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GLOVER, William, govevnor of North Caro- lina, b. about 1070. In 1705 Thomas Gary obtained a commission as deputy-governor of North Caro- lina. While collector of the rents he had neglected to settle his accounts, and the lords proprietors, disapproving of his election to this office, directed their deputies to appoint one of their number in his place. Their choice fell upon William Glover. For a time Cary yielded to this change, but afterward seized the records of the province, and proclaimed himself governor. This led to anarchy, as the colo- ny was soon divided into factions, the church, royalists, and adherents of the proprietaries being in Glover's division, and the party swayed by demo- cratic instincts belonging to that of Cary. From 1706 till 1710 each party had its own government, and elected its own council. Irritated by the per- secutions of Cary, the partisans of Glover at last sought refuge in Virginia.

GLÜCK, James Fraser, lawyer, b. in Niagara Falls, N. Y.. 28 April, 1852; d. in New York city, 15 Dec, 1897. He was gi'aduated at Cornell, and then studied law, which he practised in Buffalo, acting as attorney for the New York Central and Hudson River railroad company and other corpora- tions. Mr. Gllick was prominent in politics, and held the office of president of the Central Republi- can club of Erie county. His work in perfecting the organization of his party in Buffalo attracted attention throughout the country. He was curator of the Buffalo library, and presented that library with one of the most valuable collections of auto- graphs, manuscripts, and letters in the United States. It includes complete book manuscripts of 106 eminent American and English authors: let- ters, addresses, essays, and other autograph frag- ments (in many cases a large number of an author's manuscripts) of about 100 eminent American men and women of letters ; of eighty-eight eminent Eng- lish men and women : a small collection of manu- scripts of French, German, and other continental authors ; Latin missals of the 15th century, Persian scripts, and many American and English historical documents, seals, and other relics. Mr. Glijck was also a trustee of Cornell, a trustee of the Buffalo acad- emy of sciences, and vice-president of the State bar association. Among his public addresses are the following : " The Position of the Scholar in Poli- tics," delivered before the Cornell alumni in 1877 ; " The Power and Influence of Music," at the laying of the corner-stone of the new Music hall in Buf- falo ; and " The Responsibilities and Rights of the Medical Profession," at the commencement of the University of Buffalo.

GLYNN, James, naval officer, b. about 1800 ; d. 13 May, 1871. He entered the U. S. navy, 4 March, 1815, was made lieutenant, 18 Jan., 1825, command- er, 8 Sept., 1841, and served on the California coast during the Mexican war. In command of the sloop-of-war " Preble," 14 guns, he was sent to Cliina. From the Dutch consul at Canton, (!om. (icisinger learned of the imprisonment at Naga- saki of eighteen American sailors, wrecked in Yezo, 5 June, 1846. Despite imperfect charts and un- known seas, and the fact that Com. Biddle, with the U. S. ship of the line " Columbus " and the sloop " Vincennes." had been repelled but a few months before in the Bay of Yedo, Glynn faced the northeast monsoon, and arrived in Nagasaki harbor, 17 April. Dashing through the cordon of boats, he anchored under the batteries within a mile of the city, and, when boarded by interpreters, demanded the re- lease within two days of the American seamen, and, in the face of military menace and prepara- tions, pressed his claim. After parleys and ex- cuses, the whole party of eighteen was delivered on the deck of the " Preble " on the 26th. The first result of this voyage was a detailed and formal proposition made by Glynn to the U. S. government to attempt the peaceful opening of Japan by diplo- macy, backed by a show of force. The expedition, as finally organized, grew to the proportions of a fleet, the connnand of which was claimed by offi- cers of highest rank — first by Aulick, and then by Perry. Other results of this episode were prepa- ration of the Japanese mind for Perry, the training of the interpreter Moriyama Yenosuke, who did good service in 1854, and of the hydrographer, Lieut. Silas Bent, the only officer in Perry's fleet conversant with Japanese waters, who, in a paper read before the American geographical society in 1856, first clearly defined and described the Kuro Shiwo, " Dark Stream," or Gulf Stream of the Pacific ocean. Glynn was made a captain in 1855.

GMEINER, John, clergyman, b. in Baernau, Bavaria, 5 Dec, 1847. He came with his parents, in 1849, to Milwaukee, Wis., entered the theologi- cal seminary there in 1859, and was ordained priest, 10 June, 1870. He was pastor of various congrega- tions up to 1876, at the same time editing the " Catholic Columbian," and contributing frequent- ly to German and English Roman Catholic jour- nals. He was appointed professor of ecclesiastical history and homiletics in the seminary of St. Fran- cis of Sales, Milwaukee, in 1876, which chair he still holds (1887). He has published " Die katholische Kirche in den Vereinigten Staaten " (Milwaukee, 1875): "Sind wir dem Weltende nahe?" (Detroit, 1877) ; " Modern Scientific Views and Christian Doctrines compared" (Milwaukee, 1884); "The Spirits of Darkness and their Manifestations on Earth, or Ancient and Modern Spiritualism " (1886) : and " The Church and the Various Nationalities of the United States" (1887).

GODDARD, Calvin, jurist, b. in Shrewsbury, Mass., 17 July, 1768; d. in Norwich, Conn., 2 May, 1842. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1786, studied law with Oliver Ellsworth, was admitted to the bar in 1790, and settled in Plainfield, Conn. In 1791 he was sent to the state legislature, and, with re-elections, continued to serve until 1801, being speaker during the last three years. He was then elected to congress from Connecticut, and held his seat for two terms — from 7 Dec, 1801, till 3 March, 1805. He removed to Norwich in 1807, and was a member of the state executive council from 1808 till 1815. He was a presidential elector in 1812, and a delegate to the Hartford convention in 1814. From 1815 till 1818 he was judge of the superior court of Connecticut. Subsequently, for five years, he held the office of district attorney for the county of New London, and for seventeen years was mayor of Norwich.

GODDARD, Calvin Luther, inventor, b. in Covington, N. Y., 22 Jan., 1820. He was graduated at Yale in 1845, after which he taught the classics in New York for a year. From 1846 till 1854 he was engaged as a clerk, and then began business on his own account. His attention seems to have been called at once to the necessity of thoroughly cleansing wool in the earliest stages of its manufacture, in order to secure perfection in the finished product, and to this end he arranged a burring picker. Subsequently he patented solid packing burring machines, and feed-rolls as an attachment for the carding-machine, and has since devised several valuable improvements for this machine. The steel ring feed-rolls, with ad-