and published occasional addresses, including "Ancient and Modern Education," one on "Art Museums," and a memorial address on the " Life and Works of Henry Philip Tappan, First President of the University of Michigan." He is the author of valuable annual reports to the board of regents, and has published editions of Virgil's "Æneid" (1860) and Quintilian (1867), and "The Story of Giovaimi Dunre," a 19th century Florentine sculptor (London. 1886).
FRINK, John, physician, b. in Rutland, Mass.,
7 Sept., 1731; d. there in 1807. He studied medicine
with Dr. Goffe, of Marlborough, Mass., and was
one of the founders of the Massachusetts medical
society. He was a member of the convention that
formed the constitution of Massachusetts, and the
first president of the Worcester county medical
society. He was a justice of the peace when that
was considered a mark of distinction, and as a
physician and a citizen was highly esteemed.
FRISBIE, Levi, clergyman, b. in Branford,
Conn., 6 July, 1748; d. in Ipswich, Mass., in 1806.
He was graduated with the first class at
Dartmouth in 1771, studied theology under the Rev.
Eleazar Wheeiock at Hanover, and was ordained
there in 1772. He at once engaged in missionary
service among the Delaware Indians, and afterward
labored with the Canadian tribes, and among
those in Maine. The mission was ended by the
Revolutionary war, and in 1776 he was installed pastor
of the 1st Congregationalist church at Ipswich,
Mass. He published “Sermons and Orations”
(1783-1804). — His son, Levi, scholar, b. in Ipswich,
Mass., 15 Sept., 1783; d. in Cambridge, 9 July,
1822, was graduated at Harvard in 1802, and in
1803 began the study of law, which he was
compelled to abandon on account of the failure of his
eyesight. Mr. Frisbie was appointed Latin tutor
at Harvard in 1805, and in 1817 became professor
of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil
polity. His writings were collected and published
by his friend and fellow-professor, Andrews Norton
(Boston, 1823). They contain classical and literary
papers, previously published in various reviews, a
version of Horace's epistle, “Ad Julium Florum,”
and a popular poem called “Castle in the Air.”
FRISBY, Edgar, astronomer, b. in Great Easton,
Leicestershire, England, 22 May, 1837. He
was graduated at the University of Toronto in
1863, and until 1867 was engaged in teaching in
Canada. Subsequently he was acting professor of
mathematics in the Northwestern university, and
later assistant astronomer at the U. S. naval
observatory in Washington. In 1878 he became full
professor of mathematics in the U. S. navy, with
the relative rank of lieutenant. He was sent to
California by the U. S. government to observe the
total solar eclipse on 11 Jan., 1880. Prof. Frisby
is a member of scientific societies, to whose
proceedings he contributes occasional papers. His
principal work is the computation of the orbit of
the great comet of 1882, with observations extending
over a period of six or seven months.
FRISTOE, Edward T., educator, b. in Rappahannock county, Va., 16 Dec, 1830; d. 31 July, 1892. He was graduated at the Virginia military institute, and, after s|)ending three years in teaching, was graduated at the University of Virginia with the degree of A. M. While yet an undergraduate he was elected to the chair of mathematics in Columbian university in Washington, D. C. where he
remained until 1860, when he was called to the professorship of mathematics and astronomy in the State university of Missouri. Two years later he entered the Confederate army as assistant adjutant-general, ranking as captain, and subsequently became colonel in the cavalry, serving under Gen.
Sterling Price. In 1865 he returned to Columbian
university as professor of chemistry, becoming also,
in 1871, occupant of a similar chair in the Nation-
al medical college, and in 1844 dean of the Corco-
ran scientific school of the Columbian universitv in
Washington, D. C. From 1872 till 1884 he was
professor of chemistry of the National college of
pharmacy in Washington. In 1868 he received the
degree of LL. D. from William Jewell college, and
in 1872 the degree of doctor of pharmacy from the
National college of pharmacy. Prof. Fristoe has
published scientific addresses.
FRITSCHEL, Conrad Sigmund, clergyman, b. in Nuremberg, Bavaria, 2 Dec. 1833. He was educated in the gymnasium and mission institute of his native place, and graduated at the mission institute of Neuendettelsau, Bavaria, in 1854. He was ordained to the ministry, 23 April, 1854, and in the same year emigrated to the United States. In 1879 he received the degree of D. D. from
Muhlenberg college, AUentown, Pa. He was professor in the Evangelical Lutheran theological seminary, Dubuque, Iowa, in 1854-'5, pastor of a Lutheran congregation in Wisconsin in 1855-6, and of one in Detroit, Mich., in 1856-'8, and professor of theology at Wartburg seminary, St. Sebald. Iowa, in 1858-'74. In 1860, 1866, and 1870 he travelled extensively in Germany and Russia. He has published (in Grerman) " Iowa and Missouri," a controversial pamphlet (Mendota, 111., 1878), and a number of essays, sermons, etc. With his brother, he has edited, since 1876, " Kirchliche Zeitschrift," a theological bimonthly magazine published at Mendota, Iowa. — His brother, Gottfried Leonhard Wilhelm, b. in Nuremberg, 19 Dec, 1836: d. in
Mendota, Ill., 13 July, 1889, was graduated at the
university at Erlangen in 1856, and came to this
country in 1857. After that date he was pi'ofessor
of theology in the theological seminary of the Iowa
synod at Mendota, 111. In 1879 he received the
degree of D. D. from Muhlenberg college, Allen-
town, Pa. He has published (in German) " Medi-
tations on the Passion of Christ " (Nuremberg,
1868); "History of Protestant Missionary Opera-
tions among the North American Indians in the
17th and 18th Centuries" (1870); "The Teach-
ings of Missouri Synod on the Doctrine of Pre-
destination " (1883), and other pamphlets. These
two brothers, working together in the same insti-
tution and synod, have done much to advance Lu-
theran interests in Illinois, Iowa, and adjacent
states. Their institution, from small beginnings,
has attained large dimensions, as also has the synod
of Iowa, which they organized.
FRITZ, Samuel, missionary, b. in Bohemia in 1653 ; d. in the mission of Xeberos, near Laguna, Peru, 20 March, 1728. He became a member of the Jesuit order, and went as missionary to Peru in 1685. His constitution was not able to resist the unhealthfulness of the climate, and his weakness became so great that he had to be transported to Para, a Portuguese colony at the mouth of the river, where he arrived on 11 Sept., 1689. The governor of this city took him for a spy and imprisoned him until July, 1691. After repeated orders from the court of Lisbon he was liberated, and finally arrived in Lima, where he laid before the viceroy of Peru the observations that he had made on his journey. In 1693 he returned to his missionary
labors on the Amazon. He afterward took several laborious journeys to Quito and other places in the interest of his converts, and became superior-general of the mission. He had great aptitude for the
