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Gilchrist, John James – Gill, Rosalie Lorraine

Gilchrist, John James

lawyer, jurist, author, was born Feb. 16, 1809, in Medford, Mass. He was a member of the New Hampshire legislature; register of probate; and associate judge in 1840. He was chief justice of the state supreme court in 1848, and of the United States court of claims in 1855. He published a Digest of New Hampshire Reports. He died April 29, 1858, in Washington, D. C.

Gilder, John Francis

pianist, composer, was born April 3, 1837, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is noted for his correct interpretation of Gottschalk's compositions, and as a concert pianist he has been heard in the principal cities and towns of the United States.

Gile, Francis Alfred

physician, surgeon, was born July 19, 1845, in He received his educa- Franklin, Ν. Η. tion in the New Hampshire seminary, and attended the New York Medical college.

He is a veteran of the civil war, and a well-known physician and specialist of Orange, N. J. He has been medical examiner and surgeon, coroner of Essex county, and filled various other public offices of honor.

Giles, Ella Augusta

author, was born in 1851 in Wisconsin. She is writer of Madison, Wis.; and the author of Bachelor Ben; Out from the Shadows; Maiden Rachel; and Flowers of the Spirit.

Giles, Henry

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 1, 1809, in Ireland. He was a unitarian minister of Liverpool, England, and after 1840 a literary lecturer in the United States. He was the author of Lectures and Essays; Christian Thought on Life; Illustrations of Genius; Human Life in Shakespeare; and Lectures on the Irish, and Other Subjects. He died July 10, 1882, in Boston, Mass.

Giles, John

lawyer, congressman, was born about 1788 in North Carolina. In 1829 he was elected a member of the house of representatives in congress from North Carolina, but resigned before taking his seat, on account of ill-health. He died March 2, 1846, in Stanley county, N. C.

Giles, William Branch

lawyer, congressman, United States senator, governor, was born Aug. 12, 1762, in Amelia county, Va. He was a representative in congress from 1790 to 1798, and again from 1801 to 1802. In 1801 and 1805 he was a presidential elector; and was a United States senator from 1804 to 1816.

He was subsequently a member of the legislature. From 1826 to 1829 he was governor of his native state. He died Dec. 4, 1830, in Albemarle county, Va.

Giles, William Fell

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 8, 1807, in Harford county, Md. He was elected to the state legislature in 1837 to 1839; in 1845 was elected to congress; declined a renomination; and in 1853 was appointed United States district judge for the district of Maryland.

Gilfillan, James

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born March 9, 1829, in Bannockburn, Scotland. He served in the south till the end of the civil war, and in 1864 was commissioned colonel of the eleventh Minnesota. He was treasurer of the United States during 1877-83.

Gilfillan, Joseph A

clergyman, missionary. He has been a noted missionary of the protestant episcopal church for twenty-five years among the Chippeway Indians at White Earth, Minn. He is superintendent of all the six thousand Chippeways scattered in northern Minnesota.

Gill, Moses

lieutenant-governor. He was elected lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts in 1797; and was acting governor of the state from 1799 to 1800.

Gill, Rosalie Lorraine

artist, was born Sept. 2, 1867, in Elmira, N. Y.

She paints landscapes and still life, well as portraits. as