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Garnett, Richard Brooke – Garrett, James G

Garnett, Richard Brooke

soldier, was born in 1819 in Virginia. He became a captain in 1855; was engaged in Kansas in 1856-57, and in the Utah expedition of 1858, and resigned in 1861 to join the confederate army. He died July 3, 1863, in Gettysburg.

Garnett, Robert Selden

lawyer, congressman, was born in Essex county, Va. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1817 to 1827, being re-elected four times. He died July 13, 1861, in Virginia.

Garnsey, Daniel G

congressman, was born in Saratoga county, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1825 to 1830.

Garrard, James

soldier, state legislator, governor, was born Jan. 14, 1749, in Stafford county, Ky. He was an officer of the revolution; afterward a member of the legislature of Virginia, where he was an advocate of the religious freedom bill.

He was, for several terms, a member of the Kentucky legislature, and was governor of Kentucky from 1796 to 1804. He died Jan. 9, 1822, in Mount Lebanon, Ky.

Garrard, Kenner

soldier, was born in 1830 in Columbus, Ohio. He served as instructor and commandant of cadets at West Point. He served in the civil war, and was brevetted major-general of the United States army.

GARRARD, THEOPHILUS TOULMIN, soldier, state senator, was born June 7, 1812, near Manchester, Ky. He was a member of the lower house of the Kentucky legislature in 1843-44, and served through the Mexican war. He was elected to the state senate and served with distinction.

Garretson, Freeborn

clergyman, was born Aug. 15, 1752, in Maryland. He was eminently successful as a minister, and preached in almost all the eastern states from Nova Scotia to the Gulf of Mexico. He died Sept. 26, 1827, in New York.

Garretson, Garret James

lawyer, jurist, was born July 16, 1847, in Newtown, N. Y. He has been surrogate of Queens county, and for many years has been justice of the supreme court of the state of New York.

Garretson, James Edmund

physician, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 4, 1828, in Wilmington, Del. He is a physician of Philadelphia, and dean of the dental college there from 1879. He is the author of System of Oral Surgery; Odd Hours of a Physician; Thinkers and Thinking; Two Thousand Years Ago; Hours with John Darby; Brushland; and Nineteenth Century Common Sense.

Garrett, Andrew

conchologist, author, was born April 9, 1823, in Albany, N. Y. He has explored many of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America, the East and West Indies, and published the Andrew Garrett Fische de Sudsee. He died Nov. 1, 1887.

Garrett, Edmund H

artist, author, born Oct. 19, 1853, in Albany, N. Y. He has devoted much time to illustration and water color painting, and in 1890 received a medal at Boston. He has edited important collections of the Elizabethan and Victorian poets, and translated numerous works from the French.

Garrett, Emma

educator, philanthropist, was born in 1848. She attained a national reputation as an educator of the deaf and dumb. She died in 1893.

Garrett, James G

soldier, educator, journalist, lawyer, was born March 14, 1837, in Edgecombe county, N. C. He graduated from the university of Alabama in 1856; and the following year was admitted to the bar. He has taught school; was a soldier and officer in the confederate army of northern Virginia in 1862-65; has been successfully engaged in journalism, and is now a prominent lawyer of Birmingham, Ala.