Gold, Thomas R
state senator, congressman, was born in New York. He was a member of the state senate from 1797 to 1802; a member of the assembly in 1808; and a representative in congress from New York from 1809 to 1813, and again from 1815 to 1817. He died in 1826.
GOLDENSMITH, WILLIAM RUSSELL, mineralogist, legislator, was born Sept. 12, 1862, in Nevada county, Cal. He received the rudiments of his education in the schools of San Juan, Cal., and graduated from the state university of California. He served with distinction as a representative in the fourth session of the state legislature of Idaho; and is a noted mineralogist of that state.
He GOLDSBOROUGH, CHARLES WASH- INGTON, congressman, governor. was governor of the state of Maryland; and was a representative in congress from 1805 to 1817. He died Dec. 13, 1834, in Shoal Creek, Md.
GOLDSBOROUGH, JOHN RODGERS, naval officer, was born July 2, 1808, in Washington, D. C. He became midshipman in 1824, lieutenant in 1837, commander in 1855, captain in 1862, and commodore in 1867. He died June 22, 1877, in Washington, D. C.
GOLDSBOROUGH, LOUIS MALES- HERBES, naval officer, was born Feb. 18, 1805, in Washington, D. C. He entered the navy in his youth, and was made rear-admiral in 1862.
At the time of his death he had been in the service longer than any other naval officer then living.
He took an active part in all the principal naval battles of the civil war. He died Feb. 20, 1877, in Washington, D. C.
His death was a great loss to the navy.