Gardner, Henry J – Garnett, James M
Gardner, Henry J
governor. He was governor of Massachusetts from the year 1855 to 1858.
Gardner, John J
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 17, 1845, in Atlantic county, N. J. He served three years in the civil war. He was a member of the New Jersey state senate fifteen years, from 1878 to 1893; and was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
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Gardner, John Lane
soldier, was born Aug. 1, 1793, in Boston, Mass. 1813 he was appointed lieutenant of infantry; was brevetted colonel, and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general. He died Feb. 19, 1869, in Wilmington, Del.
Gardner, Joseph
congressman, was born in 1752 in Chester county, Pa. He was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the continental congress in 1784 and 1785. He died in 1794 in Elkton, Md.
Gardner, Samuel Jackson
lawyer, journalist, was born in 1788 in Brookline, Mass. He was a lawyer of Boston, and subsequently a journalist of Newark, N. J., whose essays over the signature Decius were issued in book form with the title Autumn Leaves. He died July 14, 1864, in White Mountain, N. J. was
Gardner, Thomas
soldier, born in 1724 in Cambridge, Mass. In 1775 he raised a regiment according to the instructions of the provincial congress, and was commissioned its colonel. He died June 18, 1775, in Boston, Mass.
Garfield, James Abram
twentieth president of the United States, was born Nov. 19, 1831, in Cuyahoga county, Ohio. He learned the carpenter's trade at the age of fourteen; attended Geauga seminary, Hiram college, and graduated at Williams college, Massachusetts, in 1856, and earned the necessary money at his trade and teaching school. He then became professor in Hiram college, and in 1857 was made its president. He married Miss Lucretia Rudolph in 1858.
In 1859 he was elected state senator. Studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1861. Enlisted Aug. 16, 1861, and Sept. 5 was commissioned colonel of the fortysecond Ohio infantry. On Jan. 10, 1862, he was promoted to the rank of brigadiergeneral, and afterward to that of majorgeneral. Having been elected to congress in 1862, while absent in the field, he resigned his commission in the army upon taking his seat in congress in December, 1863. He was re-elected eight times in succession, and was finishing his eighteenth year when elected president. In January, 1880, the Ohio legislature elected him United States senator for six years from March 4, 1881. The republican national convention met at Chicago June 2, 1880. General Garfield headed the Ohio delegation, and presented the name of John Sherman as a candidate for president. The first ballot was taken June 7, and stood: U. S. Grant, 304; James G.
Blaine, 284; John Sherman, 93; George F. Edmunds, 34; Elihu B. Washburne, 30, and William Windom, 10 votes. On the third ballot Garfield received one vote, and from one to two on each succeeding ballot up to the thirty-third, except five ballots, when he received none. The balloting continued until June 8. On the thirty-fourth ballot Garfield got 17 votes.
The thirty-fifth stood: Grant, 213; Blaine, 257; Sherman, 99; Edmunds, 11; Washburne, 23; Windom, 3, and Garfield, 50. The thirty-sixth and last vote gave Garfield, 399; Grant, 307; Blaine, 42; Washburne, 5, and Sherman, 3. After an adjournment, Chester A. Arthur, who was also a delegate to the convention, was nominated for vice-president. They were elected Nov. 4. Garfield was then representative in congress, United States senator-elect and president-elect. Nov. 8 he resigned his seat in congress, declined the office of senator, and remained at his home at Mentor, Ohio, until his inauguration, March 4, 1881. On July 2 he was shot by Charles J. Guiteau in a railroad depot in Washington. He was removed to Long Branch, N. J., Sept. 6, where he died from the effects of the wound Sept. 19, 1881. He held political offices about twenty-one years, and died poor.
Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph
was born April 19, 1832, in Hiram, Ohio.
She first met her husband, James A. Garfield, when both were students at Hiram, Ohio, and was married Nov. 11, 1858, in Hudson, Ohio, soon after his accession to the presidency of the college.
Garfielde, Selucius
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 8, 1822, in Shoreham, Vt. He emigrated to California in 1851; was elected a member of the legislature of that state in 1852, and in 1853 was selected to codify the laws of the state. He removed to Washington territory in 1857, where he filled the position of receiver of public moneys in 1860; was surveyor-general from 1866 to 1869; and was elected a delegate to the fortyfirst congress and re-elected to the fortysecond congress as a republican. He died April 13, 1883, in Washington, D. C. was
Garland, Augustus Hill
born June 11, 1832, in Tipton county, Tenn. He served in the confederate congress, and subsequently was chosen to the United States senate, but refused admission. In 1874 he was for a short time acting secretary of state of Arkansas, and was elected governor of that state in 1874.
In 1876 he was elected United States senator from Arkansas for the term of six years from 1877, and was re-elected for another term in 1882. In 1885 he was appointed attorney-general of the United States in the cabinet of President Cleveland.
Garland, David S
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Virginia, from 1809 to 1811. He died in October, 1841.
Garland, Hamlin
author, was born in 1860 in Wisconsin. He is a novelist who was for some years a resident of Boston, and then returned to the Western states. He is the author of Main Traveled Roads; A Spoil of Office; Prairie Folks; Prairie Songs; Crumbling Idols; Rose of Dutcher's Coolly; and Little Norsk.
Garland, Hugh A
lawyer, author, was born June 1, 1805, in Nelson county, Va. He was professor of Greek in the Hampden Sidney college for five years, studied law, and came to the bar in 1841; and served five years in the state legislature. Two books which he published, the Lives of John Randolph and Thomas Jefferson, were eminently successful. He died Oct. 15, 1854, in St.
Louis, Mo., greatly mourned by the public of that city.
Garland, Hugh A
soldier, lawyer.
He joined the confederate army, was made a colonel, participated in the actions between the forces of Generals Hood and Thomas in middle Tennessee, and fell at Franklin, Tenn., while leading his command. He died Nov. 30, 1864, in Franklin, Tenn.
Garland, James
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state, from 1845 to 1847.
Garland, James Gray
inventor, was born March 31, 1827, in Saco, Maine.
He is a cotton mill manager and the inventor of original and first system of atmosphere moistening for textile manufacturing, a system which is in use in America, Europe and India.
Garland, John
soldier, was born in 1792 in New York. He served through the war with Great Britain, and attained the full rank of major in 1836, and that of lieutenant-colonel in 1839. He died June 5, 1861, in New York city.
Garland, Landon Cabell
educator, author, was born March 21, 1810, in Nelson county, Va. He is a mathematician who held professorships in several southern colleges, and published Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical.
Garland, Rice
jurist, congressman, was born in Virginia. He removed to Louisiana, and was a representative in congress from that state, from 1834 to 1840. He resigned to become judge of the superior court of Louisiana.
Garland, Samuel
soldier, was born Dec. 16, 1830, in Lynchburg, Va. He was chosen captain of a volunteer company that was organized in 1859; was commissioned a colonel by the governor of Virginia on the secession of the state, and was engaged at the first battle of Bull Run. He died Sept. 14, 1862, in South Mountain, Md.
Garman, Samuel
naturalist, author, was born June 5, 1846, in Indiana county. He is a naturalist of Cambridge, assistant in the Agassiz museum there, and the author of The Keptiles and Batrachians of North America; and Reptiles and Batrachians of Bermuda.
Garner, Peter M
abolitionist, educator, was born Dec. 4, 1809, in Lancaster county, Pa. From 1847 till 1860 he taught in the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus, and during the war had charge of the military prisoners. He died June 12, 1868, in Columbus, Ohio.
Garner, W. Scott
journalist, poet, was born Jan. 16, 1848, in Preston county, W. Va. He has established and edited several newspapers, and his poems have appeared in the leading newspapers and magazines of America.
Garnett, Alexander Yelver- Ton Peyton
physician, was born Sept. 20, 1820, in Essex county, Va. In 1861 he left Washington and became a member of the examining board of surgeons for the confederate army, and afterward surgeon in charge of the two military hospitals in Richmond. He died July 11, 1888, in Rehoboth Beach, Del.
Garnett, James M
agriculturist, congressman, was born June 8, 1770, in Elmwood, Va. He was a member of the legislature of his native state, and was a representative in congress from Virginia, from 1805 to 1809. He was president of the Society of Fredericksburg for more than twenty years, and toiled laboriously for the formation of a National Agricultural society. He died in May, 1843, in Elmwood, Va.