FRANKLIN
FRAZEE
as brevet 2d lieutenant. He served in the Mexi-
can war on the start' of Gen. Zachary Taylor as a
itopographical engineer, and during the battle of
Buena Vista, Feb. 23, 1847, he distinguished him-
self for his daring in reconnoissance and as dis-
patch aid to the commanding-general, receiving
for such services the
brevet of 1st lieuten-
ant, Feb. 23. 1847.
His early promotions
were 2d lieutenant,
Sept. 21, 1846; 1st
lieutenant, March 3,
18.")3, and captain,
, \ July 1, 18.)7. In the
t. ,^^. , 'O interim between the
II^P- ' ■' *"® "^ *'^® Mexican
■wlP^ ' ^"'1 fi^'^1 ^^"ai's lie
|i was on topographical
' \ ,^, duty on the fron-
^ , ,. tier; engineer -secre-
lirYd V^C^^-c/xi'^ tary of the lighthouse board ; assistant pro- fessor at the U.S. military academy, West Point; and just before the outbreak of the civil war was in Wasliington as supervising engineer in the con- struction of the additions to tlie national capitol ii.ul in the erection of the treasury and post- oiilca buildings. His first service in the volun- t^-er army was as commander of a brigade at Bull Run. July 21, 1881, where his conspicuous action i-i t'.ie neighborhood of the Heniy house attracted the attention of the war department. His joro- motions at this time were: colonel of the 12th infantry. May 14, 1861 ; brigadier-general of vol- unteers. May 17, 1861, and major-general of vol- unteers. July 4, -1862. He commanded a division ill General McClellan's army, operating on the Peninsula, and when the army was reorganized into corps, he was made commander of the 6th jirray corps. The battles in which he took part M-ere : West Point, May 7 ; Savage's station, June 20; White Oak Swamp, Jmie 30, and Malvern Hill, Jidy 1. He was next under McClellan in command of the left of the army at Ci-ampton's Gap, Md. . September 14. and was with the army at the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862. Under Burnside lie commanded the left grand division, made up of the 1st and 6th corps, at the battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862 He received the censure of the congressional committee on the conduct of the war, and handed in his re.signation to the President. Burnside at the same time offered his resignation in the army which the President also refused to accept. Franklin was on waiting orders until July, 1863, wlien he was ordered to report for duty, and on August 15, he was gi-fen the command of the 19th army corps and directed its operations, under General Banks,
in the Red River expedition of 1804. At Sabine
Cross Roads, La., April 8, 1864, he was severely
wounded and was obliged to return home where
he was on sick leave until Dec. 2, 1804. He was
then placed on duty as president of the retiring
board at Wilmington, Del., where he served till
Nov. 9, 186.]. While an invalid he was on a train
of the Baltimore & Philadelphia road, July 11,
1864, when the train was held up by Confederate
raiders, and he was captured, but he made his
escape the same night. He received brevets of
brigadier- and major-general for gallant services
during the war; was major-general of volunteers
from July 4, 1862, until Nov. 9, 186.5, and resigned
from the regular army as colonel of the 12th in-
fantry, March 15, 1866. He was made vice-presi-
dent of the Colt Firearms company of Hartford,
Conn., in which city he made his home. He was
president of the commission for laying out Long
Island City, N.Y., 1871-72, and of the commission
for building the state house, Hartford, 1872-73.
He was a presidential elector in 1876; a state
commissioner to the Centennial exposition, 1876;
adjutant-general of the state, 1877-78; was elected
president of the board of managers of the Na-
tional home for disabled volunteer soldiers in
1880, and was U.S. commissioner to the Paris
exposition, 1889, where he received the decora-
tion of grand officer of the Legion of Honor, Oct.
20, 1889. He afterward served as a du-ector of the
Panama raihoad company. lie died in Hartford,
Conn., March 8, l!JO:i.
FRANSIOLI, Joseph, clergyman, was born in Ticino, Switzerland. Nov. 30, 1817. He attended the seminaries at Monza and Milan, and the College of the PoUegio, Italy ; was made a priest in 1840, was pastor of St. Maurice church, 1840-52, and principal of a normal school at Milan, with 300 teachers under him, 1852-54. He immigrated to America, .settled in the diocese of Brooklyn, N. Y. where Bishop Laughlin made him an assistant in St. Charles Borromeo parish until 1859, when he was given the parish of St. Peter, of which he was the first pastor. Here he accomplished a great work, building up the parisli till it was the largest in the diocese with a congregation of over 17,000. He built St. Peter's church, two free hospitals, a free academy, a free library, and a free kindergarten school; the buildings and gromids alone costing over half a million dollars. He celebrated his golden jubilee Jime 7, 1890, the occasiop occupying a week and including a pub- lic reception in the Academy of music in which citizens of all religious creeds took part. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 18, 1890.
FRAZEE, John, sculptor, was born in Rail- way, N.J., July 18, 1790. He started in business as a .stone-cutter at New Brunswick, N.J., but removed to New Y'ork city, where he began mar-
