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NAME GALE 419 GALLUP Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., 1840, vol. xxii. Amer. Med. Biog., James Thacher, 1828. Gallinger, Jacob Henry (1837-1918) Jacob H. Gallinger, United States senator from New Hampshire, was born at Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, March 28, 1837, and died of arteriosclerosis, at Franklin, New Hampshire, August 17, 1918. He was the son* of Jacob and Catherine Cook Gallinger, had an academic edu- cation and graduated M. D. from the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, in 1858. Ten years later he received another M. D. from the New York Homeopathic Medical College. His son, Linnaeus Fussell (1842)', was a physician and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1867 with a thesis on "Water." He was in the United States Navy 1865-1874. Information from Dr. Fussell's family. Trans. Med. Soc, Pennsylvania, 1882, vol. xtv, 318 (E. Harvey). Med. Hist, of Indiana. G. W. H. Kemper, 1911, 208. Gale, Benjamin (1715-1790) The son of John and Mary Gale, Benjamin was born in Jamaica, Long Island, New York, in 1715, and graduated from Yale College in 1733. His entire professional life was spent in Killingworth (now CHnton, Connecticut) where he had studied medicine with Dr. Jared Elliot, whose daughter, Hannah, he married. His townsmen sent him to the General As- sembly of Connecticut for thirty-two sessions, and would have continued him in that po- sition, but he declined. The Society of Arts in London elected him a corresponding member in 1765, due perhaps to his invention of an improved drill plough. He wrote, and wrote well, on a great variety of subjects, one being "Historical Memoirs, Relating to the Practice of Inoculation for the Small-pox in the British American Prov- inces, particularly in New England." This was printed in the "Philosophical Transaction," vol. Iv, pp. 193-204. Being something of a divine and a biblical student, he wrote "A Dis- sertation on the Prophecies." He was the au- thor of a paper on the "Bite of Ratrtlesnakes" (1763). Pres. Stiles wrote of him : "He was a man of integrity and uprightness, and of great skill in the medical profession, and a successful practitioner." He died in Killingworth, May 21, 1790. There was a tradition that he desired to be buried in such a position that when he should rise from the dead, which he thought would take place in 1804, the first object to meet his eyes would be the house in which he had ''ved. Ellsworth Eliot. Dr. Gallinger married Mary Ann Bailey of Salisbury, N. H., in 1860; from 1862 to 1885 he practised medicine in Concord, N. H. In the last year Dartmouth conferred her A. M. on him. Becoming interested in politics he was elected to the New Hampshire House of Rep- resentatives in 1872, to the state senate from 1878 to 1880, being president the last two years. Meanwhile he had served as a mem- ber of the constitutional convention of 1876, and afterwards (1882-1890) chairman of the Republican State Committee; he made the speech seconding the nomination for the presi- dency of Benjamin Harrison in 1888; was a member of the national house of representa- tives, 1885-1889, and became United States Sen- ator in 1891, holding this office at the time of his death. He served on the important committees on appropriations, finance, rules, and printing. Dr. Gallinger always took much interest in the affairs of the city of Washington; he was largely instrumental in securing the neces- sary appropriations for a larger municipal hospital. One of his last acts was to secure the passage by the Senate of a bill incorporat- ing the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, intended to revive a charter granted the medical society in 1817. Jour. Amer. Med. Asso., 1918, vol. Ixxi. Who's Who in Amer., 1916-17, vol. ix. Gen. Cat. Dartmouth Coll., 1769-1910. Gallup, Joseph Adams (1769-1849) On March 30, 1769, Joseph A. Gallup, son of William and Lucy Denison Gallup, was born in Stonington, Connecticut. He was christened by the name "Joadan," but was known as Joseph Adams. It is not known under whose tutelage he be- gan the study of medicine, but at the age of twenty-one he was in practice at Bethel, Vermont. Later, in 1798, he took his degree at the Dartmouth Medical School. In the fall of 1799 he went to Woodstock, where he be- came a general practitioner and also engaged in the drug business, compounding his own prescriptions. Dr. Gallup early acquired a wide reputation as a medical man. He was especially active in assisting in the formation of societies, county and state, being a charter /—■ member of the Windsor County Medical O Society and of the Vermont State Medical Society, the latter incorporated in 1813. Dr. Gallup was elected president of the State Society in 1818 and held the office for eleven years. His first presidential address was "On