Francisco, Cal.

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Fearing, Daniel Butler, public official of Newport, R.I., was born Aug. 14, 1859, in Newport. In 1911 received the degree of M.A., from the Harvard University in recognition of his library of books and pamphlets on Angling, Fishing, Fish Culture and Fisheries; numbering over 12,000 volumes in 17 different languages. He has been school commissioner and alderman of New-port, was elected mayor in 1893, served as common councilman from 1909-1912; in 1912 was elected a presidential elector of the State of Rhode Island on the Democratic ticket. He is vice-president of the Board of Inland Fisheries of the State of Rhode Island; for many years a trustee of St. Mark's School in Southbore, Mass. Life member of the American Fisheries Society and vice-president for 1913; life member and a councillor of the Marine Museum, Boston.

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Felker, S. D., governor of the State of New Hampshire, was born April 16, 1859, in Rochester, N.H. He is governor of New Hampshire for the term of 1913-15; and resides in Concord, N.H.

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Felt, Charles F. W., chief engineer Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Office Chicago, Ill. Born April 29, 1864, at Salem, Mass. Educated at Massachusetts Agricultural College. Entered railway service Sept., 1886, as axman on construction Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rd. in Kansas and Colorado, since which he has been consecutively Dec., 1886, to Oct., 1887, rodman; Oct., 1887, to Feb., 1888, bridge engineer same road; Feb. to May, 1888; level-man Denver & Rio Grande Rd.; Aug., 1888, to April, 1889, instrumentman Arizona & Southeastern Rd.; April, 1889, to Feb., 1890, transitman Topolobampo Line in Mexico ; April, 1890, to July, 1892, resident engineer Northern division Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Ry. at Cleburne, Tex.; July, 1892, to Feb., 1893, office engineer Rio Grande Southern Ry.; Feb. to May, 1893, division engineer Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Ry.; May, 1893, to Sept., 1896, resident engineer at Galveston, Tex.; Sept., 1896, to Nov. 6, 1909, chief engineer same road; Nov. 6. 1909, to April 1, 1913, chief engineer Atchison, Topeka .& Santa Fe Ry., Topeka, Kans.; April, 1913, to date, chief engineer system, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway system.

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Felton, Henry E., president Union Tank Line Co. Office 26 Broadway, New York, N.Y. Born Dec. 3, 1855, at Brooklyn, N.Y. Entered railway service Nov., 1882, with Chicago & Eastern Illinois Rd., since which he has been consecutively rate clerk general freight office, chief clerk same office and assistant general freight agent same road until Jan. 1, 1893 ; Jan. 1 to Nov. 1, 1893, general freight agent Evansville & Terre Haute, Evansville & Richmond, Evansville & Indianapolis and Evansville Belt Rds.; Nov. 1, 1893, to June 1, 1897, general freight agent Chicago & Eastern Illinois Rd.; June 1, 1897, to May 1, 1898, general freight agent Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Ry.; May 1, 1898, to Dec. 1, 1911, in general charge of railroad traffic Standard Oil Co. at New York; Jan. 1, 1905, to March 1, 1906, also vice-president Union Tank Line Co.; March 1, 1906, to date, president same company.

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Fenno, Edward Nicoll, retired wool commission merchant ; born in Boston, Nov. 4, 1845; son of John Brooks Fenno and Sarah Elizabeth (Smith) Fenno. He attended Boston Public Latin School from 1856 to 1862, and was graduated from Harvard University as A.B., in 1866 and as A.M., in 1868. He is a director of the Old Boston National Bank, Indian Head Mills of Alabama, Boston Land Company and Slatersville Finishing Company, and trustee of the Provident Institution for Savings. He retired from wool commission business in 1900. In politics he is a Republican and in religion an Episcopalian. He is a vestryman of Trinity Church in the City of Boston ; trustee of the Vincent Memorial Hospital; vice-president of the Veteran Association of Independent Corps Cadets of Massachusetts Volunteers Militia; a member of the Massachusetts Historical and Genealogical Society and Boston Episcopal Charitable Society and of the Boston Athletic Association. He is a member of the Somerset, Country, Central  Lunch, Woods Hole Golf, Old Colony and Seapuit Clubs; also member of the Harvard Club of Boston and of the Varsity Club. Mr. Fenno married in Boston, Feb., 1872, Ellen M. Bradlee, and they have three children : Henry Bradlee, Edward Nicoll, Jr., and Marion Hiller. Residence: Falmouth, Barnstable County, Mass. Address : 87 Milk St., Boston, Mass.

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Fenton, Matthew Clark, merchant, banker; born Baltimore, Md., Jan. 29, 1855; son of Aaron and Rebecca Hedington (Clark) Fenton; educated in private schools; married, Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 25, 1896, Harriet M. B. Thomas; five sons. Started paper warehouse business, Sept. 6, 1875, which still conducts ; vice-president Security Storage and Trust Co. Republican; Presbyterian. 32° Scottish Rite Mason (Past Master of Lodge). Residence : Park Heights Av., Station E. Office : 18 West Pratt St., Baltimore.

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Ferguson, Daniel Araunah, clergyman, of Hammond, N.Y., was born, near Ogdensburg, N.Y., July 10, 1850; s. Rev. Archibald and Nancy A. (Rodger) Ferguson; ed. Ogdensburg Acad.; grad. Hamilton Coll., 1871, S.T.D., 1905 ; Union Theological Sem., 1875; m. 1st, Rossie, N.Y., ,Jan. 2, 1878, Selina B. Leonard; 2d, Jan. 24, 1883, Mary Ellen Cuthbert; children: William Archibald, Helen, Florence, Leonard Cuthbert. Pastor Presby'n Ch., Hammond, N.Y., since May, 1875 ; sec. County Sunday Sch. Ass'n 12 years; permanent clerk 17 years, now stated clerk Presbytery of St. Lawrence; permanent clerk Synod of N.Y.

Ferguson, John Calvin, educator, college president and translator, of Peking, China, was born March 1, 1866, in Canada. Since 1899 he has been foreign advisor of the viceroys, of Nanking and Wuchang. He has translated several books into Chinese.

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Source:  Men of 1914, Chicago, Ill, 1915