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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Garvey,

Eugene A., clergyman, bishop, Oct. 6, 1845, in Carbondale, Pa. 1871-99 In he filled a pastorate at Williamsport, Pa. In 1891 he became Roman catholic bishop of Altoona, Pa.

was born

Garvin, Lucius Fayette Clark, soldier, physician, legislator, governor, was bom Nov. 13, 1841, in Knoxville, Tenn. He was educated at Guilford college of North Carolina; Amherst at Jlassachucollege of setts and graduated from the Harvard med;

ical school of Massachusetts. In 1861-65 he served as a private soldier in the civil war in the fifty-first

regiment Massachusetts volunteer infan-

For

trj'.

thirteen

years he was a representative in the Rhode Island state legislature; and for three years was a member of the state senate. For two years in 1903-04 he was governor of the state of Rhode Island. He resides in Valley Falls, R.I.

Garvin, T. M., lawyer, legislator, founder,

was born Aug. 1, 1854, in Ohio county, W. Va. He was one of the organizers of the Virginia bar association. He has compiled and published a book containing all the commercial laws of the states and territories; and for the past ten years has delivered lectures each week to the students of the Wheeling business college on commerIn 1896 he was cial and international law. elected a member of the West Virginia state legislature.

congressman, was In 1845-47 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the twenty-ninth congress. He died in PennGarvin,

William

S.,

born in Mercer, Pa.

sylvania.

Gary, Elbert Henry, lawyer, jurist, bank-

was born Oct. He was educated er,

8, 1846, in Wheaton, 111. in the public schools; at Wheaton college; and

in

1867 he graduated

from ihe law department of the Chicago 1867 admitted to

university.

he the in

was

practice Illinois;

In

of

and

law in

1878 was admitted to in the supractice preme court of the

He States. counsel railroad several of companies, manufacturies and other corporIn 1893-94 he was president of the ations. Chicago bar association. He was connected with the organization of the Federal steel company; and in 1898 retired from the pracUnited

was

general

553

of law to become president of that corapa,ny. He was prominently identified with the organization of the United States steel company. He is chairman of the hoard of directors of the Allis-Chalmers company; president of the Gary-Wheaton bank of Wheaton, 111.; and is a director of several banks in Chicago, New York and many other corporations. He is » trustee of the tice

Northwestern university; and is the builder of the Gary memorial church in Wheaton, Ind. He is the real founder of Gary, Ind., destined to become the greatest steel manufacturing city in America. Gary, Eugene Blackburn, lawyer, jurist, lieutenant-governor, was born Aug. 23, 1854, in Cokesburg, S.C. In 1889 he was a member of the South Carolina state legislature; and in 1890-93 was lieutenant-governor of South Carolina. Since 1893 he has been associate justice of the state supreme court

of

South Carolina.

Gary, Franklin Newman, soldier, lawyer, was born Nov. 36, 1828, in South Carolina. In 1832 he graduated from Maryville college, Tennessee. He became district attorney of Tyler, Texas; and was one of the best known lawyers in that state. During the civil war he served as captain in the twenty-third Texas infantry, confederate He died in 1886. His son, Hampservice. son Gary, is a noted lawyer of Tyler, Texas. Gary, George, clergyman, missionary, was born Dec. 8, 1793, in Middlefleld, N.Y. In 1835 he was a missionary to the Oneida Indians. In 1836 he was transferred to the Black River conference and in 1844 was appointed missionary superintendent of Ore;

gon.

He

died

March

25,

1855.

Gary, James Albert, manufacturer, cabinet officer, was born Oct. 22, 1833, in Uncasville, Conn. He became a partner with his father in the Alberton cotton mills in 1861; his father dying in 1870 he succeeded to the head of the business, and has conducted it since. He has been a delegate to five national republican conventions; and is vicepresident of the citizens national bank of Baltimore. In 1897-98 he was postmastergeneral. He was a candidate for congress In 1897-98 he was postmasterin 1872. general.

Gary, Joseph Eastcn, lawyer, jurist, was born on July 9, 1821, in Potsdam, N.Y. In 1844-49 he practiced law in Springfield, Mo.; and then at Las Vegas until 1856. In 185663 he practiced law in Chicago, 111. He presided in the celebrated anarchist trial; and in the second trial of Luetgert for wife-murIn 1863-1905 he was judge of the suder. perior court of Cook county, Oct. 31, 1906, in Chicago, 111.

111.

He

died

Gash, Abram Dale, lawyer, author, was born Feb. 11, 1861, in Macon coimty, Mo. Since 1898 he has practiced law in Chicago, He is the author of The False Star, a 111. historical novel.