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the opposing counsel, and David Davis tlie presid- ing judge. On the first call for troops in 18(jl, he volunteered in the National army, served in the Army of the Tennessee on both field and staff duty through all its campaigns, and was chief quarter- master of the 15th army corps on the march from Atlanta to the sea, and until the final surrender of Johnston's army. He was afterward ordered with Sheridan's command to Texas, where he was mus- tered out as colonel and brevet brigadier-general of volunteers at Galveston in 1866. He was elect- ed to the state senate of Illinois in that year, and was afterward chosen to congress as a Republican, serving from 1878 till 1879.

FORT, Tomlinson, physician, b. in Warren county, Ga., 11 July, 1787; d. in Milledgeville, Ga., 11 May, 1859. His father was a soldier of the Revolution. Tomlinson was graduated in medi- cine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1810, and practised in Milledgeville, where he acquired distinction as a physician. He commanded a company in the Indian campaign in Florida in 1812, and was wounded in the knee. He was for several years a member of the state house of rep- resentatives, and served in congress from 1827 till 1839, having been elected on a general ticket. He then resumed practice, was chosen president of the state bank of Georgia in 1832, and held the office till his death. He published a work on "The Practice of Medicine " (Milledgeville).

FORTIN, Pierre, Canadian statesman, b. in Vercheres, Quebec, in December, 1823. He was educated at Montreal seminary and at McGill col- lege, where he was graduated in medicine in 1845. He served as a surgeon at Grosse Isle during the prevalence of the fever in 1847-'8. In 1849 he aided in forming a special mounted constabulary force for quelling disturbances in Montreal and its vicinity, and commanded a troop of this force. In 1852 he was appointed stipendiary magistrate for the lower river and Gulf of St. Lawrence, and organized the service for the protection of the sea and river fisheries in that- district. He was en- gaged in this service from 1852 till 1867, when he resigned, and had under his command the armed steamer " Doris " and the armed schooner " La Ca- nadienne," in which latter vessel he was wrecked in November, 1861. In 1858 he was instructed by the Canadian government to visit olficially the French colonies of St. Pierre Miquelon and Long- lake, and that portion of the seaboard of New- foundland known as the French coasts, and to re- port the conditions under whicii the F'rench fish- eries and fish trade were carried on. In 1859 he established on all the coasts and in the rivers of the province of Quebec a system of licenses for salmon fishing, and in 1862 he began a series of descrip- tions from nature of the marine animals, fishes, mollusca, and Crustacea of the lower river and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which were printed in some of his annual reports to the government. He was a member of the executive council and commis- sioner of crown lands for the province of Quebec in 1873-4, and was elected speaker of the legisla- tive assembly in November, 1875, but resigned in 1876. While speaker he founded the marine library of the province of Quebec, and was also one of the founders of the Geographical society of Quebec and its first president. He represented Gaspe in the Canadian parliament from 1867 until the gen- eral election of 1874, when he retired in order to confine himself exclusively to the legislative assem- bly, in which he sat from 1867 until 1881. He was re-elected to the Dominion parliament in 1878 and 1882. He is a Conservative.

FORTIQUE. Mariano Fernandez (forte -ka), Venezuelan bishop, b. in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1790; d. there in November, 1866. He studied at the seminary of Santa Rosa and the University of Venezuela. He spoke and wrote Latin with remark- able correctness, as well as French and other modern languages. In 1815 he was ordained a presbyter, and in 1884 was appointed rector of the parish of San Pablo, and also synodical examiner. In the same year he was elected to the national legislature. In 1842 he was consecrated bishop of Guayana. At various times during his life he was senator, presi- dent of congress, and state counsellor. He secured the endowment of the much-needed Seminary of Caracas. His few literary productions reveal vast learning and a noble character.

FORTOUL, Pedro (for-toal'), Colombian sol- dier, b. in Rosario de Cucuta, Colombia, in May, 1780 ; d. there, 5 Jan., 1887. He was of French descent, entered the Cucuta militia as a lieutenant in August, 1810, and by successive promotions at- tained the grade of general of division, 30 Oct., 1829. He was with the forces that operated in the north of New Granada in 1812, and his bravery won him distinction. He took part in the follow- ing battles : San Antonio de Cucuta, 1812 ; Capaeho and Carrillo, 1818; Balaga, 1814; Cachiri, 1815; Yagual and Apure, 1816 ; Barinas, 1818 ; Pantano de Vargas and four others in 1819. In that year he was the leader of the campaign in the north, and in 1822 and 1824 commander-in-chief of the cam- paign in Cucuta. At the close of this campaign he became governor of the province of Boyaca, and held the office for five years. Gen. Fortoul suffered great hardships during his campaigns. After the battle of San Antonio de Apure in 1816, he emi- grated toward Casanare, accompanied by his wife and children and others equally unfortunate. Many died of hunger and fatigue, and the survivors saved themselves by eating human flesh. Fortoul was reduced to extreme poverty by the destruction of his propertv during the war.

FORWARD, Walter, statesman, b. in Con- necticut in 1786; d. in Pittsburg, Pa., 24 Nov., 1852. He received an academic education, re- moved to Pittsburg, and became the editor of the " Tree of Liberty," a Democratic newspaper. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1806, and practised till 1822, when he was elected to congress as a Democrat to fill a vacancy, and served till 1825. In the presiden- tial elections of 1824 and 1828 he supported John Quincy Adams, and was thence- forward identi- fied with tlu'

Whig party. He was active in the

State constitutional convention of 1837, and in 1841 was appointed by President Harrison first comptroller of the treasury, serving till his appointment by President Tyler to the treasury portfolio in September of the same year. On retiring from the cabinet in March, 1843, he resumed his practice at the bar. President Taylor made him charge d'affaires in Denmark in November, 1849, but he