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in 1843. He served throughout the Mexican w.ir
at the head of the 2d Kentucky volunteer infan-
try, which he liad organized. lu 1837 he was
made judge of Boyle count}', Ky., and served
until the outbreak of the civil war when he or-
ganized and became colonel of the 4th Kentucky
regiment, U.S. volunteers. He was promoted
brigadier-general of volunteers. March 21, 1862,
and served as such until the close of the war.
He was a supervisor of internal revenues, 1869-
73. He died in Louisville. Ky., Aug. 1, 1893.
FRY, William Henry, composer, was born in Pliiladelphia, Pa., Aug. 10. 1815; son of William and Ann Penrose (Fleeson) Fry; grandson of Joseph and Elizabeth (Meyers) Fiy, and of the Rev. Thomas and Rebecca (Britton) Fleeson, and brother of Joseph Reese Fry. His first Ameri- can ancestors, John and Elizabeth Fry, came from Devonshire, England, about 1690 and settled in Bucks count}', Pa. He attended the public schools of his native place and was prepared for college at Mount St. Mary's seminary, Emmits- burg, Md. He then entei'ed joiirnalism as an edi- torial writer on the Philadelphia Gazette, published by his father. He received a thorough musical education and devoted his leisure to composing. In 1845 he published his first opera, entitled " Leonora," which was produced in Philadelphia and New York city with marked success. He studied abroad, 1846-53, at the same time acting as foreign correspondent for various newspapers, including the New York Tribune, of which he became musical editor on his return from Eu- rope. In 1853 lie delivered a course of ten ilhis- trateil lectures in New York city, and in the same year composed two symphonies, A Day in the Cotintry and The Breaking Heart. His subsequent compositions include several symphonies, a Stabat Mater and Eleven Violin Quartets (1854-55); Notre Dame (1864); and many solo pieces, vocal and instrumental. He publislied Artificial Fisli Breeding (1854). He died on the island of Santa Cruz. West Indies. Dec. 21. 1864.
FRYE, William Pierce, .senator, was born in Lewiston, Maine, Sept. 2, 1830; son of John March and Alice M. (Davis) Frye; grandson of Joseph and Mary (Robinson) Frye. and great-grandson of Joseph and Mehitable (Poor) Frye. His father was an early settler of Lewiston, a manufacturer, and a leading citizen; and his great-.grandfather, Maj.-Gen. Joseph Frye (1711-1794). made his escape by killing his Indian guard at the capture of Fort William Henry, Lake George. N.Y., in 1757, where he was a colonel in the Colonial army. He was a pioneer settler of Fryeburg, Maine. William Pierce was graduated at Bow- doin in 1850, .studied law under William Pitt Fessenden, and practised at Rockland and after- ward at Lewiston, Maine. He was a representa-
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live from Lewiston in the state legislature, 1861;
1862 and 1867; a presidential elector in 1864,
mayor of Lewiston, 1866-67; attorney-general of
Maine, 1867-69; member of the Republican na-
tional executive committee, 1873, 1876 and 1880;
a delegate to the Republican national conven-
tions of 1872, 1876
and 1880, and chair-
man of the Repub-
lican state committee
in place of James G.
Blaine, 1881. He was
a representative in
the 42d-46th con-
gresses inclusive,
1871-81, and was
elected to the 47th
congress, but re-
signed before the
meeting of that con-
gress to take his place
in the U.S. senate, having been elected to the
seat made vacant by the resignation of Senator
James G. Blaine, and he took his seat in the sen-
ate, March 8, 1881, completing the term of Sen-
ator Blaine which expired March 3, 1883. He was
re-elected in 1883 for a full senatorial term, be-
ginning March 4, 1883, was again re-elected in
1889 and again in 1895. and a fourth time, Jan. 17,
1901. As a representative he served on the
library committee as chairman, on the judi-
ciary and ways and means committees, and
as chairman of the executive committee. He
was prominent in the discussion of the Gen-
eva award distribution, and through five con-
gresses maintained and finally gained the
rights of the actual losers, as indicated in
the bill originally introduced by him. In the
senate he was chairman of the committee on
commerce, also serving on the committees on
foreign relations; on fisheries; to e.stablish the
University of the United States; on the select
committee on Potomac river front, and also as
chairman of the special committee on Pacific
railroads; and was elected president pro tempore
of the senate, Feb. 7, 1896. He carried through
his bill providing for a congress of American
nations and one providing for the maritime con-
gress. He was a member of the commission
which met in Paris in the autumn of 1898 to
negotiate a treaty of peace with Spain. When
the 56th Congress met, Dec. 4, 1899, Senator Frye
was again elected president of the senate, p7-o
tempore and he became acting Vice-President
of the United States by reason of the death of
Vice-President Hobart. He was a trustee of
Bowdoin college from 1880, and received the
honorary degree of LL.D. from Bates college in
1881, and from Bowdoin in 1889.
