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GilfiUan, Calvin W., educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1833, in Mercer county, Pa. In 1857 he was elected superintendent of public instruction for Mercer county; and in 1861 became district attorney for Venango county. In 1869-71 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-first congress as a republican. He

died in Franklin, Pa. GilfiUan,

Charles

Duncan,

lawyer,

was

1831, in New Hartford, N.Y. He served three terms in the lower house of the Minnesota legislature from St. Paul; and three terms in the state senate. He has been president of the St. Paul water board. The GilfiUan block and other business buildings in the city belong to him. GilfiUan, James, soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born March 9, 1829, in Bannockburn, Scotland. He served in the south till the end of the civil war; and in 1864 was commissioned colonel of the eleventh Minnesota. In 1869-70 and 1875-94 he was chief justice of the supreme court of Minnesota; and his decision on the Minnesota railroad bond He case is considered standard authority. died Dec. 16, 1894, in St. Paul, Minn. GilfiUan, John B., lawyer, state senator, congressman, was bom on Feb. 11, 1835, at Barnet, Vt. He was city attorney of Minneapolis in 1861-64; and in 1865-67 and 1869-73 he was prosecuting attorney of Hennepin county. He was a member of the Minnesota state senate in 1875-85. In 188587 he was a representative from Minnesota to the forty-ninth congress as a republican. GilfiUan, Joseph A., clergyman, missionary. He has been a noted missionary of the protestant episcopal church for twenty-five years among the Chippewa Indians at

born July

4,

White Earth, Minn.

He

of all the six thousand in northern Minnesota.

is

superintendent

Chippewas scattered



and

A

Short Handbook of Oil Analysis. GiU, George Carleton, manufacturer, banker, was bom on Feb. 10, 1858, in Hinsdale, Mass. In 1891 he purchased Winona paper company; changed its name to the George C. Gill paper company; and became its presThis concern became part of ident in 1892. the American writing paper company, of which he was made vice-president, until he resigned in 1902 to assume the presidency of the Holyoke national bank. GiU, Henry Z., physician, surgeon, author, was born Oct. 6, 1831, in Richboro, Pa. He was in the volunteer army as assistant surgeon of the eleventh regiment and later sur;

geon of the ninety-fifth regiment Ohio volunteers. He was surgeon of LTnited States volunteers in 1864; and was surgeon-in-chief of the first division, twentieth army corps, during the Atlanta campaign and until the For some time he was close of the war. professor of histology, microscopy and bacteriology at the Kansas medical college of Topeka, Kan. He is the author of Report on the Prisons of the United States. John, lawyer, state senator, congress1850, in Canton, at the HampdenSidney college of Virginia and at the Maryland university. Since 1871 he has pracHe was one of ticed law in Baltimore, Md. the legal advisers of the city of Baltimore; and has been police commissioner. In 187477 he was a member of the Maryland house of delegates; and in 1883-84 and in 190406 he was a member of the Maryland state senate. In 1905-11 he was a representative from Maryland to the fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a democrat. Gill,

man; was bom June 9, Mass. He was educated



Joseph A., journalist, lawyer, jurist, 17, 1854, in Wheeling, W.Va. Since 1899 he has been United States district judge for the northern district of Indian Gill,

was born Feb.

Chauncy, educator, Gilhams, Clarence congressman, was born April 11, 1860, in Brighton, Ind. He was educated in the com-

mon

Gas and Fuel Analysis for Engineers

schools



and

in

the state normal school at Terre Haute, Ind. He taught in the

common

La Grange

schools

of

county. For was au-

eight years he ditor of La

Grange

In 1906-09 he was a representative from Indiana to the fifty-ninth congress to fill a vacancy; and to the sixtieth congress as a republican; and served on several important committees. Gill, Augustus Herman, educator, author, was born Aug. 1, 1864, in Canton, Mass. Since 1894 he has been assistant professor of oil and gas analysis at the Massachusetts institute of technology. He is the author of county.

Territory. Gill, Joseph J., lawyer, manufacturer, congressman, was born Sept. 21, 1846, in

Barnesville, Ohio. He practiced law at the Jefferson county bar; and subsequently engaged in banking and later in' manufacturing and iron mining. In 1899-1905 he was a representative from Ohio to the fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth congresses as a republican.

GiU, Laura Drake, educator, mathematician, dean, was born Aug. 34, 1860, in Chesterville, Maine. She graduated from Smith college, and received from that institution

the degrees of A.B. and A.M.; and in 189093 studied mathematics in the universities of Leipzig, Geneva and Paris. In 1881-98 she was a teacher of mathematics in Miss Capen's school at Northampton, Mass.; and in 1899-1901 was the director of the Cuban orphan society in Cuba. In 1901-08 she was