Field (II)
DAVID DUDLEY, an American jurist; born in Haddam, Conn., Feb. 13, 1805; was admitted to the New York distinbar in 1828; practiced till 1885, guishing himself especially by his labors of the juin the direction of a reform diciary system. In 1857 he was apdic pointed by the State to prepare a politicivil, and penal code, of which the cal, civil, last was adopted by New York, and all have been accepted by some other States. In 1866, by a proposal brought before the British Social Science Congress, he procured the appointment of a committee of jurists from the principal nations to prepare the outlines of an international code, which were presented in a report This to the same congress in 1873. movement resulted in the formation of an association for the reform of the law of nations, and for the substitution of arbitration for war, of which Mr. Field was the first president. He died in New York City, April 13, 1894.
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Field (III)
HENRY MARTYN, an American clergyman and scholar; born in Stockbridge, Mass., April 3, 1822; brother of Cyrus West and Stephen Johnson Field; was graduated at Williams College, and was ordained to the ministry in 1842. In 1854 he became editor and proprietor of the New York "Evangelist." He was a lifelong traveler. Among his work are: "Summer " Pictures from Copenhagen to Venice (1859); "History of the Atlantic Telegraph" (1866); "From Egypt to Japan" (1878); "On the Desert" (1883); "Among the Holy Hills" (1883); "Our Western Archipelago"; "The Barbary Coast"; "Old Spain and New Spain"; "The Story of the Atlantic Cable." He died in 1907.
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Field (IV)
STEPHEN JOHNSON, an American jurist; born in Haddam, Conn., Nov. 4, 1816; brother of Cyrus West Field; was graduated at Williams College in 1837; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1841; and removed to San Francisco in 1849. He was elected to the first legislature under the California constitution, in the autumn of 1850; prepared a code of mining, civil and criminal laws, which was generally adopted in the Western States; became a justice of the Supreme Court of California in 1857; was appointed its chiefjustice in 1859; and in 1863 was appointed an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, which office he resigned in April, 1897. He died in Washington, D. C., April 9, 1899. See AR- FIELD ARTILLERY. TILLERY. an English
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Field (KATE an American author)
KATE, an American author and lecturer; born in St. Louis, Mo., about 1840. During several years she was European correspondent of the New York "Tribune" and other journals. She founded "Kate Field's Washington" (1889), in Washington, D. C. Among "Planchette's books (1868); "Ten Days in Spain" (1875); "History of Bell's Telephone"; "Life of Fechter," etc. She died in Honolulu, Hawaii, May 19, 1896.
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Field, Cyrus
Cyrus (1819-1892), the American promoter of the Atlantic cable . He was a native of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Having acquired wealth as a New York Merchant, he turned his attention to the project of laying an Atlantic cable. He obtained a charter, giving him the exclusive right to land on the coast of New-foundland for a period of fifteen years. An account of his attempts, discouragements, and final success may be found under CABLE.
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Field, Marshall
Marshall (1836-1906), an American merchant. He was born in Conway, Massachusetts. He had experience as clerk in a dry goods store at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He came to Chicago as a clerk when the city had 50,000 people. In 1865 he organized a new retail dry goods store, which in 1881 took the name of Marshall Field and Company. Mr. field was very successful as a business man. He made it a rule never to borrow money, never to give his note. His house lost in the Chicago fire of 1871 but was rebuilt at once. The new retail store of the firm occupies an entire square, and is twelve stories high. During his lifetime, Mr.Field gave the city a million dollars for the Columbian Museum. He gave the University of Chicago land and other property valued at half a million. Such money as could be spared from his dry goods business, Mr. Field invested in real estate , United States Steel, Chicago & Northwestern Railway, Pullman Car stock, etc. In point of wealth, he was the third richest American. He was surpassed only by Rockefeller and Carnegie. At his death he left an estate valued at from $120,000,000 to $200,000,000, the greater part of which passed to a grandchild, still a schoolboy.
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Fielding
WILLIAM STEVENS, a Canadian statesman. He was born'at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1848, where he was educated, and where he was for 20 years connected with the Halifax "Morning Journal." Since 1882 he has represented Halifax, first in the Pro vincial Legislature, becoming Prime Minister in 1884 and resigning in 1896 to become Minister of Finance in the Cabinet of Sir Wilfred Laurier. He represented Canada in London in 1902 and at the negotiation of the Franco-Canadian Commercial Treaty, Paris, 1907-1909. He was a member of the commission on Canada-West India trade, 1909-1910, and helped to negotiate the Reciprocity Agreement with the United States in 1911. Since 1917 has represented Shelburne and Queen's in the Dominion Parliament.
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Fielding (HENRY novelist born)
HENRY, novelist; born in Sharpham Park, Somersetshire, April 22, 1707. After only moderate success as a playwright and lawyer he wrote "The Adventures of Joseph Andrews" (1742), to burlesque Richardson's "Pamela"; it grew in his hands into a strong novel of a new type, and his career and fame were determined. His masterpiece is "Tom Jones; or the History of a Foundling" (1749). His last novel, "Amelia" (1752), is characteristic of his sentiments rather than of his genius. He died in Lisbon, Oct. 8, 1754.
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Fielding, Henry
Henry (1707-1754), an English novelist. He is the literary aftercomer, but not follower of Richardson. He was educated at Leyden for the law, but betook himself to a roistering life and to the writing of comedies. He inherited money and an estate, but wasted both in riotous living. He sneered at Richardson's ideals of virtue as hypocritical. He wrote Joseph Andrews as a caricature on Pamela and Amelia as a substitute for Clarissa. Parson Adams in the latter is a noble character, neither spoiled nor soured by poverty. Tom Jones is a vigorous novel valued for the picture it gives of the active young man of England, and the state of society in which he moved. Like Richardson, Fielding is to be read for a view of society in his day, not for pure pleasure, as Scott's Ivanhoe is read. QUOTATIONS. This story will not go down. Penny saved is a penny got. Enough is equal to a feast. Much may be said on both sides. I am as sober as a judge. Fielding writes with his eye sharply fixed on the world. The most of his characters seem alive and vigorous. Except in the cases of Tom Jones and Captain Booth, who are Fielding himself, Fielding appears to be listening with considerable curiosity to the conversations of his characters, and wondering what they will do next.
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