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Fay, Franklin Brigham, state senator, was born Jan. 24, 1S21, in Southboro, Mass. In 1851 he was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature, and in 1867 served as a state .senator. During 1861-63 he was mayor of Chelsea, Mass.; and for many years has been secretary and general agent for the Massachusetts society for the prevention of cruelty to children. Fay, Franklin Goble, physician, surgeon, was born March 22, 1865, in Elgin, 111. In 1886 he graduated from the Bennett college of electric medicine and surgery of Chicago, m. He is prominent in his profession at Sacramento, Cal. He is a member of the Sacramento city board of health; and a member of the California state board of health. He has been president of the Sacramento valley medical society; and president of the California state medical society. Fay, George H., soldier, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Feb. 24, 18-1:2, in Hudson, N.H. During 1861-65 he served as a
Fay, Joseph Story, merchant, farmer, was born Dec. 8, 1813, in Cambridge, Mass. For over forty years he was a farmer at Woods He reclaimed by cultivating, Holl, ilass. several hundred acres of land into a magnificent forest of pine trees. He was a member
soldier in the civil war and became captain of the United States volunteers. In 1889 he was a, delegate to the constitutional convention of North Dakota was a member of the house of representatives of the constitutional convention of Xorth Dakota in 1891; and has been state's attorney and county
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Mcintosh county, N.D. In 1898-99 he was major and additional paymaster of United States volunteers in tlie SpanishAmerican war. Fay, Hemau Allen, army officer, was born judge
.of
June
17, 1897, at
Fay,
Orlin
Woods
Prentice,
and at the Franklin
civil
in
in his native
He war
city.
served in the as a soldiei
the union
army;
pensionnow He has been a
and
is
er.
a,
band teacher for several years in Vermoniville,
^<# aMjjM fl^Hft
'
Mich.
i^ county and
He wa,* state dep-
puty grand worthy templar of the state of New York; numerous other positions of
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and has filled trust and honor. In 1898 he published a Genealogy of the Fay Family. Fay, Theodore Sedgewick, journalist, diplomat, author, was born Feb. 10, 1807, in NcAV York. In 1837-53 he was secretary ol legation at Berlin; and minister to Switzerland in 1853-61. He lived in Berlin from that time. He was the author of Norman Leslie;
Dreams and RevQuiet Man;
eries of a
The Minute Book, a record of travel Countess Ida; Hoboken, a
romance of
ton, Vt.
nington, Vt.
genalogist,
soldier,
academy
1778 in Bennington, Vt. He was chief forage-master of the northern division of the army in 1816-17; and United States military store-keeper at Albany in 1818-42. He was the author of an Official Account of Battles Fought between the Army and Navy of the United States and Great Britain in 1812-15. He died Aug. 20, 1865, in Benning-
Fay, Irving Wetherbee, educator, scienwas born Xov. 30, 1861, in Xatick, Mass. Since 1897 he has been professor of chemistry at the Brooklyn polytechnic institute. He has made valuable researches on sugars and related acids and alcohols; and on various other chemical subjects. Fay, John, congressman, was born in Worcester county, Mass. In 1819-21 he was a representative from New York to the sixteenth congress. He died in New York. Fay, Jonas, surgeon, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 17, 1737, in Hardwick, Mass. He was author of the declaration submitted to congress. He was secretary of the state constitutional convention of that year; and a member of the council of safety. He was a, member of the state council in 1778-85. He was judge of the supreme court in 1782; judge of probate in 1772-87; and agent of the state to congress in 1777, 1779, 1781, and 1782. He died March 6, 1818, in Ben-
died
Holl, Mass.
was born on Sept. 13, 1820, in Prattsburgh, N.Y. Pie was educated in the public schotfls;
in
tist,
He
American forestry congress.
of the
New York;
Sidney Clifton; Robert Rueful; Ulric, a
volume of verse;
Views
of
Christianity;.
Great Outlines of Geography; History of Switzerland; and History of the Three Ger-
manys. He died Nov. 24, 1898, in Berlin, Germany. Fayant, Frank Hix, journalist, author, was born Jan. 16, 1876, in Fort Plain, N.Y.
He
has been a war correspondent for the the New York Herald. Fayerweather, Lucy, philanthropist. She attained note as a philanthropist. She died
New York Sun and in 1892.
Fearing, Albert, merchant, state senator, philanthropist, was born March 12, 1798, in
Hlngham, Mass. His donations amounted to about two hundred thousand dollars, including thirty thousand dollars to the Hingham public library, and an equal sum to the college of Liberia. He was president of the American colonization society; and of several charitable organizations. 24, 1875, in Hingham, Mass.
He
died^
May
