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1879-81. He was appointed to the bench of the supreme court in 1881, and was made chief justice of the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts in 1890. He was a member of the Boston school committee for two years and a member of the Boston common council for three years. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1886 and from Dartmouth in 1888. He was married in 1869 to Eliza E. McLoon, who died in March, 1877; and again in October, 1882, to Frances E. Farwell. He died in Boston, Mass., July 15, 1899. FIELDER, George Bragg, representative, was born in Jersey City, N.J., July 24, 1842; son of James F. and Charlotte (Bragg) Fielder; grandson of Samuel Fielder and of Thomas Bragg, and a descendant of Revolutionary stock. He attended the public schools in Jersey City, N.J., and Selleck's academy, Norwalk, Conn., and in 1862 enlisted in the 21st N.J. volunteers, being promoted from private to sergeant-major and lieutenant. He was wounded and taken prisoner, May 4, 1863, at the battle of Marye's Heights, Va. He was elected register of the county of Hudson in 1884, and re-elected in 1889. He was a Democratic representative from New Jersey in the 53d congress, 1893-95; refused a renomination, and was elected register for the third term in 1894.

FIELDS, Annie Adams, author, was born in Boston, Mass., June 6, 1834; daughter of Dr. Zabdiel Boylston and Sarah May (Holland) Adams; granddaughter of Zabdiel and Rachael (Lyon) Adams and of John and Sarah (May) Holland; great-granddaughter of Dea. Ebenezer and Mehitable (Spear) Adams, and a descendant of Henry Adams of Braintree, who came from England in 1632-33. She was educated at - the school of George B. Emerson and at other schools, but chiefly at home. She was married in 1854 to James Thomas Fields, the author. She was the joint editor of Letters of Celia Thaxter (1895) and is the author of: Under the Olive (1881); How to Help the Poor (1883); Memoir of James T. Fields (1884); Whittier, Notes of His Life and of Ilis Friendships (1893); A Shelf of Old Books (1894); The Singing Shepherd and Other Poems (1895); Authors and Friends (1896); The Life and Letters of Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (1897); and numerous contributions to periodical literature.

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FIELDS, James Thomas, publisher, was born at Portsmouth, N.H., Dec. 31, 1816. His father was a shipmaster and died at sea in 1821, leaving his widow with the care of his two sons and of the shipyards and wharves. He was graduated from the high school of his native place in 1830, and in 1834 removed to Boston, Mass., where he was employed by Carter & Hendee, booksellers. This firm was afterward succeeded by Allen &

salon, a

Ticknor, and in 1839 Mr. Fields was admitted as junior partner, the title of the firm being Ticknor, Reed & Fields. This was again changed in 1846 to Ticknor & Fields. He was married in 1854 to Annie, daughter of Dr. Zabdiel Boylston Adams, and in 1859 they established at their home on Charles street, Boston, the first and for many years the only American favorite meeting place for men of letters, including Emerson, Hawthorne, Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell, Agassiz and many others. Even after Mr. Fields's Ideath the house continued to be the rendezvous of visiting foreign literati, as well as of American

artists and authors. James P. Fields

In 1847 he visited Eu

rope, where he made several close friends among the leading literary men of the day. He made three subsequent visits abroad, in 1851, 1859 and 1869. He was frequently invited to appear before college societies as poet or lecturer, and delivered the anniversary poem before the Mercantile library association in 1835 and again in 1848. In 1858 he collected, edited and published the first complete edition of the works of Thomas de Quincy, in twenty volumes. In 1862 he succeeded Mr. James Russell Lowell as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, and remained in that position until his final retirement from business in 1871. Harvard conferred upon him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1858, and Dartmouth that of LL.D. in 1874. His published writings include: Poems (1849; 2d ed., 1854); A Few Verses for a Few Friends (1858); Yesterdays with Authors (1872): Hawthorne (1876); In and Out of Doors with Charles Dickens (1876); and Family Library of English Poetry (edited with Edwin P. Whipple, 1877). He died in Boston, Mass., April 24, 1881.

FIERO, James Newton, lawyer, was born at Saugerties, N. Y., May 23, 1847, son of Col. Christopher Fiero, and grandson of Abram Fiero, M.D. He was prepared for college at Delaware academy and at Cherry Valley, N. Y., and was graduated from Union in 1867. He was admitted to the bar in 1869 and practised at Binghamton, then at Kingston, and from 1891 at Albany, N. Y. He became a lecturer on practice and pleading at the Albany law school in 1892, and in 1895 was elected dean of that institution. He was president of the Albany alumni association of Union college, a member of the committee on law