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Rh for that of Detroit, but probably refused the honor. Although after 1817 he no longer received remit- tances from his relatives in Europe, his financial situation improved considerably in the years follow- ing. There^ still remained a valuable collection of Greek and Roman antiquities which had been left by his mother in the hands of a trusty friend to be disposed of for his benefit. It was purchased by his old friend and school-mate, the king of the Netherlands. With the proceeds from this sale and some subscriptions from friends in Europe and the United States, he was enabled to free his colony from debt after expending $150,000 on its creation. He was appointed vicar-general of the diocese of Philadelphia in 1821, and Bishop Conwell offered later to make him his coadjutor bishop, but the offer was declined. The appoint- ment of Dr. F. P. Ken rick to be coadjutor was displeasing to Father Gallitzin, and he wrote a very plain but respectful letter to the new prelate on the subject. The action of the bishop in regard to certain irregularities in one or two congrega- tions was so little in harmony with his ideas that he resigned his vicar-generalship. The rest of his life was passed in the performance of duties of the most arduous and self-sacrificing character. Li spite of a few harmless eccentricities and some errors of policy, the character of Father Gallitzin affords a fine type of zeal combined with tender- ness of heart. " If he had possessed a heart of gold," said one who knew him well, "he would have given it to the unfortunate." While engaged in duties that would have taxed the endurance of the most zealous clergyman, he found time to write works that are still popular among his co-religionists. They are " Defence of Catholic Principles in a Letter to. a Protestant Clergvman " (1816) ; " Letter to a Protestant Friend on the Holy Scriptures" (Ebensburg, 1820); "Appeal to the Protestant Public " ; and " Six Letters of Advice " (1834). There are several lives of Father Gallit- zin, the best being " Leben und Wirken des Prin- zen Demetrius Augustin Gallitzin," by the Rev. Henry Lemcke (Miinster, 1801); "Memoir of the Life and Character of the Rev. Prince Demetrius A. de Gallitzin," by Very Rev. Thomas Heyden ; and " Life of Demetrius Augustin Gallitzin, Prince and Priest," by Sarah M. Brownson.— His cousin. Princess Elizabeth, b. in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1795; d. in St. Michael's, La., 8 Dec.,^1843, be- came a convert to the Roman Catholic faith at the age of twenty, and was received into the commu- nity of the Sacred Heart at Metz in 1826. In 1840 she was sent out as visitor of the houses of the Sacred Heart in the United States. She founded a convent in New York and several schools throughout the United States, as well as a mission among the Pottawattamie Indians.

GALLOP (or GALLUP), John, fisherman and pilot, b. in England about 16U0; d. in Boston, Mass., January, 1650. He was the first of the name that came to this country. He was employed by the magistrates of Boston to accompany John Mason in an expedition against a company of pi- rates, under command of Capt. Bull, who escaped to England. Capt. Gallop afterward went to Con- necticut, where he was associated with Mason in several exploits against the Indians, and was also employed as a pilot. While sailing in his bark of twenty tons from Connecticut to Long Island, on 20 July, 1686, with one man and two boys, he cap- tured near Block island a pinnace belonging to John Oldham, a trader, on board of which were fourteen Indians, who had murdered Oldham, and were carrying off his vessel. After firing on them with such effect that the Indians sought refuge un- der the hatches, he ran on the pinnace, and struck her on the quarter with such force as almost to overturn her. This frightened the Indians so that six of them leaped over and were drowned. After repeating this action several times, only four In- dians remained under the hatches. He then ven- tured to board the pinnace, and bound two of the savages. Remembering their wonderful adroitness in untying each other, he threw one of his pris- oners overboard. He found the body of Oldham still warm, and cleft through the brains, with hands and feet cut off. After removing the goods and sails he took the vessel in tow, but was obliged to part her on account of tlie strong wind, and she drifted to the Narragansett shore. This was "the first naval engagement on our northeast coast." — His son, John, soldier, d. in what is now South Kingston, R. I., 19 Dec, 1675. took part with the Connecticut troops in King Philip's war, was in the assault on the swamp fort, and was shot dead just inside the entrance.

GALLOWAY, Charles B., M. E. bishop, b. in Mississippi about 1849. He was educated at the University of Mississippi, became an itinerant min- ister of the M. E. church, and was a popular and impressive preacher, and a strong advocate of pro- hibitory liquor- legislation. During the yellow- fever epidemic of 1878 he remained at his post, and suffered a severe attack of the disease. In 1882 he was elected aditor of the New Orleans " Christian Advocate," and in 1886 was ordained a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, south.

GALLOWAY, Joseph, lawyer, b. near West River, Anne Arundel co., j\Id., about 1729 ; d. in Watford, Herts, England, 29 Aug., 1803. After a course of preliminary study, during which he seems to have acquired a taste for religious specu- lating, which remained with him through life, he studied law and began to practise in Philadelphia, where he acquired distinction in his profession. He was an int;imate friend of Benjamin Franiclin, and when the latter went to England, in 1764, he placed in Galloway's hands his valuable letter- books and other papers for safe keeping. He was chosen to the assembly of Pennsylvania in 1757, and almost continuously thereafter until the Revo- lution, and was its speaker from 1766 till 1774, being usually elected by a unanimous vote. In 1769 Princeton gave him the degree of LL. D. In his capacity of member of the state legislature he made a speech in opposition to John Dickinson and in favor of changing the government from the proprietary to the royal form. In the early part of the colonial struggle he exhibited sympathy for the crown, and grew to be an active Tory. Through his influence as speaker of the assembly he had himself chosen, with his friend, Chief-Justice Alien, who also became a Tory, to the Provincial congress, with the purpose, no doubt, of influencing that body in favor of the king. As a member of the congress in 1774 he proposed a scheme of govern- ment, to consist of a president-general, to be ap- pointed by the king, and to hold office during his pleasure, and a grand council, to be chosen once in three years by the assemblies of the various colonies. In December of the same year he was chosen to the congress to meet the next May. and soon thereafter published " A Candid Examination of the Mutual Claims of Great Britain and the Colonies : with a Plan of Accommodation on Con- stitutional Principles" (New York; reprinted in London. 1780). After serving in tiie congress of 1775 he retired to his country-seat, where Dr. Franklin visited him, and unavailingly sought to