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Rh office he held till March, 1869. In June of that j^ear he was made a director in the Chesaiieake and Ohio canal company, of which he becaniu president in 1873. In November, 1869, he was elected to the Maryland legislature as a Democrat, re-elected in 1871 and chosen speaker of the house. He was elected to the state senate in 1875, and served four years. In 1880 he was chosen to the U. S. senate as a Democrat to succeed William Pinkney White, and served from 1881 till 1887.

GORMAN, John Berry, physician, b. in New- berry district, S. C, 32 Feb., 1793 ; d. in Talbot county, Ga., 13 Nov., 1864. He studied medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, and after a practice oi: twenty years in Milledgeville and Tal- botton, Ga., gained a large fortune. He owned a valuable library, was fond of painting, and left a picture entitled the " Nightmare." tie published " The Philosophy of Animated Existence " (Phila- delphia, 1845), and contributed to periodicals.

GORMAN, Willis Arnold, soldier, b. near Flemingsburg, Ky., 13 Jan., 1814: d. in St. Paul, Minn., 30 May, 1876. Pie was graduated at the law-school of the University of Indiana, was ad- mitted to the bar, and began to practise in Bloom- ington, Ind., in 18o5. In 1887 and 1838 he was a clerk in the state senate, and was afterward several times elected to that body as a Democrat. He was appointed major of Gen. Lane's regiment of Indi- ana volunteers in 1846, served in the Mexican war, and led an independent rifle battalion at the battle of Buena Vista, where he was severely wounded. In 1847 he was made colonel of the 4th Indiana regiment, which he commanded in several battles. In 1848 he was civil and military governor of Puebla. From 1849 till 1853 he was a representative to congress from Indiana, having been chosen as a Democrat. In 1853 he addressed large meetings in favor of Gen. Pierce's election to the presidency. He was appointed governor of the territory of Minnesota in 1858, and ex-officio superintendent of Indians, which offices he held till 1857. In that year he was a delegate to the State constitutional convention. He represented St. Paul in the Minne- sota legislature in 1858, and in 1860 was a candi- date for presidential elector on the Douglas ticket. He practised law in St. Paul till' 1861, when he was made colonel of the 1st Minnesota regiment, and served in the battle of Bull Run. He was ap- pointed brigadier-general of volunteers on 7 Sept., 1861, led a bayonet charge at Fair Oaks, and com- manded a brigade at South Mountain and Antie- tam. He was at the head of the 3d division, 3d corps, till the reorganization of the army following Gen. McClellan's removal. In 1864 he was mus- tered out of the service and resumed his law prac- tice in St. Paul. He was elected city attorney in 1869, and held this office till his death.

GOROSTIZA, Manuel Eduardo de (go-ros- te'-tha), Mexican dramatist, b. in Vera Cruz, 18 Oct., 1789 ; d. in Tacubaya, 38 Oct., 1851. He was educated in Madrid, and at the age of twelve years wrote a comedy. He entered the Spanish guard as a cadet in 1808, and left the service in 1814 with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, to devote himself to literary work, and wrote much in defence of liberal ideas. In 1823 he was banished to England, but returned to Mexico in 1888, in the same year was elected deputy to the National congress, in 1838 secretary of the treasury, and in 1839 secretary of foreign relations. In 1844 he went as envoy extra- ordinary to the United States, and displayed diplo- matic skill in the difficulties regarding the threat- ened annexation of Texas. He fought in the de- fence of Churubusco in 1847. Gorostiza took much interest in education, and was also director of the National theatre. In 1851 his bust was placed in the hall of the National theatre of Mexico. His best- known comedies are " Tal para Cual," " Las Costum- bres de Antaiio," and " Don Dieguito," which were published and represented in Madrid in 1821 ; and of his later works, " Contigo Pan y Cebolla," which was adapted in French by Scribe under the name of " Une chaumiere et son coeur."

GORRIE, Peter Douglas, clergyman, b. in Glasgow, Scotland. 21 April, 1813; d. in Potsdam, N. Y., 12 Sept., 1884. He emigrated to the United States in 1820, and entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a member of the New York conference from 1836 till his death. He was a member of the New England his- torical society. He published " The Churches and Sects in the' United States " (New York, 1850) ; "Episcopal Methodism as it Was and Is" (1852); " Lives of Eminent Methodist Ministers in Europe and America " (1852) ; an " Essay on Episcopal Succession " ; and " Black River Conference Me- morial." (1852, 2d vol.. 1881).

GORRINGE, Henry Honeychurch, naval officer, b. in Barbadoes, W. 1., 11 Aug., 1841 ; d. in New York, 7 July, 1885. He was the son of an English clergyman of the established church, came to the United States at an early age, and entered the merchant-marine service. At the beginning of the civil war he enlisted in the National ser- vice as a common sailor, 18 July, 1862. Three months later he was attached to the Mississippi squadron, and by 1865 had risen through successive promotions for gallantry to the rank of acting- volunteer lieutenant. He was promoted to lieuten- ant-commander on 18 Dec, 1868, and from 1869 till 1871 commanded the sloop " Portsmouth " in the South Atlantic squadron. He was engaged in the hydrographic office in Washington, D. C, from 1872 till 1876, when he was sent with the " Gettysburg " on special service in the Mediter- ranean, where he remained till 1878, contributing letters to the New York " Nation." He was brought into notice in 1880 by his work of transporting and erect-. . ing an Egyptian obe- lisk that had been of- ,- fered to the United ' ^'^■

States by the khedive Ismail in 1879 at the opening of the Suez canal. On arriving in Alexandria on 16 Oct., 1879. Commander Gorringe began his operations with the assistance of 100 Arabs, and on 6 Nov. had removed 1,730 cubic yards of earth fi-om around the pedes- tal of the olselisk. By means of simple and origi- nal machinery devised by Gorringe, the mono- lith was removed from its pedestal and placed in a horizontal position on 6 Dec, 1879. The iron steamer " Dessoug," owned by the Egyptian gov- ernment, was then purchased from Mahomet Tew- fik for £5,100, and the obelisk was introduced into the hold through an aperture made for the purpose. The mechanism by which the obelisk was confined in the vessel was entirely of Com- mander Gorringe's construction, and consisted of innumerable beams of steel and wood. The obe- lisk arrived in New York on 20 July, 1880. By the aid of iron tracks and cannon-balls the mono-