1831). His complete works, containing lectures on moral philosophy, miscellaneous essays and sermons, and a fragment of a treatise on psychology, and a memoir by his widow, were published after his death (5 vols., Boston, 1842). — His wife, Eliza Lee Cabot, author, b. in Boston, 15 Aug., 1787; d. in Brookline, Mass., 26 Jan., 1860, was the daughter of Samuel Cabot, of Boston, and married Dr. Follen in 1828. After her husband's death she educated their only son, whom, with other pupils, she fitted for Harvard. She edited the “Child's Friend” in 1843-'50. Mrs. Follen was an intimate friend of William Ellery Channing, and was a zealous opponent of slavery. Besides the memoir of her husband, mentioned above, she published “The Well-Spent Hour” (Boston, 1827); “The Skeptic” (1835); “Poems” (1839); “To Mothers in the Free States” (1855); “Anti-Slavery Hymns and Songs” (1855); “Twilight Stories” (1858); and “Home Dramas” (1859).
FOLLET, David Lyman, jurist, b. in Sher-
burne, N. Y., 17 July, 1N36. He was educated at
Cazenovia seminary, N. Y., admitted to the bar in
Binghamton in 1858, and settled in Norwich, N". Y.
He has been assessor of internal revenue for the
19th district, and in 1874 was elected a justice of
the supreme court of New York.
FOLSOM, Abby, reformer, b. in England about
1792 ; d. in Rochester, N. Y., in 1867. She came to
the United States about 1837, became noted as an
advocate of anti-slavery reform, and was well known
for her addresses at the meetings of the American
anti-slavery society, about 1842-'5. She married a
Mr. Folsom, a resident of Massachusetts, and after-
ward rarely appeared in public. She published a
" Letter from a Member of the Boston Bar to an
Avaricious Landlord " (Boston, 1851).
FOLSOM, Charles, scholar, b. in Exeter, N. H.,
24 Dec, 1794; d. in Cambridge, Mass., 8 Nov., 1872.
He was graduated at Harvard in 1813. During
his college vacations he taught in Sudbury, Mass.,
and after graduation had charge of the academy at
HalloweJl, Me., for one year. He began the study
of divinity in 1814, and became chaplain in the
U. S. navy, and midshipman's teacher of mathe-
matics on the ship " Washington," in 1816. He
was charge d'affaires in Tunis in 1817-19. David
G. Farragut was one of the youngest of Mr. Fol-
som's pupils on board the " Washington," and was
given permission, at his own request, to leave the
ship and remain with his teacher at Tunis. In
after years Farragut was never weary of acknowl-
edging his affectionate obligation to his friend and
teacher. Mr. Folsom was tutor in Harvard from
1821 till 1823, and in 1825 was instructor in Italian.
He was librarian of Harvard in 1823-'6, and of the
Boston athenaeum from 1845 till 1856. After 1826
he was a member of the firm of Folsom, Wells &
Thurston, proprietors of the university press, and
was engaged in the examination, correction, and
partial editing of various classical works. Through-
out his life he was accustomed to give much time
to the version and criticism of the proofs of the
works of various authors, among whom Quincy,
Sparks, Norton, Palfrey, and Prescott have ren-
dered special tribute to his ability. From 1841 till
1845, with his wife, he conducted a school for young
ladies in Boston. Late in life he was engaged with
others in the preparation of Worcester's Diction-
ary. He was the author of the inscriptions upon
the monuments erected to three presidents of Har-
vard — Dunster, Willard, and Webber — and was fre-
quently called upon for aid in similar labors, as
also in the deciphering and interpretation of an-
cient inscriptions. At the close of the civil war
Admiral Farragut gave Mr. Folsom a silver vase,
handsomely engraved from sketches made by Far-
ragut himself. Mr. Folsom was co-editor with
William Cullen Bryant of the " U. S. Literary
Gazette " in Boston and New York in 1824, and
edited, with Andrews Norton, the " Select Journal
of Foreign Periodical Literature " in 1833. He
published " Cicero's Select Orations," with notes
(Boston, 1811), and " Additional Selections from
Livy," with notes (Cambridge, 1829). — His wife,
Susannah Sarah, daughter "of Prof. Joseph Mc-
Kean. of Harvard, married Mr. Folsom in 1824,
and has written both prose and poetry. During
Mrs. Eliza Lee Follen's absence in Europe she
edited volumes thirteen and fourteen of the " Child's
Friend " (Boston, 1850), and wrote an " Ode for La-
dies Fair " (1840). She also contributed to Miss A.
W. Abbot's " Autumn Leaves " (Cambridge, 1853),
and to Arthur Gilman's " The Cambridge of 1776 "
(Cambridge, 1876). — Their son, Charles William,
engineer, b. in Cambridge, Mass., 17 April, 1820, was
graduated at Harvard in 1845, and was engaged in
the construction of railroads in New York,Virginia,
and Ohio from 1848 till 1854, and in Nova Scotia
from 1855 till 1856. He served in the National
army during the civil war, was receiver of railroads
in Virginia and Tennessee for the U. S. govern-
ment in 1869, and superintendent of Mount Au-
burn cemetery, near Boston, from April, 1870, till
April, 1873. He has been employed in the sewer
department of Boston since 1876. — Another son,
Norton, physician, b. in Boston, Mass., 15 April,
1842, studied in the Lawrence scientific school of
Harvard, and was graduated at Harvard medical
school in 1864. He was surgeon of the 45th col-
ored troops in 1864-'5, and acting medical director
of the 25th array corps, receiving the brevet of
lieutenant-colonel. He was in Texas when mus-
tered out of service, and became a surgeon in the
Liberal Mexican army under Gen. Escobedo. He
was resident physician at the Massachusetts gen-
eral hospital in Boston in 1869-'76, and since that
time has practised his profession in that city. Dr.
Folsom has invented sanitary appliances, and pub-
lished " Essay on the Senses of Smell and Taste,"
which gained the Boylston society prize (Boston,
1863), and " Plans and Suggestions for Johns Hop-
kins Hospital, Baltimore " (New York, 1875).
FOLSOM, George, antiquarian, b. in Kenne-
Vnmk, Me., 23 May, 1802 ; d. in Rome, Italy. 27
March, 1869. He was graduated at Harvard in
1822, studied law in Saeo, Me., and practised his pro-
fession in Framingham, and afterward in Worces-
ter, Mass. In the latter town he was associated
with the American antiquarian society, was its
chairman, and edited the second volume of its
series. He removed to New York in 1837, became
an active member of the historical society of that
city, and virtually quitted his profession for histori-
cal literature. In 1844 he was elected to the state
senate, and in 1850 appointed by President Taylor
charge d'affaires at the Hague, where he remained
until 1854. After travelling in Europe two years,
he returned to the United States, and renewed his
connection with various literary and charitable
associations. He repeatedly returned to Europe,
and collected a valuable library, but was deterred
by ill health from active historical studies. He
was president of the American ethnological society
and of the citizen's savings bank, aiicl published
" Sketches of Saco and Biddeford " (Saco, Me.,
1830); " Dutch Annals of New York " (New York,
1841) ; " Letters and Dispatches of Cortez," trans-
lated from the Sjiaiush (1S43); "Political Condition
of Mexico" (Bi)st(m, 1842); and an "Address on
