with such opposition from the conservatives that he resigned his office, 18 Sept., 1837. He then retired to S. Paulo, and did not appear in the senate again until 1838. In 1842 he edited a political paper called “O Justiciero.” In the same year a revolution broke out near Campinas, where Feijo was staying, and, although enfeebled by age and sickness, he took upon himself the responsibility of the movement, and, being defeated, was arrested, taken to Santos, and thence to Rio Janeiro, to be tried by the senate. He succeeded in explaining his conduct before that body, and this proved to be the last act of his political life, for he died soon afterward. Honors were paid to his memory by the government.
FEININGER, Karl William Frederick,
musician, b. in Durlach, Baden, Germany, 31 July,
1844. He came to this country in 1853, was
educated at St. Mary's college, Columbia, S. C., and
afterward studied music in the conservatory at
Leipsic, Germany. He led an orchestra in 1863,
and in 1864-'5 served in the National army. He
afterward taught music for seventeen years, and in
1874 travelled through Brazil, where he met with
success as a violinist. Mr. Feininger has developed
a new mode of teaching the piano, “based upon
absolute knowledge of human character,” and is
the author of numerous orchestral compositions,
including overtures, symphonies, and choruses
with orchestral accompaniment, besides many
English and German songs. He has also
composed an unfinished opera, “Die Brüder.” He
produced his orchestral compositions with success
in Berlin in 1886, those performed at his first
concert, 7 Oct., including his “Academische” overture
(1866); his “Narciss” overture (1868); a
symphony (op. 12), which was highly praised by Franz
Liszt (1870); and “Emotive Pictures” (1885).
FEKE, Robert, artist, b. in Oyster Bay, L. I.,
about 1725; d. in Barbadoes, West Indies, aged about
forty-four. He left home when young, was taken
prisoner and carried to Spain, where he passed his
time in making rude paintings. With the
proceeds of these he returned home, settled at
Newport, and became a portrait-painter. He was one
of the earliest American artists, his first pictures
bearing the date 1746. Many of his portraits are
in the Bowdoin college collection, and in that of
the Rhode Island historical society, Providence.
One of the best is that of Lady Wanton, in the
Redwood library, Newport.
FELCH, Alpheus, jurist, b. in Limerick, York
co., Me., 28 Sept., 1806; d. in Ann Arbor, Mich., 13
June, 1896. His grandfather, Abijah Felch, had
removed to that region while it was still a wilderness,
and Alpheus, who was left an orphan at three
years of age, was brought up in his house. Young
Felch entered Phillips Exeter academy in 1821, was
graduated at Bowdoin in 1827, and in 1830 was
admitted to the bar at Bangor, Me. He removed
to Monroe, Mich., in 1833, and in 1843 to Ann
Arbor, where he afterward resided. He was in the
legislature in 1835-'7 and in 1838-'9, as one of the
state bank commissioners, did much to expose
frauds, made possible by a general “wild-cat”
banking-law, which he had opposed, and which
was afterward declared unconstitutional by the
state supreme court. He was auditor-general of
the state for a few weeks in 1842, and judge of the
state supreme court till 1846, when he resigned to
enter upon the office of governor of the state, to
which he had been elected, as a Democrat, in the
previous year. He resigned this also in 1847, having
been chosen to the U. S. senate, where he
remained until 1853, serving for four years as chair-
man of the committee on public lands. At the
close of his term President Pierce appointed him
on the commission to settle Spanish and Mexican
land-claims, under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,
and he became its president. The work of the
commission, involving many important decisions,
was finished in 1856, and its reports, consisting of
forty large volumes, were deposited in the Department
of the Interior at Washington. He retired
from practice in 1873, and in 1879-'83 was
professor of law in Michigan university. Bowdoin
gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1877.
FELDER, John Myers, lawyer, b. in Orangeburg
district, S. C., 7 July, 1782; d. in Union
Point, Ga., 1 Sept., 1851. His grandfather, a
native of Switzerland, came to South Carolina about
1720, and was killed during the Revolution while
defending his house against an attack by Tories.
John was graduated at Yale in 1804, studied at the
Litchfield, Conn., law-school, and was admitted to
the bar at Columbia, S. C., in 1808. He was a
major of volunteers in the war of 1812, and was
several times in the legislature between 1812 and
1830. He was then elected to congress as a
Democrat, and served from 1831 till 1835, declining a
third candidacy. From 1840 till his death he was
a state senator. After reaching the head of his
profession, Major Felder retired about 1830, became
a successful mill-owner and planter, and in time
accumulated a fortune.
FELIPE, or FELIPILLO (fa-le'-pa, or
fa-le-peel'-yo), Peruvian Indian, b. in Poeches, Peru, in
1508, or, according to the historian Gomara, in
1510; d. on an expedition to Chili in 1535. When
Francisco Pizarro arrived at Tumbez in 1527, he
asked the Indian chiefs, who received him well, for
some boys to learn Spanish, so that they might
serve him on his return as interpreters. He
carried two boys to Spain, where they were baptized,
and one of them, receiving the name of Felipe,
returned with Pizarro in 1531, and was of great use
in the conquest of Peru, saving the life of the
conqueror and his followers at the beginning of the
campaign by revealing to him a conspiracy of the
natives of the island of Puna to cut the Spanish
vessels adrift and kill the invaders. After the fall
of Cajamarca, 15 Nov., 1532, Pizarro sent Felipillo
with Hernando de Soto to treat with the Inca
Atahualpa. While on this mission he fell in love with
one of the Inca's wives, and, thinking that the
latter's death would give him possession of the woman
he loved, he began to give the Spanish chiefs an
incorrect translation of Atahualpa's words in the
different interviews with Soto, in which he assisted
as interpreter. He thus excited a suspicion that
the Inca was collecting troops and making other
secret preparations for the destruction of the
invaders, and this was one of the causes of Atahualpa's
execution, which was decided upon partly
through covetousness, partly, as Gomara says, in
the belief that his death would save the lives of
the Spaniards. Felipillo had even arranged with
some Yanacona chiefs, enemies of Atahualpa, to
confirm his calumnies about the Inca's hostile
preparation. The historians Garcilaso de la Vega,
Herrera, and Gomara, speaking about Felipillo,
are all of opinion that he was the only native
that assisted in the destruction of his emperor. In
1533 Felipillo was assigned to the service of
Almagro, and accompanied him in 1534 on his
expedition against Pedro de Alvarado, who had invaded
the province of Quito. He deserted Almagro, and
gave Alvarado information about the inferior force
of the former, proposing to serve as a guide in
surprising his little army, but Alvarado, who is
