Gordon, John Brown – Gorman, Willis Arnold
Gordon, John Brown
soldier, congressman, governor, United States senator, was born Feb. 6, 1832, in Upson county, Ga. He entered the army as captain of infantry in the confederate army. He was elected to the United States senate for the term commencing in 1873 and ending in 1879, and was re-elected for the term ending in 1885. He was elected governor in 1886, and re-elected in 1888. He was elected United States senator for the term 1891-97.
Gordon, Laura De F
journalist, lawyer, orator, was born Aug. 17, 1843, in Erie county, Pa. In 1873 she founded the Daily Leader at Oakland, Cal. In 1879 she was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of California. a
Gordon, M. Lafayette
clergyman, author, was born in 1843 in Pennsylvania.
He is a congregational clergyman and physician, formerly a missionary to Japan, and subsequently a professor in Doshisha university, Kyoto. He is the author of An American Missionary in Japan.
Gordon, Merritt J
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born in March, 1857, in Canada. For ten years he resided in Dakota, where he served as district attorney and as a member of the legislature. Since 1889 he has resided in Olympia, Wash.; was elected in 1892 to the superior bench of Thurston county, and in 1884 was elected to the supreme bench.
Gordon, Patrick
soldier, governor, author, was born in 1644, in England. In 1726 he was elected governor of Pennsylvania, and in 1728 he published Two Indian Treaties at Conestogo. He died Aug. 5, 1736, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Gordon, Samuel
congressman, was born in New York. He served in the state assembly in 1834 and was a representative in congress from that state from 1841 to 1843, and again from 1845 to 1847. In 1863 he was appointed provost-marshal for the nineteenth district of New York.
Gordon, Thomas
statesman, was born in Scotland. He came to New Jersey in 1684, and settled in Scotch Plains. He was elected attorney-general of the eastern district in 1698, chief secretary and register in 1702; elected to the legislature, and became speaker of the assembly. In 1709 he became chief justice, and was afterward receiver-general and treasurer of the province. He died in 1722 in Amboy, N. J.
Gordon, Thomas F
lawyer, antiquarian, author, was born in 1787 in Pennsylvania. He was a Philadelphia lawyer and antiquarian, and the author of Digest of the Laws of the United States; History of Pennsylvania to 1776; History of New Jersey to 1789; History of America; Cabinet of American History; History of Ancient Mexico; and Gazetteers of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He died Jan. 17, 1860, in Beverly, N. J.
Gordon, Thomas W
lawyer, poet.
He served two terms as vice-president of the board of pension examiners of Georgetown, Ohio, where he practices his profession with success. He has written extensively for medical journals, and his poems have been given a place in several standard works.
Gordon, Walter Scott
inventor, was born Aug. 21, 1742, in Greenwich, R.
I. In 1883 he founded the vigorous city of Sheffield, Ala. He invented a coal mining machine and a cotton screw. died Oct. 16, 1886, in New York city.
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Gordon, William
lawyer, congressman. He was attorney-general for the state of New Hampshire, and a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1797 to 1800, when he resigned. He died in May, 1802, in Boston, Mass.
Gordon, William
lawyer, was born Dec. 15, 1862, near Oak Harbor, Ohio. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native city; attended the Toledo Business college, and graduated from the university of Michigan in 1891. He had subsequently taught school. In 1894 he was elected prosecuting attorney of his county; was appointed a member of the board of county school examiners, and in 1895 removed to Port Clinton, the county seat. In 1896 he was elected a delegate to the democratic national convention; and has taken an active part in the public affairs of his county and state.
Gordon, William F
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1828 to 1835. He is said to have been the originator of the sub-treasury system. He died July 2, 1858, in Albemarle county.
Gordon, William Robert
clergyman, author, was born March 19, 1811, in New York city. He was a Dutch reformed clergyman of New York and New Jersey, and the author of Supreme Godhead of Christ; Particular Providence, A Threefold Test of Modern Spiritualism; The- Peril of Our Ship of State; Revealed Truth Impregnable; The Reformed Church in America; and Christocracy. He died March 30, 1896, in Manhasset, N. Y.
Gore, Christopher
lawyer, governor, United States senator, was born in 1758 in Boston, Mass. In 1789 he was appointed district attorney for the district of. Massachusetts. He was chosen governor in 1809, and in 1813 was chosen a senator of the United States, in which capacity he served until 1816. He died March 1, 1827.
Gore, David
farmer, was born April 5, 1827, in Kentucky. He has been a state senator and president of the state board of agriculture, and in 1896 was elected auditor of state at Springfield, Ill.
Gore, James Howard
educator, author, was born in 1856 in Virginia. He is a professor of mathematics in Columbian university, Washington, D. C. He is the author of Geodesy; Elements of Geodesy; and several annotated editions of German works for college study.
Gorgas, Ferdinand J. S
dentist, author, was born in 1834 in Virginia. He is a Baltimore dentist, professor in the college of Dental Surgery since 1860, and the author of Lectures on Dental Science and Therapeutics; and Dental Materia Medica.
Gorgas, Josiah
soldier, college president, was born July 1, 1818, in Dauphin county, Tenn. He was placed at the head of the confederate ordnance department with the rank of brigadier-general. was made president of the university of Alabama in 1878. He died May 15, 1883, in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
He
Gorham, Benjamin
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 13, 1775, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a representative in congress from the Suffolk district from 1820 to 1823, and from 1827 to 1831, and from 1833 to 1835. He was afterward for a short time a member of the state legislature. He died Sept. 27, 1855, in Boston, Mass.
Gorham, John
physician, educator, author, was born Feb. 24, 1783, in Boston, Mass. In 1809 he was appointed adjunct professor of chemistry and materia medica in Harvard, and in 1815 was made professor of chemistry and mineralogy. He published an Inaugural Address and Elements of Chemical Science. He died March 29, 1829, in Boston, Mass.
Gorham, Nathaniel
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 27, 1738, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a representative in the legislature from 1771 to 1775; was a delegate to the provincial congress in 1774 and 1775; and again a member of the legislature, and a member of the board of war from 1778 until its dissolution.
He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1779; a delegate to the continental congress in 1782 and 1783, and from 1785 to 1787, and was chosen president of that body in 1786. He was for several years a judge of the court of common pleas. He died June 11, 1796, in Charlestown, Mass.
Gorham, Wallace A
poet, was born Oct. 27, 1833, in Pittsford, Vt. In 1846 he moved with his parents to Rockford, Ill., and in 1869 to Iowa, and since 1887 has resided in Spirit Lake. He is the author of a number of poems, which have appeared in the periodical press, and in several standard works.
Gorley, Hugh Alexander
soldier, merchant, orator, author, poet, was born Nov. 25, 1833, in Uniontown, Pa. He attended the Madison college of his native city; and during the civil war was captain in company B, first regiment California volunteer infantry, attached to the column from California. In 1881 he served with distinction in the California state legislature as a representative from San Francisco. He has been a successful merchant of San Rafael, Cal., is president of the society of California Volunteers; a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic; and a member of the California Commandery of the Military Order, Loyal Legion of the United States.
Gorman, Arthur Pue
United States senator, was born March 11, 1839, in Howard county, Md. In 1869 he was elected a member of the house of delegates of the Maryland legislature as a democrat; was re-elected in 1871, and then elected speaker of the house of delegates at the ensuing session. In 1875 he was elected to represent Howard county in the Maryland state senate, and was reelected in November, 1879, for a term of four years. He was elected in 1880 to the United States senate as a democrat; was re-elected in 1886 and in 1892. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.
Gorman, James Sedgwick
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 28, 1850, in Lyndon, Mich. He was elected to the lower house of the Michigan legislature in 1880, and in 1886 was elected to the state senate from the fourth district, and re-elected in 1888. He was elected to the fifty-second and re-elected to the fiftythird congress as a democrat.
Gorman, John Berry
physician, artist, author, was born Feb. 22, 1793, in Newberry district, S. C. He owned a valuable library, was fond of painting, and left a picture entitled the Nightmare.
He published the Philosophy of Animated Existence. He died Nov. 12, 1864, in Talbot county, Ga.
Gorman, Willis Arnold
soldier, lawyer, congressman, governor, was born Jan. 12, 1814, near Flemingsburg, Ky.
For several years he was a member of the Indiana state legislature. He was major of the third Indiana volunteers in the Mexican war, and in 1848 was civil and military governor of Puebla. He was a representative in congress from 1849 to 1853, from Kentucky. He was governor of Minnesota from 1853 to 1857, He was appointed brigadier-general in 1861, and was in the battles of Ball's Bluff and West Point. He died May 20, 1876, in St. Paul, Minn.