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health.

He

is

the

author

of

several

works in German; and has edited Goethe's Poems; Goethe's Faust; and Schiller's Poems. Goetschius, Percy, musician, composer, was born Aug. 30, 1853, in Paterson, N.J. He is the author of The Theory and Practice of Tone-relations; Models of the Principal Music forms; Syllabus of Music History; and The Homophonie Forms of Music Composition. Goff, Mrs. Harriet Newell, reformer, author, was born in 1828 in New York. She is the author of Was it an Inheritance?; Cares?; and Episodes in the Life of

Who

Mary Campbell. Gofi, Isaac Lewis, business

man, banker,

was born Aug. 29, 1852, in Taunton, Mass. He was instrumental in establishing the Home investment company of Providence, and is president of Isaac L. Goff company, also president of People's trust company; and director of various banking and R.I.;

business corporations. Goff, John W., lawyer, jurist, was born in Ireland. He was assistant district attorney of New York; and was counsel to the Lexow investigation committee. In 1894In 1906 he was recorder of New York. 1907 he was elected justice of the supreme court of New York for the term ending in 1920. Goff, Nathan, soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, cabinet officer, was born Feb. 9, 1842, in Clarksburg, W.Va. He entered the union army, and served throughout the war, rising to the rank of brevet brigadier-genHe was a representative in the state eral. legislature in 1867-68; and was United States district attorney in 1869-81. In 1881 he was secretary of the navy. In 1883-89 he was a representative from West Virginia to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth and In 1888-89 he was the fiftieth congresses. Since seventh governor of West Virginia. 1892 he has been United States circuit judge for the fourth district. Goffard, William, soldier, was born in Rhode Island. He served in the civil war; and in 1865 attained the rank of brigadiergeneral of volunteers. Goggin, William L., lawyer, congressman, was born May 31, 1807, in Bedford county,, Va. In 1836 he was a member of the legislature, and in 1837 declined a re-election. Inl839-49 he was a representative from Virginia to the twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh twenty-eighth and thirtieth congresses. In 1859 he was nominated as the whig candiHe died date for governor of Virginia. Jan. 5, 1870, in Richmond, Va. Going, Charles Buxton, journalist, author, was born April 5, 1863, in Westchester, N.Y. He is the author of Summer fallow, a book of verse; and part author of Urchins of the Sea; and Urchins at the Pole. Going, Ellen Maud, writer, author, was born in Westchester, N.Y. She is the au-

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thor of With the Wild Flowers; With the Trees; and Field, Forest and Wayside Flowers.

Going, Jonathan, educator, college president, founder, was born March 7, 1786, in Reading, Vt. He was one of the founders of the baptist theological seminary of Newton, Mass. He died in November, 1844, in

Newton, Mass.

Thomas

R., state senator, congress-

man, was born

New York. He was a New York state senate in

Gold,

member

of the

in

1797-1802; a member of the assembly in 1808; and in 1809-13 and 1815-17 he was a representative from New York to the eleventh, twelfth and fourteenth congresses. He died June 22, 1826, in Whitestown, N.Y. Gold, William Henry, banker, was born in Davis, 111. In 1887-95 in the retail lumber business. He is president of the state bank of Red Wood Falls; president of the state bank at Vesta, Minn.; and president of the Redwood county telephone company. He is also a director of several other large corporations. Goldbeck, Robert, musician, composer, was born Aug. 19, 1839, in Potsdam. He was the author of two operas entitled Saratoga and Newport. He died May 16, 1908, in St. Louis, Mo.' Golder, William Harvey, educator, clergyman, college president, was born Jan. 1, In 1881-84 he was or1846, in Canada.

March 20, 1865, he was engaged

dained deacon and elder; and has filled a In 1884 he pastorate in Greensboro, N.C. became an instructor in Livingstone college; in 1893 was a dean; and since 1894 has been president of that institution. Goldfogle, Henry Mayer, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 23, 1856, in New York City. He received his education in the public schools; B

and was admitted to the bar in 1877. In 1888-1900 he was judge of the municipal court of

New York

For the past quarter of a century been he has a delegate every democratic 1 state convention; and in 1896 was a delegate to the democratnational convenic City.

tion.

He

is

prominent in several fraternal

In 1901-11 he was a representative from New York to the fifty-seventh, fiftyorders.

eighth,

fifty-ninth,

sixtieth

and

sixty-first

congresses as a democrat.

Goldmark, Rubin, musician, composer, was born Aug. 15, 1873, in New York City. In 1895-1901 he was a director of the Colorado college conservatory of music. He has given about three hundred lecture recitals He has in the United States and Canada.