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Garrett, John Work

railroad president, was born July 31, 1820, in Baltimore, Md. He took a great interest in the development of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. He was elected one of its directors in 1857, and was its president from 1858 till his death. He died Sept. 26, 1884, in Deer Park, Md.

Garrett, Robert

railroad president, was born April 9, 1847, in Baltimore, Md. For many years he was president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, resigning in 1887.

Garrett, Thomas

abolitionist, was born Aug. 21, 1783, in Upper Darby, Pa.

He assisted all fugitive slaves who applied to him on their way to freedom. He died Jan. 20, 1871, in Wilmington, Del.

Garrigues, Henry Jacques

educator, physician, author, was born June 6, 1831, in Denmark. He is a Danish physician who came to America in 1875, and since 1886 has been professor of practical obstetrics in the post-graduate medical school of New York city. He is the author of Gastro-Elytrotomy; and Practical Guide in Antiseptic Midwifery.

Garrison, Daniel

congressman, was born in Salem county, N. J. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1823 to 1827.

Garrison, George Tankard

lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 14, 1835, in Accomac county, Va. He was a representative in the state legislature and a state senator during the existence of the confederacy. He was circuit judge from 1870 to 1880; and was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-seventh congress; and was re-elected to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.

Garrison, James Harney

clergyman, journalist, author, was born in 1842 in Missouri. He is a clergyman and editor of religious journals; and the author of Heavenward Way; and Alone with God.

Garrison, Joseph Fithian

educator, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 20, 1823, in Fairton, N. J. He was an episcopal clergyman of Camden, N. J., professor of canon law at the Philadelphia Episcopal Divinity school for some years; and the author of The Formation of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States; and The American Prayer Book.

He died in 1892.

Garrison, Wendell Phillips

author, editor, was born June 4, 1840, in Cambridgeport, Mass. He is literary editor of The Nation, New York; and the author of Genealogy of the Berson Family of Newport, R. I.; Life of William Lloyd Garrison; and also compiled Bedside Poetry.

Garrow, Nathaniel

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from New York from 1827 to 1829.

Garth, William W

lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 28, 1827, in Morgan county, Ala. He was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-fifth congress.

Gartland, Francis Xavier

bishop, was born in 1805, in Dublin, Ireland.

In 1850 he was consecrated the first Roman catholic bishop of Savannah, Ga. He died Sept. 20, 1854.