Guidery, John – Gunter, Thomas M
Guidery, John
lawyer, was born July 31, 1844, in Westchester, N. Y. He received his education in the public schools of New York city and San Francisco, Cal. He is a successful lawyer of Butte county, Cal., where for nearly a quarter of a century he has been court commissioner and under-sheriff.
Guilbert, Edward Augustus
physician, was born in 1826, in Watertown, N. Y. This eminent physician has practiced his profession with success in Waukegan and Elgin, Ill.; and in 1856 settled in Dubuque, Iowa, where he has ever since resided. During 1863-65 he was surgeon of the board of enrollment, and is now one of the leading physicians of Iowa. He is a member of the leading medical bodies, and a member of the Masonic and other fraternal orders.
Guild, Mrs. Cadwalader
sculptor, was born in Boston, Mass. She has attained her greatest success in Berlin, Germany; and two of her statues, Post and Telegraphie, are on the new postoffice building in Magdeburg. Her most beautiful work is Electron.
Guild, Mrs. Caroline Snowden
author, was born June 1, 1827, in Massachusetts. She is a religious writer of Boston, and the author of Violet; Daisy; Never Mind the Face; Some House Songs; compiler of Hymns of the Ages; and Prayers of the Ages.
Guild, Curtis
journalist, author, was born Jan. 13, 1828, in Boston, Mass.
He is a journalist of Boston, founder and editor of The Commercial Bulletin; and the author of Over the Ocean, a popular book of travels; Abroad Again; Britons and Muscovites; From Sunrise to Sunset, a volume of verse; and A Chat About Celebrities.
Guild, Reuben Aldridge
librarian, author, was born May 4, 1822, at West Dedham, Mass. He was the librarian of Brown university in 1848-93. He is the author of Librarian's Manual; Rhode Island in the Continental Congress (edited); History of Brown University; Chaplain Smith and the Baptists; Footprints of Roger Williams; and Roger Williams, the Pioneer Missionary to the Indians.
Guillet, Joseph Henri
lawyer, was born Jan. 11, 1853, in Marieville, Province of Quebec. At the age of sixteen he enlisted in the famous regiment, the Pontifical Zouaves, Rome, and served during the campaigns of 1870 up to the fall of Rome, Sept. 20, 1870. He returned to America and entered journalism at Lowell, Mass.; subsequently taught school, and is now a prominent lawyer of that city. He was decorated by the Pope with a military medal; was created by Leo XIII. a knight commander of the Military Order of Saint Sylvester. He has been president of several associations.
Guiney, Louise Imogen
author, poet, was born Jan. 7, 1861, in Boston, Mass. She is a writer of Newton, Mass., and the author of Goose-Quill Papers; Brownies and Bogies; Three Heroines of New England Romance (with Mrs. Spofford and Alice Brown); Monsieur Henri, a Footnote to French History; A Little English Gallery; Lovers' Saint Ruths, and Three Other Tales; Patrins, a collection of essays; Verse: Songs at the Start; The White Sail; and A Roadside Harp. She has edited the select poems of Mangan, with a study of his life and work.
GUINON, MATTHEW FRANKLIN, lawyer, was born Nov. 1, 1853, in Lockport, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the high school of Ann Arbor, Mich., and subsequently graduated from the university of Michigan. He is a successful lawyer of Petoskey, Mich., has been city assessor, circuit court commissioner for two terms, and has filled various public positions of trust in his county and state.
Guion, John J
was born in 1801 in Natchez, Miss. He was a member of the state senate and president of that body, and also a judge of the criminal court.
In 1851 he was governor pro tem. of the state, and subsequently a judge of the district court of the state. He died June 26, 1855, at Vicksburg, Miss.
Guldin, John C
clergyman, composer, was born in 1799 in Bucks county, Pa. He was known as the Apostle to the Germans. He superintended the German publications of the American Tract 'society, and was the chief editor of the hymn-book that has since been adopted by the presbyterian church for the use of its German congregations. He died in 1863 in New York city.
Gulick, Peter Johnson
missionary, was born March 12, 1797, in Freehold, N. J. In 1827 he left Boston for the Hawaiian islands under commission of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions, and was stationed on various islands of the Hawaiian kingdom. In 1874 he went to Japan, and there passed the last days of his life with a son who was also a missionary. He died Dec. 8, 1877, in Japan.
Gullett, Alexander
soldier, lawyer, miner, was born June 26, 1845, near Union City, Ind. In 1862 he enlisted in company F, sixty-ninth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry, and was honorably discharged as corporal on July 5, 1865. He served with distinction and was wounded at Thompson's Hill, in rear of Vicksburg.
After the war he was engaged in educational work and subsequently admitted to the bar. In 1874 he became prosecuting attorney for the counties of Randolph and Delaware, Ind.; and practiced law at Winchester until 1880. He then moved to Colorado and has since been successfully engaged in the practice of law at Gunni- He is a prominent leader in the republican party, was a delegate to the national republican convention in 1884, and chairman of the republican state convention in 1890. In 1896 he received the nomination for attorney-general. son.
Gummere, Francis Barton
educator, author, was born in 1855 in New Jersey. He is a professor of English in Haverford college, Pennsylvania; and the author of The Anglo-Saxon Metaphor; Handbook of Poetics; and Germanic Origins, a study in Primitive Culture.
Gummere, John
educator, author, was born in 1784 in Willow Grove, Pa.
He was an educator of Burlington, N. J., and the author of Treatise on Surveying; and Theoretical and Practical Astronomy.
He died May 31, 1845, in Burlington, N. J.
Gummere, Samuel R
educator, author, was born March 3, 1789, in Horsham, Pa. He was an educator of Burlington, and the author of Treatise on Geography; and Compendium of Elocution. He died Sept. 13, 1866, in Burlington, N. J.
Gunckel, Louis B
was born Oct. 15, 1826, in Germantown, Ohio. He was a member of the senate of Ohio in 1862-65, and was a presidential elector in 1864. He was appointed United States commissioner to investigate Indian frauds, in 1871, and was elected to the forty-third congress as a republican.
Gunn, James
United States senator, was born in 1739 in Virginia. He was a senator of the United States from Georgia from 1789 to 1801. He died July 30, 1801, in Louisville, Ga.
Gunn, James
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born March 6, 1843, in New York. He volunteered as a private in company G, twenty-seventh Wisconsin infantry, with which regiment he served until the close of the war, being mustered out with the rank of captain. In 1880 he joined the rush of prospectors to Idaho, making the town of Hailey, in Wood River Valley, his home. He was elected to the senate of the first state legislature in 1890; and was elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a populist.
Gunnell, Allen Thomson
lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born Jan. 29, 1848, in Saline county, Mo. He received his education at the Bethany college, of West Virginia. He has been judge of Lake county, Colo.; was a member of the Colorado state legislature in 1879; and during 1891-95 served with distinction as state senator. In 1896 he was a presidential elector. He is one of the foremost lawyers of Colorado, and has a lucrative practice in Colorado Springs.
Gunning, Josiah Henry
clergyman, college president, inventor, was born March 1, 1840, in England. He has filled pastorates in the baptist churches of New York city and New Jersey, and for five years was president of the college of Physicians and Surgeons of Boston. He invented and patented an instrument known as the pulsating pen.
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Gunnison, Almon
clergyman, author, was born in 1844 in Maine. is a universalist clergyman of prominence, and the author of Rambles Overland, a Trip Across the Continent; and Wayside and Fireside Rambles.
Gunnison, Elisha Norman
journalist, poet, was born in 1837 in Massachusetts. He was a journalist of York, Pa., who published One Summer Dream, and Other Poems; and Our Stars. He died in 1880.
Gunnison, John Williams
civil engineer, author, was born in 1812 in New Hampshire. He was a civil engineer killed by Mormons and Indians while making railway surveys in Utah. A History of the Mormons was his only published work. He died Oct. 26, 1853, near Sebier Lake, Utah.
Gunsaulus, Frank Wakeley
clergyman, author, was born in 1856 in Ohio. He is a congregational clergyman of Chicago, and the author of The Metamorphosis of a Creed; The Transfiguration of Christ; Monk and Knight, an Historical Study in Fiction; Phidias, and Other Poems; October at Eastwood; and Songs of Night and Day.
Gunster, Frederick William
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Sept. 15, 1845, in Prussia. He has served as district attorney of Lackawanna county and as law judge. He has served as a. member of the Pennsylvania state legislature from Scranton, Pa.
Gunter, Archibald Clavering
author. He is a writer of popular sensational romances quite destitute of literary merit, and the author of Mr. Barnes of New York; Mr. Potter of Texas; The First of the English; and The Ladies' Juggernaut.
Gunter, Thomas M
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 18, 1826, in middle Tennessee. In 1853 he began the practice of law in Fayetteville, Ark. He was a delegate to the state convention of 1861; served in the confederate army as a colonel, and was prosecuting attorney from 1866 to 1868. He successfully contested the seat of W. W. Wilshire in the forty-third congress, and was re-elected to the forty-fourth, forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a demo-- crat.