Goessmann, Charles Anthony – Goodale, George Lincoln
Goessmann, Charles Anthony
educator, chemist, author, was born June 13, 1827, in Germany. He was elected in 1869 to the chair of chemistry in the Massachusetts Agricultural college.
Goff, Mrs. Harriet Newell
[KNEELAND], reformer, author, was born in 1828, in New York. She is a noted reformer of Brooklyn and elsewhere. She is the author of Was it an Inheritance?; Who Cares?; and Episodes in the Life of Mary Campbell.
Goff, Isaac Lewis
banker, capitalist, was born Aug. 29, 1852, in Taunton, Mass. He was instrumental in establishing the Home Investment company of Providence, R. I. He is president of the People's Trust company, and director of various banking and business corporations.
Goff, Nathan
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 9, 1842, in Clarksburg, W. Va. He entered the union army, and served throughout the war, rising to the rank of brevet brigadier-general. He was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1867; reelected in 1868; and was appointed United States district attorney and served in that capacity until January, 1881. In 1881 he became secretary of the navy. He was elected a representative from West Virginia to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, and fiftieth congresses.
Goforth, John
lawyer, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1873 he was appointed an attorney-general of the United States.
Goggin, William L
lawyer, congressman, was born May 31, 1807, in Bedford county, Va. He practiced in several of the circuit and district courts of the state; in 1836 was a member of the legislature, and in 1837 declined a re-election. In 1839 he was elected a representative in congress from Virginia, and was re-elected in 1841, 1843, and 1847. In 1859 he was nominated as the whig candidate for governor of Virginia. He died Jan. 5, 1870, in Richmond, Va.
Going, Jonathan
college president, founder, was born March 7, 1786, in Reading, Vt. He was one of the founders of the Baptist Theological seminary of Newton, Mass. He died in November, 1844.
Gold, Thomas R
state senator, congressman, was born in New York. He was a member of the state senate from 1797 to 1802; a member of the assembly in 1808; and a representative in congress from New York from 1809 to 1813, and again from 1815 to 1817. He died in 1826.
Goldensmith, William Russell
mineralogist, legislator, was born Sept. 12, 1862, in Nevada county, Cal. He received the rudiments of his education in the schools of San Juan, Cal., and graduated from the state university of California. He served with distinction as a representative in the fourth session of the state legislature of Idaho; and is a noted mineralogist of that state.
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Goldsborough, Charles Wash- Ington
congressman, governor. was governor of the state of Maryland; and was a representative in congress from 1805 to 1817. He died Dec. 13, 1834, in Shoal Creek, Md.
Goldsborough, John Rodgers
naval officer, was born July 2, 1808, in Washington, D. C. He became midshipman in 1824, lieutenant in 1837, commander in 1855, captain in 1862, and commodore in 1867. He died June 22, 1877, in Washington, D. C.
Goldsborough, Louis Males- Herbes
naval officer, was born Feb. 18, 1805, in Washington, D. C. He entered the navy in his youth, and was made rear-admiral in 1862.
At the time of his death he had been in the service longer than any other naval officer then living.
He took an active part in all the principal naval battles of the civil war. He died Feb. 20, 1877, in Washington, D. C.
His death was a great loss to the navy.
Goldsborough, Robert
physician, congressman, was born in 1733, in Cambridge, Md. He was a delegate from Maryland to the continental congress from 1774 to 1775. He died Dec. 31, 1788, in Cambridge, Md.
Goldsborough, Robert Henry
United States senator, was born in 1780, in New Easton, Md. He was elected United States senator as an anti-Jackson democrat, and served from 1813 till 1819.
He was again elected as a whig without opposition, to fill a vacancy, and served from 1835 till his death. He died Oct. 5, 1836, in New Easton, Md.
Goldthwaite, George
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Dec. 10, 1809, in Boston, Mass. He was on the bench of the circuit court, and afterward of the supreme court, of which he was chief justice for some years. He was adjutant-general of Alabama during the war. He was elected to the United States senate in 1870 for the term ending in 1877. He died March 18, 1879, in Montgomery, Ala.
Goldthwaite, Henry
journalist, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born in 1798, in Boston, Mass. He edited a newspaper, and served in the Alabama state legislature several terms.
From 1839 until his death he was a judge of the supreme court of Alabama. He died in 1847, in Mobile, Ala.
Goldzier, Julius
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 1854, in Austria. In 1890 he became a member of the city council of Chicago, and served until the end of his term in 1892. He was elected as a democrat to the fifty-third congress.
Golladay, Edward I
soldier, educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 9, 1831, in Lebanon, Tenn.
He graduated at Cumberland university; taught school; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1852. He was elected to the state legislature in 1857; and was a presidential elector in 1860.
He served in the confederate army as colonel, and participated in several important engagements. He was elected to the forty-second congress as a democrat.
Golladay, Jacob S
state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 19, 1819, in Lebanon, Tenn. He was a member of the legislature of that state from Logan county in 1850, 1851, and 1853; and state senator from 1853 to 1855. In 1867 he was elected a representative in congress to fill He resigned in 1870; and a vacancy. was also elected to the forty-first congress to fill a vacancy.
Gooch, Daniel W
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1820, in Wells, Maine. In 1852 he was elected to the legislature of Massachusetts; in 1853 to the constitutional convention of the state, and subsequently a representative in the thirty-fifth congress from Massachusetts, for an unexpired term. He was re-elected to the thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, thirtyeighth, and thirty-ninth congresses; and was again elected to the forty-third congress.
Gooch, Fanny Chambers
author, was born Dec. 9, 1847, in Hinds county, Miss. She is the author of Face to Face with the Mexicans; and other works.
Gooch, Frank Austin
educator, chemist, author, was born May 2, 1852, in Watertown, Mass. From 1881 till 1884 he was chief chemist of the northern transcontinental survey, and from 1884 till 1886 assistant chemist to the United States geological survey in Washington.
In 1886 he was appointed professor of chemistry in Yale.
Good, James Isaac
clergyman, author, was born in 1850, in Pennsylvania. He is a German reformed clergyman and educator of Reading, Pa., professor in Ursinus Theological seminary in 1890-93; and the author of Origin of the Reformed Church of Germany; and Rambler Around Reformed Lands.
Good, James Michener
pharmacist, educator, was born Jan. 12, 1842, in Bucks county, Pa. He has taught pharmacy in Philadelphia and St. Louis; and in 1895 was elected president of the American Pharmaceutical association.
Good, John
manufacturer, inventor, was born in 1844, in Ireland. He is an inventor and manufacturer of cordage.
He now manufactures on an extended scale, and besides the establishment at Ravenswood, operates a large cordage factory at Millwall, near London, and another at Great Grimsby. He has in contemplation the building of works in France, Germany and Italy. He is the inventor of the machinery now in general use for the making of binding twine. He has large manufacturing establishments in America and Europe.
Goodale, Dora Read
poet, was born Oct. 29, 1866, in Mt. Washington, Mass. She is the author of Verses from Sky-Farm; Apple Blossoms; and In Berkshire with the Wild Flowers. She has contributed much verse to The Century and other periodicals, and has also published Heralds of Easter.
Goodale, Elaine
poet, was born Oct. 9, 1863, in Mt. Washington, Mass.
She and her sister, Dora Read Goodale, three years younger, by their precocity as poets have won the endearing name of the sweet children poets. Their poems have been published in three volumes; Apple Blossoms in 1878, and since that time, In Berkshire with the Wild Flowers, and All Round the Year.
Goodale, George Lincoln
educator, botanist, author, was born Aug. 3, 1839, in Saco, Maine. He is a botanist of prominence, and professor of botany at Harvard university from 1878. He is the author of The Wild Flowers of America; Physiological Botany; Concerning a Few Common Plants; and Useful Plants of the Future.