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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRABY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. university of Wisconsin. He has been engaged in farming; is a successful lawyer; and president of the Western Wisconsin telephone company at Arcadia, Wis. For three terms he was mayor of Arcadia, Wis.; and in 1901-05 was a member of the Wisconsin state senate. He was a member of the committee of the Wisconsin semi-centennial exposition; and has held various other positions of trust and honor. Gavit, John E., engraver, artist, was born Oct. 29, 1817, in New York. In 1855 he assisted in organizing the American bank note company in New York; and in 1858 united He died his business with that enterprise. Aug. 25, 1874, in Stockbridge, Mass. Gavit, John Palmer, journalist, sociologist, author, was bom July 1, 1868, in Albany,

N.Y. He has always been in newspaper work, excepting in 1893-1903, when he was engaged in social settlement work. He was the founder and first editor of the Commons, the organ of social settlements of the world, now united in Charities and the Commons. He is the author of The Reporters' Manual. Gay, Eben Howard, banker, author, was He is a born in 1858 in Massachusetts. banker of Boston. He is the author of Treatise on Municipal Bonds. Gay, Ebenezer, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 26, 1696, in Dedham, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of Hingham in '1718-87. He was the author of The Old Man's Calendar. He died in 1787 in Hingham, Mass. Gay, Edward, painter, artist, was bom in 1838 in Dublin, Ireland. He became an associate member of the national academy of In 1887 he took the metropolitan design.

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America. He died Jan. 12, 1850, in Boston, Mass. Gay, Mrs. Maude Clark, litterateur, author, was born Sept. 28, 1876, in Waldoboro, Maine. She was educated in the public and private

schools

Waldoboro

of

and in graduated from

1895 Lincoln academy at Damariscotta, Maine. She is the wife of

John T. Gay oboro,

of

Maine.

WaldFor

many

years she has contributed and short stories to newspapers, magazines and current literature. She is the author of The Knitting of the Souls; Paths Crossing, a story of Oklahoma, which attracted considerable attention in the western states; and other works. Gay, Sydney Howard, journalist, author, was born in 1814 in Hingham, Maass. He was a journalist of New York and Chicago; and during the civil war the managing edHe was the itor of the New lork Tribune.

poems

author of Life of James Madison; and Bryant and Gay's Popular History of the United States. He died June 25, 1888, in New Brighton, N.Y. Gay, Walter, painter, artist, was born Jan. 22, 1856, in Hingham, Mass. He was educated in the Boston public schools; and in the Roxbury latin school. In 1873 he began to paint flower subjects; and his Fall

prize of

Flowers was exhibited

Gay, Edward J., merchant, manufacturer, congressman, was born Feb. 3, 1816, in Liberty, Va. In 1883, upon the foundation of the Louisiana sugar exchange at Xew OrIn leans, he was elected its first president. 1885-89 he was a representative from Lou-

the Philadelphia at centennial exhibition in 1876. He painted the large picture entitled Benedicite, now in the museum at AmiFrance; also ens, painted Las Cigarrer-

two thousand dollars for the picture Broad Acres presented to the Metropolitan museum of New York City.

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isiana to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a democrat. He died May 30, 1390.

Gay, George

Washington, manufacturer, 17, 1837, in Washington,

was born March

He began his business career as partner with P. M. Goodrich, hardware merchIn 1873 he incorporated the firm of ants. N.Y.

Berkley and Gay, with a capital of five milHe was for twenty-six years lion dollars. treasurer for William H. Gay. He died Sept. 13, 1899, in Grand Rapids, Mich.

was chemist, Gay, Martin, physician, born Feb. 16, 1803, in Boston, Mass.; and was the son of Ebenezer Gay of Hingham, Mass. He had a high reputation as an antestialytical chemist; and his frequent mony as a witness in courts of justice, in era cases of death by poisoning, marks an jurisprudence in the history of medical

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as, in

the Luxembourg

at Paris; and pictures in the Metropolitan museum of fine arts of New York City and Boston. He received gold medals at Antwerp, Vienna, Berlin, Munich and Paris. His paintings also include The Trained Pigeons; Troubles of a Bachelor; The Knife Grinder; The Spinners; The Weaver; and Richelieu.

Gay, Winckworth Allan, landscape artist, was born Aug. 18, 1821, in West Hingham, Mass, He has traveled the world over; and has attained note as one of the foremost artists of America. Gayarre, Charles Etienne Arthur, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, author, was born Jan. 3, 1805, in Louisville, Ky. In 1830 he was elected to the state legislature; in 1831 was appointed deputy attorney-general; and in 1833 presiding judge of the city