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Gillespie, Neal Henry

college president, educator, clergyman, was born in 1832 in Brownsville, Pa. In 1859 he was made president of the College of St. Mary of the Lake of Chicago. He was for several years editor of The Ave Maria, and was also spiritual director of several religious and literary societies connected with the university of Notre Dame. He died Nov. 12, 1874, in St. Mary's, Ind.

GILLESPIE, WILLIAM MITCHELL, educator, author, was born in 1816 in New York. He was a professor of civil engineering at Union college in 1845-68; and the author of Rome as seen by a New Yorker; Roads and Railroads; Manual for Roadmaking; Principles and Practice of Land Surveying; Levelling; Topography and Higher Surveying; and Philosophy of Mathematics. He died Jan. 1, 1868, in New York.