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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. of volunteers. He died June 9, 1868, in St. Paul, Minn. Gilbert, Sylvester, lawyer, jurist, congressman; was born in 1756 in Hebron, Conn. In 1780 he was a member of the Connecticut general assembly; and in 178S-1807 was In state's attorney for Tolland county. 1807-35 he was chief justice of the county court and judge of probate, with the exception of his term in 1817-19 he was a representative from Connecticut to the fifteenth In 1826 he was again elected to congress. the legislature, and was then the oldest member in the house, to which body he had, from the year 1780, been re-elected thirty times. He died Jan. 16, 1846, in Hebron,

Conn.

Thomas Dwight, merchant, bankstatesman, was born Dec. 13, 1815, in He was engaged in the Oreenfield, Mass. lumber and shipping business in Michigan. In 1861 he was a representative in the Michigan state legislature; and in 1863-75 he was regent of the university of Michigan. In 1865 he became president of the city national bank of Grand Rapids, Mich. He died Nov. 18, 1894, in Grand Rapids, Mich. Gilbert, Walter Bond, musician, composer, was born April 21, 1829, in England. In 1869 he was appointed organist of Trinity His compositions and chapel. New York. publications include two oratorios, St. John, and the Restoration of Israel; and he is the composer of the hymn. Pleasant Are Thy Courts Above. Gilbert, William A., congressman, was born in Connecticut. In 1855-57 he was a representative from New York to the thirtyfourth congress. He died in New York. Gilbert, William Ball, lawyer, jurist, was born July 4, 1847, in Fairport county, Va. Since 1893 he has been United States circuit judge for the circuit of Portland, Ore. Gilbert, William Kent, physician, surgeon, was born Dec. 28, 1830, in Gettysburg, Pa. He attained wide prominence as one of the foremost physicians and surgeons of his native state at Philadelphia, where he died Gilbert,

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Texas company; and during the march on Monterey he threatened to shoot his officer, and was promptly court-martialed and sentenced to death. Gilbreath, Sidney Gordon, educator, was born April 13, 1869, in Monroe county, Tenn. He was county superintendent of schools in 1891-95; was state superintendent in 189597; was president of Hiwassee college in 1897-99; and in 1899-1903 was professor in the Peabody college for teachers of the university of Nashville. Since 1903 he has been superintendent of the Chattanooga publie schools. In 1897-98 he was president of the Tennessee state teachers' association. In 1895-99 he was a member of the state board of education; and from 1899 was a conductor of state summer institutes. In 1903-08 he was superintendent of the Chat-

He died Jan. tanooga public schools. 1909, in Chattanooga, Tenn.

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Gilchrist, Albert Waller, soldier, legislatgovernor, was born in 1858 in Greenwood, S.C. He was educated in the academy of Quincy, Fla.; or,

attended the Thompson academy of Columbia, S.C. studied in the Carolina military institute at Charleston; and graduated from the United States

military acadamy at West Point. In 1893, 1895, 1903 and 1905 he was a representative in the Florida state legislature;

and

1905 was speaker of the house. In 188289 he was inspector-general of Florida; was appointed brigadier-general of Florida; and resigned during tlie Spanish-American war in

and went later to the service as a. private. served in Cuba in the third regiment United States volunteer infantry; and was mustered out of the service with the rank

He

of captain. In 1909 he ernor of Florida.

was inaugurated gov-

Gilchrist, Charles A., soldier,

was bom

in

Vermont.

June

In 1861 he became captain in the tenth regiment Missouri infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of

1806, in Northiield, Conn. He was a member of the Connecticut state legislature in 1848 and 1868; was treasurer of the Connecticut western railroad for ten years and was its president from 1883. He holds the

volunteers.

office in five manufacturing companies In 1887 he gave four Winsted, Conn. hundred thousand dollars to provide a home

speare's play.

28, 1880. Gilbert, William Lewis, manufacturer, legislator, philanthropist, was born Dec. 30,



same in

for friendless children in Winsted and vicinity, and a like sum for a free high school in that place. He died in Winsted, Conn.

He Gilbert, William Wallace, soldier. a lieutenant-colonel United States army. Gilbraith, Victor, 1823. He served in

soldier, was bom in Mexican war; after the

company was discharged he 37

is

enlisted

in

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Gilchrist, Fredericka, author, was bom in 1846 in Oswego, N.Y. She is the author of The True Story of Hamlet and Ophelia, a study and new interpretation of ShakeGilchrist, John James, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Feb. 16, 1809, in Medford, Mass. He was a member of the New Hampshire legislature; register of probate and associate judge in 1840. He was chief justice of the state supreme court in 1848; and of the United States court of claims in 1855. He was the author of Digest of New Hampshire Reports. He died April 39, 1858,

in

Washington, D.C.