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 HERHINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. attained the rank of lieutenant; and became captain in 1894. He attained the rank of rear-admiral; and in 1899 he became commandant of the United States naval training station at San Francisco, Cal. He died Sept. 1, 1908, in Paso Eobles, Cal.

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Glass, James W., painter, artist, was He was particularly successful in in 1825. His works include his drawing of horses. The Battle of Naseby; The Royal Stand-

ard; Puritan and Cavalier; and The Free Companion. He died in 1857. Glass, Joseph Sarsfield, educator, clergycollege president, was born March 13, 1874, in Bushnell, 111. In 1899-1901 he was professor of dogmatic theology at St. Mary's seminary of Perryville, Mo.; and since 1901 has been president of St. Vincent's college of Los Angele?, Cal. Glass, Presley T., merchant, journalist,

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Oct. 18. legislator, congressman, was He received 1824, in Halifax county, Va. his education at the Dresden academy of

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Tennessee; and at the Lexington law school. During the war he was in the confederate service; was a commissary, with the rank of major. He served as"

member

of the .Tenlegislature i n and again in 1883. During his second term in the Tenii

nessee 1847;

nessee legislature he introduced and secured the passage of the bill to create the agricultural experiment station at Knoxville, Tenn. In 1885-89 he was a representative from Tennessee to the forty-ninth and fifHe died Oct. 9, 1902, in tieth congresses. Ripley, Tenn. In 1909 he Glasscock, W. E., governor. was elected governor of West Virginia for the term ending in 1913. Glassmann, William, journalist, states12, 1858, in Davenport, In 1871 he left home and went west to seek his fortune. In 1890 he was one of the first republican

man, was born Xov. Iowa.

organizers in the state

Utah; and has always taken an active of

part

in political

fairs.

He

is

af-

now the

and proprietor Evening Standard and Morning Examiner of g d e n, editor of The

Utah,

a republican newspaper, which has become very popular in the west. He has filled many positions of honor in his adopted state, having served as a representative the Utah state legislature; and was speaker in the fourth legislature of Utah.

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a successful orator and political speakof Ogden City for two te^ms during 1901-06. In 1906-09 he was postmaster of Ogden, Utah. Glasson, John J., naval officer, was born in New York City. He commanded the storeship Lexington in Perry's Japan expedition in 1853-54; was appointed commander in 1855; and in 1861-63 was stationed at New Bedford, Mass. He died March 12, 1882, in New York City. Glasson, William Henry, educator, economist, author, was born July 26, 1874, in Troy, N.Y. Since 1902 he has been professor of political economy and social science at Trinity college of North Carolina. He is the author of History of Military Pension Legislation in the United States. Glazebrook, Otis Allen, clergyman, founder, was born Oct. 13, 1845, in Richmond, Va. In 1875 he was made chaplain of the famous fifth Maryland regiment ; and built the church of the Holy Trinity. In 1885 he was called to St. John's church of Elizabeth, N.J. Glazier, George William, civil engineer, merchant, inventor, was born Sept. 2, 1838, in Gardiner, Maine. He is the inventor of spool cotton and paper-box machinery ; and is also engaged in their manufacture. Gleason, Clarence Willard, educator, author, was born Aug. 11, 1866, in Holden, He was educated in the public Mass. schools of Natick, is

er.

He was mayor

Mass.; in 1883 graduated from the Natick high school; in 1884 from the high school of Newton, Mass.; and received the degrees of A.B. and A.M.

from Harvard university.

In 1889-1905 he

in the Roxbury latin school; and since 1905 in the

taught

Volkmann

school

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Boston, Mass. He is a member of the American philological association; a member of the American free trade league; and a member of the Massachusetts schoolmasters' club. He is the author of Gate to the Anabasis;

The First Greek Book; Gate to Vir-

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Term of Ovid; Story of Cyrus; Greek Primer; Greek Prose Composition; and other works. gil;

Glazier, Willard, soldier, explorer, author, 32, 1841, in Fowler, N.Y. In 1858-61 he taught school; and during the civil war served in a cavalry regiment; was twice wounded; and had three horses killed

was born Aug.

He was captured three times, escaping each time; and was once tried as a spy. In 1876 he rode from ocean to ocean on horseback, and was captured by hostile Indians enroute. He discovered the source of the Mississippi in 1881; and lead a second expedition to the headwaters of the In 1898 he organized Mississippi in 1891. under him.