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# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Fenton, James

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​Fenton, James, son of James Fenton, was born at Dunlavia, County Wicklow, Nov. 20th, 1820. His father was a landholder in the county, but in consequence of religious and political disturbances in Ireland, emigrated with his family to Tasmania in 1833. Mr. Fenton was educated at Elton School, Arklow, and afterwards at the schools of Mr. James Thomson and Mr. R. W. Giblin at Hobart. In 1839 he took up land in West Devon, Northern Tasmania, where he was the first settler. He was an active pioneer of the district, was appointed a J.P. in 1856, and was for years Chairman of the Devon Road Trust. After seeing Devon grow into a populous district he fixed his residence in Launceston. Mr. Fenton has for half a century been a constant contributor to colonial newspapers and magazines. His "History of Tasmania" was published at Hobart in 1884. He is also author of the "Life of Rev. Charles Price" (Melbourne, 1886), and "Bush Life in Tasmania Fifty Years Ago" (London, 1891).
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Fergusson, Major John Adam

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​Fergusson, Major John Adam, is the third son of the late Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, Bart., and younger brother of Sir James Fergusson (q.v.). He was born on May 7th, 1845, and educated at the Edinburgh Academy and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He passed first on the list for a direct commission in the army in 1865, and was appointed to the Rifle Brigade. After serving in India, he was private secretary to Sir James Fergusson, and Clerk of the Executive Council South Australia from 1870 to 1873. He passed the Staff College in 1878, served on the staff of the Intelligence branch of the Horse Guards in 1879, and was Garrison Instructor in North Britain from 1879 to 1880; when, having in the meantime become Captain of the Prince Consort's Own Regiment of the Rifle Brigade, he was appointed Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General of the South Australian military forces, with the local rank of major. In 1881 he was commissioned by the South Australian Government to proceed to India and arrange for the introduction of Coolie labour into the Northern Territory. Subsequently returning to England, he unsuccessfully contested Peterborough in 1883, and, having been promoted to major, was Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General in Ceylon from 1887 to 1889. Major Fergusson, who is now serving with the Rifle Brigade in India, married, in 1871, Sarah, daughter of Joseph Gilbert, of Pewsey Vale, S.A.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Finn, Edmund

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​Finn, Edmund, was born in Tipperary, Ireland, on Jan. 13th, 1819, and arrived in Melbourne in July 1841. Up to June 1858, when he became Clerk of the papers in the Legislative Council, he was connected with the Port Phillip Herald. He retired from the Civil Service in 1886, and is the author of "The Chronicles of Early Melbourne," published under the nom de plume of "Garryowen."
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Finniss, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Boyle Travers

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​Finniss, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Boyle Travers, was born at sea on August 18th, 1817, and educated under Dr. Burney at Greenwich, and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He joined the 56th Regiment as ensign in 1825, and became lieutenant in 1827, being shortly afterwards transferred to the 82nd Regiment. He sold his commission in 1835 with the view of emigrating to New South Wales as a military settler; but having been appointed Assistant Surveyor under Colonel Light, Surveyor-General of South Australia, he arrived in that colony in Sept. 1836, and four years later became Deputy Surveyor-General. In 1843 he was appointed Commissioner of Police and Police Magistrate, becoming Registrar-General, with a seat in the Executive and Legislative Councils, in succession to Captain Sturt, in 1847. This post he held till 1852, when he was appointed Colonial Secretary, a position which he had temporarily held in 1849, during the absence of Captain Sturt. In his official capacity Mr. Finniss carried the Constitution Act through the Legislative Council, and from Dec. 1854 to June 1855 was Acting Governor, during the interval between the departure of Governor Young and the arrival of his successor, Sir R. G. MacDonnell. Mr. Finniss continued to act as Colonial Secretary till Oct. 24th, 1856, when he was gazetted Chief Secretary, and became first Premier of the colony under the present constitutional régime. He was also one of the first members for the city of Adelaide in the first South Australian Legislative Assembly, and represented Mount Barker in the second parliament from 1860 to 1862. Mr. Finniss, who resigned the premiership in August 1857, was Treasurer in the Hanson Ministry from June 1858 to May 1860. He was appointed Lieut.-Colonel commanding' the Adelaide Volunteer Regiment, having raised a company of Volunteers called the Adelaide Marksmen, and organised a Volunteer force of 2000 men under the Act of 1853. In 1864 he was appointed Government Resident of the Northern territory, where it had been decided to form a settlement. On arrival with his party he selected a site for the capital at Adam Bay, which caused much opposition, and the break-up of the expedition. This ill-judged act and the indiscipline which prevailed in his party led to his recall in 1865, when an official inquiry took place as to the selection of the site and the general management of the expedition, the result of the report being that Mr. Finniss resigned. Having held ministerial office for three years, he received the Queen's permission in 1866 to bear the title of Honourable within the colony of South Australia. He was appointed a member of the Forest Board in 1875, and was Acting Auditor-General during the next year in the absence, on leave, of Mr. Hitchin, the Auditor-General. He resigned his position in the Civil Service in 1881.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Fenwick, George

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​Fenwick, George, J.P., editor of the Otago Daily Times, was born at Sunderland, England, on Feb. 2nd, 1847. He arrived with his parents in Melbourne on Jan. 1st, 1853, and subsequently came to New Zealand, landing in Dunedin in 1856. He entered the office of the Otago Witness in 1859, and there remained until 1866, when he visited Australia. Returning to Otago, he became part proprietor of one or two provincial newspapers, and in 1875 was appointed manager of the Otago Guardian, a daily paper of considerable merit, at that time published in opposition to the Otago Daily Times. The Guardian subsequently became the property of Mr. G. M. Reed, whom Mr. Fenwick joined in partnership. In 1877 the subject of our sketch conceived the project of purchasing the Otago Daily Times, and, after much negotiation, Messrs. Reed and Fenwick became proprietors of the Times and of the Otago Witness. Subsequently Mr. Fenwick was appointed managing director of a company which purchased the property. This position he still holds, and in conduction therewith he was appointed editor of the Times in August 1890. Mr. Fenwick is chairman of the Dunedin City and Suburban Tramways Company and a Justice of the Peace.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Fergus, Hon. Thomas

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​Fergus, Hon. Thomas, M.H.R., was born at Ayr, Scotland, on April 6th, 1851, went with his parents to Melbourne, Australia, as a boy, and arrived in Otago, N.Z., in the beginning of 1870. Shortly after landing in Otago he decided to enter the engineering profession, and to that end studied at the Otago University under Professor Shand, who was ​one of Mr. Fergus's tutors when at Ayr Academy. In 1872 he was appointed by the Provincial Government as district engineer for the goldfields, with his headquarters at Cromwell, and held that position until 1876, when he left the service of the Government in order to enter into partnership with Mr. D. Henderson. The firm of Henderson & Fergus carried out several important undertakings, including the construction of the Mosgiel-Outram Railway, the Patea Bailway, the waterworks at New Plymouth, and the railway wharf at the Bluff. In partnership with Mr. J. B. Blair, he was instrumental in building the Deloraine-Mersey Railway in Tasmania and the Heidelberg-Alphington Railway in Victoria. At the general election of 1881 he was returned to the New Zealand House of Representatives for the Wakatipu district, after a severe contest, and in 1884 he was re-elected, having had again to encounter strong opposition. In 1887 and in 1890 he was returned unopposed. On the formation of the Atkinson administration in 1887, Mr. Fergus attained Cabinet rank, being entrusted with the portfolios of Justice and Defence, which he retained until Oct. 15th, 1889, when, consequent on the re-election of the Hon. T. W. Hislop, a rearrangement of portfolios took place, Captain W. R. Russell joining the Ministry and relieving Mr. Fergus of the departments of Justice and Defence, while the latter took over the more important portfolios of Public Works and Mines. He administered these departments until Jan. 1891, when, the Atkinson Government having been defeated at the polls in the previous December, he resigned with his colleagues. He married a daughter of Mr. Donald Reid (q.v.).
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Fincham, James

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​Fincham, James, Engineer-in-Chief for Tasmania, was born in London in 1838. He was for a number of years employed as Assistant and Resident Engineer' on various railway works in England, in surveys for railways and architectural work in connection with railway stations. In 1872 he went to Tasmania as District Engineer for the Tasmanian Main Line Railway, then in process of construction, and subsequently had charge of the whole line as Engineer. He returned to England in 1876, and was shortly afterwards selected by the Government of Tasmania for the appointment of Engineer-in-Chief for the colony. His appointment dates from April 1877.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Parker, Edwin Wallace

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PARKER, Edwin Wallace, American Methodist Episcopal missionary bishop: b. Saint Johnsbury Vt., 21 Jan. 1833; d. Nainital, India, 4 June 1901. He was graduated at the General Biblical Institute, Concord, N. H., in 1857, and joined the Vermont Conference in that year. After two years' work as a pastor
he was ordained deacon and elder under the missionary rule of the New England Conference and sailed for India, where he was stationed first in the district of Bijnor and afterward at Moradabad. On the organization of the India Conference in 1864 he became presiding elder, and in 1900 he was elected bishop of Southern Asia. Consult Messmore, J. H., ‘Life of Edwin Wallace Parker’ (1903).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Parker, Edward Harper

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PARKER, Edward Harper, English Chinese scholar: b. 3 July 1849. He was educated at the Royal Institution School, Liverpool, and became a barrister of the Middle Temple. He intended to engage in the tea trade, studied Chinese, and as an interpreter traveled in Mongolia 1869-71. He was then in the consular service in various parts of the world (1871-95), and since 1901 has been professor of Chinese in Victoria University, Manchester, and reader in Chinese, University College, Liverpool, since 1896. He is the author of ‘Comparative Chinese Family Law’ (1879); ‘The Opium War’ (1887); ‘China's Relations with Foreigners’ (1888); ‘Up the Yangtze’ (1892); ‘Burma’ (1893); ‘A Thousand Years of the Tartars’ (1895); ‘China’ (1901); ‘John Chinaman’ (1901); ‘China, Past and Present’ (1903); ‘China and Religion’ (1905); ‘Ancient China Simplified’ (1908); ‘Studies in Chinese Religion’ (1910).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Parker, George Howard

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PARKER, George Howard, American zoologist: b. Philadelphia, 23 Dec. 1864. He was graduated at Harvard in 1887, later pursuing special courses there and at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin and Freiburg. He became assistant instructor in zoology at Harvard in 1888 and occupied different positions there, becoming professor of zoology in 1906. He has made special investigations concerning the anatomy and physiology of sense organs and animal reactions and has contributed reports of them to the zoological periodicals. He was William Brewster Clark lecturer at Amherst College in 1914 and in that year was sent by the United States Government to investigate the Pribilof seal herd.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Parker, Hyde

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PARKER, Sir Hyde, English admiral: b. Devonshire, England, 1739; d. 16 March 1807. He entered the British navy, served in the war of the American Revolution, where in 1776 he commanded a small squadron, and for services in the North River was knighted in 1779. He was promoted rear-admiral in 1793, vice-admiral in 1794, and appointed commander-in-chief at Jamaica in 1796. He returned to England in 1800, was given command of the Baltic fleet and moved northward to check the measures of the armed neutrality formed by Russia, Sweden and Denmark. In the battle of Copenhagen he had no share, it being an independent move of Nelson's, who was second in command and more daring than his commander. Parker compelled Sweden to remain inactive by his appearance before Carlskrona, and was preparing to move upon Cronstadt when the death of Emperor William ended hostilities. He was shortly afterward succeeded by Nelson, and thenceforward until his death lived in retirement.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Parker, Joel (statesman)

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PARKER, Joel, American statesman: b. Monmouth County, N. J., 24 Nov. 1816; d. Philadelphia, Pa., 2 Jan., 1888. He was graduated from Princeton in 1839, admitted to the bar in 1842 and established a law practice in Freehold, N. J. He engaged in politics with much zest, and in 1847 was elected to the New Jersey legislature; and in 1852-57 he was prosecuting attorney of Monmouth County. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was appointed major-general of volunteers and in 1862-66 was governor of New Jersey, giving loyal support to the policy of the national administration.
He was again elected governor in 1870, and in 1880 was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and reappointed in 1887.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Parker, Foxhall Alexander

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PARKER, Foxhall Alexander, American naval officer: b. New York, 5 Aug. 1821; d. Annapolis, Md., 11 June 1879. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1839, was attached to the West Indian squadron, and later transferred to the Philadelphia naval school, where he was graduated in 1843. He served on the Great Lakes, the Mediterranean, the Pacific, and on various coast surveys until 1861, when he was appointed executive officer of the navy yard at Washington, D. C. His capable manipulation of the forces at his command after the battle of Ball Run in 1861 went far toward restoring order and confidence at Washington. He performed excellent service throughout the War, receiving the rank of captain in 1866. He subsequently served on various commands, was raised to the rank of commodore in 1872, and was one of the founders of the Naval Institute at Annapolis in 1873. In 1877-78 he was in charge of the Boston navy yard, and in 1878, until his death, was superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. He published ‘Fleet Tactics under Steam’ (1863); ‘Squadron Tactics under Steam’ (1863); ‘The Naval Howitzer Afloat’ (1865); ‘The Fleets of the World: the Galley Period’ (1876); ‘The Battle of Mobile Bay’ (1878).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Parker, Herschell Clifford

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PARKER, Herschell Clifford, American physicist and explorer: b. Brooklyn, N. Y., 9
July 1867. He was graduated at the Columbia School of Mines in 1890, and was connected with the faculty there in 1891-1911, filling the chair of physics for some time before his resignation. He made explorations and first ascents in the Canadian Alps in 1897, 1899 and 1903; first ascents of the mountains Goodsir and Dawson in British Columbia, and of Hungabee, Deltaform, Biddle and Lefroy in Alberta, and explorations of the Mount McKinley region in Alaska in 1906, 1910 and 1912. He made the first ascent of the highest peak of Mount McKinley in 1912. Author of ‘Systematic Treatise on Electrical Measurements’ (1897); and many contributions to scientific periodicals. He was one of the discoverers of “helium” and invented the “helioscope.”
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Parker, Horatio William

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PARKER, Horatio William, American musician and composer: b. Auburndale, Mass., 15 Sept. 1863. His education was for the most part European, and in 1885 he graduated from the Munich Royal Conservatory. After that time he was professor of music in the Cathedral School of Saint Paul, Garden City, L. I., and organist of Holy Trinity Church, New York, until 1893, when he became organist of Trinity Church, Boston. Since 1894 he has been professor of the theory of music at Yale University. His compositions rank high in American music; they include the oratorio ‘Hora Novissima’ (1893), the first American music given at an English musical festival; ‘A Wanderer's Psalm’ (1900), also given at one of the English festivals; the oratorio of ‘Saint Christopher’ (1896); the cantatas ‘King Trojan’ (1885); ‘The Kobolds’; and ‘Harold
Harfagar’ (1891); ‘The Dream King’ (1893); ‘A Star Song’ (1901); ‘The Leap of Roushan Bey’ (1914). With Brian Hooker as librettist, in 1911 he won the Metropolitan Opera House $10,000 prize with the opera ‘Mona,’ and in 1915 the Los Angeles $10,000 prize with the opera ‘Fairyland.’ In 1915 he wrote the oratorio ‘Morven and the Grail’ for the centenary celebration of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston. Among other compositions are symphonies, overtures, chamber music, pianoforte and organ numbers and numerous songs. In 1902 he received the degree of Mus. Doc. from Cambridge University.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Parker, Joel (clergyman)

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PARKER, Joel, American Presbyterian clergyman and educator: b. Bethel, Vt., 27 Aug. 1799; d. New York, 2 May 1873. He was graduated at Hamilton in 1824, and after studying at the Auburn Theological Seminary was ordained in the Presbyterian Church. He was pastor at Rochester in 1826-30; organized the Dey Street Church in New York and was its pastor until 1832, when he went to a pastorate in New Orleans; and in 1838-40 he was in charge of the Tabernacle Presbyterian diurch on Broadway, New York. Upon its being closed he became president of the Union Theological Seminary and occupied the chair of sacred rhetoric. He later held charges in Philadelphia in 1842-54, in New York at the Bleecker Street Presbyterian Church in 1854-63 and at Newark, N. J., in 1863-68. He was for a time associate editor of the Presbyterian Quarterly Review and was author of ‘Lectures on Unitarianism’ (1829); ‘Reasonings of a Pastor’ (1849); ‘Pastor's Initiatory Catechism’ (1855), etc.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Parker, Francis Wayland

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PARKER, Francis Wayland, American educator: b. Bedford. N. H., 9 Oct. 1837; d. 1902. He was educated in the public schools and taught until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he enlisted and served until its conclusion, rising to the rank of colonel of volunteers. He was again engaged in teaching until 1872, when he went to the University of Berlin for special study in pedagogy, philosophy and psychology. He was later superintendent of schools at Quincy, Mass., and at Boston, and was principal of the Normal School, Cook County, Ill. He wrote a number of textbooks, some of which ran into many editions. Among them are ‘Talks on Teaching’ (1883); ‘The Practical Teacher’ (1884); ‘Course in Arithmetic’ (1884); ‘How to Teach Geography’ (1885); ‘How to Study Geography’ (1889), etc.
# The Eugene F. Moran v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company

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United States Supreme Court
212 U.S. 466
The Eugene F. Moran v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company
Argued: January 22, 25, 1909. --- Decided: February 23, 1909
Messrs. James Emerson Carpenter, Samuel Park, and James Keith Symmers for the Henry Dubois Sons Company.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 467-468 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Archibald G. Thacher, Frederick M. Brown, and Wallace, Butler, & Brown for the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 469-470 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Harrington Putnam and Charles C. Burlingham for the tug Eugene F. Moran.
Messrs. William S. Montgomery and George H. Emerson for the tug Charles E. Matthews.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 470-471 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the court:

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# The Emperor's Candlesticks/Chapter 22

And that night, in one of the daintily furnished sitting-rooms of Claridge's Hotel, before a gaily blazing fire, a man and a woman sat discussing their late mutual adventures over the hunt after the Emperor's candlesticks. They each had handed over to the other the respective compromising papers, and when that was done each heaved a sigh of relief, and a dainty white hand was stretched out in token of friendship and bond of mutual silence.
And the writer has been told, on the surest authority, that this compact has been most faithfully kept, for Lobkowitz and Mirkovitch never could afterwards induce Iván Volenski to join them in their numberless plots and plans; having handed the fateful papers back safely into the keeping of grim old Mirkovitch, the brotherhood looked to him in vain for help, and he never once joined in their meetings, up the back stairs of the dreary Vienna house; and as for Madame Demidoff, the Russian government had soon to accept her resignation, in view of her approaching marriage.
Last winter, at the brilliant ball given by the Princess Marïonoff, in her palace at St. Petersburg, certainly the most admired among all the belles was Madame Volenski, née Demidoff.
No one noticed, however, that she and her husband exchanged a meaning smile as the Princess displayed to her guests a pair of the rarest vieux Vienne candlesticks, which it was discreetly whispered had been presented to her by his Eminence the Papal Nuncio himself, on behalf of no less a person than his Catholic and Apostolic Majesty Franz Jozef I.