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 HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Garaelde, Selucius, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was bom on Deo. 8, 1822, in Shoreham, Vt. He was elected a member of the California state legislature in 1852; and in 1853 was selected to codify the laws of the state. He removed to Washington territory in 1857; he filled the position of receiver of public moneys in 1860; was surveyor-general in 1866-69; and in 1869-73 he was a territorial delegate to the fortyfirst and forty-second congresses as a republican. He died April 13, 1883, in Washingr e ton, D.C. '

Gargan, Thomas

J., soldier,

tenant in the Massachusetts volunteer regHe is an eminent lawyer of Boston; Mass.; and in 1868-70 was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature. Since 1894 he has been a member of the Transit commission of Boston, Mass. He has been president of the American-Irish historical

Howard Roger,

was born April N.Y.

Since

25,

journalist, author, 1873, in Binghamton,

1896 he has been a reporter

and special writer on the Evening News of Newark, N.J. He is the author of With Force and Arms The King of Unadilla The White Crystals; Isle of Black Fire; From

Office



Boy to Reporter; Larry Dexter, Re-

porter; Whetstone of Swords; the Glass.

and Dial

in

Garland, Augustus Hill, lawyer, governor, United States senator, cabinet officer, was born June 11, 1832, in Tipton, county, Tenn. He served in the confederate congress; and subsequently was chosen to the United States senate, but refused admission. In 1874 he was for a short time acting secretary of state of Arkansas; and was the thirteenth governor of that state in 187577. In 1877-87 he was United States senator from Arkansas. In 1885-89 he was attorney-general of the United States. He died Jan. 26, 1899, in Washington, D.C. Garland, David, clergyman, author, was born in 1816, in Maine. In 1849-84 he filled a pastorate in Bethlehem, Maine. He was prominently identified with the religious affairs of New England. He was the author of The Saint's Hope in Death; and various other Sermons. Garland, David S,, congressman, was bom in Virginia. In 1809-11 he was a representative from Virginia to the eleventh congress. ginia.

He

died in October, 1841, in Vir-

Garland, Frank Milton, mechanic, invenwas born in 1855 in Hennaker, N.H. He was a machinist and gunmaker; and later was in other employments; and visited China. He is the inventor of the grand rapid fire gun, and automatic gun capable of discharging three hundred shots per mintor,

ute.

school in Illinois; and 1887 began to write

in

stories

in

Boston,

Mass. He has traveled extensively in America from Alaska to Central America; and spends several months

lawyer, states-

iment.

society. Garis,

Garland, Hamlin, lecturer, author, was born Sept. 16, 1860, in West Salem, Wis. He was educated at Cedar valley seminary of Osage, Iowa; and at Boston, Mass. In 1882-83 he taught

.

man, was bom in 1844 in Boston, Mass. During the civil war he served as a lieu-

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in the Rocky mountains every summer. He is the author of Main Traveled Roads; Spoil of Office; Prairie Folks; Prairie Songs; Member of the Third House; Crumbling Idols; Rose of Dutcher's Coolly; Little Norsk; Wayside Courtships; The Trail of the Goldseekers;

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and other works. Garland, Hugh A., lawyer, state legislator, author, was born June 1, 1805, in Nelson county, Va. He was educated in the public schools and academies. He was professor of Greek in the Hampden Sidney college for five years and was admitted to the bar in 1841. He served five years in the Virginia state legislature. Two books which he published, the Lives of

John

Randolph

Thomas

and

Jefferson, eminently successful. He died Oct. 15, 1854, in St. Louis, Mo., greatly mourned by the public of that

were

city.

Garland,

Hugh

A.,

soldier,

lawyer.

He

joined the confederate army and was made a colonel; participated in the actions between the forces of Generals Hood and Thomas in middle Tennessee; and fell at Franklin, Tenn., while leading his command. He died Nov. 30, 1864, in Franklin, Tenn.

Garland, James, congressman, was born in 1793 in Nelson county, Va. In 1835-41 he was a representative from Virginia to the twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth and twentysixth congresses.

He

died in Virginia.

Garland, James A., horseman, editor, author, was bom Nov. 25, 1870, in New York City. He was a well known horseman; and in 1901-03 was editor of a New Engrand

Magazine. He was the author of The Private Stable. He died in 1906. Garland, James Gray, genealogist, inventor, was born March 31, 1827, in Saco, Maine. He is a cotton mill manager; and the inventor of original and first system of atmosphere moistening for textile manufacturing, a system which is in use in America,