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Genth, Frederick Augustus

educator, author, was born May 17, 1820, in Germany. He was a professor of chemistry at the university of Pennsylvania from 1872; and was the author of Ammonia Cobalt Bases; Minerals of North Carolina; and First and Second Preliminary Reports on the Mineralogy of Pennsylvania. He died in 1893. GENTRY, MEREDITH POINDEXTER, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 15, 1809, in Rockinghanı county, N. C. He was elected to the legislature of Tennessee in 1835 and 1837; was a representative in congress from that state from 1839 to 1843, and from 1845 to 1853. He took part in the rebellion as a member of the confederate congress.

He died Nov. 2, 1866, in Rockingham death was greatly decounty, N. C. His plored in his state.