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James Champlin Fernald was born in Portland, Maine, the son of Henry Baker and Mabel (Collins) Fernald.
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Funk and Wagnalls Standard Handbook of Synonyms, Antonyms, and Prepositions.
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Contains over 8,000 synonyms which compare definitions for exact meanings, 3,000 antonyms and directions for using prepositions correctly
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Connectives of English Speech: The Correct Usage of Prepositions, Conjunctions, Relative Pronouns and Adverbs Explained and Illustrated (Classic Reprint)
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English synonyms and antonyms;
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JAMES CHAMPLIN FERNALD
Edit Profileeditor author Baptist clergyman
Education
He graduated from Harvard College, where he received one of the Bowdoin prizes, in 1860, and from the Newton Theological Institution in 1863.
Career
Until 1889 he remained in the active ministry, holding pastorates at Rutland, Vermont, 1862-63; Waterville, Me. , 1865-66; Granville, Ohio, 1869-72; McConnelsville, 1876-77; Clyde, 1877-79; Galion, 1879-80; Springfield, 1880-83; and Garretsville, 1885-89.
During the Civil War he was in the service of the Massachusetts Soldiers’ Aid Society before Fredericksburg, in the Washington hospitals, and at Gettysburg.
He traveled in Europe for his health, 1866-67, and when health and voice again failed him became a clerk in the Treasury Department at Washington, 1873-73.
Funk took Fernald with him to New York to help edit the Homiletic Review and the Voice, which was an organ of the Prohibition movement. Fernald’s use of economic as well as moral arguments for teetotalism was then somewhat novel, and his Economics of Prohibition (1890) was in its day an influential book.
When Funk organized the editorial staff of the Standard Dictionary he placed Fernald in charge of synonyms, antonyms, and prepositions. The choice was unusually lucky, for although his scientific knowledge of English was meager Fernald did possess an extraordinary gift for comparing and contrasting words.
He lived in Washington, D. C. , as a teacher, 1905-09. He died at his home in Upper Montclair, N. J.
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His work for the Standard (189394) was revised and extended for the New Standard (1913), was used generously in various abridgments of the two large dictionaries, and as a separate publication, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1896, revised and enlarged, 1914), has enjoyed a large, and well-earned, popularity. His Connectives of English Speech (1904) has also been much used as a work of reference.
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Connectives of English Speech: The Correct Usage of Prepositions, Conjunctions, Relative Pronouns and Adverbs Explained and Illustrated (Classic Reprint)
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Funk and Wagnalls Standard Handbook of Synonyms, Antonyms, and Prepositions.
(Contains over 8,000 synonyms which compare definitions fo...)
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English synonyms and antonyms;
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Connectives of English Speech: The Correct Usage of Prepositions, Conjunctions, Relative Pronouns and Adverbs Explained and Illustrated (Classic Reprint)
Personality
He was the editor of several abridgments of the Standard dictionaries, but the merits of these books were due to his assistants rather than to himself; he lacked the executive capacity, regard for details, and patience indispensable to a lexicographer.
Interests
Connections
On April 27, 1869, he married Mary Beulah Griggs of Rutland, Vermont. , one of the early graduates of Vassar College.
On June 18, 1873, he married Nettie Barker of McConnelsville, Ohio, who survived him.
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