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for eleven years. She is the author of Lydia Knight's History. Gates, Theodore Burr, soldier, was born in New York. In 1861 he became lieutenantcolonel in the eightieth regiment New York infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. Gates, Thomas, colonial governor, lived in the 17th century. In 1611-14 he was colonial governor of Virginia. He died in Virginia.

Gates, W. Francis, musician, composer, author, was born Mareh 18, 1865, in Zanesville, Ohio. He was director of the western conservatory of music and other music schools. He is the author of Musical Mosaics; Anecdotes of Great Musicians; Pipe and Strings; and In Praise of Music.

Gates,

William,

soldier,

governor,

was

bom .

in 1788 in Massachusetts. He served in the war with Mexico as colonel; and in 1846-48 acted as governor of Tampico,

He was brevetted brigadier-gen1865 for long and faithful service. died Oct. 7, 1868, in New York.

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He

in

Gathmann, Louis, civil engineer, inventor, was born Aug. 11, 1843, in Germany. He is

Gathmann gun. He is new process for refining crude petroleum by a new method. Gatlin, Alfred M., congressman, was born in Edenton, N.C. He graduated from the the inventor

of"

now engaged

in inventing a

the

university of North Carolina. In 1823-25 he was a representative from North Carolina to the eighteenth congress. Gatlin, Richard Caswell, soldier, was born Jan. 18, 1809, in Lenoir county, N.C. He served in the Seminole war in Florida until its close in 1842. In 1801, he was appointed brigadier-general of North Carolina state troops, and assigned to the command of the coast defences of Wilmington. He was brigadier-general in the provisional army of confederate states in 1862. He died Sept. 9, 1896, in Fort Smith, Ark. Gatling, Richard Jordan, inventor, was born Sept. 12, 1818, in Hertford county, N.C. He was educated in the public and private schools of his native state. Among Catling's many inventions is a

machine for sowing wheat in drills, Avhich is very popular in the large wheat farms of

minute.

He

the west. But his greatest invention is the repeating machine gun, known as the Gatling gun, which can be made to fire four hundred shots per died Feb. 26, 1903, in New York

City.

Gatschet, Albert Samuel, linguist, author,

was born Oct. 3, 1832, in Switzerland. He was linguist at the Bureau of American ethnology in the Smithsonian institute.

He

was the author

of

The Klamath Indians

of

Southwestern Oregon; and A Creek Migration Legend. He died in 1907 in New York City.

Gaul, Gilbert William, painter, artist, was 31, 1855, in Jersey City, N.J. He was made an associate of the national academy of design in 1879; and became a member in 1882. Among his works are Stories of Liberty to the Confined; Charging the Battery; Holding the Line at All Hazards; and With Fate Against Them.

born March

Gault, Franklin Benjamin, educator, college president, was born May 2, 1851, in Wooster, Ohio. He graduated in 1877 from Cornell college at Mt. Vernon, Iowa. During 1877-81 he was superintendent of schools in Tama City, Iowa; and has filled the same position in Mason City in 1881-83; in South Pueblo, Colo., in 1883-88; and in Tacoma, Wash., in 1888-92. In 1892-98 he was president of the university of Idaho; in 189092 he was a, member of the Washington state board of education; and in 1893 was chairman Idaho state text-book commission. He has been president of the Idaho state teachers' association; and is a member of the leading educational and scientific

bodies in America.

Gaunt, E. W., soldier, lawyer, statesman, 17, 1832, in Tennessee. In 1850 he practiced law in Arkansas. He claimed to have been elected a representa-

was born March

tive to the thirty-sixth congress. He served in the civil war as a colonel of the twelfth

Arkansas infantry; and was promoted to brigadier-general. In 1873 he was appointed a commissioner to revise and codify the statutes of Arkansas. He died June 10, 1874.

Gause, Lucien Cotesworth, soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1838, at Laurel Hill, N.C. He enlisted in the infantry service of the confederate army in 1861; and rose to the rank of colonel. He returned to Jacksonport, Ark.; and in 1866 served one term in the Arkansas general assembly. In 1875-79 he was a representative to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as a democrat. Gause, Owen B., educator, founder, was born June, 1825, in Wilmington, Del. He was one of the founders of the Homceopathie medical society of Pennsylvania; and

was

its

president in 1869.

Gauss, Henry C, journalist, author, was born in New England. He was actively engaged as a journalist until he entered the government service. He was private secretary_ to secretary William H. Moody; and continued as private secretary to Secretary Charles J. Bonaparte. He is the author of Who's Who in the Government Service.

Gaveney, John C, farmer, lawyer, state senator,

was bom June

30, 1863, in Arcadia, educated in the public schools of his native town; and graduated from the

Wis.

He was