THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE NAMES

THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE NAMES

HENRY FAILING

(1834-1898) Merchant and financier in Portland, Oregon, late 1800s. President of
the First National Bank of Portland.

CHARLES S. FAIRCHILD

(1842-1924) Secretary of the Treasury 1887.

LUCIUS FAIRCHILD

(1831-1896) Governor of Wisconsin 1866. Minister to Spain 1880.

JOHN FAIRFIELD

(1797-1847) Congressman and Senator from Maine. Governor 1838.

JAMES W. FANNIN

(1804-1836) Died in the Mexican War along with 338 of his men in 1836.

EDMUND FANNING

(1769-1841) Sea captain, explorer. Discovered the Fanning Islands.

WILLIAM G. FARGO

(1818-1881) Founder of Wells, Fargo, @ Co 1850. Mayor of Buffalo 1862.

GEORGE L. FARLEY

(1873-1941) Supt. of Schools, Brockton, Mass. State 4-H leader.

MOSES G. FARMER

(1820-1893) Teacher, inventor. Pioneer in electricity.

DAVID G. FARRAGUT

(1801-1870) Admiral famous for his success at the Battle of New Orleans.

F. SOUTHALL FARRAR

(1871-1940) District Agent in charge of extension work for
30 years in Southside, Virginia. Organized first 4-H club in Virginia 1909.

JAMES A. FARRELL

(1863-1918) President of the U.S. Steel Corporation 1911.

WALLACE R. FARRINGTON

(1871-1933) Governor of Hawaii 1921-1929.

JACOB SLOAT FASSETT

(1853-1924) Congressman from New York 1905-1911.

ROBERT FECHNER

(1876-1939) Executive of the Master Association of Machinist. Director of the
Civilian Conservation Corps during the 1930s.

MORRIS C. FEINSTONE

(1878-1943) Executive Secretary-Treasurer of United Hebrew Trades 1915-1943.

DEXTER W. FELLOWS

(1871-1937) Famous showman and press agent with Barnum and Bailey and
Ringling Bros. circus.

JOE FELLOWS

(186S-1942) Founder of San Francisco Yacht and Launch Co 1890. Became known as
the builder of the finest yachts of his time.

JAMES FERGUS

(1813-1902) Montana pioneer, mining and cattle, 1862. Member of the Montana
Constitutional Convention 1884.

RENALD FERNALD

(1595-1656) Became New Hampshire’s first surgeon 1630. Active in Portsmouth.

WOODBRIDGE N. FERRIS

(1853-1928) Governor of Michigan. Senator from Michigan 1923-1928.

ELISHA P. FERRY

(1825-1895) Governor of Washington Territory 1872. First Governor of the
State of Washington 1890 – 1893.

REGINALD A. FESSENDEN

(1866-1932) Inventor. Pioneer in radio communications.

WILLIAM P. FESSENDEN

(1806-1869) Congressman and Senator from Maine. Secretary of the Treasury
during the Civil War.

W. P. FEW

(1867-1940) First president of Duke University 1910-1924.

WILLIAM FEW

(1748-1828) Revolutionary soldier, banker. Delegate to the Continental Congress
and the Consitutional Convention. Senator from Georgia 1789-93.

CYRUS W. FIELD

(1819-1892) Merchant, capitalist. Promotor of the first Atlantic cable.

DAVID DUDLEY FIELD

(1805-1894) Lawyer. His personal fame derives for his fight for the codification
of municipal and international law.

EUGENE FIELD

(1850-1895) Author, poet. Best known for his “Little Boy Blue”.

STEPHEN JOHNSON FIELD

(1816-1899) Supreme Court Justice 1863.

JAMES T. FIELDS

(1817-1881) Publisher. Editor of the Atlantic Monthly 1861-1870.

EDWARD A. FILENE

(1860-1937) Merchant who transformed a small family business into a large Boston
department store.

CHARLES J. FINGER

(1869-1941) Writer of juvenile books. Awarded Newberry Medal 1924.

CARLOS J. FINLAY

(1833-1915) Physician. First to recognize that the mosquito was the transferring
agent of yellow fever 1881.

JOHN M.T. FINNEY

(1863-1942) Surgeon. Professor at Johns Hopkins.

BENJAMIN A. FISHER

(1900-1942) Merchant seaman lost on the “S.S. Alcoa Guide” when she was
shelled and sunk in 1942, 300 miles East of Cape Hatteras.

STANLEY R. FISHER

(1922-1942) Merchant seaman died from exposure in lifeboat after his ship the
“S.S. Potlatch” was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic 1942.

JOHN F. FISKE

(1744-1797) Naval officer in Revolutionary War.

MINNIE M. FISKE

(1865-1932) Actress from New Orleans. Considered one of the most potent
forces in the American theatre.

GEORGE K. FITCH

(1877-I91S) Author from Illinois.

JOHN FITCH

(1743-1798) Metal craftsman and inventor. First builder of steamboat 1787.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

(1896-1940) Novelist. “The Great Gadsby’ 1925 considered his best work.

THOMAS FITZSIMONS

(1741-1811) Revolutionary soldier. Member Continental Congress. Congressman
from Pennsylvania 1789-1795.

THOMAS F. FLAHERTY

(1880-1933) Labor leader representing National Federation of Post Office Clerks
for 20 years. Born Napa, Cal.

CHRISTOPHER S. FLANIGAN

(1876-1943) Identified with shipping in the Sabine, Texas, area. Opened ports of
Lake Charles, Beaumont, Port Arthur.

GEORGE H. FLANDERS

(1821-1892) Sea captain who arrived in Oregon 1849 and settled in Portland.
Became prominent businessman and donated land for first railroad station.

GEORGE FLAVEL

(1823-1893) Shipmaster. Early Columbia River Bar pilot 1850, and Astoria,
Oregon, businessman.

WALTER L. FLEMING

(1874-1932) Educator, historian. Civil war expert. DUNCAN U. FLETCHER

(1859-1936) Senator from Florida 1909-1936.

FRANK FLOWERS

(1875-1944) Spanish-American War veteran served aboard the Leviathan during
World War I. Later Chief Steward and Purser with U.S. Lines.

JOHN B. FLOYD

(1806-1863) Governor of Virginia. Secretary of War 1857-1860.

WILLIAM FLOYD

(1734-1821) Signer of the Declaration of Independence from New York. Member
of the Continental Congress.

JERRY S. FOLEY

(1876-1941) Lumberman from Minnesota. Later president of the Brooks-Scanlon
holdings in Florida.

CHARLES J. FOLGER

(1818-1884) Secretary of the Treasury 1881.

JOSEPH W. FOLK

(1869-1923) Governor of Missouri 1905.

HENRY S. FOOTE

(1804-1880) Senator from Mississippi 1847-1852. Governor 1852-1854.

CLEVELAND FORBES

(????-1857) Sea captain who commanded the first U.S. steamer, S.S. California
to round Cape Horn and pass through the Golden Gate to San Francisco 1848.

JOHN MURRAY FORBES

(1771-1831) Lawyer and diplomat.

ROBERT B. FORBES

(1804-1889) Sea captain, China merchant, writer.

CORNELIUS FORD

(1867-1935) President New Jersey State Federation of Labor 1902-1913.
U. S. Public printer 1913.

MILTON J. FOREMAN

(1863-1935) Lawyer, military man. Lt. General 1931. National commander of the
American Legion.

NATHAN B. FORREST

(1821-1877) Confederate general.

CHARLES FORT

(1874-1932) Writer, critic of modern science.

ALCEE FORTIER

(1856-1914) Educator, author, historian at Tulane.

WALTER FORWARD

(1786-1852) Congressman from Pennsylvania 1822-1825. Secretary of the Treasury
1841-1843.

ABIEL FOSTER

(1735-1806) Congregational clergyman active during Revolutionary War.
Congressman from New Hampshire 1789.

JOHN W. FOSTER

(1836-1917) Lawyer, Union soldier, diplomat, Secretary of State 1892-1893.

RUFUS E. FOSTER

(1871-1943) Judge. Commander of Spanish American War Veterans 1941-1942.

STEPHEN C. FOSTER

(1826-1864) Song writer from Pennsylvania. “Old Folks at Home …. My Old
Kentucky Home …. Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming …. Old Black Joe”.

THEODORE FOSTER

(1752-1828) Senator from Rhode Island 1790-1803.

PERCY E. FOXWORTH

(1906-1943) Assistant Director of the F.B.I. under Edger Hoover.

GABRIEL FRANCHERE

(1786-1863) Fur trader. Helped found Astoria, Oregon.

DAVID R. FRANCIS

(1850-1927) Mayor of St. Louis. Governor of Missouri 1889. Secretary of the
Interior 1896. Ambassador to Russia.

JAMES B. FRANCIS

(1815-1892) Hydraulic engineer, inventor.

JOSEPH FRANCIS

(1801-1893) Inventor, manufacturer. Inventor of the unsinkable lifeboat.

MELLO FRANCO

(1871-1943) Brazilian representitive to the League of Nations.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

(1706-1790) Printer, author, inventor, philanthropist, statesman, diplomat,
scientist.

ALEXANDER V. FRASER

(1804-1868) Commander of Revenue Marine 1844-1848. This is the forerunner of the
U.S. Coast Guard.

MARY WILKINS FREEMAN

(1852-1930) Author best known for writings on New England rural life.

F. T. FRELINGHUYSEN

(1817-1885) Senator from New Jersey 1866-1877. Secretary of State 1881-1885.

JOHN C. FREMONT

(1813-1890) Explorer, soldier, politician. Explored the Southwest and
Califomia. Senator from California 1850. Presidential candidate 1856.

BENJAMIN BROWN FRENCH

(1800-1870) Commissioner of Public Buildings during Lincoln administration.
Identified John Wilkes Booth as Lincoln’s murderer.

DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH

(1850-1931) Sculptor. Sculpted Lincoln statue at Lincoln Memorial.

SAMUEL G. FRENCH
(1818-1910) Soldier. General in the Confederate Army.

BARBARA FRIETCHIE

(1766-1862) Defied General Jackson at Frederick, Maryland, during the
Civil War, by waving the Stars and Stripes from her window.

WILLIAM PIERCE FRYE
(1831-1911) Lawyer. Congressman and Senator from Maine. Constant
supporter of a strong Merchant Marine.

HAWKINS FUDSKE

(????-1942) Merchant seaman who lost his life on the “S.S Esso Bolivar”.

MARGARET FULLER

(1810-1850) Journalist, critic, social reformer.

MELVILLE W. FULLER

(1833-1910) Lawyer from Illinois. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 1888.

ROBERT FULTON (1765-1815) Civil engineer, inventor. Designed the first
practical steam vessel, the “Cleremont” 1807.

STEPHEN FURDEK

(1855-1915) Catholic priest who worked among the Slovaks in U.S.

ANDREW FURUSETH

(1854-1938) Labor leader. President of the International Seamans Union.