Gill, William Ireland – Gillham, Robert
Gill, William Ireland
author.
He is the author of Evolution and Progress; Analytical Processes; and Christian Conception and Experience.
Gill, William Fearing
author. He is the author of The Martyred Church; Home Recreations; and Life of Poe.
Gillam, George F
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Nov. 7, 1836, in Middlesex, N. Y. He was a member of the Michigan state legislature in 1871-72.
Since 1872 he has practiced law in Lansing; was justice of the peace during 1877-81; and probate judge of his county during 1881-85.
Gillem, Alvan Cullem
soldier, state legislator, was born July 29, 1830, in Jackson county, Tenn. He was a member of the first legislature of Tennessee. He served on the Texas frontier and in California; and led the troops in the Modoc campaign. He died Dec. 2, 1875, in Nashville, Tenn.
Gillespie, Eugene P
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 24, 1852, in Greensville, Pa. He is a successful lawyer in his native city; and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Gillespie, George
clergyman, author, born in 1683 in Glasgow, Scotland. He was a presbyterian clergyman, once prominent in Delaware; and the author of Treatise Against Deists and Free Thinkers; Letters to the Presbytery of New York; and Remarks upon Mr. George Whitefield. He died Jan. 2, 1760.
Gillespie, George De Norman- Die
bishop of western Michigan, was born June 14, 1819, in Goshen, N. Y. The bishop has published, besides and tracts, Manual and Annals of the Diocese of Michigan. sermons
Gillespie, Henry La Fayette
merchant, clergyman, reformer, was born Sept. 4, 1863, in Delaware county, Iowa.
He graduated from the Lumbard university; has attained eminence as a successful missionary of the universalist church in Iowa. Prior to entering the ministry he was engaged in mercantile business..
Gillespie, James
congressman. He was a member of the provincial congress of North Carolina; and was a representative in the United States congress from that state from 1793 to 1799, and from 1803 to 1805. He died Jan. 10, 1805.
Gillespie, John A
educator, was born June 5, 1845, in Newville, Pa. He received his education at the Iowa State university. For six years he was a teacher in the Iowa School for the Deaf; and for twenty years has been superintendent of the Nebraska School for the Deaf, at Omaha. He is prominent in educational affairs; and president of the American Association to Promote Auricular Training.
Gillespie, Neal Henry
college president, educator, clergyman, was born in 1832 in Brownsville, Pa. In 1859 he was made president of the College of St. Mary of the Lake of Chicago. He was for several years editor of The Ave Maria, and was also spiritual director of several religious and literary societies connected with the university of Notre Dame. He died Nov. 12, 1874, in St. Mary's, Ind.
Gillespie, William Mitchell
educator, author, was born in 1816 in New York. He was a professor of civil engineering at Union college in 1845-68; and the author of Rome as seen by a New Yorker; Roads and Railroads; Manual for Roadmaking; Principles and Practice of Land Surveying; Levelling; Topography and Higher Surveying; and Philosophy of Mathematics. He died Jan. 1, 1868, in New York.
Gillet, Charles W
soldier, congressman, was born Nov. 26, 1840, in Addison, N. Y. He enlisted as a private in the eighty-sixth regiment New York volunteers, August, 1861; was made adjutant of the regiment in 1861, and served as adjutant until discharged from the service for disabilities in 1863. He was elected to the fifty-third, fiftyfourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican; and is a member of several important committees. a
Gillet, Ransom H
lawyer, congressman, author, was born Jan. 27, 1800, in New Lebanon, N. Y. In 1827 he was appointed brigade-major and inspector of militia. In 1830 he was appointed postmaster of Ogdensburg, which office he filled three years. He was elected a representative in congress; and re-elected in 1834. In 1845 he was appointed register for the treasury, serving until 1847, when he was appointed solicitor of the treasury, in which office he continued until the autumn of 1849. In 1855-58 he was assistant to the attorney-general of the United States. He was the author of History of the Democratic Party; The Federal Government; and Life of Silas Wright.
Gillett, Ezra Hall
educator, clergyman, author, was born July 15, 1823, in Colchester, Conn. He was a presbyterian clergyman of New York city, and professor of political economy in the university of New York from 1868. He was the author of History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States; Life of John Huss; God in Human Thought; The Moral System; Life Lessons in the School of Christianity; What Then? or the Soul's To-Morrow; and Ancient Cities and Empires. He died Sept. 2, 1875, in Harlem, N. Y.
Gillett, Frederick Hunting- Ton
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1851, in Westfield, Mass. He graduated at Amherst college in 1874 and at Harvard Law school in 1877; and was admitted to the bar in Springfield in 1877. He was assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts from 1879 to 1882; and was elected to the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1890 and 1891. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Gillett, Oren M
lawyer, banker, was born March 12, 1850, in Bergen, N. Y.
In 1875 he was admitted to the bar in Independence, Iowa. During 1881-90 he was clerk of the district and circuit courts of Buchanan county, Iowa; in 1890-92 he was cashier of the Commercial State bank of Independence, Iowa; and since the latter date has been president of that financial institution.
Gillette, Abram Dunn
educator, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 8, 1807, in Cambridge, Washington county, N. Y.
He published a History of the Eleventh Baptist Church of Philadelphia; Memoir of the Rev. Daniel H. Gillette; and Pastor's Last Gift, and edited Social Hymns and the minutes of the Philadelphia Bap- He tist association from 1707 till 1807. died Aug. 24, 1882, in Lake George, N. Y.
Gillette, Edward Hooper
farmer, journalist, legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 1, 1840, in Bloomfield, Conn.
He received his education at the Hartford High school and the New York State Agricultural college, He served with distinction as a member of the forty-sixth congress from the Des Moines district, Iowa. As an advocate of populist and other reforms he has gained national reputation; and has been successful as a farmer, editor and public speaker. His father was Francis Gillette, a farmer and United States senator from Connecticut; and an associate of Charles Sumner, and the frequent candidate of the old free soil party for governor of Connecticut. a
Gillette, Francis
United States senator, was born Dec. 14, 1807, in Bloomfield, Conn. He was a senator in congress from Connecticut during the session of 1854-55, to fill a vacancy. He died Sept. 30, 1879, in Hartford, Conn.
Gillette, Mrs. Lucia Fidelia Woolley
minister, lecturer, author, poet, was born in 1827 in Madison county, N. Y. She received her education at the Cazenovia seminary and the Bridgewater academy. She was the daughter of a noted universalist minister; and was herself ordained to the ministry in 1873. She has held the office of state missionary and of pastor; and for many years was prominent in the lecture field. In her youth she contributed to the Boston Repository and the New York Tribune. She is the author of A Memoir of Her Father; Pebbles From the Shore; Editorials and Other Waifs; and in connection with her daughter published a volume entitled Floating Leaves.
Gillette, William Hooker
actor, author, was born July 24, 1853, in Hartford, Conn. He was an actor and playwright, among whose plays are Held by the Enemy; The Professor; Esmeralda; and The Private Secretary.
Gilley, Silas Alfred
soldier, clergyman, prohibitionist, was born April 21, 1845, in Farmersville, N. Y. For three years he served in the union army, and was promoted while in his teens. He is now pastor of the methodist church of Marengo, Iowa; and editor of the Sunday-school Quarterlies of his denomination.
Gillham, Robert
civil engineer, was born Sept. 25, 1854, in New York city.
He is vice-president of the Kansas City Elevated Railway company, and designed and built the road as chief engineer. He organized the Kansas City Cable Railway company, and as chief engineer constructed the railway, including the steep incline at the Union depot, Kansas City; also the Eighth Street Tunnel and Elevated railway, near the Union depot, which are monuments to his engineering skill and science. Among other noted engineering works executed by him are the Omaha Cable Railway system, the Denver City Cable Railway system, the Montague Cable railway of Brooklyn, N. Y.; the Cleveland City Cable railway, Cleveland, Ohio. He is a recognized authority on the subject of compressed air, and visited Europe in the interests of a wealthy syndicate and made extensive experiments and tests of the various applications in the use of compressed air abroad. He has made successful demonstrations of the feasibility of operating street cars by the use of compressed air. He was elected president of the Engineers' club of Kansas City, and is a member of various other engineering and scientific societies. He is president of the Armourdale Foundry company, Kansas City, and one of the park commissioners of Kansas City, Mo.