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Gallison, Henry Hammond

artist, was born in 1850 in Boston, Mass. He graduated from Harvard college, studied art in Paris, and has attained prominence as a painter.

GALLITZIN, DEMETRIUS AUGUST- INE, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 22, 1770, in Holland. He was the son of the Russian ambassador to France, he came to America in 1792, was educated as a Sulpitian priest, and founded the Roman catholic colony of Loretto in Pennsylvania in 1803. He was the author of Defence of Catholic Principles; Appeal to the Protestant Public; Six Letters of Advice; and Letter to a Protestant Friend on the Holy Scriptures. He died in 1841.

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