Glossbrenner, Adam J – Goesbriand, Louis De
Glossbrenner, Adam J
journalist, congressman, was born Aug. 31, 1810, in Hagerstown, Md. In 1861 he was private secretary to President Buchanan; and in 1863 became one of the founders of the Philadelphia Age. In 1864 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-ninth congress; and was reelected to the fortieth congress.
Glover, John Milton
was born June 23, 1835, in St. Louis, Mo. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a democrat.
Glover, John Montgomery
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 4, 1834, in Mercer county, Ky. He was appointed a colonel of cavalry; and was commissioned colonel of the third Missouri volunteer cavalry in 1861. In 1866 he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the third district of Missouri; and was elected to the forty-third, fortyfourth and forty-fifth congresses as a democrat.
Glover, William
governor, was born about 1670. He was governor of North Carolina during 1706-10.
Gluck, James Fraser
lawyer, was born April 28, 1852, in Niagara Falls, N.
Y. He is curator of the Buffalo library, and has presented that library with one of the most valuable collections of autographs, manuscripts, and letters in the United States.
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Gmeiner, John
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 5, 1847, in Bavaria. is a Roman catholic priest of Milwaukee; professor of homiletics in St. Francis de Sales seminary; and is the author of Die Katholische Kirche in den Vereinigten Staaten; Sind wir den Weltende nahe?; Modern Scientific Views and Christian Doctrines Compared; The Spirits of Darkness and their Manifestations on Earth; and The Church and the Various Nationalities in the United States.
Gobble, Aaron Ezra
educator, college president, was born Feb. 14, 1856, in Center county, Pa. Since 1887 he has been president of the Central Pennsylvania college at New Berlin.
Gobin, Hillary Asbury
clergyman, educator, college president, was born March 25, 1842, in Terre Haute, Ind.
For six years he was president of the Baker university of Baldwin, Kan.; and in 1895 became president of the De Pauw university of Greencastle, Ind.
Gobin, John P. S
soldier, lawyer, state senator, was born in 1838, in Sunbury, Pa. He was admitted to the bar just before the war began, and he entered the service as first lieutenant. He was soon appointed to the command of the regiment, and fought with the nineteenth army corps in the Red river campaign, and with Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley; and was brevetted brigadier-general. He was provost judge of South Carolina during the early reconstruction period. He settled at Lebanon, Pa., in 1866, and organized Post 42. He was state senator for sixteen years, and for several years president of the senate.
He has also long been prominent in Masonic and Grand Army circles; and in 1897 was elected commander in chief.
Gobright, Lawrence Augustus
journalist, author, was born May 2, 1816, in Baltimore, Md. He for some years owned and edited the Washington Star.
He also won fame as an author and lecturer, Men and Things in Washington During the Third of a Century being his best known book. He died May 22, 1879, in Washington, D. C.
Godbey, Edgar W
lawyer, was born March 2, 1861, in Morristown, Tenn. He received his education at the Hiwassee college, Tenn., and at the university of Alabama. He has devoted himself entirely to the law, and has had a large practice involving many novel and intricate questions.
Goddard, Calvin
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born July 17, 1768, in Shrewsbury, Mass. In 1790 he settled in Plainfield, from which place he was elected a representative in the legislature for nine sessions, during three of which he was speaker of the house. He removed to Norwich in 1807; and from 1801 to 1805 was a representative in congress.
From 1815 to 1818 he was judge of the superior court; and was state's attorney for the county of New London for five years, and mayor of Norwich for seventeen years. He died May 2, 1842, in Norwich, Conn.
Goddard, Calvin Luther
inventor, was born Jan. 20, 1820, in Covington, N. Y. He patented solid packing burring machines, and feed-rolls as an attachment for the carding-machine; and has devised several valuable improvements for this machine.
Goddard, Josiah
clergyman, missionary, was born Oct. 27, 1813, in Wendell, Mass. In 1838 he was appointed a missionary to the Chinese in Siam. He prepared several tracts, an English and Chinese vocabulary, and a translation of the New Testament into Chinese. He died Sept. 4, 1854, in China.
Goddard, Paul Beck
physician, author, was born Jan. 26, 1811, in Baltimore. He acquired reputation through his work as an editor of medical books.
These include a series of twelve plates On the Arteries, and a similar series On the Nerves. He died July 3, 1866, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Goddard, William
printer, journalist, was born in 1740, in New London, Conn. In 1766 he removed to Philadelphia, where he published the Pennsylvania Chronicle. In 1773 he went to Baltimore and established a daily newspaper. He died Dec. 23, 1817, in Providence, R. I.
Godey, Louis Antoine
journalist, author, was born June 6, 1804, in New York city. In 1830 he founded Godey's Lady's Book, the first periodical of the kind published, which was continued by him with great success until 1877, when it was sold to a stock company. He died Nov. 29, 1878, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Godfrey, Benjamin
founder of Monticello seminary of Godfrey, Ill., was born Dec. 4, 1794, in Chatham, Mass. At the age of nine years he ran away to sea; went to Ireland, and there remained until the war of 1812 brought him home again.
After a brief service in the navy, he acquired an education; and subsequently again sailed the seas as a shipmaster. In 1826 he had acquired a fortune of nearly a quarter of a million of dollars in silver in Mexico, of which he was robbed by Mexican bandits. In 1832 he settled in Alton; and there became a successful wholesale merchant. Gradually the plans of an institution for religious and mental education of girls and young women took shape in his mind; and in 1838 Monticello seminary opened its doors, to which institution he gave over one hundred thousand dollars. He died Aug. 13, 1862, in Godfrey, Ill.
Godfrey, Thomas
soldier, author, poet, was born Dec. 4, 1736, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lieutenant in the colonial militia who possessed much poetic ability, and was the first dramatic author in America. He was the author of The Court of Fancy; and Juvenile Poems on Various Subjects, with The Prince of Parthia, a Tragedy. He died July 26, 1763, near Wilmington, N. C.
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence
journalist, author, was born Oct. 2, 1831, in Ireland. He is a prominent journalist of New York city. He came to America in 1856, and since 1865 has been editor of The Nation, and from 1881 of the Evening Post. He is the author of Government; History of Hungary; Reflections and Comments; and Problems of Democracy.
Godman, John D
physician, naturalist, author, was born Dec. 20, 1794, in Annapolis, Md. He was a physician and naturalist of Cincinnati and New York.
He was the author of Rambles of a Naturalist; American Natural History; Irregularities of Structure and Morbid Anatomy; and Anatomical Investigations. He died April 17, 1830, in Germantown, Pa.
Godon, Sylvanus William
naval officer, was born June 18, 1809, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was appointed midshipman in 1819. He was made commander in 1855, and captain in 1861. He died May 10, 1879, in France.
Godshalk, William
merchant, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 25, 1817, in East Nottingham, Pa. He was associate judge of Bucks county from 1871 to 1876; and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the fortysixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.
Godwin, Parke
journalist, author, was born Feb. 25, 1816, in Paterson, N. J.
He is a journalist of New York city, the son-in-law of the poet Bryant, whose writings he has edited. He was long connected with the Evening Post, and was the editor of Putnam's Monthly Magazine in 1853-55 and in 1867-70. He is the author of Pacific and Constructive Democracy; Popular View of the Doctrines of Fourier; Vala, a mythological tale; Political Essays; History of France; Life of William Cullen Bryant; Out of the Past, a collection of essays; Commemorative Addresses; and Handbook of Universal Biography.
Goebel, Julius
educator, philologist, author, was born in 1857, in Germany. He has been a philologist, and professor at Leland Stanford Junior university since 1892. He is the author of a number of German works.
Goerz, David
clergyman, educator, was born June 2, 1849, in Southern Russia. During 1874-75 he taught in a German school in Illinois, near St. Louis, Mo. In 1880 he organized the Mennonite Mutual Fire Insurance company in Kansas; in 1887 organized the Bethel College corporation of Newton, Kan., in which institution he is now a clergyman.
Goesbriand, Louis De
Roman catholic bishop, was born Aug. 4, 1816, in France. When the see of Burlington was created in Vermont, he was nominated its first bishop.