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a provisional regiment in Chicago for the

war against Spain; and was

elected

col-

onel. After the close of the war he made a tour of the West Indies. He is the author of Capture, Prison Pen and Escape; Three Years in the Federal Cavalry; Battles for the Union; Heroes of Three Wars; Peculiarities of Great American Cities; Down the Great River; Headwaters of the Mississippi;

Ocean to Ocean on Horsehack; and Our Ocean Sovereignty. He died April 26, 1905, in

Alhany, N.Y. Gleason, Daniel Angell, banker, financier,

was born May

Worcester, Mass. In lSSl-86 lie was treasurer of MassachuSince 1887 lie has been treasurer of setts. the Fitchburg railroad company. He is president of the savings bank at Medford, Mass. 9,

183j6, in

Gleason, Edward Baldwin, educator, physurgeon, author, was born Oct. 13, ]S54, in Philadelphia, Pa. He graduated from the university sician,

of

Pennsylvania with

the

degrees

and

M.D.;

ceived

the

of S.B. also redegree of

JI.D. from the Medico-chirurgical college, and received the honorary degree of LL.D.

from

Villanova college of Pennsylvania. Since 1878 he has practiced h i s profession in Philadelphia, Pa.; and in 1903 was a member of the common council. He is chemical professor and a member of the senior faculty of the Medico-chirurgical college of Philadelphia, Pa. He is a member of the American medical association; a member of the American therapeutic society; and a fellow of the Philadelphia college of physicians and the American academy of medicine. He is the author of Essentials of Diseases of the Ear; Diseases of the Kose, Throat and Ear; andother works.

Gleason, Frederick Grant, musician, comwas born Dec. 17, 1848, in Middletown, Conn. He is musical critic of the Chicago Tribune. In 1897 he Avas president-general American Patriotic Musical His chief compositions are two League. operas of the grand romantic type, Otho Visconti and Montezuma; and Symphonic poser,

Poems. Gleason, John Hasset, soldier,

In 1861 in Ireland. in the sixty-third

he was

was born

lieutenant New York infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died June 30, 1889. first

Gleason, Mrs. Rachel Brooks, physician, author, was born in 1820 in Vermont. She for many is a physician of Elmira, N.Y. years in charge of the Gleason sanitarium. She is the author of Talks to My Patients.

Gleason, William E., lawyer, jurist, was He moved to Dakota, born in Maryland. where he was appointed United States judge for that territory, residing at died in Yankton, N.D.

Yankton. He

Gleaves, Albert, naval officer, was bom He was Jan. 1, 1858, in Nashville, Tenn. educated at the United States naval academy; and has filled various grades from During the midshipman to commander. Spanish-American war commanded a torHe is the author of Captain pedo boat.

James Lawrence. Gleim, Christian, journalist, publisher, was 10, 1780, in Lancaster county, Pa. He settled in Harrisburg in 1812; and was appointed to print the senate journal in English. Afterward he established and edHe died Sept. 21, ited the Pennsylvanian. 1861, in Pittsburg, Pa.

born Jan.

Gleim, George Christian, soldier, was born He took part in the war of the revolution; and was severely wounded near He died July 21, 1817, in Philadelphia. Lancaster county. Pa. in 1736.

Glen, John, lawyer, jurist, was born in Maryland. He was for many years a judge of the United States district court of MaryHe died July 8, 1853, in Baltimore, land.

Md. clergyman, author, was 1755, in Ireland. In 1803-30 he was jiastor of the Second presbyterian church of Baltimore, Md. In 1806 he served as chaplain of the United States house of representatives; and in 1815-16 of the senate. He was the author of Oration in Commemoration of Washington. He died Oct. 4, 1832, in Philadelphia, Pa. Glendy,

born June

John,

2-1,

Glendy, William

Marshall, naval

officer,

was born in ISOl in Virginia. He was promoted to the rank of commodore in 1862; and in the following year was made prize commissioner in Washington, B.C. He refrom active service in 1865. He died July 16, 1873, in Baltimore, Md. Glenn, Archibald A., educator, banker, statesman, was born Jan. 30, 1819, in Nicholas couutv. Kv. He was educated in the country schools of In-

tired

and as a subscription school in Il-

diana; linois.

In 1844 he pub-

a whig campaign paper; and then taught school for five lished

years.

For

eleven

years he was clerk of the circuit court of B r w n county. 111. and in 1861 was a delegate to the constitutional convention held in Springfield to revise the constitution of Illinois. In 1868-73 he was a member of the board of equalization; and was then nominated state senator. He was ad-