Geis, Benjamin F – Gerry, Charles F
Geis, Benjamin F
lawyer, was born April 27, 1860, in Blairsville, Pa. He received his education at St. Vincent's and Iron City college, Pa. He has attained success as an eminent lawyer of Glenn county, Cal.; has been city attorney of Willows for several years; and served with distinction as district attorney of his county.
Geissenhainer, Jacob Augus- Tus
lawyer, congressman, was born in New York city. He commenced the practice of law in 1863 in New York city. He was elected to the fifty-first and fiftysecond congresses and re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Geist, Jacob M. W
journalist, was born Dec. 14, 1824, in Lancaster county, Pa. In 1877 he founded The New Era of Lancaster, Pa.
Gemunder, George
violinmaker, author, was born April 13, 1816, in Germany. He is a violinmaker who came to America from Würtemberg in 1847, and settled in New York city in 1852. He published Progress in Violin-Making.
Genin, John Nicholas
merchant, author, was born Oct. 19, 1819, in New York city. He was a noted hatter of New York city who wrote a History of the Hat from the Earliest Stages. He died April 30, 1878, in New York city.
Genth, Frederick Augustus
educator, author, was born May 17, 1820, in Germany. He was a professor of chemistry at the university of Pennsylvania from 1872; and was the author of Ammonia Cobalt Bases; Minerals of North Carolina; and First and Second Preliminary Reports on the Mineralogy of Pennsylvania. He died in 1893.
Gentry, Meredith Poindexter
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 15, 1809, in Rockinghani county, N. C. He was elected to the legislature of Tennessee in 1835 and 1837; was a representative in congress from that state from 1839 to 1843, and from 1845 to 1853. He took part in the rebellion as a member of the confederate congress.
He died Nov. 2, 1866, in Rockingham death was greatly decounty, N. C. His plored in his state.
Genung, John Franklin
educator, author, was born in 1850 in New York.
He is a professor at Amherst college; and the author of A Study of In Memoriam; The Epic of the Inner Life, an annotated translation of Job; Practical Elements of Rhetoric; and The Study of Rhetoric in College Courses.
George, Charles H
merchant, banker, was born July 14, 1839, in Foxboro, Mass. In 1880 he was elected president of the Roger Williams National bank; for several years was president of the Providence board of trade; and is now president of the mercantile house of Charles H. George and Company.
George, Enoch
methodist episcopal bishop, was born in 1767 in Lancaster county, Va. In 1816 he was elected and ordained a bishop, in which office he served with zeal and effectiveness for twelve years. He died in August, 1828, in Staunton, Va.
George, Henry
journalist, author, was born Sept. 2, 1839, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a candidate for mayor of New York in 1897, but died a few days prior to the election. His works are:
Progress and Poverty; Our Land and Land Policy; The Subsidy Question and the Democratic Party; Protection or Free Trade; The Irish Land Question; The Land Question; and Social Problems.
George, James Zachariah
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born Oct. 20, 1826, in Monroe county, Ga.
He was a captain in the twentieth regiment of Mississippi volunteers in the confederate states army, afterward a brigadier-general of state troops, and later colonel of the fifth regiment of Mississippi cavalry in the confederate states army. In 1879 he was appointed one of the judges of the supreme court of Mississippi and elected chief justice. He has been United States senator since 1881, his second term expiring in 1899. a
George, Melvin Clarke
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born May 13, 1849, in Noble county, Ohio. He was a state senator for four years; and was elected a representative from Oregon to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a republican.
George, Nathan Dow
clergyman, author, was born in 1808 in New Hampshire. He was a methodist clergyman, long prominent in Maine, and subsequently in Massachusetts. He was the author of An Examination of Universalism; Universalism Not of God; Materialism Anti- Scriptural; and Annihilation Not of the Bible. He died in 1896.
George, Samuel Carr
missionary, educator, was born July 8, 1832, in Allegheny county, Pa. In 1861-73 he was a missionary in Siam. In 1886 he was elected professor of the Sanskrit and cognate tongues in Wilson Female college at Chambersburg, Pa.
George, Samuel Wesley
public official, state senator, was born April 26, 1862, in Meredith, N. H. In 1893 he was elected a member of the Massachusetts state legislature; received the re-election four consecutive years and in 1897 was elected a member of the state senate.
Gerard, James Watson
lawyer, philanthropist, was born in 1794 in New York city. It was through his efforts that the institution now known as the house of refuge for juvenile delinquents was founded in New York, which was the first institution of its kind in the United States. He died Feb. 7, 1874, in New York city.
Gerard, James Watson
lawyer, author, was born about 1822 in New York city. He is a lawyer of New York city; and the author of The Pelican Papers, a satire; Titles to Real Estate in New York City; Title of the Corporation and Others to the Streets, Wharves, Lands, and Franchises in New York City; The Peace of Utrecht; Aquarelles (verse); and Ostrea, or the Loves of the Oysters, a collection of humorous verse.
Gere, Charles Henry
lawyer, legislator, journalist, was born Feb. 18, 1838, in Gainesville, N. Y. He received his education at the Oxford academy, N. Y.; and in 1861 graduated from the Dickinson college, Pennsylvania. During 1863-65 he served as a union soldier in the tenth and eleventh regiments Maryland volunteer infantry. In 1865 he was admitted to the bar in Baltimore, and removed the same year to Nebraska and became prosecuting attorney of Pawnee county. In 1866 he served as a member of the Nebraska state legislature; was state senator in 1869-70 and 1881-82. In 1885-87 he was secretary of the state railway commissioners; and in 1892 was a delegate to the republican national convention. He is the editor-in-chief of the Nebraska Daily State Journal, and president of the State Journal company.
Gere, George Grant
surgeon, author, was born Dec. 27, 1848, in Greene, N. Y. In 1886 he was appointed to the chair of surgery in the California Medical college. He has published a series of Lectures on Callopractic Surgery.
Gere, George W
lawyer, prohibitionist, was born March 22, 1843, in Clark county, Ill. He is a prominent lawyer of Champaign, Ill.; and in 1896 was a candidate for governor on the prohibitionist ticket.
Gerend, M. M
clergyman, college president, author, was born June 17, 1858, in Sheboygan, Wis. He became president of the St. Francis college, and in 1895 president of St. John's institute for deaf mutes. He is the author of Eugene Christian; A Tale of College Life; In and About St. Francis; and the editor of The Good Child.
Gerhard, Benjamin
lawyer, author, was born in 1812 in Philadelphia, Pa. As a lawyer he ranked high, and published several carefully edited text-books, among which are Starkie on Evidence; and Joshua Williams's Principles of the Law of Personal Property. He died June 18, 1864, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Gerhard, William Paul
civil engineer, author, was born July 30, 1854, in Germany. He is a sanitary engineer of New York city; and the author of Theater Fires and Panics; Anlagen von Haus- Erwässerungen; Diagram for Sewer Calculations; House Drainage and Sanitary Plumbing; Guide to General House Inspection; Domestic Sanitary Appliances; and Prinzipien der Haus-Kanalization, his principal writings.
Gerhard, William Wood
physician, author, was born July 23, 1809, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a Philadelphia physician; and the author of Diagnosis of Chest Diseases; Spotted Fever; Fevers; and Clinical Guide. He died April 28, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Gerhart, Emanuel Vogel
educator, college president, clergyman, author, was born June 13, 1817, in Freeburg, Pa.
He is a German reformed clergyman of Lancaster, Pa., professor of theology in Franklin and Marshall college; and the author of Philosophy and Logic; Monograph of the Reformed Church; Child's Heidelberg Catechism; and Institutes of the Christian Religion.
Gering, Henry R
pharmaceutical chemist, was born April 27, 1868, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. He is president of the Nebraska State Pharmaceutical association; city treasurer of Plattsmouth, Neb.; secretary of the board of trade; and examiner to the Nebraska board of pharmacy.
German, Obadiah
United States senator, was born in 1767 in Dutchess county, N. Y. He was a senator in congress from New York from 1809 to 1815: He died Sept. 24, 1842.
Gerrish, Theodore
clergyman, author, was born in 1846. He is a clergyman of Portland, Maine; and the author of Army Life; Will Newton, the Young Volunteer; Life in the World's Wonderland; and The Blue and the Gray, an army history.
Gerry, Charles F
educator, state senator, author, poet, was born June 3, 1823, in Sudbury, Mass. He was a representative in the Massachusetts state legislature in 1887; and for some years was president of the Hyde Park Savings bank.
He moved to his native city, and again went to the legislature, serving one year in the house and two years in the senate.
He is the author of two prose works entitled Boy Life in the Country; and Tom's Island; and a volume of poems entitled Meadow Melodies.