Home › G › Gordon, William F – Gorman, John Berry

Gordon, William F – Gorman, John Berry

Gordon, William F

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1828 to 1835. He is said to have been the originator of the sub-treasury system. He died July 2, 1858, in Albemarle county.

Gordon, William Robert

clergyman, author, was born March 19, 1811, in New York city. He was a Dutch reformed clergyman of New York and New Jersey, and the author of Supreme Godhead of Christ; Particular Providence, A Threefold Test of Modern Spiritualism; The- Peril of Our Ship of State; Revealed Truth Impregnable; The Reformed Church in America; and Christocracy. He died March 30, 1896, in Manhasset, N. Y.

Gore, Christopher

lawyer, governor, United States senator, was born in 1758 in Boston, Mass. In 1789 he was appointed district attorney for the district of. Massachusetts. He was chosen governor in 1809, and in 1813 was chosen a senator of the United States, in which capacity he served until 1816. He died March 1, 1827.

Gore, David

farmer, was born April 5, 1827, in Kentucky. He has been a state senator and president of the state board of agriculture, and in 1896 was elected auditor of state at Springfield, Ill.

Gore, James Howard

educator, author, was born in 1856 in Virginia. He is a professor of mathematics in Columbian university, Washington, D. C. He is the author of Geodesy; Elements of Geodesy; and several annotated editions of German works for college study.

Gorgas, Ferdinand J. S

dentist, author, was born in 1834 in Virginia. He is a Baltimore dentist, professor in the college of Dental Surgery since 1860, and the author of Lectures on Dental Science and Therapeutics; and Dental Materia Medica.

Gorgas, Josiah

soldier, college president, was born July 1, 1818, in Dauphin county, Tenn. He was placed at the head of the confederate ordnance department with the rank of brigadier-general. was made president of the university of Alabama in 1878. He died May 15, 1883, in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

He

Gorham, Benjamin

lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 13, 1775, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a representative in congress from the Suffolk district from 1820 to 1823, and from 1827 to 1831, and from 1833 to 1835. He was afterward for a short time a member of the state legislature. He died Sept. 27, 1855, in Boston, Mass.

Gorham, John

physician, educator, author, was born Feb. 24, 1783, in Boston, Mass. In 1809 he was appointed adjunct professor of chemistry and materia medica in Harvard, and in 1815 was made professor of chemistry and mineralogy. He published an Inaugural Address and Elements of Chemical Science. He died March 29, 1829, in Boston, Mass.

Gorham, Wallace A

poet, was born Oct. 27, 1833, in Pittsford, Vt. In 1846 he moved with his parents to Rockford, Ill., and in 1869 to Iowa, and since 1887 has resided in Spirit Lake. He is the author of a number of poems, which have appeared in the periodical press, and in several standard works.

Gorman, James Sedgwick

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 28, 1850, in Lyndon, Mich. He was elected to the lower house of the Michigan legislature in 1880, and in 1886 was elected to the state senate from the fourth district, and re-elected in 1888. He was elected to the fifty-second and re-elected to the fiftythird congress as a democrat.

Gorman, John Berry

physician, artist, author, was born Feb. 22, 1793, in Newberry district, S. C. He owned a valuable library, was fond of painting, and left a picture entitled the Nightmare.

He published the Philosophy of Animated Existence. He died Nov. 12, 1864, in Talbot county, Ga.