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died in 1907 in Morris-

Garretson, Arthur Samuel, railroad buildstatesman, was bom on Nov. 7, 1851, in Morgan county, Ohio. He built several railroads; and was for some years president of the Sioux City and northern railroad; and was president of the Sioux City, O'Neill and western railroad. In 1898 he was a democratic candidate for congress. Garretson, Freeborn, clergyman, was born Aug. 15, 1752, in Maryland. He preached in almost all the eastern states from Nova Scotia to the Gulf of Mexico. He died Sept. 26, 1827, in New York City. Garretson, Garret James, lawyer, jurist, was born July 16, 1847, in Newtown, N.Y. He has been surrogate of Queens county; since 1896 has been justice of the supreme court of the state of New York, for the second district, present term ending in 1910. soldier, Garretson, George Armstrong, banker, was born Jan. 30, 1844, in Columcounty, Ohio. He served in the biana United States volunteers during the civil war; in 1867 graduated from the United States military academy; and in 1867-70 was lieutenant in the fourth artillery. Since 1875 he has been in the banking business; is president of the bank of commerce national association, of Cleveland, Ohio; and a director in various railroads and business corporations. During the Spanish-American war he was a brigadier-general in the United States array. Garretson, James Edmund, physician, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 4, 1838, in Wilmington, Del. He was dean of the dental college of Philadelphia in 1879-95. He was the author of System of Oral Surgery; Odd Hours of a Physician; Thinkers and Thinker,

Two Thousand Years Ago; Hours with John Darby; Brushland; and Nineteenth Century Common Sense. He died Oct. 27, ing;

1895, in Philadelphia, Pa. Garrett, Abraham Ellison, soldier, farmer, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born March 6, 1830, in Overton county, Tenn. He entered the federal army as a private in the First Kentucky cavalry. In 1863 he was commissioned to raise a regiment of Tennessee soldiers for the union army; and was made first lieutenant of

company

C,

first

regiment Tennessee vol-

was promoted to major and colonel; and served as commander unPie was elected to til the close of the war. the Tennessee state legislature in 1865 was unteer infantry;



a delegate to the Tennessee constitutional convention in 1873; and was elected to the In 1871-73 he was a state senate in 1867. representative from Tennessee to the fortysecond congress as a democrat. In 1892 he was a candidate for supreme judge. Garrett, Alexander Charles, clergyman, bishop, author, was born Nov. 4, 1832, in Ireland. He was consecrated bishop in 1874. He organized his missionary juris-

diction as the diocese of Dallas; and was elected the first protestant episcopal bishop of Dallas in 1895. He is the author of Historical Continuity, a series of sketches

on the church; The Eternal Sacrifice, and Other Sermons; and The Philosophy of the Incarnation. Garrett, Andrew, conchologist, author, was born April 9, 1823, in Albany, N.Y. He explored many of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America, the East and West Indies; and was associated with shells collection of Louis Agassiz. His consisted of thirty thousand examples of about eight thousand species. He was the author of the Andrew Garrett Fische der Sudsee. He died Nov. 1, 1887, on the island of Huahine. Garrett, Edmund Henry, artist, author, was born Oct. 19, 1853, in Albany, N.Y. He has devoted much time to illustration and water color painting; and in 1890 received a medal at Boston. He has edited important collections of the Elizabethan and Victorian poets; and translated Carmen.

Emma,

educator, philanthropist, She attained a national reputation as an educator of the deaf and dumb. She died in 1893. Garrett,

was born

in 1848.

Garrett, Finis James, lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Aug. 26, 1875, in Weakley county, Tenn. He was educated in the common schools; attended college at Clinton, Ky.; and in 1897 received the degree of A.B. from Bethel college of McKenzie, Tenn. In 1893 he was editor of the

Weakley County Democrat; and for two years edited the McKenzie Herald. He taught school; and in 1897-99 was principal of the high schools at Como, Tenn.; and was also principal of the high school department at Milan, Tenn. Since 1899 he has practiced law at Dresden, Tenn. In 1900-05 he was a master in chancery. In 1905-11 he was a representative from Tennessee to the fifty-ninth, sixtieth ty-first congresses as a democrat.

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Garrett, H. R., educator, college president, 26, 1866, in Abingdon, Va. In 1889 he graduated with the degree of A.B. from the Milligan college of Tennessee; then became an instructor of mathematics in that institution; and since 1903 has been its president.

was born May

Garrett,

James G., soldier, educator, jourwas born March 14, 1837,

nalist, lawyer,

Edgecombe county, N.C. He graduated from the university of Alabama in 1856; and the following year was admitted to the bar. He has taught school; was a soldier and oflScer in the confederate army of northern Virginia in 1862-65; has been successfully engaged in journalism; and is now a noted lawyer of Birmingham, Ala. Garrett, John Work, railroad president, was born July 31, 1820, in Baltimore, Md.

He took

a great interest in the development