Fitzgerald, Oscar Penn

D.D. (Southern University, Greens borough, Ala., 1868), Methodist (Southern branch); b. in Caswell County, N.C., Aug. 24, 1829; was mi ionary in the California mines, 1855-57; editor of Pacific Methodist, Christian Spectator, and California Teacher, in San Francisco; was superintendent of public instruction of California, 1867-71, and under his administration the State University was founded, and the Normal School fully organized and permanently located; president of Pacific Methodist College, Santa Rosa, Cal., 1872; editor of the Nashville Christian Advocate, since 1878. He is the author of California Sketches, Nashville, Tenn., 1879, 2 vols., 2d ed. 1879; The Cla Meeting, 1880, 2d ed. 1880; Christian Growth, 1881, 2d ed. 1881; Glimpses of Truth, 1883, 2d ed- 1885; Dr. Summers; a Life-study, 1884, 2d ed. 1885; Centenary Cameos, 1885. FLICK1NGER, Daniel Kumler, D.D. (Otter be in University, Westerville, O., 1875), United Brethren in Christ; b. at Seven mile, O., May 25, 1824;. educated in common schools and German town Academy; elected corresponding secretary of the United-Brethren Church Mi ionary Society, 1857, and quadrennially re-elected until 1885, when he was elected foreign mi ionary bishop. He has been to Africa eight times, and to Germany five times, on mi ionary busine ; has done much work upon the frontiers of the United States, and also among the Chinese. He is the author of Off-hand Sketches in Africa, Dayton, O., 1857? Sermons (jointly with Rev. W. J. Shuey), 1859 Ethiopia, or Twenty-six Years of Mi ionary Life in Western Africa, 1877, 3d ed. 1885; The Church's- Marching Orders, 1879.