Gurley, John A
clergyman, journalist, congressman, governor, was born Dec. 9, 1813, in East Hartford, Conn. He was settled as a preacher at Methuen, Mass., from 1834 to 1837, when he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where for fifteen years he published a paper called the Star of the West. In 1858 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirtysixth congress; and re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. In 1862 he was appointed governor of Arizona. He died Aug. 19, 1863, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
GURLEY, clergyman, was Hamilton, N. Y.
DENSMORE, PHINEAS born Nov. 12, 1816, in In 1859 he was chosen chaplain of the United States senate. He numbered among his regular hearers several presidents of the United States, among them Mr. Lincoln, at whose death-bed he present, and whose funeral sermon he delivered.
He took an active part in the negotiations that resulted in was the union of the old-school and newschool branches of the presbyterian church. He died Sept. 30, 1868, in Washington, D. C.