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Gould, George J

railroad president.

Since 1893 he has been president of the Missouri Pacific railway.

Gould, Hannah Flagg

poet, was born Sept. 3, 1789, in Lancaster, Mass.

She was a poet of Newburyport, Mass., and the author of The Snow Flake and the Frost; Hymns and Poems for Children; The Golden Vase; The Youth's Coronal; Mother's Dream, and Other Poems; Diosma, poems original and selected; and Gathered Leaves, a volume of prose. She died Sept. 5, 1865, in Newburyport, Mass.

Gould, Herman D

congressman, was born in Connecticut. Having taken up his residence in New York he was elected a representative in congress from that state, from 1849 to 1851. He died in 1852 in Delhi, N. Y.

Gould, James

lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 5, 1770, in Branford, Conn. He was a jurist of Connecticut who published The Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions. He died May 11, 1836, in Litchfield, Conn.

Gould, John W

author, was born Nov. 5, 1814, in Litchfield, Conn. He was the author of Forecastle Yarns; and Private Journal of Voyage from New York to Rio Janeiro. He died Oct. 1, 1838, at sea.

Gould, Nathaniel Duren

musician, author, was born March 26, 1781, in Bedford, Mass. He was a musician and penman of Boston who published A History of Church Music. He died May 28, 1864, in Boston, Mass.

Gould, Ozro Barnes

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, jurist, was born April 17, 1840, in Canada. In 1861 he enlisted in the fifty-fifth Ohio infantry, served throughout the war, and attained the rank of captain. In 1867 he settled in Winona, Minn., in the practice of law. In 1881 he was a member of the Minnesota state house of representatives, and in 1895 was appointed judge of the third judicial district.

Gould, Thomas R

sculptor, was born in 1818 in Boston, Mass. Among the works that he produced were two colossal heads, Christ and Satan, both of which were exhibited at the Boston athenæum in 1863, but afterward removed to his studio in Florence. He died Nov. 26, 1881, in Florence, Italy.

Gourdin, Theodore

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1813 to 1815. He died Jan. 17, 1826.

GOVAN, A. R., congressman, was born in Orangeburg, S. C. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1822 to 1827, having first been elected to fill a vacancy.

Gove, Samuel F

soldier, merchant, congressman, was born March 9, 1822, in Weymouth, Mass. He was a captain and assessor of taxes for Bibb county in the confederate service; and was elected a representative from Georgia to the fortieth congress as a republican.

Gove, William Hazeltine

orator, legislator, was born July 10, 1817, in Weare, N. H. He became well known as a stump speaker, and gained the title of the silver-tongued orator of New Hampshire.

He was elected a member of the legislature in 1851, 1852, and 1855. He died March 11, 1876, in Weare, N. H.

Gowans, William

bookseller, antiquarian, author, was born March 29, 1803, in Scotland. From 1828 until his death he was identified with the book business of New York city. He died Nov. 27, 1870, in New York city.