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Goodyear, William Henry
educator, author, was born in 1846 in Connecticut. He is an art educator of New York city, and the author of Roman and Mediæval Art; Renaissance and Modern Art; History of Art; The Grammar of the Lotus; and Ancient and Modern History.
Gookin, Charles
soldier, statesman. He attained the rank of colonel, and was deputy-governor of Pennsylvania under William Penn during 1709-17.
Gookin, Daniel
author, was born in 1612 in England. For the last thirty years of his life he was superintendent of the Indians in Massachusetts. His writings include Historical Collections of the Indians in New England; and Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England. He died March 19, 1687, in Cambridge, Mass.
Gookins, Samuel Barnes
journalist, legislator, jurist, was born May 30, 1809, in Rupert, Conn. Just twenty years after he went to Vincennes to aid in establishing the Vincennes Gazette, he went to the same place to hold his first term as judge of the circuit court. He represented Vigo county in the Indiana legislature.
Gordon, Adoniram Judson
clergyman, author, was born April 19, 1836, in New Hampton, N. H. He was a baptist clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Clarendon church from 1869 until his death; and the author of Grace and Glory; In Christ; Ministry of Healing; The Ministry of the Spirit; The Life that Now Is and That to Come; The Holy Spirit in Missions; and Ecce Venit. He died in 1895.
Gordon, Anna Adams
author, was born July 21, 1853, in Boston, Mass. She was the private secretary of Frances E.
Willard from 1877 until her death. She prepared the song books of the Loyal Temperance Legions and also the songs for Woman's temperance work and the white ribbon hymnal. She is the author of Questions Answered; The White Ribbon Birthday Book; and other pamphlets and booklets.
Gordon, Clarence
author, was born April 28, 1835, in New York city.
He is a writer of Newburg, N. Y. His writings, intended for juvenile reading, include Christmas at Under Tor; Our Fresh and Salt Tutors; Two Lives in One; and Boarding-School Days.
Gordon, Edward Clifford
clergyman, college president, was born Sept. 1, 1842, in Richmond, Va. He is president of the Westminster college of Fulton, Mo.
Gordon, George Angier
clergyman, author, was born in 1853 in Scotland. He is a prominent congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Old South church from 1884, and the author of The Christ of To-Day; The Witness to Immortality in Literature, Philosophy and Life; and Immortality and the New Theodicy.
Gordon, George Henry
lawyer, soldier, author, was born July 19, 1823, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a lawyer of Boston who served as a brigadier-general in the federal army during the civil war, and was the author of History of the Second Massachusetts Infantry; The Campaign of the Army of Virginia under General Pope; War Diary of Events in the War of the Great Rebellion; and Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain. He died Aug. 30, 1886, in Framingham, Mass.
Gordon, George Phineas
printer, manufacturer, inventor, was born April 21, 1810, in Salem, N. H. His fame arose from his invention of the Gordon job press. The Gordon Press works, having a factory at Rahway, N. J., of which he was proprietor, produced an immense number of these machines, which found their way into nearly every job office in the United States. He died Jan. 27, 1878, in Norfolk, Va.
Gordon, J. Wright
governor, was born in 1807 in Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of Michigan during the administration of Governor Woodbridge; and upon the latter's resignation, became governor. He died in December, 1853.