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Gunnison, John Williams

civil engineer, author, was born in 1812 in New Hampshire. He was a civil engineer killed by Mormons and Indians while making railway surveys in Utah. A History of the Mormons was his only published work. He died Oct. 26, 1853, near Sebier Lake, Utah.

GUNSAULUS, FRANK WAKELEY, clergyman, author, was born in 1856 in Ohio. He is a congregational clergyman of Chicago, and the author of The Metamorphosis of a Creed; The Transfiguration of Christ; Monk and Knight, an Historical Study in Fiction; Phidias, and Other Poems; October at Eastwood; and Songs of Night and Day.

GUNSTER, FREDERICK WILLIAM, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Sept. 15, 1845, in Prussia. He has served as district attorney of Lackawanna county and as law judge. He has served as a. member of the Pennsylvania state legislature from Scranton, Pa. GUNTER, ARCHIBALD CLAVERING, author. He is a writer of popular sensational romances quite destitute of literary merit, and the author of Mr. Barnes of New York; Mr. Potter of Texas; The First of the English; and The Ladies' Juggernaut.

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