Gansevoort, Leonard – Gardner, Henry
Gansevoort, Leonard
congressman, was born in 1751 in Albany, N. Y.
He was a delegate from New York to the continental congress in 1787 and 1788. He died in 1810, in Albany, N. Y.
Gansevoort, Peter
soldier, was born July 17, 1749, in Albany, N. Y.
He was commissioner of Indian affairs; military agent, and in 1809 was made a brigadier-general in the United States army. He died July 2, 1812, in Albany, N. Y.
Ganson, John
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1818, in Le Roy, N. Y. He was a member of the state legislature in 1862; and was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-eighth congress. He died Sept. 28, 1874, in Buffalo, N. Y.
Gantz, Martin K
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 28, 1862, in Bethel, Ohio. He was elected mayor of the city of Troy; and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Garard, Louis Ford
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 25, 1847, in Columbus, Ga. He served as a private in the civil war. He was a member of the Georgia legislature in 1878-81, and framed the famous baby bond bill.
Garber, Silas
governor. He was governor of Nebraska from 1875 to 1879.
Garcelon, Alonzo
physician, surgeon, governor, was born in 1813 in Maine. He served in the house of representatives of the Maine legislature, and was surgeongeneral on the staff of the governor of Maine during the civil war. He was an unsuccessful candidate for congress in 1868 and for governor in 1878. There having been no choice for governor at the election in 1878, he was elected to that office by the state legislature.
Gard, Ernest Chapin
journalist, poet, was born March 22, 1857, in Ringgold county, Iowa. In 1880 he was admitted to the bar, but preferred literary pursuits. In 1884 he established the Goshen Gazette; four years later moved to Colorado, where he established the Herald at Palmer Lake, and in 1891 he founded the Cripple Creek Crusher. He has contributed extensively to the Denver daily newspapers, and is the author of a collection of humorous articles entitled Life's Panorama.
Garden, Alexander
clergyman, author, was born about 1685 in Scotland.
He was an episcopal clergyman of Charleston remembered for his vigorous opposition to Whitefield. He was the author of Six Letters to the Reverend George Whitefield; and Two Sermons. He died Sept. 27, 1756, in Charleston, S. C.
Garden, Alexander
naturalist, author, was born about 1728 in Scotland.
He is a botanical writer of Charleston for whom Linnæus named the genus Gardenia. He went to England as a loyalist in 1783, and became vice-president of the Royal society. He died April 15, 1791, in London, England.
Garden, Alexander
soldier, author, was born Dec. 4, 1757, in Charleston, S. C. He was an officer in the American army during the revolution, and the author of Anecdotes of the Revolutionary War. He died Feb. 28, 1829, in Charleston, S. C.
Gardenier, Barent
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from New York from 1807 to 1811.
Gardenier, Wilson H
educator, lawyer, was born Sept. 26, 1838, in Middletown, N. Y. He received his education at the Falley seminary of Fulton, Oswego, N. Y. During the war he raised a company of volunteers and gave his assistance to the Union. During 1865- 66 he was principal of one of the public schools in Oswego.
He was admitted to the bar in 1864 and has attained success as a lawyer of Oswego, N. Y.
Gardiner, Addison
lawyer, jurist, was born March 19, 1797, in Rindge, N. H.
In 1844 and 1846 he was lieutenant-governor of New York, but resigned his office in the latter year, having been elected a judge of the court of appeals. He died June 5, 1883, in Rochester, N. Y.
Gardiner, Frederick
clergyman, author, was born in 1822 in Maine. He was an episcopal clergyman, professor in the Berkeley Divinity school at Middletown from 1869, and the author of The Island of Life, an Allegory; Commentary on Epistle of Jude; Harmony of the Four Gospels in Greek; Harmony of the Four Gospels in English: Diatessaron; The Principles of Textual Criticism; The Old and New Testaments in their Mutual Relations, and Aids to Scripture Study.
Gardiner, James Terry
civil engineer, was born May 6, 1842, in Troy, N.
Y. From 1876 till 1886 he was director of the state survey of New York, and from 1880 till 1886 a member of the New York state board of health.
Gardiner, John
legislator, lawyer, was born in 1731 in Boston, Mass. He moved to Pownalboro', Maine, and represented that town in the Massachusetts legislature until his death. He died Oct. 15, 1793, in Cape Ann, Mass.
Gardiner, Joseph Warren
lawyer, jurist, poet, was born March 2, 1836, in North Kingstown, R. I. He studied medicine for two years and subsequently engaged in educational work.
He has lived in various states of the Union; has published several newspapers, and was the editor and owner of the Dixie Optic of Jefferson, N. C. In 1869 he was admitted to the bar, and has attained success as a lawyer of Brewster, Neb., where he has been prosecuting attorney, and a successful judge. He has served as United States pension agent and has filled various public positions of honor. He has contributed extensively both prose and verse to the periodical press, and many of his poems have been incorporated into standard works.
Gardiner, Mills
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 30, 1830, in Russellville, Ohio. He was prosecuting attorney for Fayette county for four years; a state senator from 1862 to 1864; and a presidential elector in 1864. He was a representative in the legislature from 1866 to 1868; a member of the state constitutional convention in 1873; and was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-fifth congress.
Gardiner, Sylvester
physician, pioneer, was born June 29, 1707, in South Kingston, R. I. He became proprietor of a part of Plymouth purchase on the Kennebeck river. About the middle of the century he colonized it with Germans, and settled the town of Pittston, from which the present city of Gardiner, Maine, was afterward set off. He died Aug. 8. 1786, in Newport.
Gardner, Augustus Kinsley
physician, author, was born July 13, 1812, in Roxbury, Mass. He was a physician of New York city, and the author of The French Metropolis; Causes of Sterility; Conjugal Sins; Our Children; a Handbook for Parents; Old Wine in New Bottles; Ships and Shipbuilders of New York; and translation of Scanonzi's Diseases of Females. He died April 7, 1876, in New York city.
Gardner, Charles Kitchell
soldier, author, was born in 1787 in Morris county, N. J. He was a United States army officer who was postmaster of Washington in President Polk's administration. He was the author of Dictionary of United States Army Commissioned Officers from 1789 to 1853; Compendium of Military Tactics; and Permanent Designation of Companies, and lesser works. He died in 1869.
Gardner, Charles L
lawyer, legislator, was born May 27, 1839, in Cummington, Mass. He has attained success as a prominent lawyer in Palmer, Mass.
In 1875-76 he was a representative in the Massachusetts state legislature and in 1878-79 was a state senator. He has been United States revenue assessor, and district attorney since 1892.
Gardner, Dennis J
educator, lawyer, banker, was born Feb. 26, 1853, in Platteville, Wis. He has been vice-president of board of regents of normal schools of Wisconsin and president of the State bank of Platteville.
Gardner, Dorsey
journalist, author, was born Aug. 1, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a journalist of New York city who was one of the revisers of the Webster International Dictionary. He was the author of Quatre Bras, Ligny, and Waterloo; and Condensed Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 1894.
Gardner, Elizabeth Jane
artist, was born in 1842 in Exeter, N. H. Her specialty is ideal figure-pieces. Among her important works are Cornelia and Her Jewels; Cinderella; Corinne; Moses in the Bulrushes; and Maud Muller. The Fortune Teller and Corinne received a medal at the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876.
Gardner, Eugene C
architect, author, was born in 1836 in Massachusetts. He is an architect of Springfield, Mass., and the author of Homes and All About Them; The House that Jill Built; Homes and How to Make Them; Illustrated Homes; Home Interiors; Common Sense in Church Building; and Town and Country School Buildings.
Gardner, Francis
congressman, was born Dec. 27, 1771, in Leominster, Mass. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1807 to 1809. He died June 25, 1835, in Roxbury, Mass.
Gardner, Gideon
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1809 to 1811.
Gardner, Henry
statesman, was born about 1730 in Stowe, Mass. He served in the congresses of February and May, 1775, which met in Watertown, Mass., and was chosen treasurer of the province by the first congress. He died in 1782 in Boston, Mass.