Gilbert, Sylvester – Gill, William B
Gilbert, Sylvester
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1756 in Hebron, Conn. In 1780 he was a member of the general assembly, being the youngest member in the house; and in 1788 was appointed state's attorney for Tolland county, and filled that office twenty-one years. In 1807 he was appointed chief judge of the county court and judge of probate, which offices he held until 1825, with the exception of his term as representative in congress from Connecticut in 1818-19. In 1826 he was again elected to the legislature, and was then the oldest member in the house, to which body he had, from the year 1780, been re-elected thirty times.
He died in January, 1846.
Gilbert, Walter Bond
musician, composer, was born April 21, 1829, in England. In 1869 he was appointed organist of Trinity chapel, New York. His compositions and publications are numerous, and include two oratorios, St. John. and the Restoration of Israel.
Gilbert, William A
congressman. was born in Connecticut. Moving to New York he was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-fourth congress.
Gilbert, William Kent
physician, was born Dec. 28, 1830, in Gettysburg, Pa.
He attained prominence as one of the foremost physicians and surgeons of his native state at Philadelphia, where he died June 28, 1880.
Gilchrist, John James
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Feb. 16, 1809, in Medford, Mass. He was a member of the New Hampshire legislature; register of probate; and associate judge in 1840. He was chief justice of the state supreme court in 1848, and of the United States court of claims in 1855. He published a Digest of New Hampshire Reports. He died April 29, 1858, in Washington, D. C.
Gilchrist, Robert Budd
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 28, 1796, in South Carolina. About 1841 he was appointed United States judge for the district of South Carolina; and for a time held the same position in Georgia. He died May 1, 1856, in Charleston, S. C.
Gilchrist, William Wallace
musician, composer, was born in 1846 in Jersey City, N. J. He has won three prizes for compositions from the Mendelssohn Glee club of New York city, and in 1882 the Cincinnati May festival prize was awarded him.
Gilder, Jeannette Leonard
journalist, dramatist, author, poet, was born in 1850 in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1875 she joined the staff of the New York Herald as a book reviewer; and in 1880, in connection with her brother, Richard Watson Gilder, started The Critic. In 1876 she wrote a play entitled Quits, which was brought out in the Chestnut Street theater of Philadelphia. She dramatized a Wonderful Woman for Rose Eytinge; Sevenoaks for John T. Raymond; and a Comedy for Harry Becket.
Gilder, John Francis
pianist, composer, was born April 3, 1837, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is noted for his correct interpretation of Gottschalk's compositions, and as a concert pianist he has been heard in the principal cities and towns of the United States.
Gilder, Richard Watson
journalist, author, poet, was born Feb. 8, 1844, in Bordentown, N. J. He is a writer of New York city well known both as a poet and as the editor of The Century Magazine, of which, with its predecessor, Scribner's Monthly, he has been editor-in-chief since 1881. He is the author of The New Day, The Poet and his Master, Lyrics; The Celestial Passion; Two Worlds; The Great Remembrance, and Other Poems; and Five Books of Song, which include all of his collected poems up to the year 1894.
Gilder, William Henry
explorer, author, was born Aug. 16, 1835, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is an Arctic explorer; and the author of Schwatka's Search; and Ice Pack and Tundra.
Gildersleeve, Basil Lanneau
educator, journalist, author, was born Oct. 23, 1831, in Charleston, S. C. He has been a professor of Greek at Johns Hopkins university from 1876, and editor of the American Journal of Philology from its establishment. He is the author of Essays and Studies, and has published a Latin Grammar, and editions of Justin Martyr and the Odes of Pindar.
Gile, Francis Alfred
physician, surgeon, was born July 19, 1845, in He received his educa- Franklin, N. H. tion in the New Hampshire seminary, and attended the New York Medical college.
He is a veteran of the civil war, and a well-known physician and specialist of Orange, N. J. He has been medical examiner and surgeon, coroner of Essex county, and filled various other public offices of honor.
Giles, Chauncey
clergyman, author, was born May 11, 1813, in Charlesmont, Mass. He was a Swedenborgian clergyman of Philadelphia, and of much prominence in his denomination. He was the author of The Nature of Spirit; The Second Coming of Our Lord; Perfect Prayer; Man as a Spiritual Being; The Incarnation; The Wonderful Pocket; The Magic Spectacles, a fairy tale; The Gate of Pearl; The Magic Shoes, and Other Stories; Heavenly Blessedness; The New Jerusalem; The Spiritual World; and The Valley of the Diamonds, and Other Stories. He died in 1893. a
Giles, Ella Augusta
author, was born in 1851 in Wisconsin. She is writer of Madison, Wis.; and the author of Bachelor Ben; Out from the Shadows; Maiden Rachel; and Flowers of the Spirit.
Giles, Henry
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 1, 1809, in Ireland. He was a unitarian minister of Liverpool, England, and after 1840 a literary lecturer in the United States. He was the author of Lectures and Essays; Christian Thought on Life; Illustrations of Genius; Human Life in Shakespeare; and Lectures on the Irish, and Other Subjects. He died July 10, 1882, in Boston, Mass.
Giles, John
lawyer, congressman, was born about 1788 in North Carolina. In 1829 he was elected a member of the house of representatives in congress from North Carolina, but resigned before taking his seat, on account of ill-health. He died March 2, 1846, in Stanley county, N. C.
Giles, William Branch
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, governor, was born Aug. 12, 1762, in Amelia county, Va. He was a representative in congress from 1790 to 1798, and again from 1801 to 1802. In 1801 and 1805 he was a presidential elector; and was a United States senator from 1804 to 1816.
He was subsequently a member of the legislature. From 1826 to 1829 he was governor of his native state. He died Dec. 4, 1830, in Albemarle county, Va.
Giles, William Fell
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 8, 1807, in Harford county, Md. He was elected to the state legislature in 1837 to 1839; in 1845 was elected to congress; declined a renomination; and in 1853 was appointed United States district judge for the district of Maryland.
Gilfillan, Calvin W
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1832, in Mercer county, Pa. In 1857 he was elected superintendent of public instruction for Mercer county; in 1861 was appointed district attorney for Venango county; and in 1862 was elected to the same position. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-first congress as a republican.
Gilfillan, Charles Duncan
lawyer, was born July 4, 1831, in New Hartford, N. Y. St. Paul sent him three times to the lower house of the Minnesota legislature and three times to the senate, and he has also been president of the St. Paul water board. The Gilfillan block and other business buildings in the city belong to him.
Gilfillan, James
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born March 9, 1829, in Bannockburn, Scotland. He served in the south till the end of the civil war, and in 1864 was commissioned colonel of the eleventh Minnesota. He was treasurer of the United States during 1877-83.
Gilfillan, John B
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 11, 1835, at Barnet, Vt. He was prosecuting attorney of Hennepin county, Minn., from 1863 to 1867, and from 1869 to 1873; and was city attorney of Minneapolis from 1861 to 1864. He was a member of the state senate of Minnesota from 1875 to 1885; became regent of the state university of Minnesota in 1880, and continued in that office. He was elected a representative from Minnesota to the forty-ninth congress as a republican.
Gilfillan, Joseph A
clergyman, missionary. He has been a noted missionary of the protestant episcopal church for twenty-five years among the Chippeway Indians at White Earth, Minn. He is superintendent of all the six thousand Chippeways scattered in northern Minnesota.
Gill, Moses
lieutenant-governor. He was elected lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts in 1797; and was acting governor of the state from 1799 to 1800.
Gill, Rosalie Lorraine
artist, was born Sept. 2, 1867, in Elmira, N. Y.
She paints landscapes and still life, well as portraits. as
Gill, Theodore Nicholas
educator, naturalist, author, was born March 21, 1837, in New York city. He is a naturalist, professor of zoölogy in the Columbian university, Washington, D. C.; and the author of Arrangement of the Families of Mollusks; Arrangement of the Families of Fishes; Arrangement of the Families of Mammals; Catalogue of the Fishes of the East Coast of North America; and Scientific and Popular Views of Nature Contrasted.
Gill, William B
telegraph manager, was born Dec. 27, 1847, in Philadelphia, Pa. During 1866-81 he was with the Western Union company, rising through all the grades to the superintendency. In 1881 he accepted a contract to build the Bankers' and Merchants' telegraph line between Philadelphia and New York, which he completed within four months; and then took another contract to erect a line to Pittsburg. In 1882 he became the general superintendent of the Delaware and Atlantic Telegraph and Telephone company, which he resigned two years later to accept the superintendency of the sixth district of the Western Union Telegraph company. He is vice-president and director in a number of local telegraph and telephone companies in sundry towns within his district.