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Gorrie, Peter Douglas

clergyman, author, was born April 21, 1813, in Glasgow, Scotland. He was a methodist clergyman of New York, and the author of Churches and Sects in the United States; Episcopal Methodism as It Was and Is; and Lives of Eminent Methodists. He died Sept. 12, 1884, in Potsdam, N. Y.

GORRINGE, HENRY HONEYCHURCH, naval officer, author, was born Aug. 11, 1841, in Barbadoes, W. I. He was a United States naval officer who superintended the removal of the obelisk from Egypt to New York, and after leaving the navy engaged in ship-building. His only publication is a work on Egyptian Obelisks. He died July 7, 1885, in New York.