Gage, Joshua – Gale, William H
Gage, Joshua
state legislator, congressman. He was a member of the legislature from 1805 to 1808, in 1813, 1814, 1820 and 1821; a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1817 to 1819; and a state councilor in 1822 and 1823.
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Gage, Lyman Judson
banker, financier, was born June 28, 1836, in Deruyter, N. Y. He became cashier of the First National bank of Chicago in 1868. charter expiring, the bank was reorganized in 1882, with a capital of three million dollars, and Mr. Gage was made vicepresident and general manager, and in 1891 he was elected president. In 1897 he resigned the presidency of the bank in order to accept the portfolio of the United States treasury.
Gage, Mrs. Matilda Joslyn
suffragist, author, was born March 24, 1826, in Cicero, N. Y. She is a noted woman suffragist of Fayetteville, N. Y.; and the author of Woman's Rights Catechism; Woman as an Inventor: Woman, Church and State; and History of Woman Suffrage.
Gage, Simon Henry
physiologist, author, was born May 20, 1857, in Maryland, N. Y. He is a physiologist who has been professor of physiology at Cornell university; and is the author of The Microscope and Histeology; and Anatomical Technology.
Gage, Thomas
soldier colonial governor, was born in 1721 in England. He was governor of Massachusetts in 1774-75.
He died April 2, 1787, in England.
Gage, William Leonard
clergyman, author, was born in 1832 in New Hampshire. He was a unitarian clergyman of Hartford in 1868-84. He is the author of Trinitarian Sermons to a Unitarian Congregation; Songs of War Time; Light in Darkness; Life of Carl Ritter; Studies in Bible Lands; Verses; The Home of God's People; A Leisurely Journey; Palestine, Historic and Descriptive; The Salvation of Faust; and a number of translations from the German.
Gail, Frederick W
lawyer, was born Jan. 17, 1860, in Aurora, N. Y. He started in life as a newspaper reporter; and in 1882-84 was official stenographer for the first judicial district of Minnesota; and since 1884 has practiced law at Stillwater, Minn.
Gaillard, Edwin Samuel
soldier, educator, physician, journalist, was born Jan. 16, 1827, in Charleston, S. C. In 1865 he established the Richmond Medical Journal, which he removed to Louisville in 1868, and published there under the title of the Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal. In 1874 he also established the American Medical Weekly. He died Feb. 1, 1885, in Louisville, Ky.
Gaillard, John
United States senator, was born Sept. 5, 1765, in St. Stephen's, S. C. He was a senator of the United States from South Carolina from 1804 to 1826; voted for the war of 1812; and was repeatedly called to preside over the senate in the absence of the vicepresident. He died Feb. 26, 1826, in Washington, D. C.
Gaillard, Theodore
lawyer, jurist. He was one of the earliest judges of the United States circuit court, having in 1801 been appointed chief justice of the fifth circuit. In 1813 he was appointed a district judge of the United States for Louisiana.
Gailor, Thomas Frank
clergyman, bishop, was born Sept. 17, 1856, in Jackson, Miss. In 1880 he was ordained a priest, and is now assistant bishop of Tennessee.
Gaine, Hugh
journalist, was born in 1726 in Ireland. He began business as a printer and bookseller in New York city in 1750, and in 1752 established the Mercury, a weekly publication. He died April 25, 1807, in New York city. was
Gaines, Edmund Pendleton
soldier, was born March 20, 1777, in Culpeper county, Va. He entered the army in 1799, and rose gradually until he made major-general for his gallantry at Fort Erie in 1814. He remained in the army until his death. He died June 6, 1849, in New Orleans, La.
Gaines, John P
soldier, congressman, governor, was born in Walton, Ky. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1847 to 1849; was governor of Oregon territory in 1850-53; and served as a major in the Mexican war as aid to Gen. Scott, and suffered imprisonment. He was a gallant soldier, and did valuable service while on the staff of Gen. Scott. While in congress he advocated numerous measures of importance to his state, and served on several committees. He died in 1858 in Oregon.
Gaines, John Wesley
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 24, 1861, in Nashville, Tenn. In 1892 he was elector on the Cleveland ticket and led in the ballot; afterwards became a leading exponent of free silver in his district, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Gaines, Wesley J
bishop, author, was born Oct. 4, 1840, in Washington, Ga.
In 1888 he was ordained bishop at Indianapolis. He is the author of a valuable work entitled African Methodism in the South.
Gaines, William Embre
soldier, banker, congressman, was born Aug. 30, 1844, in Charlotte county, Va. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in company K, eighteenth Virginia regiment, and was engaged in all the battles fought by the army of Northern Virginia up to the Maryland campaign. He was elected to the Virginia state senate in 1883, and was the leader of his party in that branch three years, when he resigned. He was elected to the fiftieth congress as a republican.
Gaither, Burgess Sidney
lawyer, congressman, was born March 16, 1807, in Iredell county, N. C. He was superintendent of the mint at Charlotte, N. C.; and was a member of the state senate in 1840 and 1844. He was also a member of both sessions of the confederate congress. He died Feb. 23, 1892, in Morgantown, N. C.
Gaither, George Franklin
farmer, educator, politician, was born March 6, 1856, in Iuka, Miss. After graduating from the Iuka Male institute he taught in the public schools of Etowah county, Ala.; and in 1886 was elected county superintendent of education for that county, receiving the re-election in 1888. He is a successful farmer and populist politician; and helped to organize that party in 1891 at Cincinnati, Ohio.
Gaither, Henry
soldier, was born in 1751 in Montgomery county, Md. He was a captain in the revolutionary army, and took part in nearly every battle of the war. He died June 22, 1811, in Georgetown, D. C.
Gaither, Henry Chew
patriot, state legislator, was born in 1777 in Maryland. He represented his county in the legislature for many years, but is chiefly remembered for his heroic conduct in defense of free speech during the disgraceful assault by a mob on the office of the Baltimore Federalist, July 26, 1812.
He died Feb. 12, 1845, in Locust Grove, Md.
Gaither, Nathan
physician, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1785 in Columbia, Ky. He was a member of the state legislature from Adair county in 1815, 1816, 1817, and 1818; and was a presidential elector in 1829. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the twenty-first and twenty-second congresses; was a member of the constitutional convention of the state in 1849; and was again a presidential elector in 1861.
Gaither, William Lingan
soldier, state legislator, governor, was born Feb. 21, 1813, in Locust Grove, Md. He was early elected to the legislature, and served sixteen years, a portion of the time in each branch. In 1851 he was chosen president of the senate. He died Aug. 2, 1858, in Berkley Springs, Va.
Galberry, Thomas
Roman catholic bishop, was born in 1833, in Ireland. He was ordained priest in 1856. His first mission was at Lansingburg, N. Y., where he built a Gothic church at an expense of over $33,000, and near it a convent for the Sisters of St. Joseph. He died Oct. 10, 1878, in New York city.
Galbraith, John
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He served several terms in the legislature of Pennsylvania, and was a representative in congress from that state from 1833 to 1837, and again from 1839 to 1841. He also held the office of United States president judge for the sixth district of Pennsylvania. He died June 15, 1860, in Erie, Pa.
Galbraith, William J
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 18, 1837, in Freeport, Pa. He served as an officer in the United States signal corps from 1861 to 1864. In 1879 he was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of the territory of Montana, and was reappointed in 1883.
Gale, Benjamin
physician, author, was born in 1715, on Long Island, N. Y.
He was the author of A Dissertation on Inoculation, and other works. He died May 21, 1790, in Killingworth, Conn.
Gale, Christopher
lawyer, jurist, was born about 1670 in England. In 1712 he became chief justice of North Carolina.
He died at Edenton, N. C.
Gale, George
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1789 to 1791.
Gale, George Washington
educator, was born Dec. 3, 1789, in Northeast, Pa. He established the Oneida manual labor institute at Whitesboro, N. Y., where he remained from 1827 till 1834.
His life work was the organization of Knox college at Galesburg, Ill., in 1835.
He died Sept. 13, 1862, in Galesburg, Ill.
Gale, Levin
congressman, was born in 1824 in Cecil county, Md. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1827 to 1829. He died April 28, 1875, in Baltimore, Md.
Gale, Theophilus
theologian, philosopher. He was a doctor of divinity, a classical scholar, and a learned theologian and philosopher. He died in 1677.
Gale, William H
jurist. He was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Colorado.