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quaedam juris" (manuscript in Biblioteca Nacio- nal of Mexico); and " Enchiridion baptismi adulto- rum; ann. 1544 scriptum " (manuscript in the Franciscan library of Toledo, Spain).


FOGG, George Gilman, senator, b, in Mere- dith, N. H., 26 May, 1815; d. in Concord, N. IT., 5 Oct., 1881. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1839, and became principal of Hebron academy, and then professor of English literature in the academy at New Hampton. After studying law privately and at the Harvard law-school, he was admitted to the bar in 1842, and practised in Gil- manton. He was in the legislature in 1846, and soon afterward was appointed secretary of state. He then became editor-in-chief of the "Independent Democrat," published first at Manchester and afterward at Concord, and held that post from 1854 till 1861. He was reporter of the state su- preme court in 1855-'9, and in 1856 was clerk of the congressional committee sent by the house of representatives to Kauvsas. He was a delegate to the Buffalo Free-soil convention of 1848, to the Pittsburg convention of 1852, the Philadelphia Republican convention of 1856, and to the Chicago convention of 1860. He was a member of the Republican national committee from 1856 till 1864, and was at one time its secretary. He declined the office of commissioner of patents, and was appointed by President Lincoln U. S. minister to Switzerland, serving from 1861 till 1865. During the succeeding year he was appointed by the governor of New Hampshire to the U. S. senate in place of Daniel Clark, resigned, and served till 1867. In 1866 he was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention. He was actively connected with the New Hampshire historical society, and was a trustee of Bates college, Lewiston, Me., to which he gave $5,000, and which gave him the de- gree of LL. D. After his return from Europe he resumed the editorship of the "Independent Democrat" till it was imited with the "Statesman" in. 1871, and was then for one year the principal po- litical writer for the combined paper, when he re- signed and retired. Mr. Fogg was a man of strong convictions and lionest purposes, and a vigorous and fearless writer. He never married.


FOLEY, Margaret E., artist, b. in New Hamp- shire; d. in Meran, Austrian Tyrol, in 1877. She was entirely self-taught, and began her career in a humble way, carving small figures in wood, and modelling busts in chalk. Later she removed to Boston, where she suffered many privations, and earned a scanty support by carving portraits and ideal heads in cameo. At the end of seven years she went to Rome, where she spent the rest of her professional life, becoming the friend and associate of Harriet Hosmer, Gibson, Story, Mrs. Jameson, and William and Mary Howitt. In the summer of 1877, lier health failing, she accompanied the Howitts to their home in Austrian Tyrol, where she died. Among her portrait busts are those of S. C. Hall, Charles Sumner, and Theodore Parker. The medallions of William and Mary Howitt, Long- fellow, and William CuUen Bryant, and her ideal statues of " Cleopatra," "Excelsior," and "Jeremiah," are the best specimens of lier cameo work.


FOLEY, Thomas, R. C. bishop, b. in Baltimore in 1823; d. there in 1879. He studied in St. Mary's seminary, Baltimore, and was ordained priest in 1846. He was first placed over the mission of Rockville, and afterward appointed assistant pas- tor to St. Patrick's church, Washington. After 1848 he was chancellor of the archdiocese of Balti- more, and in 1867 he was appointed vicar-general. Afterward, when the diocese of Chicago had been thrown into confusion by the insanity of Bishop Duggan, Father Foley was commissioned to restore order, and in 1869 he was nominated coadjutor- bishop of Chicago. He was consecrated in 1870. After the Chicago fire had destroyed seven church- es and several schools and asylums, he set at once to work to rebuild them. He erected the cathedral of the Holy Name, and founded five new convents and seven academies. During his administration the number of priests in the diocese increased from 142 to 206, and the churches from 200 to 300.— His brother. John Samuel, R. C. bishop, b. in Balti- more, Md., 5 Nov., 1833. He received his educa- tion at St. Mary's college, where he graduated in 1850, and entered St. Mary's ecclesiastical seminary. Pie then continued his studies at the Roman semi- nary, and in 1856 he was ordained a priest. Re- turning to lialtiniore he was appointed pastor of St. Bridget's church, then spent six years in paro- chial work at EUicott City, and his next service was five years as assistant at St. Peter's church. He founded the parish and church of St. Martin, which he successfully completed in 1868. He also took an active part in establishing new schools, in the establishment of St. Josejih's house of industry, and of the sisters of the Good Shepherd. He was appointed bishop of Detroit, and was consecrated by Cardinal Gibbons in November, 1888.


FOLGER, Charles James, jurist, b. in Nan- tucket, Mass., 16 April, 1818; d. in Geneva, N. Y., 4 Sept., 1884. He was graduated at Geneva (now Hobart) college, was admitted to the bar, and set- tled in Geneva. In 1843 he became a judge of the courtof connndn pleas in Ontario county. He was a democrat till 1854, when he joined the newly formed republi- can party, and was a state sena- tor in 1861-9, acting for four years of the time as president pro tempore. He was a member of the New Y^ork con- stitutional con- vention of 1867, and chairman of its judiciary

committee, was

U. S. assistant treasurer in New Y^ork city from 1869 till 1870, was elected associate judge of the state court of appeals in 1871, and on the death of Chief-Justice Church, in 1880, he was designated by Gov. Cornell to fill the unexpired term of that officer. He was re-elected to the bench of the court of appeals for the full term of fourteen years, but resigned in 1881 on his appointment to the treasury portfolio, which he retained till his death.


FOLGER, Peter, colonist, b. in England in 1617: d. in Nantucket, Mass., in 1690. He left Norwich, England, in 1635, with his father, settled in Watertown, Mass., and removed to Martha's Vineyard in 1641, where he taught, surveyed land, and assisted Thomas Mayhew, the missionary, in his labors among the Indians. He afterward became a Baptist minister, and in 1663 he removed to Nantucket, having been offered by the proprietors a half- hare of land if he would serve there as surveyor and interpreter. He was one of five commissioners to lay out land; it was voted that,