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Rh made her novitiate in France, and at the end of the year took the vows of religious profession at the hands of the founder of the order, Father Mo- reau. In January, 1855, she returned to the United States, and was made superior of the Academy of St. Mary's, Bertrand, Mich. In the following sum- mer she transferred the academy to the present site of St. Mary's, Ind., and obtained a charter for it from the legislature. She laid the foundation of the present conservatory of nuisic, and established the future of the institution on a firm foundation. She then founded other academies in different parts of the United States, until at her death she had es- tablished nearly thirty, including those of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Austin, Texas. When the civil war began, she left St. Mary's in charge of com- petent aids, organized a corps of sisters, and hur- ried to the front to care for the sick and wounded soldiers. She established hospitals, both temporary and permanent, and, when generals failed to secure needed aid for the sick and wounded soldiers, she made flying trips to Washington in their behalf. Her headquarters were at Cairo, and, in ill-provided buildings used for hospitals, she and her sisters were obliged to rise early and cook gruel often for fourteen hundred men before the roll-call sum- moned the convalescents to battle. The close of the war left her enfeebled, and she never afterward fully recovered her strength. After the war the order of the Holy Cross in the United States was separated from the order in Europe, and she was made mother superior. She filled this office for two terms, when failing health compelled her to resign. She then became mistress of novices at St. Mary's, and prepared to pass the remainder of her days in the society of her mother and many warm friends who lived near. Mother Angela wrote sketches for Roman Catholic pei-iodicals, in- cluding some interesting reminiscences of her ex- periences during the war. for the " Ave jMaria," published in Notre Dame, Ind. — Her brother, Neal Henry, clergyman, b. in Brownsville, Pa., in 1832 : d. in St. Mary's, Jay co., Ind., 12 Nov., 1874. He was among the first students who entered the Uni- versity of Notre Dame, and the first to receive there his degree. In 1851 he entered the novitiate of the congregation of the Holy Cross, and began his theological studies. After finishing his novitiate, he taught mathematics in the university, and in 1854 went to Rome to complete his theological course. He was ordained priest on 24 June, 1856, and on his return to Notre Dame was appointed vice-president and director of studies. In 1859 he was made president of the College of St. Mary of the Lake, Chicago. He was called to Paris in 1803 on business connected with his order, but returned to the United States in 1866. He was for several years editor of the " Ave Maria," and was also spir- itual director of several religious and literary soci- eties connected with the University of Notre Dame. GILLESPIE, Gleor^e, clergyman, b. in Glas- gow. Scotland, in 1683 ; d. 2 Jan., 1760. He was educated at the university in his native city, licensed to preach by the presbytery of Glasgow early in 1712, and came to New England that year, bringing a letter of recommendation from Principal Sterling to Cotton Mather. Shortly afterward he preached for the church at Wood- bridge, N. J., and in 1713 was ordained minister of the church at White Clay Creek, Del. His charges for several years, besides White Clay, em- braced Red Clay, Lower Brandywine, and Elk River. He took part in the controversy that was for years waged in the synod, and resulted, in 1741, in the historic division of that body. He withdrew with the excluded members, but remained neutral until 1744, when he returned to the old synod. He published " Treatise against Deists and Free Think- ers" (Philadelphia, 1735); "Letters to the Presby- tery of New York " (1740) ; " Sermon against Divis- ions in Christ's Churches" (1740); and "Remarks upon Mr. George Whitfield " (1744).

GILLESPIE, George de Normandie, P. E. bishop, b. in Goshen, N. Y., 14 June, 1819. He en- tered the general theological seminary of the Prot- estant Episcopal church in 1837, and was gradu- ated in 1840. He was ordained deacon in St. Peter's church, New York, by Bishop B. T. Onderdonk, 28 June, 1840, and priest in St. IMark's church. Leroy, N. Y., by Bishop De Lancey, 30 June, 1843. His first parish was St. Mark's, Leroy, whence he removed to Ohio, and became rector of St. Paul's church, Cincinnati. He held this office for six years, when he accepted a call to Zion church. Palmyra, N. Y., and remained there for ten years. He next became rector of St. Andrew's church, Ann Arbor, Mich. He was elected bishop of western Michigan in 1874, and was consecrated in Grand Rapids, 24 Feb., 1875. He received the degree of D. D. f i-om Hobart college in 1875. Bishop Gillespie has published, besides sermons and ti'acts, " Manual and Annals of the Diocese of Michigan " (1868).

GILLESPIE, William Mitchell, author, b. in New York in 1816; d. there. 1 Jan.. 1868. He was graduated at Columbia in 1834, and afterward spent neai-ly ten years in Europe in study and travel. On his return to New York in 1845 lie was appointed professor of civil engineering in Union college, where he remained till his death. He was popular as a professor, a brilliant and original thinker, and had few equals in his dejiartment of science. His published works are "Rome, as seen by a New Yorker, 1843-'4 " (New York, 1845); "Roads and Railroads: A Manual for Road-making" (1845; 7th ed., 1854); "Philoso- phy of ]\Iathematics," from the French of Comte (1851) ; " The Principles and Practice of Land-Sur- veying " (1855 ; 6th ed., 1858) ; and a " Treatise on Levelling, Topography, and Higher Surveying," edited by Cady Staley (1871).

GILLET, Ransom H., lawyer, b. in New Leba- non, N. Y., 27 Jan., 1800. He studied law with Silas Wright at Canton, and became a lawyer in Ogdensburg, where he was postmaster in 1830-'3. He was a member of the Baltimore convention that re-nominated Gen. Jackson for president in 1832. He was elected to the National house of representa.- tives as a Democrat, and served in 1833-'7, was an Indian commissioner in 1837-'9, register of the U. S. treasury in 1845-'7. solicitor of the treasury in 1847-'9, assistant U. S. attorney-general in 1855-'8, and solicitor of the court of claims from 1858 till 1861. He is the author of a " History of the Demo- cratic Party" (New York, 1868); "The Federal Government " (1871) ; and a " Life of Silas Wright."

GILLETT, Ezra Hall, author, b. in Colchester, Conn., 15 July, 1823 ; d. in Harlem, N. Y., 2 Sept., 1875. He was graduated at Y'ale in 1841, and at Union theological seminary in 1844, and in the latter year was ordained pastor of the Presbyterian church in Harlem, N. Y. In 1868 he was appointed professor of political economy, ethics, and history in the University of New York. He wrote much for the "American Theological Review," the "Presbyterian Quarterly," the "Historical Magazine," and other periodicals, and published "Life and Times of John Huss" (2 vols., Boston, 1863-'4) ; "History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States" (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1864; revised ed., 1875) ; " God in Human Thought " (2