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Gemunder, George

violinmaker, author, was born April 13, 1816, in Germany. He is a violinmaker who came to America from Würtemberg in 1847, and settled in New York city in 1852. He published Progress in Violin-Making.

Genin, John Nicholas

merchant, author, was born Oct. 19, 1819, in New York city. He was a noted hatter of New York city who wrote a History of the Hat from the Earliest Stages. He died April 30, 1878, in New York city.

Genung, John Franklin

educator, author, was born in 1850 in New York.

He is a professor at Amherst college; and the author of A Study of In Memoriam; The Epic of the Inner Life, an annotated translation of Job; Practical Elements of Rhetoric; and The Study of Rhetoric in College Courses.

George, Charles H

merchant, banker, was born July 14, 1839, in Foxboro, Mass. In 1880 he was elected president of the Roger Williams National bank; for several years was president of the Providence board of trade; and is now president of the mercantile house of Charles H. George and Company.

George, Enoch

methodist episcopal bishop, was born in 1767 in Lancaster county, Va. In 1816 he was elected and ordained a bishop, in which office he served with zeal and effectiveness for twelve years. He died in August, 1828, in Staunton, Va.

George, Henry

journalist, author, was born Sept. 2, 1839, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a candidate for mayor of New York in 1897, but died a few days prior to the election. His works are:

Progress and Poverty; Our Land and Land Policy; The Subsidy Question and the Democratic Party; Protection or Free Trade; The Irish Land Question; The Land Question; and Social Problems.

George, Melvin Clarke

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born May 13, 1849, in Noble county, Ohio. He was a state senator for four years; and was elected a representative from Oregon to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a republican.

George, Nathan Dow

clergyman, author, was born in 1808 in New Hampshire. He was a methodist clergyman, long prominent in Maine, and subsequently in Massachusetts. He was the author of An Examination of Universalism; Universalism Not of God; Materialism Anti- Scriptural; and Annihilation Not of the Bible. He died in 1896.

George, Samuel Carr

missionary, educator, was born July 8, 1832, in Allegheny county, Pa. In 1861-73 he was a missionary in Siam. In 1886 he was elected professor of the Sanskrit and cognate tongues in Wilson Female college at Chambersburg, Pa.

George, Samuel Wesley

public official, state senator, was born April 26, 1862, in Meredith, N. H. In 1893 he was elected a member of the Massachusetts state legislature; received the re-election four consecutive years and in 1897 was elected a member of the state senate.

Gerard, James Watson

lawyer, philanthropist, was born in 1794 in New York city. It was through his efforts that the institution now known as the house of refuge for juvenile delinquents was founded in New York, which was the first institution of its kind in the United States. He died Feb. 7, 1874, in New York city.

Gerard, James Watson

lawyer, author, was born about 1822 in New York city. He is a lawyer of New York city; and the author of The Pelican Papers, a satire; Titles to Real Estate in New York City; Title of the Corporation and Others to the Streets, Wharves, Lands, and Franchises in New York City; The Peace of Utrecht; Aquarelles (verse); and Ostrea, or the Loves of the Oysters, a collection of humorous verse.