Gorrie, Peter Douglas – Gould, Hannah Flagg
Gorrie, Peter Douglas
clergyman, author, was born April 21, 1813, in Glasgow, Scotland. He was a methodist clergyman of New York, and the author of Churches and Sects in the United States; Episcopal Methodism as It Was and Is; and Lives of Eminent Methodists. He died Sept. 12, 1884, in Potsdam, N. Y.
Gorringe, Henry Honeychurch
naval officer, author, was born Aug. 11, 1841, in Barbadoes, W. I. He was a United States naval officer who superintended the removal of the obelisk from Egypt to New York, and after leaving the navy engaged in ship-building. His only publication is a work on Egyptian Obelisks. He died July 7, 1885, in New York.
Gorshire, William R
jurist, was born in New York. He moved to Colorado, where he was appointed United States judge for the territory of Colorado, residing at Denver.
Gortner, John Narver
clergyman, lecturer, poet, was born Feb. 16, 1874, in St. Charles, Ill. He attended the Garrett Biblical institute and has attained prominence as a lecturer and clergyman of the methodist episcopal church of Newman Grove, Neb. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Dust From the Chariot Wheels; and a memorial poem entitled Across the Wave, to the memory of his father, a missionary who died in Africa.
Gortner, Joseph Ross
clergyman, missionary, poet, was born Jan. 24, 1846, in Williamsport, Pa. He graduated from the Dickinson seminary, and became an eminent clergyman of the methodist episcopal church. He went as a missionary to Africa during the latter part of his life, and died March 8, 1888, on the west coast of Africa.
Gorton, David Allyn
physician, author, was born in 1832 in New York.
He is a physician of Brooklyn, and the author of The Monism of Man, or the Unity of the Divine and Human; The Principles of Mental Hygiene; The Drift of Medical Philosophy; and Neurasthenia.
Gorton, Samuell
author, was born in 1592 in England. He was the founder of a small sect sometimes called Nothingarians, which survived him for about a century. He was the author of Simplicitie's Defence Against Seven-Headed Policy; An Incorruptible Key Composed of the CX. Psalm; Saltmarsh Returned from the Dead; An Antidote Against the Common Plague of the World; and Certain Copies of Letters. He died in 1677 in Rhode Island.
Gosack, George Mechlin
lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 7, 1866, in Dayton, Pa. He is a successful lawyer of Pittsburg, Pa.; and in 1897 was elected a member of the Pennsylvania house of representatives.
Gosnell, James
clergyman, was born Sept. 14, 1857, in Ireland. He attended the university of Rochester, and the Syracuse university, and has received the degrees of A. B., A. M. and Ph. D. Since 1880 he has been a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church in Rochester and vicinity, and since 1895 in Lockport, N. Y.
Gosper, John J
soldier, orator, was born April 8, 1841, in Knox county, Ohio.
During the civil war he served gallantly in the union army as first lieutenant of the United States colored troops, and lost a leg in the war. He was president of the city council of Lincoln, Neb., and secretary of state of Nebraska in 1873. Gosper county, Neb., was named for him. In 1877 he was appointed by President Hayes to the secretaryship of Arizona territory, and served five years, most of the time as acting governor. He has been a member of the school board of Los Angeles, Cal.
Goss, Elbridge Henry
author, was born in 1830 in Massachusetts. He is a writer of Melrose, Mass., and the author of Life of Colonel Paul Revere; and Melrose Memorial.
Goss, James H
merchant, congressman, was born Aug. 9, 1820, in Union Court House, S. C. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1867, and was elected a representativė from South Carolina to the fortieth congress.
Goss, Warren Lee
author, was born in 1838 in Massachusetts. He is a writer of Norwich, Conn., and more recently of Rutherford, N. J. He is the author of The Soldier's Story of the Captivity at Andersonville; Jack Alden; Tom Clifton; Jed; and Recollections of a Private.
Gott, Daniel
congressman, was born in Connecticut. On moving to New York he was elected a representative in congress from 1847 to 1851.
Gottlieb, Ernest
missionary, author, was born in 1743 in England. He was a Moravian missionary who made extended studies of Indian customs. He is the author of History, etc., of the Pennsylvania Indians; Mission of the United Brethren Among the Delawares; and Names which the Delawares Gave to Rivers and Streams, with their Signification. He died in 1823.
Goucher, John Franklin
clergyman, college president, philanthropist, was born June 7, 1845, in Waynesboro, Pa. He was one of the original incorporators of the Woman's college of Baltimore, of which he is president. ana.
Goudy, William C
lawyer, state senator, was born May 15, 1824, in Indi- In 1853 he became state's attorney, and in 1856 was sent to the state senate.
In 1859 he opened an office in Chicago and for thirty-four years made unhalting progress. He died April 27, 1893, in Chicago, Ill.
Gougar, Helen M
lawyer, lecturer, author, was born July 18, 1843, in Litchfield, Mich. She is the author of the law granting municipal suffrage to women in Kansas, and has published Women Wealth Winners, and other works.
Gouge, William M
author, was born Nov. 10, 1796, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He was a financial writer and for thirty years was in the treasury department at Washington. He was the author of History of the American Banking System; Expediency of Dispensing with Bank Paper; and Fiscal History of Texas. He died July 14, 1863, in Trenton, N. J.
Gough, John Bartholomew
temperance lecturer, author, was born Aug. 22, 1817, in England. He was a celebrated temperance lecturer, and was the author of Autobiography; Temperance Lectures; Sunlight and Shadow, or Gleanings from My Life Work; Temperance Dialogues; and Platform Echoes. He died Feb. 18, 1880, in Frankford, Pa.
Gould, Alta Isadore
poet, is a na tive of Michigan. She is the author of The Veteran's Bride; and has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press.
Her poems have been incorporated in several standard works.
Gould, Augustus Addison
conchologist, author, was born April 23, 1805, in New Ipswich, N. H. He was a conchologist of Boston, and the author of System of Natural History; Mollusca and Shells; Olia Conchologia; The Mollusca of the North Pacific Expedition; and The Invertebrata of Massachusetts. He died Sept.. 15, 1866, in Boston, Mass.
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp
educator, author, was born June 15, 1787, in Lancaster, Mass. He was an educator of Massachusetts who published The Prize Book; Adam's Latin Grammar; and editions of Horace, Ovid, and Virgil. He died Oct. 24, 1859, in Boston, Mass.
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp
astronomer, author, was born Sept. 24, 1824, in Boston, Mass. He was a distinguished astronomer, from 1868-85 director of the Argentine Republic national observatory at Cordova, and subsequently a resident. of Cambridge. He was the author of Uranometry of the Southern Heavens; and Trans-Atlantic Longitude as Determined by the Coast Survey. He died in 1896.
Gould, Edward Sherman
merchant, author, was born May 11, 1808, in Litchfield, Conn. He was a merchant of New York city, and the author of The Sleep Rider; The Very Age, a comedy; John Doe and Richard Roe, a tale of New York life; Classified Elocution; and Good English. He died Feb. 21, 1885, in New York city.
Gould, Edwin B
lawyer, was born Jan. 24, 1839, in Hillsborough, N. H. He received his education at the Francestown academy and at the Appleton academy of Mount Vernon, N. H. For many years he was town clerk of Pembroke, and is now a prominent lawyer of Nashua, N.
H., where he has filled many prominent public positions of trust in the gift of his county and state.
Gould, Elizabeth Porter
poet.
In 1889 she published Gems from Walt Whitman, which brought her merited praise as a critic. In 1891 she published a volume of her poems entitled Stray Pebbles from Shores of Thought. She has been president of several woman's organizations, and a leader in woman's. progress and social affairs in Boston, Mass.
Gould, Ezra Palmer
clergyman, author, was born in 1841 in Massachusetts. He is an episcopal clergyman; professor of New Testament literature in the Philadelphia Episcopal Divinity school; and the author of Commentary on Corinthians; and Notes on the Lessons of 1885.
Gould, George
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 2, 1807, in Litchfield, Conn.
In 1855 he was elected judge of the supreme court of the state of New York. He died Dec. 6, 1868, in Troy, N. Y.
Gould, George J
railroad president.
Since 1893 he has been president of the Missouri Pacific railway.
Gould, Hannah Flagg
poet, was born Sept. 3, 1789, in Lancaster, Mass.
She was a poet of Newburyport, Mass., and the author of The Snow Flake and the Frost; Hymns and Poems for Children; The Golden Vase; The Youth's Coronal; Mother's Dream, and Other Poems; Diosma, poems original and selected; and Gathered Leaves, a volume of prose. She died Sept. 5, 1865, in Newburyport, Mass.