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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRAKT OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Frederick Huntington, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1851, in Westfield, Mass. He graduated at Amherst college in 1874 and at Harvard law school in 1877, and admitted to the bar in Springfield in 1877; he was assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts Gillett,

in 1879-82; and was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives during 1890-91. In 1893-1911 he was a representative to the fifty-third,

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teaching for awhile, he entered the Baptist ministry in 1832. He was the author of History of the Eleventh Baptist Church of Philadelphia; Memoir of the Rev. Daniel H. Gillette; Pastor's Last Gift; and edited Social Hymns and the minutes of the Philadelphia Baptist association from 1707 till 1807. He died Aug. 24, 1882, in Lake (ieorsre, N.Y. Gillette, Clarence P., educator, zoologist, was born April 7, 1859, in Lyons, Mich. He was educated at the high school of Portland, Mich.; attended the Michigan agricultural college; and did post-graduate work in the university of Illinois. He was assistant in. zoology at the Michigan agricultural college; was entomologist at the agricultural experiment station at Ames, Iowa; and has jittained note in teaching and experimental work in entomology. He now fills the chair of zoology and entomology; and is state entomologist and entomologist of the Colorado agricultural experiment station at Fort Collins, Col. Gillette, Edward Bates, lawyer, banker, was born Aug. 24, 1818, in South Hadley Falls, Mass. For eighteen years he was district attorney at Westfield, Mass.; was president of a bank; and prominent in the business and political affairs of his state. He died in 1899 in Westfield, Mass. Gillette, Edward Hooker, farmer, manufacturer, journalist, lecturer, congressman, was bom Oct. 1, 1840, in Bloomfield, Conn. He was educated in the public schools and at the high school of Hartford, Conn. and attended the

fifty-fourth, the fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fiftvseventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, the sixtieth and sixty -first congresses as a republican. Gillett, James Norris, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 20, 1860, in Viroqua, Wis. He was educated in the high school of Sparta, Wis. About 1881 he began the practice of law; and in 1897-99 was a member of the California state senate. In 1903-07 he was a representative from California to the fifty-seventh, the fiftyeighth and fifty-ninth congresses as a republican. In 1907-11 was governor of the state of California. Gillett, John Henry, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Sept. 18, 1860, in Medina, N.Y. In 1886-90 he was assistant attorney-general of Indiana; and in 1892-1902 he ^SLS judge of the circuit court of Indiana. In 1902-08 he was judge of the supreme court of Indiana. He is the author of Criminal Law; and Indirect and Collateral Evidence. Gillett, Oren M., lawyer, banker, was born March 12, 1850, in Bergen, X.Y. In 1881-90 he was clerk of the district and circuit courts of Buchanan county, Iowa; in 189092 he was cashier of the Commercial state bank of Independence, Iowa; and since 1892 has been president of that financial in-

Iowa to the fortysixth congress from the Des Moines district. In 1881-91 he was editor of the Iowa Tribune; he became chairman of the national committee of the union labor party; and for years was a noted lecturer on land, financial and other subjects of political re-

stitution. Gillett,

form. He is a son of the late Hon. Francis G. Gillette, United States senator from Con-

Walter Cook, merchant, business president, was born Aug. 10, 1852, in Albany, N.Y. In 1869 he graduated from the western

division

high

school

of

Chicago,

In 1871-74 he was connected with Giland Vernon, paper merchants; and then until 1881 with Clark, Friend, Fox and company. He then organized the Chicago Paper company, of which he has been pres111.

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ident since 1896. Gillette, Abram Dunn, educator, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 8, 1807, in CamAfter bridge, Washington county, N.Y.



New

York

state agricultur-

al college. In 1863 he went to Des Moines, Iowa; and there engaged in farming and manufacturing. In 1879-81 he was a

representative

from

necticut.

Edwin Fraser, designer, architect, Oct. 19, 1863, in Chicago, 111. In 1869-71 he studied in France; in 1873-73 studied in California; in 1874 continued his studies in Chicago, 111.; in 1875 in Dresden, Germany; and in 1876-79 in Switzerland. In 1880-84 he attended the Rensselaer polytechnic institute of Troy, N.Y. ; and in 1906 graduated with the degree of B.S. from Armour's institute of technology at Chicago, III. In 1885 he took charge of the Gillette,

was born