HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Fielder, George
was bom July
B., soldier, congressman, 24, 1842, in Jersey City, N.J.
He
served in the civil war. He was elected register of the county of Hudson in 1884; and re-elected in 1889. In 1893-95 he was a representative to the fifty-third congress
York
He has
lis, Minn. In 18991905 he was presiding elder at Minneapolis, Minn. Since 1905 he has been president of the Fort Worth university of Texas.
Mrs. Annie Adams, author, poet, in 1834 in Massachusetts. She is the author of Under the Olive, a volume of verse; The Singing Shepherd, and Other Poems; A Shelf of Old Books; Whittier, Notes of his Life and Friendships; Memoir of James T. Fields; How to Help the Poor; Fields,
was born
and Authors and Friends. Fields, James Thomas, publisher, author,
Pa.
He
received his education at the Wil-
liamsport high school,
and the Iowa state normal school. At the
age of entered
government
the ment
Illinois.
Ludwig Spang, physician, invenwas born on March 12, 1825, in Berks county, Pa. In 1871 he gave up the pracFilbert,
tor,
tice of medicine i n which he was engaged for twenty years, three
years as quarantine physician for the port Philadelphia. The same year he organof
publisher
i
ces
of
Reminiscen-
his
published
life
in
were
A
Me-
moir by Mrs. Fields. He died April 24, 1881, in Boston, Mass. Fields, William C, merchant, congressman, was born Feb. 13, 1804, in New York
He was sixteen years a justice of the peace in the town of Laurens, N.Y. and In subsequently supervisor of the town. 1867-69 he was a representative from New York to the fortieth congress. He died in Laurens, N.Y. City.
Fiero,
James Newton, lawyer, author, was
born May 23, 1847, in Saugerties, N.Y. He began the practice of law in 1869; and in 1895 became dean of the Albany law school. In 1892-94 he was president of the New
d
the
Vulcanite
of Philadelphia, of which
he
days with Authors Underbrush, a collection of essays; and
Verses.
z e
paving company
the author of Yester-
J
clerk in interior departiu Washington,
B.C. He has traveled in every state of the union, and across British America; has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press; and his poems have been incorporated in several standard works. Fifer, Joseph W., soldier, lawyer, governor, was born Oct. 28, 1840, in Staunton, Va. In 1861-64 he served in the army in company C, twenty-third regiment infantry volunteers; and was wounded in the battle at Jackson, Miss. In 1889-93 he was the eighteenth governor of the state of
and edited the Atlantic Monthly in 1862-70. He was
Other
he
W
of Boston;
and
fifteen
educational work; was county superintendent for eight years in a v e r 1 y, Iowa; and is now a
was born Dec. 31, 1817, in Portsmouth, N.H. He was educated in the public schools and academies of New England. He was a
Ballads,
the au-
Fiester, Simon Forrester, educator, poet, was born Jan. 17, 1855, in Williamsport,
poet,
well-known
is
and Special Pro-
ceedings.
at-
tained success as one of our foremost educators and theologians. He has filled pastorates in the Dakotas and at Minneapo-
He
state bar association.
thor of Special Actions;
as a democrat. Fielder, William, educator, clergyman, college president, reformer, was born Oct. 13, He received a thorough 1852, in England. education in the public schools, academies and theological seminaries; and has received various degrees from educational institutions.
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has
since
president.
an
been
He invented
artificial
stone pav-
ing, that is recognized
best known lining for the largest reservoir basis; and is also the inventor of various other paving materials in pracHe died in 1903 in Philadelphia, tical use. Pa.
as the
Fillebrown, Charles Bowdoin, soldier, merchant, reformer, author, was born Dec. 26, 1842, in Winthrop, Maine. In 1862-66 he served in the union army. Since 1881 he has been president and general manager of the Glenark knitting company of WoonSince 1895 he has been active socket, R.I. as a single tax propagandist and iji 1899 was president of the Massachusetts single tax league. He is the author of The Single Tax, Its Breadth and Catholicity; and many valuable treatises on that subject. Fillebrown, Thomas, dentist, was born Jan. 15, 1836, in Winthrop, Maine. In 1860
