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John Lee, who came from Essex county. Eng-
land, iu 1634. His father, Eliphaz Fay, was
president of Waterville college, afterward Colby
university, 1841—14. Henry was an lionorary
graduate from the University of Rochester in
1857, and received the degree of A.M. fiom tliat
institution in 18.)9.
He took up his resi-
dence in Newport in
18.')4, and there estab-
lislied his school for
boys, which became
one of the most
prominent college
preparatory schools in
\ merica. During the
liod of the civil
.^:ir, aside from his
regular school duties,
he prepared a large
number of young men
to enter the U.S. naval
academy. His success
was so marked that
the secretary of the navy made a personal recogni-
tion of the fact. The school continued under his
management until lie retired in IST.'J. He was a
delegate to the Republican national conventions
at Baltimore, in 1864, and Philadelphia in 1872.
He was appointed bj' President Grant a member
of the board of visitors to the U.S. military acad-
emy in 187.5. He was one of the original mem-
bers of the board of state charities and correction ;
a member of the Rhode Island general assembly,
187.5-80; lieutenant-governor of the state, 1880-
84; again a member of the general assembly,
1884-85, and in that body was the chairman of
the committee on education, and a member of the
finance committee. He was a member of the
s:'hool board; superintendent of the public
schools of Newport ; a director in the Redwood
library, 1874-97, and vice-president of the lilirai-y,
1885-97. He was jiostmaster of Newport, 1889-93,
and a director of the First National bank for
twenty years. He was a frequent contributor to
the press on educational, literarj' and political
subjects. He was married in 1864, to Ida, daugh-
ter of William and llary Alexandria (Jones) Gar-
land of Baltimore, Md. He died in Newport,
R.I., Sept. 8, 1897.
FAY, Jonas, patriot, was born at Hardwick, Mass.. Jan. 38, 1737; son of Stephen and Ruth (Child) Fay; grandson of John and Elizabeth (Welhngton) Fay, and great-grandson of John and Mary (Briglmm) Fay. who came from Wales to Boston, arriving on the Speedwell. June 27, 16.56. The Fays were of French origin, having fled to Wales during the Huguenot persecution. Jonas served in 1756 in the French war as clerk
in Capt. Samuel Robinson's company of Mas.sa-
chusetts troops at Fort Edward and Lake George.
He afterward studied mediciu° and in 1766 was
among the early settlers of Bennington, Vt.,
where he practised his profession. In 1772 he
was appointed a delegate from Bennington and
neighboring towns to appear before Gov. William
Tryon of New York and urge him to discontinue
his violent proceedings against the Vermont set-
tlers. In March, 1774, he was clerk of the con-
vention of settlers which drew up resolutions to
defend their cause and their leaders by force,
Allen, Warner and others having been threatened
by the New York assembly with outlawry and
death. In 1775 he accompanied Ethan Allen'^
expedition to Ticonderoga as surgeon. In Jan-
uary, 1776, he was clerk to the convention at
Dorset and drew up the petition to congress to
be allowed to serve the patriot cause independent
of New York. He was secretary of the conven-
tion of July, 1777, that framed the constitution
of Vermont and during the summer of that year
was a member of the council of safety. Between
1777 and 1782 he was four times an agent of the
state to the continental congress. He was a
member of the governor's council, 1778-85; judge
of the supreme court in 1782, and judge of pro-
bate, 1782-87. He then returned to the i>ractice
of medicine at Bennington, removing to Char-
lotte in 1800, to Pawlet a few years later and
finally returning to Bennington. He was twice
married: first. May 1, 1760, to Sarah, daughter of
Capt. John Fassett, and secondly, Nov. 20, 1777,
to Mrs. Lj'dia Safford. He was joint author with
Ethan Allen of A Concise IlefutatioH of the Claims
of Xew Hampshire, Massachtisetts and Keto York to
the Territory of Vermont (1780). He died at Ben-
nington, Vt.. :March 0, 1S18.
FAY, Theodore Sedgwick, author, was born in New York city, Feb. 10, 1807. He attended the public schools and studied law. In 1828 he became a.ssociate editor of the Xew York 3Iirror, under the joint control of hunself, George P. Morris and Nathaniel P. Willis, his principal con- tributions to the paper afterward being a series of letters written while travelling in Europe, 1831—11. He was secretary of the American lega- tion at London, England, 1836, at St. Petersburg, Russia, 1837-41, at Berlin, 1841-53, and minister- resident at Berne, Switzerland, 1853-61, after which he removed to Berlin where he lived in retirement until his death. In addition to a series of essays on Shakespeare, he published: Dreama and Beveries of a Quiet Man (1832); T7ie Minute-Book (1833); Norman Leslie (1835); Sydney aifton (1839); Covntess Ida (1840); Hohoken, a liomance (1843): Bohert Biiefiil (18U) : IHrie. or the Voiees. n volume of poems (1851); Views of Christianity (18.56); History of Sicitzerland (1860);
