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=Fowler, Orin.= _Ct._, 1791-1852. A Congregational clergyman of Fall
River, noted as a temperance and anti-slavery orator, who was a member
of Congress, 1848-52. Treatise on Baptism; Historical Sketch of Fall
River.
=Fowler, Orson Squire.= _N. Y._, 1809-1887. Brother of L. N. Fowler,
_supra_, and with him a member of the New York publishing house of
Fowler & Wells, 1844-63. He was an ardent phrenologist, and wrote
much on his favourite topic. Memory and Intellectual Improvement;
Physiology, Animal and Mental; Matrimony; Self-Culture; Hereditary
Descent; Love and Parentage; Sexual Science; Amativeness; Human
Science; Creative Science; The Self-Instructor in Phrenology (with L.
N. Fowler).
=Fowler, Philemon Halstead.= _N. Y._, 1814-1879. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Utica. History of Presbyterianism in central New York; The
Presbyterian Element in our National Life and History.
=Fowler, William Chauncey.= _Ct._, 1793-1881. A Congregational
clergyman and educator of New England, who married a daughter of
Noah Webster, _infra_. Memorials of the Chaunceys; The Sectional
Controversy, or Passages in United States Political History; History
of Durham, Connecticut; Local Law in Massachusetts and Connecticut;
Essays; English Grammar; The English Language in its Elements and
Forms. _Har._
=Fowler, William Worthington.= _Vt._, 1833-1881. Son of W. C. Fowler,
_supra_. He was successively a lawyer, broker, and journalist of New
York city. Ten Years in Wall Street; Fighting Fire, the Great Fires of
History (1873); Woman on the American Frontier; Twenty Years of Inside
Life in Wall Street.
=Fox, Ebenezer.= _Ms._, 1763-1843. A Bostonian who was postmaster of
his city 1830-36, and the author of The Revolutionary Adventures of
Ebenezer Fox (1848).
=Fox, John [William].= _Ky._, 186- ----. A Cumberland Vendetta. _Har._
=Fox, Norman.= _N. Y._, 1836- ----. A Baptist minister of New York and
Missouri. George Fox and the Early Friends; Rise of the Use of Pouring
and Sprinkling for Baptism; A Layman’s Ministry; Inspiration of the
Apostles in Speaking and Writing.
=Foxton, E.= _See Palfrey, Sarah._
=Foye, James Clark.= _N. H._, 1841-1896. An educator who was a
professor of chemistry at Lawrence University from 1867. Chemical
Problems; Handbook of Mineralogy; Tables for Determination of United
States Minerals.
=France, Lewis Browne.= _D. C._, 1833- ----. A lawyer and littérateur
of Denver. Over the Old Trail; Pine Valley, a volume of short stories;
Mountain Trails and Parks in Colorado. _Cr._
=Francis, Convers.= _Ms._, 1795-1863. Brother of Mrs. Lydia Child,
_supra_. A Unitarian clergyman of Watertown, Massachusetts, and
subsequently Parkman professor of pulpit eloquence at Harvard
University, 1843-63. Life of John Eliot (_supra_); Historical Sketch of
Watertown; Errors of Education, include his principal writings.
=Francis, James Bicheno.= _E._, 1815-1892. A noted hydraulic engineer
of Lowell. Lowell Hydraulic Experiments; The Strength of Cast Iron
Columns.
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