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Galvani, William H

civil gineer, vegetarian, was born June 27, 1861, in Russia.

He emigrated to the United States in 1882, and since that time has been engaged in engineering works on nearly all of the principal railways in the Pacific north west; and in literary work, as an editorial writer, publisher and contributor to periodical literature. He is well known as an exponent of Pantheism, and as an ardent defender of the rights of all animals to life and liberty, on which subject he has written and lectured extensively. He is a member of the Universal Theosophical society, and is strictly a vegetarian.

GAMBLE, HAMILTON MCSPARRIN, physician, surgeon, was born Oct. 25, 1838, in Moorefield, W. Va. During the war he served in the confederate army as a surgeon, and was in charge of the second practiced medicine in Moorefield, Va. corps hospital. Since the war he has

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