Portraits of eminent Americans now living: with biographical and historical memoirs of there lives and actions . al kindness of heart and urbanityof manners, never have enemies. He has been repeatedly elected to either branch of the city council,and twice unanimously elected to the office of mayor of the city, whichoffice he declined to hold longer, the public drafts being too heavy uponthe duties of his profession. Colonel Mills has long been a great admirer of the illustrious soldierand statesman who is now the candidate of the whig party for the Pre-sidency, and labored hard for his nominat
Portraits of eminent Americans now living: with biographical and historical memoirs of there lives and actions . al kindness of heart and urbanityof manners, never have enemies. He has been repeatedly elected to either branch of the city council,and twice unanimously elected to the office of mayor of the city, whichoffice he declined to hold longer, the public drafts being too heavy uponthe duties of his profession. Colonel Mills has long been a great admirer of the illustrious soldierand statesman who is now the candidate of the whig party for the Pre-sidency, and labored hard for his nomination in 1848, and subsequentlydid much to bring about the great unanimity of sentiment in his statein favor of that great and good man. He represented the Fifth Con-gressional District in the whig national convention at Baltimore in Junelast, where he evinced an untiring zeal to effect the nomination of his fa-vorite candidate, and no one rejoiced more than he at the glorious con-summation of his wishes. The Maine Delegation will not soon beforgotten by the members of that convention or the country at jHE© N. F KAN CIS M WLII^ILE !•: Tdi GG. o/^ : 7£Anijs^i:e . ?•?y^^/J^ji. ^fC\C, ^ ?.!•JKCc /tniatMJJrilaWt f ?? FRANCIS BRINLET FOGG, OF TENNESSEE. 667 FRANCIS BRINLEY FOGG, I OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, Was born in Brooklyn, Connecticut, on the 21st of September,1795. His father, the Rev. Daniel Fogg—a native of New-Hamp-shire—was a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and ful-filled the duties of his sacred office for forty-one years, in the sameparish, honored and esteemed for his goodness and piety, by all menof all classes, and every Christian denomination. His mother, whosemaiden name was Brinley, came from one of the most respected andrespectable familes in New-England—she ornamented and piouslyadorned a long life by the practice of all the virtues of her sex, anddied a few years ago, in extreme old age, crowned with unclouded hopea
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