Garnett, Muscoe Russell Hun- Ter – Gartlin, Alfred
Garnett, Muscoe Russell Hun- Ter
lawyer, congressman, was born in Essex county, Va. He was a member of the house of delegates in 1853-56. He was elected to the thirty-fifth congress as a representative from Virginia, and was reelected to the thirty-sixth congress.
Garnett, Richard Brooke
soldier, was born in 1819 in Virginia. He became a captain in 1855; was engaged in Kansas in 1856-57, and in the Utah expedition of 1858, and resigned in 1861 to join the confederate army. He died July 3, 1863, in Gettysburg.
Garnett, Robert Selden
lawyer, congressman, was born in Essex county, Va. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1817 to 1827, being re-elected four times. He died July 13, 1861, in Virginia.
Garnsey, Daniel G
congressman, was born in Saratoga county, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1825 to 1830.
Garrard, James
soldier, state legislator, governor, was born Jan. 14, 1749, in Stafford county, Ky. He was an officer of the revolution; afterward a member of the legislature of Virginia, where he was an advocate of the religious freedom bill.
He was, for several terms, a member of the Kentucky legislature, and was governor of Kentucky from 1796 to 1804. He died Jan. 9, 1822, in Mount Lebanon, Ky.
Garrard, Kenner
soldier, was born in 1830 in Columbus, Ohio. He served as instructor and commandant of cadets at West Point. He served in the civil war, and was brevetted major-general of the United States army.
Garrard, Theophilus Toulmin
soldier, state senator, was born June 7, 1812, near Manchester, Ky. He was a member of the lower house of the Kentucky legislature in 1843-44, and served through the Mexican war. He was elected to the state senate and served with distinction.
Garretson, Freeborn
clergyman, was born Aug. 15, 1752, in Maryland. He was eminently successful as a minister, and preached in almost all the eastern states from Nova Scotia to the Gulf of Mexico. He died Sept. 26, 1827, in New York.
Garretson, Garret James
lawyer, jurist, was born July 16, 1847, in Newtown, N. Y. He has been surrogate of Queens county, and for many years has been justice of the supreme court of the state of New York.
Garretson, James Edmund
physician, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 4, 1828, in Wilmington, Del. He is a physician of Philadelphia, and dean of the dental college there from 1879. He is the author of System of Oral Surgery; Odd Hours of a Physician; Thinkers and Thinking; Two Thousand Years Ago; Hours with John Darby; Brushland; and Nineteenth Century Common Sense.
Garrett, Abraham E
soldier, farmer, state senator, congressman, was born March 6, 1830, in Overton. He was elected to the legislature of Tennessee in 1865, and to the state senate in 1867. He was elected to the forty-second congress as a democrat.
Garrett, Alexander Charles
bishop of Dallas, Texas, was born Nov. 4, 1832, in Ireland. He organized his missionary jurisdiction as the diocese of Dallas, and was elected the first bishop of Dallas in 1895. The bishop's writings include: Historical Continuity, a series of sketches on the church; The Eternal Sacrifice, and Other Sermons; and The Philosophy of the Incarnation.
Garrett, Andrew
conchologist, author, was born April 9, 1823, in Albany, N. Y. He has explored many of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America, the East and West Indies, and published the Andrew Garrett Fische de Sudsee. He died Nov. 1, 1887.
Garrett, Edmund H
artist, author, born Oct. 19, 1853, in Albany, N. Y. He has devoted much time to illustration and water color painting, and in 1890 received a medal at Boston. He has edited important collections of the Elizabethan and Victorian poets, and translated numerous works from the French.
Garrett, Emma
educator, philanthropist, was born in 1848. She attained a national reputation as an educator of the deaf and dumb. She died in 1893.
Garrett, James G
soldier, educator, journalist, lawyer, was born March 14, 1837, in Edgecombe county, N. C. He graduated from the university of Alabama in 1856; and the following year was admitted to the bar. He has taught school; was a soldier and officer in the confederate army of northern Virginia in 1862-65; has been successfully engaged in journalism, and is now a prominent lawyer of Birmingham, Ala.
Garrett, John Work
railroad president, was born July 31, 1820, in Baltimore, Md. He took a great interest in the development of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. He was elected one of its directors in 1857, and was its president from 1858 till his death. He died Sept. 26, 1884, in Deer Park, Md.
Garrett, Robert
railroad president, was born April 9, 1847, in Baltimore, Md. For many years he was president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, resigning in 1887.
Garrett, Thomas
abolitionist, was born Aug. 21, 1783, in Upper Darby, Pa.
He assisted all fugitive slaves who applied to him on their way to freedom. He died Jan. 20, 1871, in Wilmington, Del.
Garrigues, Henry Jacques
educator, physician, author, was born June 6, 1831, in Denmark. He is a Danish physician who came to America in 1875, and since 1886 has been professor of practical obstetrics in the post-graduate medical school of New York city. He is the author of Gastro-Elytrotomy; and Practical Guide in Antiseptic Midwifery.
Garrigus, Milton
soldier, educator, lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 27, 1831, in Wayne county, Ind. For seventeen terms he taught school, and in 1859-60 was school examiner, and also postmaster at Greentown. During the war he served with distinction-was captain and acting adjutant on the staff of General Mason of the regular army during 1864-65. He was admitted to the bar in 1859, and since 1889 has been president of the Howard County Bar association. For three years he was superintendent of schools, and in 1878 was elected state senator, serving with distinction for four years. He was twice elected county auditor, his second term of four years expiring in 1900. He has been chairman of the republican county committee for fifteen terms. He is one of the Indiana commissioners to erect monuments for Indiana troops on Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain battlefields. He was twice commander of his post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has been inspectorgeneral of Indiana.
Garrison, Charles Grant
physician, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 3, 1849, in Swedesboro, N. J. He was made judge advocate general of New Jersey in 1884, and in 1882 he was made chancellor of the southern diocese of the protestant episcopal church of New Jersey. He was appointed to the supreme court bench in 1888 for a full term of seven years; and was reappointed in 1895.
KINGS- CORNELIUS GARRISON, LAND, capitalist, was born March 1, 1809, at Fort Montgomery, N. Y. He was one of the founders of the Gas Light company of Chicago; chief organizer of the Equitable Gas Light company of Baltimore; and president of the Missouri Pacific railroad. He died May 1, 1885, in New York city.
Garrison, Daniel
congressman, was born in Salem county, N. J. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1823 to 1827.
Garrison, George Tankard
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 14, 1835, in Accomac county, Va. He was a representative in the state legislature and a state senator during the existence of the confederacy. He was circuit judge from 1870 to 1880; and was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-seventh congress; and was re-elected to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.
Garrison, James Harney
clergyman, journalist, author, was born in 1842 in Missouri. He is a clergyman and editor of religious journals; and the author of Heavenward Way; and Alone with God.
Garrison, Joseph Fithian
educator, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 20, 1823, in Fairton, N. J. He was an episcopal clergyman of Camden, N. J., professor of canon law at the Philadelphia Episcopal Divinity school for some years; and the author of The Formation of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States; and The American Prayer Book.
He died in 1892.
Garrison, William Lloyd
journalist, philanthropist, author, poet, was born Dec. 10, 1804, in Newburyport, Mass.
He was a very celebrated anti-slavery journalist of Boston who established The Liberator in 1831, and was its editor for the thirty-five years of its existence.
He was the author of Thoughts on African Colonization; and Sonnets and Other Poems. He died May 24, 1879, in New York city.
Garrison, William Re Tallack
financier, was born June 18, 1834, in Canada. He was for many years president of the Metropolitan and New York railroad of New York city.
Garrison, Wendell Phillips
author, editor, was born June 4, 1840, in Cambridgeport, Mass. He is literary editor of The Nation, New York; and the author of Genealogy of the Berson Family of Newport, R. I.; Life of William Lloyd Garrison; and also compiled Bedside Poetry.
Garrow, Nathaniel
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from New York from 1827 to 1829.
Garth, William W
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 28, 1827, in Morgan county, Ala. He was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-fifth congress.
Gartland, Francis Xavier
bishop, was born in 1805, in Dublin, Ireland.
In 1850 he was consecrated the first Roman catholic bishop of Savannah, Ga. He died Sept. 20, 1854.
Gartlin, Alfred
congressman, was born in North Carolina. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1823 to 1825.