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90 he was preacher to Harvard university; 1889-99 to Yale; ad pastor of the Old South church since 1884. He is the author of The Christ of To-Day; The Witness to Immortality in Literature, Philosophy and Life; and Immortality and the New Thein

odicy.

Gordon, author,

George

Henry,

was born July

lawyer, soldier, 19, 1825, in Charlea-

town, Mass. He served as a brigadier-general in the federal army during the civil war. He was the author of History of the

The same of the Michigan state senate. year he was elected lieutenant-governor of the state; and became governor to fill a vacancy. In 1845 he was candidate for congress. In 1849-53 he was United States consul to Pernambuco, S.A. He died in December, 1853, in South America. '

Gordon, John, farmer, merchant, states-

man, was born July 111.

He was

and at

Scott's

Gordon, George Washington, soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 5, 1836, in During the civil war Giles county, Tenn. he attained the rank of brigadier-general In 1885-89 he in the confederate service. was employed in the interior department at

Washington, D.C. In 1883 he was elected superintendent of city schools of Memphis, Tenn. In 1907-11 he was a representative from Tennessee to the sixtieth and sixtyfirst

congresses as a democrat.

Gordon, Isaac G., lawyer, jurist. During 1873 and 1887-88 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. Gordon, J. Wright, governor, was born in 1807 in Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of Michigan during the administration of Governor Woodbridge; and in 1841-43 was acting governor. He died in December, 1853, in Michigan. Gordon, James, state senator, congressman, was born in 1743 in Ireland. He was for seven years a member of the New York state senate; and twelve years in the state assembly. In 1791-95 he was a representative from New York to the second and third congresses. He died Jan. 17, 1810 in Ballston, N.Y. Gordon, James Gay, lawyer, state senator, jurist, was bom Nov. 11, 1855, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1876 he began the practice of law in Philadelphia, Pa.; and in 1880 was elected a, member of the Pennsylvania state senate. In 1885-98 he was a court of common pleas judge of Philadelphia county, Pa. Gordon, James Wright, lawyer, diplomat, governor, was born in 1809 in Plainfield, Conn. In 1835 he began the practice of law in Marshall, Mich.; in 1839 was a member

common

schools Steubenville, Ohio. He devoted his attention to farming; and in 1850 he opened up a. store in Lynn-

academy

Second Massachusetts Infantry; The Campaign of the Army of Virginia under General Pope ; War Diary of Events in the War of the Great Rebellion; and Brook Farm to He died Aug. 30, 1886, Cedar Mountain. in Farmington, Mass. Gordon, George Phineas, printer, manufacturer, inventor, was born April 21, 1810, in Salem, N.H. His fame arose from his invention of the Gordon job press. The Gordon press works of Rahway, N.J., produced an immense number of these machines, which found their way into nearly every job He died Jan. office in the United States. 27, 1878, in Norfolk, Va.

31, 1827, in Lynnville,

educated in the

of

which

business in connection with his farm. ville,

he carried on

He was member nois

elected a of the Illistate legislature

from the thirty-ninth district to the

twenty-

eighth general assembly; and was re-elected to the twenty-ninth general assembly. In 1856 he was a delegate to the first republican convention held in Bloomington, 111. In 1850-60 he was postmaster of Lynnville, 111.; and in 1872-77 was a representative in the state legislature.

Gordon, John, educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born March 10, 1850, He has filled pastorates in Pittsburg, Pa. in Pittsburg, Pa.; and also in Lincoln and

Omaha, Neb.

In 1901-03 he was professor

of history at the Omaha theological seminary; and in 1903-06 was president of Howard university. He is the author of Three Children of Galilee.

Gordon, John Brown, soldier, governor, United States senator, was born Feb. 6, 1832, in Upson county, Ga. He entered the

army

as captain of infantry in the confederate army; and held the rank of major-general at the close of the war. In 1873-81 and 1891-97 he was United States senator. He was the thirty-second governor of Georgia in 1886-90. He died Jan. 9, 1904, in Biscoyne, Fla.

Gordon, Joseph Claybaugh, educator, author, was born March 9, 1843, in Piqua, Ohio. In 1897 he became superintendent of the Illinois institution for the education of the deaf. He was the author of Education of Deaf Children; and Notes and Observations on the Education of the Deaf. He died in 1903 in Jacksonville, 111.

Gordon, Laura De Force, journalist, lawwas born Aug. 17, 1843, in North East, Pa. In 1873 she founded the Daily Leader at Oakland, Cal. In 1879 she was admitted to the bar of the supreme yer, orator,

court of California.

Gordon M. Lafayette, educator, missionauthor, was bom July 18, 1843, in

ary,