James Champlin Fernald

James Champlin Fernald (1838–1918) was an American lexicographer and Baptist minister. Born in Portland, Maine, and educated at Harvard, he served as a pastor in New England for twenty years before joining the staff of Funk and Wagnalls in New York, where he was an editor of the Standard Dictionary and had charge of its synonyms and antonyms. His English Synonyms and Antonyms (1896) and Connectives of English Speech (1904) became standard handbooks for writers and schools, and he also published Expressive English, a Working Grammar of the English Language and books on economics and on the Spanish-American War.