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742 PIONEER REGISTER AND INDEX, as clerk and adviser, F. being a man of many accomplishments and having some knowledge of law. He was sent by Slitter to conciliate Micheltorena. iv. 389; got a lot at S.F. iv. 669, 678; was naturalized at the end of 43; and in 44 was grantee of a rancho on Feather River, iv. 670-1. He opened a store at Los Ang. ; used his influence for Sutter and Micheltorena. iv. 490; and at the end of 45 went to Honolulu, returning on the Don Quixote early in 46. He had a Cal. claim (v. 462), continuing in trade at Los Ang., and serving as a messenger from Flores to Stockton in Jan. 47. v. 387. He is mentioned with a wife (?) at N. Helv. in Sept. 47. N. Helv. Diary, 110; perhaps an error. At the end of 48 he left Cal., though McKinley, his partner, made efforts to prevent his departure, and is said to have gone to Germany with a considerable sum of money. Though admired for his accomplishments, he had quarrelled sooner or later with most of those who were intimate with him, showing divers eccentricities of conduct. In the winter of 51-2 he returned to Los Ang., secluding himself from old friends, acting strangely in other respects, and evidently insane. In Sept. 52 he wandered off into the country and was found dead some 12 miles from town. Flundin (Joseph), 1842, French steward of a hospital in Oakland 77, said to have visited S.F. in June 42. iv. 341; S.J.Pion. Flying (Andrew), 1847, Co. F, N. Y. Vol. (v. 499); at Sta B. 71-82. Fogo (Manuel), 1825, Span, from the Asia; still in Cal. 30. iii. 27, 51-2. Foisy (M.G.), 1846, Or. pioneer of 44; a printer still in Or. 76, for whom it is claimed that he published (?) the Californian at Mont. Hist. Or., i. 467. He may possibly have been a printer on that paper in 46 or 47, but prob. not. v. 293. Foley (Alfred), 1847, Co. E, N.Y.Vol. (v. 499). F. (Michael), 1846, Irish, of the Cal. Bat. (v. 358); owner of S.F. lot 47. v. 685; said to have been killed in a brawl at the mission a few years later. Folger (Edward F.), 1847, at S.F., agent, or perhaps partner, of Gelston & Co. F. (Wm D.), 1847, on roll of Soc. Cal. Pion. Follansbee (S.), 1846, doubtful newsp. ment. of a Shasta Co. pion. Follen (Julian), 1845, petitioner for land for a colony; perhaps not in Cal. iv. 571. Follett (Wm A.), 1847, Co. B, Morm. Bat. (v. 469); in Ariz. 81. F. (Wm T.), 1847, Co. E, Morm. Bat.; at St George, Utah, 82. Folsom (Joseph Libbey), 1847, nat. of N". H., graduate of West Point in 40, and later instructor in that institution; came to Cal. as capt. U.S.A. and asst quartermaster in the N.Y.Vol.; and was chief of the Q.M. department station at S.F., being also collector of the port for a time in 47-9. v. 98, 503, 511-13, 650, 659-60, 673. Capt. F. invested all the money he could raise in town lots, which in a few years made him a rich man. During a trip to the east in 49 he was smart and lucky enough to find the heirs of Wm A. Leid- esdorff and buy of them for a song their title to the immense Leidesdorff es tate in S.F. He thus became one of the wealthiest men in Cal., owning large estates in the country, including the Amer. River rancho on which the town of Folsom now bears his name, as does Folsom Street in S.F. His reputation is that of a most enterprising man of business, an honorable gentleman of su perior education and refinement, somewhat formal and haughty in manner. He died at Mission San Jose" in 55 at the age of 38. F. (Wm H.), 1847, Co. H, N.Y.Vol. (v. 499); inN.Y. city 82. Font (Jose ), 1796, Span, lieut of Catalan volunteers, com. of the comp. after Alberni s death, also com. at S. Diego 99. Left Cal. with the Cal. Vol. 1803. i. 541, 647-8; ii. 5, 18-19, 78, 107, 153. F. (Pedro), 1775-6, Span, friar, prob. of the Quere*taro Franciscans, who was chaplain of Anza s exped. to Cal., of which he left an important Diario and map. i. 258-60, 262-4, 267- 9, 280-6, 330; ii. 44. Fontes (Pedro), sirviente at S.F. 1777. i. 297. For- bagh, 1847, at Benicia. v. 672; prob. Forbush, q.v. Forbes (Alexander), Scotch merchant of Tepic; author of the standard work on California pub. in 39. iv. 150-2. He had never visited Cal., though meditating a visit in 26. iii. 176. It is stated, however, that later, in 46-8, he came to Cal. in con. with the N. Almaden affairs; but I have no definite record of his presence. He has often been confounded by writers with James