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Gunter, Thomas M

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 18, 1826, in middle Tennessee. In 1853 he began the practice of law in Fayetteville, Ark. He was a delegate to the state convention of 1861; served in the confederate army as a colonel, and was prosecuting attorney from 1866 to 1868. He successfully contested the seat of W. W. Wilshire in the forty-third congress, and was re-elected to the forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a demo-- crat.

Gurley, Henry H

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1787 in Lebanon, Conn. He was a representative in congress from Louisiana from 1823 to 1831. He previously held the office of United States judge for the district court of Louisiana. He died in 1832.

Gurley, Ralph Randolph

clergyman, was born May 26, 1797, in Lebanon, Conn. From 1822 till 1872 he acted as the agent and secretary of the American Colonization society, visited Africa three times in its interests, and was one of the founders of Liberia. He died July 30, 1872, in Washington, D. C.

Gurney, Francis

soldier, merchant, state senator, was born in 1738 in Bucks county, Pa. He was a merchant of Philadelphia. He became president of the city council, and served as a representative and as a senator in the state legislature.

He died May 25, 1815.

Gustine, Amos

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1841 to 1843. He died March 3, 1844, in Lost Creek Valley, Pa.

Gutheim, James Koppel

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 15, 1817, in Westphalia. He was a Jewish clergyman of New Orleans who published The Temple Pulpit, a volume of sermons; and a translation of Gratz's History of the Jews.

He died May 11, 1886, in New Orleans, La.

Guthrie, Alfred

mechanical engineer, was born April 1, 1805, in Sherburne, N. Y. In 1846 he settled in Chicago, where he advanced the idea of supplying the summit level of the Illinois and Michigan canal with water by raising it from Lake Michigan with steam power.

The hydraulic works of this canal in Chicago were designed by him and constructed under his supervision. He died Aug. 17, 1882, in Chicago, Ill. was

Guthrie, Edwin

physician, born Dec. 11, 1806, in Sherburne, N. Y.

Soon after the beginning of war with Mexico, he raised a company of Iowa volunteers, of which he became captain, and went to the seat of war. He died July 20, 1847, in Mexico.

Guthrie, John Julius

naval officer, was born in 1814 in Washington, D.

C. He became a midshipman in 1834, passed midshipman in 1838, and lieutenant in 1842, and served in the Mexican war.

In 1861, at the beginning of the civil war, he resigned his commission and entered the confederate service. He died in November, 1877, at sea near Cape Hatteras.

Guthrie, Samuel

chemist, inventor, was born in 1782 in Brimfield, Mass. He is said to have invented and first manufactured percussion-pills, which, with caps, have entirely superseded the old flint-lock fire-arm. He died Oct. 19, 1848, in Sackett's Harbor, N. Y.

Guthrie, William E

surgeon, was born July 26, 1857, in Abingdon, Ill. He received his education at the Illinois Wesleyan university, the Rush Medical college of Chicago, and at the medical department of the university of Berlin. He was county physician for four years, surgeon of the Lake Erie and Western railroad, and assistant surgeon of the Chicago and Alton railroad; and surgeon of the Deaconess hospital of Bloomington, Ill.