Gillett, Ezra Hall
educator, clergyman, author, was born July 15, 1823, in Colchester, Conn. He was a presbyterian clergyman of New York city, and professor of political economy in the university of New York from 1868. He was the author of History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States; Life of John Huss; God in Human Thought; The Moral System; Life Lessons in the School of Christianity; What Then? or the Soul's To-Morrow; and Ancient Cities and Empires. He died Sept. 2, 1875, in Harlem, N. Y.
GILLETT, FREDERICK HUNTING- TON, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1851, in Westfield, Mass. He graduated at Amherst college in 1874 and at Harvard Law school in 1877; and was admitted to the bar in Springfield in 1877. He was assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts from 1879 to 1882; and was elected to the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1890 and 1891. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.