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the Altoona Times; and in 1896-1908 was on the staff of the New York Evening Sun. He is the author of Making a Newspaper. Gist, Mordecai, soldier, merchant, planter, He in 1743 in Baltimore, Md.

was born

served through the revolutionary war;

was

promoted to brigadiergeneral; and was pres-

life.

He

ent at the surrender of Cornwallis. In command of the second Maryland brigade, he fought stubbornly at the battle of Camden, S.C. With the cessation of hostilities he purchased a plantation Charleston, a t S.C, where he resided until the close of his died Sept. 2, 1792, in Charleston,

S.C.

Given, Josiah, soldier, lawyer, jurist, was 31, 1838, in Westmoreland counHe was admitted to the bar in ty, Pa. 1851; and for two years was states attorHe served with distinction through ney. the Mexican war; and was a brigadier-general in the civil war. He was a member of the Iowa house of representatives; in 188995 was associate justice of the supreme court of Iowa; and in 1895-1901 was chief

born Aug.

justice.

Given, William, soldier, was bom in Kentucky. In 1862 he became colonel in the one hundred and second regiment Ohio infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted briga-

He

dier-general.

died Oct.

1,

1866.

Gladden, Adley H., soldier, was bom in South Carolina. He was a lieutenant-colonel in the Mexican war. In 1861 he was appointed a brigadier-general in the confederate army. He was wounded on the first day of the battle of Shiloh; and died in April, 1862, in the south.

Gladden, Washington, clergyman, author, 11, 1836, in Potts Grove, Pa. In 1875-83 he was pastor of the North congregational church in Springfield, Mass.; and for some time edited Sunday Afternoon. In 1883 he accepted a pastorate in ColumHe is the author of The Lord's bus, Ohio. Prayers; Seven Homilies; The Christian League of Connecticut; Things New and Old; Amusements, their Uses and Abuses; Plain Thoughts on the Art of Living; From the Hub to the Hudson; Being a Christian;

was born Feb.

Working-People and their Employers; The Christian Way; The Young Men and the Churches; Applied Christianity; Parish Problems; Tools and the Man; Ruling Ideas of the Present Age; The Cosmopolis City Club; Santa Claus on a Lark; The Church and the Kingdom; Several Puzzling Bible Books; Social Facts and Forces; Art and Morality; and The Christian Pastor and the

Working Church.

Gladding, Albert F., lawyer, jurist, was born Deo. 9, 1843, in Pharsalia, N.Y. In 1869 he was admitted to the practice of law; and in 1889-1906 w^s county judge and surrogate of Chenango county, N.Y. In 1907 he was elected justice of the supreme court of New York for the term ending in 1920.

Glascock, John Ragland, lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 25, 1845, in Panola county. Miss. In 1875-77 he was district attorney of Alameda county, Cal. and in 1883-85 he was a representative from California to the forty-eighth congress as a

democrat. Glascock, Thomas, soldier, congressman, He was appointed in Georgia. colonel of the troops ordered out by the legislature in defense of the state against the Indians on the western frontier; and was In afterward elected general of militia. 1835-39 he was a representative from Georgia to the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth He died May 9, 1841, in Decongresses. catur, Ga. Glasgow, Ellen Anderson, author, was born April 32, 1874, in Richmond, Va. She is the author of The Descendant, a Novel; and Phases of an Inferior Planet.

was born

Gla.sgow,

Hugh, congressman, was born

in

In 1813-15 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirteenth and fourteenth congresses. He died in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania.

Glasgow, Samuel Lyde, soldier, legislator, in 1838 in Winchester, Ohio. He served in the civil war; and in 1868 reIn ceived the rank of brigadier- general. 1879 he was elected to the Iowa state leg-

was born

islature.

Glass,

Carter,

journalist,

congressman,

was born Jan. 4, 1858, in Lynchburg, Va. He was educated in private and public schools. He owns the Daily News and the Daily Advance. In 1899-1903 he was a member of Virginia state senate and in 1901 was a member of the Virginia constitutional convention. In 1901-11 he was a representative from Virginia to the fiftyseventh,

and

fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth sixty-first congresses as a democrat.

Glass, Franklin Potts, journalist, publishfounder, was born June 7, 1858, in Centerville, Ala. He was educated in a private school; and in 1877 graduated with the degree of A.M. from Princeton university of New Jersey. He engaged in journalism; and in 1880 founded the Bibb Blade of Bibb county, Ala. In 1881 he bought the Selma Daily Times; in 1886 bought a half interest er,

in the Montgomery Advertiser; and has attained success as a newspaper manager. He has filled various positions of trust and honor in Montgomery, Ala.

Glass, Henry, naval ofiBcer, was born in 1844 in Kentucky. During the civil war he