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Gholson, Samuel Jameson – Gibbons, James

Gholson, Samuel Jameson

jurist, congressman, was born May 19, 1808, in Madison county, Ky. He was a representative in congress from Mississippi from 1837 to 1838; and was subsequently appointed United States judge for the district of Mississippi. He died Oct. 16, 1883, in Aberdeen, Miss.

Gholson, Thomas

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1808 to 1816.

Gholson, William Yates

jurist, author, was born in 1807 in Virginia. He was an Ohio jurist who published Speeches on Payment of the Public Debt of the United States. He died Sept. 21, 1870, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Gianque, Florien

lawyer, author, was born in 1843 in Ohio. He is a Cincinnati lawyer of Swiss descent; and the author of Laws of Election in Ohio; Election and Naturalization Laws of the United States; Manual for Ohio Road Supervisors; Manual for Guardians and Trustees; Manual for Assignees, Insolvent Debtors, etc.; Laws of Ohio Relating to Roads, Ditches, Bridges, and Water- Courses; Manual for Notaries, etc.; and Appendix to Ohio Revised Statutes.

Gibbes, Robert Wilson

physician, educator, journalist, scientist, was born July 8, 1809, in Charleston, S. C. He was a physician, educator and journalist of Columbia, S. C.; and the author of Monograph of the Squalidæ; Typhoid Pneumonia; Documentary History of South Carolina; and Documentary History of the American Revolution. He died in 1866.

Gibbes, Robert Wilson

surgeon, was born June 10, 1831, in Columbia, S. C.

He was professor of surgery in the university of South Carolina in 1872-73, and was a frequent contributor to the literature of his profession. He died Oct. 23, 1875, in Columbia, S. C.

Gibbes, William Hasell

soldier, lawyer, was born March 16, 1754, in Charleston, S. C. He was one of the thirty native Americans residing in London who petitioned the king against the series of acts of parliament that were the immediate cause of the revolution. He died in 1831.

Gibbon, John Oliver

soldier, author, was born April 20, 1827, in Holmesburg, Pa. He was a major-general in the federal army during the civil war who published The Artillerist's Manual. He died in 1896.

Gibbons, Abigail Hopper

philanthropist, was born Dec. 7, 1801, in Philadelphia, Pa. She was one of the founders of the Isaac T. Hopper home in New York. She died in 1893.

Gibbons, Henry

physician, author, was born Sept. 20, 1808, in Wilmington, Del. He was a physician of San Francisco, professor in the Pacific Medical college and was the author of an anti-tobacco treatise, Tobacco and Its Effects. He died Nov. 5, 1884, in Wilmington, Del.

Gibbons, James

educator, was born May 18, 1736, in Westtown, Pa. He was a member of the general assembly of Pennsylvania for the three years immediately preceding the declaration of independence. He died Oct. 17, 1823, in Birmingham, Pa.

Gibbons, James

clergyman, author, was born July 23, 1834, in Baltimore, Md. He is a cardinal of the Roman catholic church since 1886; and the author of The Faith of Our Fathers; Our Christian Heritage; and The Ambassador of Christ.