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Gurowski, Adam

was born Sept. 10, 1805, in Poland. He was a Polish count who came to the United States in 1849, and was employed as a translator in the state department at Washington. He was the author of A Year of the War (1855); America and Europe; Slavery in History; and My Diary. He died May 4, 1866, in Washington, D. C.

GURTEEN, STEPHEN HUMPHREYS VILLIERS, clergyman, author, was born in 1840 in England. He is an episcopal clergyman of Buffalo, Toledo and elsewhere; and prominent as an organizer of charities. He is the author of Phases of Charity; Provident Schemes; What Is Charity Organization; How Paupers Are Made; Casuistry; The Arthurian Epic; Epic; and Epic of the Fall of Man.

GUSTAFSON, AXEL-CARL JOHANauthor, was born about 1847 in Sweden.

He is a Swedish writer who came to the United States in 1868, and has published The Foundation of Death; a Study of the Drink Question; The Drink Problem; and Some Thoughts on Moderation.

GUSTAFSON, MRS. ZADEL (BARNES) (BUDDINGTON), author, poet, was born about 1841 in Middletown, Conn. She is the author of Meg: a Pastoral and Other Poems; Can the Old Love? a novel; and Genevieve Ward, a Biography.

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