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Garland, David S – Garner, Peter M

Garland, David S

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from Virginia, from 1809 to 1811. He died in October, 1841.

Garland, Hamlin

author, was born in 1860 in Wisconsin. He is a novelist who was for some years a resident of Boston, and then returned to the Western states. He is the author of Main Traveled Roads; A Spoil of Office; Prairie Folks; Prairie Songs; Crumbling Idols; Rose of Dutcher's Coolly; and Little Norsk.

Garland, Hugh A

lawyer, author, was born June 1, 1805, in Nelson county, Va. He was professor of Greek in the Hampden Sidney college for five years, studied law, and came to the bar in 1841; and served five years in the state legislature. Two books which he published, the Lives of John Randolph and Thomas Jefferson, were eminently successful. He died Oct. 15, 1854, in St.

Louis, Mo., greatly mourned by the public of that city.

Garland, Hugh A

soldier, lawyer.

He joined the confederate army, was made a colonel, participated in the actions between the forces of Generals Hood and Thomas in middle Tennessee, and fell at Franklin, Tenn., while leading his command. He died Nov. 30, 1864, in Franklin, Tenn.

Garland, James

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state, from 1845 to 1847.

Garland, James Gray

inventor, was born March 31, 1827, in Saco, Maine.

He is a cotton mill manager and the inventor of original and first system of atmosphere moistening for textile manufacturing, a system which is in use in America, Europe and India.

Garland, John

soldier, was born in 1792 in New York. He served through the war with Great Britain, and attained the full rank of major in 1836, and that of lieutenant-colonel in 1839. He died June 5, 1861, in New York city.

Garland, Landon Cabell

educator, author, was born March 21, 1810, in Nelson county, Va. He is a mathematician who held professorships in several southern colleges, and published Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical.

Garland, Rice

jurist, congressman, was born in Virginia. He removed to Louisiana, and was a representative in congress from that state, from 1834 to 1840. He resigned to become judge of the superior court of Louisiana.

Garland, Samuel

soldier, was born Dec. 16, 1830, in Lynchburg, Va. He was chosen captain of a volunteer company that was organized in 1859; was commissioned a colonel by the governor of Virginia on the secession of the state, and was engaged at the first battle of Bull Run. He died Sept. 14, 1862, in South Mountain, Md.

Garman, Samuel

naturalist, author, was born June 5, 1846, in Indiana county. He is a naturalist of Cambridge, assistant in the Agassiz museum there, and the author of The Keptiles and Batrachians of North America; and Reptiles and Batrachians of Bermuda.

Garner, Peter M

abolitionist, educator, was born Dec. 4, 1809, in Lancaster county, Pa. From 1847 till 1860 he taught in the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus, and during the war had charge of the military prisoners. He died June 12, 1868, in Columbus, Ohio.