Gurley, Henry H – Guyon, James
Gurley, Henry H
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1787 in Lebanon, Conn. He was a representative in congress from Louisiana from 1823 to 1831. He previously held the office of United States judge for the district court of Louisiana. He died in 1832.
Gurley, John A
clergyman, journalist, congressman, governor, was born Dec. 9, 1813, in East Hartford, Conn. He was settled as a preacher at Methuen, Mass., from 1834 to 1837, when he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where for fifteen years he published a paper called the Star of the West. In 1858 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirtysixth congress; and re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. In 1862 he was appointed governor of Arizona. He died Aug. 19, 1863, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
GURLEY, clergyman, was Hamilton, N. Y.
DENSMORE, PHINEAS born Nov. 12, 1816, in In 1859 he was chosen chaplain of the United States senate. He numbered among his regular hearers several presidents of the United States, among them Mr. Lincoln, at whose death-bed he present, and whose funeral sermon he delivered.
He took an active part in the negotiations that resulted in was the union of the old-school and newschool branches of the presbyterian church. He died Sept. 30, 1868, in Washington, D. C.
Gurley, Ralph Randolph
clergyman, was born May 26, 1797, in Lebanon, Conn. From 1822 till 1872 he acted as the agent and secretary of the American Colonization society, visited Africa three times in its interests, and was one of the founders of Liberia. He died July 30, 1872, in Washington, D. C.
Gurley, Zenas Hovey
educator, clergyman, legislator, orator, was born Feb. 24, 1842, in Hancock county, Ill. He received a thorough education in the schools of Illinois and Wisconsin, and became a successful educator and school director. He attained eminence as a clergyman and is a brilliant speaker. He served with distinction as a member of the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth general assemblies of the Iowa state legislature; was chairman of the committee on claims; a member of the committee on ways and means, appropriations, code revisions, insurance, mines and mining, constitutional amendments, municipal corporations, and penitentiaries. He possesses the courage of his convictions, and is an able and eloquent advocate before the people.
Gurney, Francis
soldier, merchant, state senator, was born in 1738 in Bucks county, Pa. He was a merchant of Philadelphia. He became president of the city council, and served as a representative and as a senator in the state legislature.
He died May 25, 1815.
Gurowski, Adam
was born Sept. 10, 1805, in Poland. He was a Polish count who came to the United States in 1849, and was employed as a translator in the state department at Washington. He was the author of A Year of the War (1855); America and Europe; Slavery in History; and My Diary. He died May 4, 1866, in 1866, in Washington, D. C.
Gurteen, Stephen Humphreys Villiers
clergyman, author, was born in 1840 in England. He is an episcopal an episcopal clergyman of Buffalo, Toledo and elsewhere; and prominent as an organizer of charities. He is the author of Phases of author of Phases of Charity; Provident Schemes; What Is Charity Organization; How Paupers Are Made; Casuistry; The Arthurian Epic; Epic; and Epic of the Fall of Man.
Gustafson, Axel-Carl Johan-
author, was born about 1847 in Sweden.
He is a Swedish writer who came to the came to the United States in 1868, and has published The Foundation of Death; a Study of the Drink Question; The Drink Problem; and Some Thoughts on Moderation.
GUSTAFSON, MRS. ZADEL (BARNES) (BUDDINGTON), author, poet, was born about 1841 in Middletown, Conn. She is She is the author of Meg: a Pastoral and Other Poems; Can the Old Love? a novel; and Genevieve Ward, a Biography.
Gustine, Amos
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1841 to 1843. He died March 3, 1844, in Lost Creek Valley, Pa.
Gutheim, James Koppel
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 15, 1817, in Westphalia. He was a Jewish clergyman of New Orleans who published The Temple Pulpit, a volume of sermons; and a translation of Gratz's History of the Jews.
He died May 11, 1886, in New Orleans, La.
Gutherz, Carl
artist, was born in 1844, in Switzerland. Since 1851 he has he has resided in America, and has become noted as a painter of religsubjects. ious A number of noted portraits mark his artistic career, and one of his latest works are the seven panels in the ceiling of the congressional reading rooms in the library of congress, representing the Pictorial Spectrum of Light. He exhibited at the World's Columbian exposition his Light of the Incarnation, a medley of angels robed in all colors.
Guthrie, Alfred
mechanical engineer, was born April 1, 1805, in Sherburne, N. Y. In 1846 he settled in Chicago, where he advanced the idea of supplying the summit level of the Illinois and Michigan canal with water by raising it from Lake Michigan with steam power.
The hydraulic works of this canal in Chicago were designed by him and constructed under his supervision. He died Aug. 17, 1882, in Chicago, Ill. was
Guthrie, Edwin
physician, born Dec. 11, 1806, in Sherburne, N. Y.
Soon after the beginning of war with Mexico, he raised a company of Iowa volunteers, of which he became captain, and went to the seat of war. He died July 20, 1847, in Mexico.
Guthrie, James
lawyer, banker, United States senator, born Dec. 5, 1792, in Nelson county, Ky., He served nine years in the legislature of Kentucky, and six years in the state senate. After originating, he became president of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. In 1853 he went into President Pierce's cabinet as secretary of the treasury, and was a delegate to the Chicago convention of 1864. He was elected a senator in congress from Kentucky, in 1865, for the term ending in 1871. He died March 13, 1869, in Louisville, Ky. .
Guthrie, John
soldier, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born July 2, 1829, in Switzerland county, Ind., of Scotch parentage. In 1856 he was admitted to the bar at Logansport, Ind., and the following year was elected state's attorney for Cass and Miami counties. During the civil war he was captain of company B, fortysixth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry .
In 1865 he moved to Kansas, and in 1867- 69 served as a member of the Kansas legislature from the Topeka district. In 1872 he was elected presidential elector on the republican ticket, and as messenger of the electoral college delivered the vote of the state to Schuyler Colfax, vice-president of the United States, at Washington. In 1872 and in 1874 he was chairman of the republican state central committee.
During 1885-93 this eminent lawyer served with distinction as presiding judge of the third judicial district of Kansas. He is a prominent member of the Masonic order, and in 1876 was elected grand master.
Guthrie, the capital of Oklahoma territory, was named in honor of the Hon. John Guthrie.
Guthrie, John Julius
naval officer, was born in 1814 in Washington, D.
C. He became a midshipman in 1834, passed midshipman in 1838, and lieutenant in 1842, and served in the Mexican war.
In 1861, at the beginning of the civil war, he resigned his commission and entered the confederate service. He died in November, 1877, at sea near Cape Hatteras.
Guthrie, Samuel
chemist, inventor, was born in 1782 in Brimfield, Mass. He is said to have invented and first manufactured percussion-pills, which, with caps, have entirely superseded the old flint-lock fire-arm. He died Oct. 19, 1848, in Sackett's Harbor, N. Y.
Guthrie, William E
surgeon, was born July 26, 1857, in Abingdon, Ill. He received his education at the Illinois Wesleyan university, the Rush Medical college of Chicago, and at the medical department of the university of Berlin. He was county physician for four years, surgeon of the Lake Erie and Western railroad, and assistant surgeon of the Chicago and Alton railroad; and surgeon of the Deaconess hospital of Bloomington, Ill.
Guy, Charles L
lawyer, state senator, was born Jan. 6, 1856, in New York city. He nominated David B. Hill for governor at Saratoga in 1874. He has served as a member of the New York state senate from the thirteenth district.
Guy, Wilfred R
lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 12, 1860, in Elkton, Ohio .
He received his education at the Mount Union college, Ohio, and graduated from the university of Michigan in 1887. He has attained success as an eminent lawyer of San Diego, Cal. He was a member of the California state legislature during the sessions of 1895 and 1897, and during the latter session was chairman of the committee on ways and means, and was the leader of the republican majority of the house. While a member of the legislature he rendered valuable service to the cause of education by having established the State Normal school of San Diego.
Guy, William E
railroad president, was born Dec. 22, 1844, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Since 1889 he has been the president of the St. Louis and Eastern railroad. was
Guyon, James
congressman, born in 1777 in Richmond county, N. Y.
He represented Staten Island in the legislature of New York a number of years; and was a member of congress from 1819 to 1821. He died March 8, 1846, on Staten Island.
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