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Gilchrist, Robert Budd

lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 28, 1796, in South Carolina. About 1841 he was appointed United States judge for the district of South Carolina; and for a time held the same position in Georgia. He died May 1, 1856, in Charleston, S. C.

GILCHRIST, WILLIAM WALLACE, musician, composer, was born in 1846 in Jersey City, N. J. He has won three prizes for compositions from the Mendelssohn Glee club of New York city, and in 1882 the Cincinnati May festival prize was awarded him.

GILDER, JEANNETTE LEONARD, journalist, dramatist, author, poet, was born in 1850 in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1875 she joined the staff of the New York Herald as a book reviewer; and in 1880, in connection with her brother, Richard Watson Gilder, started The Critic. In 1876 she wrote a play entitled Quits, which was brought out in the Chestnut Street theater of Philadelphia. She dramatized a Wonderful Woman for Rose Eytinge; Sevenoaks for John T. Raymond; and a Comedy for Harry Becket.