FANCHER
FANNIN
offices of James Hooker and David Graham, Jr.
of New York, and was admitted to the New York
bar in 1840. He was a school commissioner in
New Y'ork city. 1870-73; judge of the supreme
court of New Y'ork, 1872-74, and judge of the
court of arbitration, 1874-92. He was a member
of the Union league club of New Y'ork city, 1874-
94; a delegate to the general conference of the
M. E church in 1880, and served as president of
the American bible society and of the New Y'ork
institution for the instruction of the deaf and
dumb. In June, 1840. he was married to Mary A.
NicoU of New Windsor, N.Y'. He received the
honorary degree of LL.D. from Wesleyan uni-
versity in 1803. He is the author of: Address on
Laws Relating to Religious Corporations in the
State of Xew York (\>>i~i(i): MidAmerican Repub-
lic. He died in New York city. Feb. 9. 1900.
FANCHER, Frederick Bartlett, governor of North Dakota, was born in Orleans countj', N.Y' , April 2, 1853; son of Tillotson and Julia (Ken- yon) Fancher; and grandson of Richard and Catherine Augusta Fancher. He attended the State normal school, Ypsilauti, Mich., 1867-70; was engaged in the insiirance business in Chicago, 1871-81, and began farming on a large scale in North Dakota in 1881. He was elected governor of North Dakota by the Republican party in 1899. He was president of the board of trustees of the North Dakota hospital for the insane for six years, president of the Constitutional conven- tion in 1889, and insurance commissioner, 1894-98.
FANEUIL, Peter, merchant, was born in New Rochelle, N.Y'., iu 1700; son of Benjamin and nephew of Andrew Faneuil, French Huguenots who settled in Westchester county, N.Y., in 1690 and founded the town of New Rochelle. They removed to Boston, Mass., in 1701. and became prosperous merchants. Peter succeeding to the business. He took an active interest in the sub- ject of a public market which had begun to be
buildings and in a few years they were torn down
or sold. In 1740 at a public meeting Mr. Faneuil
proposed to erect at his own expense a suitable
market-house and present it to the town. The
opposition to the project was so strong that while
the citizens gave him a unanimous vote of thanks
for his offer, on a vote to accept the gift it was
carried by only seven votes. The market-house
was designed by the artist Smibert and was two
years in building (1740-43). The first public use
made of the audience hall was the funeral oration
of the donor, March 14, 1743, when John Lovell,
the famous schoolmaster, was the orator. On
Dec. 30, 1760, the accession of George III. to the
throne of England was celebrated from the bal-
cony of Faneuil hall by a blare of trumpets, while
the forts in the harbor fired a salute, and the
same day a state dinner was served in the hall.
In 1761 the hall was destroyed by fire and was
rebuilt by the town, largely through the proceeds
of a lottery, in 1763. In 1767 upon the repeal of
the stamp act it was brilliantly illuminated. In
1768 the citizens held a revolutionary meeting in
the hall to provide ways and means for resisting
the oppression of England and the indignity of
quartering British troops in the colony. On the
citizens refusing to lodge the soldiers, they were
quartered in Faneuil hall in October, 1768, and
during the occupation of Boston by the British
the soldiers and loyalists used it as a theatre.
During the Revolution it was used as the meet-
ing place for
the patriots and
it thus became
known as the
"cradle of
American lib- erty." In 1805 the hall was re- modeled after designs by Bul- finch and in 1822 the first city govern- ment of Boston was organized
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agitated as early as 1717 and he was largely re-
sponsible for the appropriation of £700 made by
the town in 1734 to build market houses. The
hucksters and country people refused to use these
there. The hall continued to be used for patriotic
meetings and many of the reform movements of
the nineteenth century were born and nurtured
within its walls. Peter Faneuil died in Boston,
Mass., March 3. 1743.
FANNIN, James W., soldier, was born in North Carolina about 1800; son of James W. Fannin. He was liberally educated and when he reached his majority migrated to Georgia and thence to Texas, where in 1834 he settled upon a plantation. He was a companion of Colonel Bowie and was given a commission in the Texan army as captain. He was in the engagement at
