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man, author, was born Jan. 17, 1800, in Salisbury, Mass. In 1835-36 he served in the state legislature; and in 1835-43 he was a

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representative to the twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth and twenty -seventh congresses. He was a

commissioner and envoy to China, and as such negotiated an important treaty. In 1846 he was elected to the legislature; in 1847 was chosen colonel of the Massachusetts regiment of volunteers for the Mexican war; and was afterward appointed a brigadier-general. In 1850 he was for the fifth time elected to the legislature; and in 1853-53 was made a justice of the supreme court of the state. In 1853-57 he was attorney-general; and was again elected to the legislature of his native state. He was the author of Historical and Political Review of the Late Revolution in France, 1833; Practical Principles of Political Economy; Life of William Henry Harrison; Growth and Territorial Progress of the United States, 1837; Reminiscences of Spain; History of Newburyport and The Treaty of Washington. He died Jan. 3, 1879, in Newburyport, Mass. Gushing, Gortland, lawyer, jurist, diplomat. He was judge of the Madison circuit court of Indiana; and in 1850 was appointed minister resident to Ecuador. In 1853 he entered the employ of the Nicaragua transit company. He died on the Isthmus of Panama. Gushing, Frank Hamilton, ethnologist, author, was born July 32, 1857, in Northeast, Pa. He was curator of the entire Indian collection of the national museum for the Centennial exposition at Philadelphia. In 1879 he was assistant ethnologist of the United States bureau of ethnology of the Smithsonian institution; spent five years with the Pueblos of New Mexico; in 1886-88 exhumed the long-buried cities of the ancient Pueblos in southern Arizona; and in 1896 discovered the remains of a lake-dwelling people among the Keys of Florida. He was the author of The Myths of Creation; The Arrow; Preliminary Report of Pepper-Hearst Expedition on the Ancient Key Dwellers of Florida; and other works. He died April 19, 1900, in Washington, D.C. Gushing, Harry Alonzo, educator, lawyer, author, was bom in 1870 in Lynn, Mass.

He was lecturer on constitutional law and history at Columbia university of New York City. He is the author of History of the Transition from Provincial to Commonwealth Government in Massachusetts. Gushing, Herbert Howard, physician, surgeon, author, was bom June 5, 1873, in Burmah. Since 1899 he has been director of the laboratories of histology and embryology in

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Gushing, Jonathan Peter, educator, college was born March 13, 1793, in Rochester, N.H. He became professor in Hampden-Sydney college; and later president of the college. He died April 35, 1835, in Raleigh, N.C. Gushing, Luther Steams, lawyer, jurist, author, was born June 33, 1803, in Lunenburg, Mass. He was a well-known authority on parliamentary practice; and was lecturer on Roman law in Harvard university in 1848-56. He was the author of Massachusetts Reports, 1848-53; Manual of Parliamentary Practice; Trustee Process; Remedial Law; Reports of Controverted Election Cases in Massachusetts; Introduction to the study of Roman Civil Law; Elements of the Law knd Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United States; Lex Parliamentaria Americana; and Rules of Proceeding and Debates in the Deliberative Assemblies. He died June 33, 1856, in Boston, Mass. Gushing, Nathaniel, soldier, jurist, was born April 8, 1753, in Pembroke, Mass. He joined the forces that went from Massachusetts in 1775; became a lieutenant in Brewer's regiment; was advanced to a captaincy in 1777. In 1790-1800 he was justice of the supreme court of Massachusetts. He died in August, 1814, in Marietta, Ohio. Gushing, Samuel Tohey, soldier, was bom on Sept. 14, 1839, in Providence, R.I. He served throughout the civil war, and attained the rank of captain. He has been an instructor in West Point. In 1898 he was a brigadier-general and commissary-general in the United States army; and was subsequently retired. He died July 31, 1906, in Washington, D.C. Gushing, Thomas, patriot, was bom March 24, 1725, in Boston, Mass. In 1774-76 he was a member of the continental congress from Massachusetts. He died Feb. 38, 1788, in Boston, Mass. Gushing, Thomas Humphrey, soldier, was born in 1755. He served during the revolutionary war, beginning as a sergeant; was in Arnold's naval battle on Lake Champlain and for his bravery was successively advanced until in 1813 he became a brigadiergeneral. He died Oct. 19, 1822, in New London, Conn. Gushing, Thomas Parkman, merchant, philanthropist, was born in 1787 in Ashburnham, Mass. He was a, successful merchant and philanthropist of Boston, Mass. He died Nov. 23, 1854, in Boston, Mass. Gushing, William, lawyer, jurist, was bom March 1, 1733, in Scituate, Mass. In 177075 he was judge of the supreme court of president,