Gartrell, Lucius J – Gay, Edward J
Gartrell, Lucius J
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 7, 1821, in Wilkes county, Ga. In 1843 he was elected by the general assembly of Georgia solicitor-general of the northern judicial circuit. He resigned in 1847, on being elected a representative to the legislature; and was re-elected in 1849. He was a presidential elector for the state of Georgia in 1856; and in 1857 was elected a representative in the thirty-fifth congress from Georgia; and was re-elected to the thirtysixth congress.
Garver, John Edward
physician and surgeon, was born Jan. 19, 1858, in Sheldon, Vt. He graduated from the state university of Iowa; and from the Chicago Polyclinic institute. He has attained success in the profession of medicine at Storm Lake, Iowa; and takes an active part in the public affairs of his county and state.
Garvin, T. M
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 1, 1854, in Ohio county, W. Va.
After receiving his education in Cleveland, Ohio, he studied Spanish in Phillippe's College of Languages of San Francisco, Cal . He was one of the organizers of the West Virginia Bar association. He has compiled and published a book containing all the commercial laws of the states and territories; and for the past ten years has delivered lectures each week to the students of the Wheeling Business college on commercial and international law. In 1896 he was elected a member of the West Virginia state legislature, and served with distinction in that body.
Garvin, William S
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1847.
Gary, Elbert H
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 8, 1846, near Wheaton, Ill. He attended the public schools and Wheaton college; and in 1867 graduated from the law department of the Chicago university.
He has been county judge for two terms; president of the town of Wheaton for three terms; and mayor of that city for three terms. He has also been president of the board of education; held the office of state's attorney and various other public offices of honor; and was the president of the Chicago Bar association. He is a successful lawyer and general counsel for several railroads and other corporations.
Gary, Franklin Newman
soldier, lawyer, was born Nov. 26, 1828, in South Carolina. In 1852 he graduated from Maryville college, Tennessee. He became district attorney of Tyler, Texas, and was one of the best known lawyers in that state. During the civil war he served as captain in the twenty-third Texas infantry, C. S. A.; and died in 1886. His son, Hanson Gary, is a successful lawyer of Tyler, Texas.
Gary, George
clergyman, was born Dec. 8, 1793, in Middlefield, N. Y. In 1836 he was transferred to the Black River conference, and in 1844 was appointed missionary superintendent of Oregon. He died March 25, 1855.
Gary, James Albert
manufacturer, postmaster-general, was born Oct. 22, 1833, in Uncasville, Conn. He became a partner with his father in the Alberton Cotton mills, located at Alberton, in 1861; his father dying in 1870 he succeeded to the head of the business, and has conducted it since. He was confirmed as postmastergeneral March 5, 1897.
Gary, William Theodore
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 10, 1841, in Cokesbury, S. C. He served. as first lieutenant of the South Carolina college cadets in 1861, and was major in the confederate army. During 1882-83 he was a member of the general assembly of Georgia; presidential elector in 1892; and since 1893 has been United States attorney.
Gaskill, Francis Almon
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 3, 1846, in Blackstone, Mass. He was district attorney of the Massachusetts middle district during 1887-95; and since that time has been justice of the Massachusetts superior court.
Gaskill, Silas B
lawyer, jurist, was born April 18, 1824, in Gainesville, N. Y.
He was a noted lawyer and jurist of Lapeer, Mich., where he died May 29, 1895.
Gaston, Samuel Burns
farmer, legislator, was born Dec. 19, 1855, near Roanoke, Ala. He has taken a prominent part in the religious and social affairs of his community, and in 1892 and again in 1896 represented his county in the state democratic conventions. In 1896- 97 he served with distinction as a member of the Alabama state legislature. He writes extensively for the periodical press, and is a successful farmer of Wildwood, Ala.
Gaston, William
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 19, 1778, in Newberne, N. C. He served a number of years in the state legislature, one term as speaker; and was a presidential elector in 1808. He was a represent a tive in congress from North Carolina from 1813 to 1817; and in 1834 was appointed judge of the supreme court.
In 1835 he was a member of the state convention to amend the constitution. He died Jan. 23, 1844.
Gaston, William
lawyer, state legislator, state senator, governor, was born Oct. 3, 1820, in South Killingly, Conn. He was city solicitor of Roxbury, Mass., from 1856 till 1860, and mayor in 1861-62. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1853-54 and 1856, and of the state senate in 1868. He was elected governor of Massachusetts in 1875.
Gates, Horatio
soldier, was born in 1728 in England. He was the first adjutant-general of the continental army, and was made major-general in 1776. He died in 1806 in New York.
Gates, Merrill Edwards
educator, college president, was born in 1848 in Warsaw, N. Y. In 1882 he became president of Rutgers college, and served eight years, when he was elected to the presidency of Amherst college. He is president of the American Missionary association.
Gates, Seth Merrill
lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1800, in Winfield, N. Y. He was elected to the state legislature in 1832, declining a re-election. In 1838 he purchased and became editor of the Le Roy Gazette. He was elected a representative from New York to the twenty-sixth congress, and was re-elected to the twenty-seventh congress. He died Aug. 24, 1877, in Warsaw, N. Y.
Gates, Thomas
was one of the earliest colonial governors of Virginia.
Gates, William
soldier, was born in 1788 in Massachusetts. He served in the war with Mexico as colonel; and from pico, Mexico. He was brevetted briga- 1846 till 1848 acted as governor of Tamdier-general in 1865 for long and faithful service, He died Oct. 7, 1868, in New York, ventor, was born Sept. 12, 1818, in Hert-
Gatling, Richard Jordan
inford county, N. C. Among his many inventions is a machine for sowing wheat in drills, which is very popular in the large wheat farms of the west. But his greatest invention is the repeating machine gun, known as the Gatling gun, which can be made to fire four hundred shots per minute.
Gault, Franklin B
educator, college president, was born May 2, 1851, in Wooster, Ohio. He graduated from the Cornell college of Mt. Vernon, Iowa. During 1887-91 he was superintendent of schools in Tama City, Iowa; and has filled the same position in Mason City, Iowa; in South Pueblo, Colo.; and in Tacoma, Wash. Since 1892 he has been the president of the university of Idaho. He has been president of the Idaho State Teachers' association; and is a member of the leading educational and scientific bodies in America.
Gault, Gilbert William
artist, was born March 31, 1855, in Jersey City, N. J. Among his works are Stories of Liberty to the Confined; Charging the Battery; and Holding the Line at All Hazards, which received the first medal of the American Art association.
Gause, Lucien Cotesworth
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1838, at Laurel Hill, N. C. He enlisted in the infantry service of the confederate army in 1861; and rose to the rank of colonel. He returned to Jacksonport in July, and resumed the practice of law.
In 1866 he served one term in the general assembly. In 1874 he was elected to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Gause, Owen B
educator, founder, was born June, 1825, in Wilmington, Del.
He was one of the founders of the Homœopathic Medical society of Pennsylvania, and was its president in 1869.
Gaveney, John C
lawyer, was born June 30, 1863, in Arcadia, Wis. He graduated from the university of Wisconsin, and has attained success as an able lawyer. For three terms he served with distinction as mayor of his native city; and was a member of the committee of the Wisconsin Semi-Centennial exposition.
Gawley, Eccles W
physician, surgeon, was born Nov. 20, 1850, in Ireland. He received his education at the Michigan university and from the Detroit Medical college. He is a successful physician and surgeon of Anamosa, Iowa; has been secretary of the board of pension examiners; and has filled various other positions of honor.
Gay, Eben Howard
banker, author, was born in 1858 in Massachusetts. He is a banker of Boston who has published A Treatise on Municipal Bonds.
Gay, Ebenezer
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 26, 1696, in Dedham, Mass.
He was a unitarian clergyman of Hingham from 1718 until his death; and the author of The Old Man's Calendar, a sermon preached on his eighty-fifth birthday, which went through several editions in America and England, and was translated into several continental languages. He died in 1787 in Hingham, Mass.
Gay, Edward J
merchant, manufacturer, congressman, was born Feb. 3, 1816, in Liberty, Va. In 1883, upon the foundation of the Louisiana Sugar exchange, at New Orleans, he was elected its first president; and in 1884 was elected a representative from Louisiana to the forty-ninth congress, and received the reelection to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.