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Philadelphia, Pa. Gilpin, Thomap, manufacturer, was born 18, 1738, in Chester county. Pa. He aided in establishing Wilmington college of Delaware; and labored for the construction

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of a canal between the Chesapeake and the Delaware. He died April 30, 1778, in Winchester, Va. Gilpin, Thomas, manufacturer, inventor, was born Sept. 10, 1776, in Philadelphia,

He became an extensive paper manufacturer; and in 1817 constructed a maHe chine for making paper continuously. died March 3, 1853, in Philadelphia, Pa. Gilpin, William, soldier, governor, author, was born Oct. 4, 1822, in Brandywine, Pa. In 1844, with a party of one hundred and twenty-five pioneers, he founded Portland,

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Oregon. In 1861 he was appointed first governor of Colorado by President Lincoln; and was, with the chief justice and other officers, instrumental in saving the territory He was the author of The to the union. Central Gold Kegion; and The Mission of the North American People. He died Jan. 20, 1894. Gilson,

Rolfe, journalist, author, was He 1875, in Clinton, Io,a. is a successful journalist of New York City. Young He is the author of When Love Was

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landscape painter, prohibitionist, was born April 24, 1849, in Effingham county. 111. He was one of the incorporators of the Bloomington art association. He has a studio in the Ferry museum of Tacoma, Wash., of which institution he is the curator. Since 1870 he has been an active prohibitionist; in 1893 organized and was made chairman of the prohibition party of Tacoma. For several years he was editor and proprietor of the Pacific Lancet ; and is the author of several works. Ginn, Edwin, publisher, was born Feb. 14, 1838, in Orland, Maine. On leaving college he engaged in a small way in a schoolbook agency, buying his books outright, and thus was under obligations to no one. For three years he was in this line of work, until the publishing house of Crosby, Ainsworth and company offered him the publishing rights of Craik's English ShakeOn the publication of Dr. Goodspeare. win's Greek Grammar he secured an entrance into nearly all of the best schools of the country. Since then he has been foremost in educational works. Ginner, Samuel George, clergyman, bishop, author, was bom June 4, 1844, in Hastingson-the-Hudson, N.Y. He is the first bishop incorof the church of America, which was He has been porated by him in 1898. awarded the degrees of M.D. and LL.D. The canon laws of the church of America and primiare a continuation of the early by the tive universal church, established

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Lord and his apostles. He is the author of The Book of Common Prayer, together with the Articles of Faith and Religion; and of the Canon Laws of the Church. Lewis, manufacturer, philanthro25, 1824, in New York. He served in the confederate army as commissary. He subsequently made twelve million dollars in the tobacco business. His benevolence during his lifetime was farreaching, and in his will he left two million dollars to deserving persons and institu'tions in Richmond, including almost every charitable institution in the city. The many improvements which he projected in Richmond are provided for in his will, so that they will be completed as he designed. He died Oct. 2, 1897, in Richmond, Va. Ginty, George Clay, soldier, was born in Canada. In 1864 he became major in the thirty-ninth regiment Wisconsin infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died Dec. 9, 1890. Girard, Charles, naturalist, author, was born March 9, 1832, in France. He came to the United States with Agassiz in 1847. He is the author of Life in its Physical Aspects; Contributions to the Fauna of Chili; and Herpetology of the Wilkes Expedition. He died in 1895 in Paris, France. Girard, Stephen, merchant, philanthropist, was bora May 34, 1750, near Bordeaux, France. In 1780 he engaged in the West He India trade, and acquired a fortune. founded the Girard college of Philadelphia for the education and maintenance of orphans. He died Dec. 36, 1831, in Philadelphia, Pa. Girardeau, John L., clergyman, author, Ginter,

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was born Nov. 14, 1835, in James Island, He was professor of systematic theS.C. ology in Columbia Theological seminary from 1876. He was the author of Galvanism and Evangelical Arminianism Compared The Will in its Theological Relations; aad Instrumental Music in the Public Worship He died June 33, 1898, in of the Church.

Columbia, S.C. Gist, Christopher, scout. He was a noted scout during the civil war. Gist, Joseph, lawyer, congressman, was bom Jan. 12, 1775, in Union District, S.C. He served in the legislature of his native state for eighteen years; and in 1821-37 he was a representative to the seventeenth, He eighteenth and nineteenth congresses. died May 8, 1835, in Picknej-ville, S.C. Gist, William H., governor, was born in South Carolina. He was the thirty-fourth governor of South Carolina in 1858-60.

Claxton, physician, author, 33, 1874, in Williamsport, Since 1895 he has practiced medicine Pa. He is the co-author of in Philadelphia, Pa. Artificial Feeding of Infants. Given, John LaPorte, journalist, author, was born Oct. 3, 1869, in Bellefonte, Pa. In 1890-93 he was reporter and city editor of Gittings,

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