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Gaston, William – Gawley, Eccles W

Gaston, William

lawyer, state legislator, state senator, governor, was born Oct. 3, 1820, in South Killingly, Conn. He was city solicitor of Roxbury, Mass., from 1856 till 1860, and mayor in 1861-62. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1853-54 and 1856, and of the state senate in 1868. He was elected governor of Massachusetts in 1875.

Gates, Horatio

soldier, was born in 1728 in England. He was the first adjutant-general of the continental army, and was made major-general in 1776. He died in 1806 in New York.

Gates, Merrill Edwards

educator, college president, was born in 1848 in Warsaw, N. Y. In 1882 he became president of Rutgers college, and served eight years, when he was elected to the presidency of Amherst college. He is president of the American Missionary association.

Gates, Seth Merrill

lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1800, in Winfield, N. Y. He was elected to the state legislature in 1832, declining a re-election. In 1838 he purchased and became editor of the Le Roy Gazette. He was elected a representative from New York to the twenty-sixth congress, and was re-elected to the twenty-seventh congress. He died Aug. 24, 1877, in Warsaw, N. Y.

Gates, Thomas

was one of the earliest colonial governors of Virginia.

Gates, William

soldier, was born in 1788 in Massachusetts. He served in the war with Mexico as colonel; and from pico, Mexico. He was brevetted briga- 1846 till 1848 acted as governor of Tamdier-general in 1865 for long and faithful service, He died Oct. 7, 1868, in New York, ventor, was born Sept. 12, 1818, in Hert-

Gatling, Richard Jordan

inford county, N. C. Among his many inventions is a machine for sowing wheat in drills, which is very popular in the large wheat farms of the west. But his greatest invention is the repeating machine gun, known as the Gatling gun, which can be made to fire four hundred shots per minute.

Gault, Gilbert William

artist, was born March 31, 1855, in Jersey City, N. J. Among his works are Stories of Liberty to the Confined; Charging the Battery; and Holding the Line at All Hazards, which received the first medal of the American Art association.

Gause, Lucien Cotesworth

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1838, at Laurel Hill, N. C. He enlisted in the infantry service of the confederate army in 1861; and rose to the rank of colonel. He returned to Jacksonport in July, and resumed the practice of law.

In 1866 he served one term in the general assembly. In 1874 he was elected to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Gause, Owen B

educator, founder, was born June, 1825, in Wilmington, Del.

He was one of the founders of the Homœopathic Medical society of Pennsylvania, and was its president in 1869.

Gaveney, John C

lawyer, was born June 30, 1863, in Arcadia, Wis. He graduated from the university of Wisconsin, and has attained success as an able lawyer. For three terms he served with distinction as mayor of his native city; and was a member of the committee of the Wisconsin Semi-Centennial exposition.

Gawley, Eccles W

physician, surgeon, was born Nov. 20, 1850, in Ireland. He received his education at the Michigan university and from the Detroit Medical college. He is a successful physician and surgeon of Anamosa, Iowa; has been secretary of the board of pension examiners; and has filled various other positions of honor.