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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. professor of biology at Brown university. He is the author of Laboratory Course in Bacteriology; and other works.

Gorham, George Congdon, journalist, pubofficial, author, was born July 5, 1833, in Greenport, N.Y. In 1860 he was editor of the San Francisco Daily Nation. In 1863-67 he was clerk of the United States circuit court at San Francisco; and in 1868-79 was secretary of the United States senate at Washington, D.C. In 1868-80 he represented California on the republican national committee; and in 1880-84 he was lic

editor of the Daily National Republican of He is the author of Life of Edwin M. Stanton. Gorham, John, educator, physician, author, was born Feb. 24, 1783, in Boston, Mass. In 1809 he was appointed adjunct professor of chemistry and materia medica in Harvard; and in 1815 was made professor of chemistry and mineralogy. He was the author of Inaugural Address and Elements of Chemical Science. He died March 39, 1829,

Washington, D.C.

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in Boston,

Mass.

Gorham, Nathaniel, lawyer, gressman, was bom on May

He was

Charlestown, Mass.

con27, 1738, in a representajurist,

tive in the legislature in 1771-75; was a delegate to the provincial congress in 177475; and again a member of the legislature, and a member of the board of war from 1778 until its dissolution. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1779; and in 1782-83 and 1785-87 he was a delegate from Massachusetts to the continental congress; and in 1786-87 he was president of that body. He was for several years a judge of the court of common He died June 11, 1796, in Charlespleas.

town, Mass. Gorley, Hugh Alexander, soldier, merchant, orator, author, poet, was born Nov. He attended 25, 1833, in Uniontown, Pa. '

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the Madison college of his native city; and during the civil war he was captain in company B, first regiment volunteer California infantry, attached to the column from CaliIn 1881 he fornia. served in the California state legislature as a representative from

San Francisco. He has been a successful merchant of San Rafael, Cal; is president of the society of California volunteers; a prominent member of the grand army of the Republic; and a member of the California

commandery

of the military legion of the United States.

Gorham, Shuhael,

soldier,

order,

was

bom

1686, in Barnstable, Mass. He chief promoter of the settlement of 3,

town,

Maine;

loyal

Sept.

was the Gorham-

and gave much time

and

613

money

to this purpose. In 1745 ho was commissioned colonel of the seventh Massachusetts regiment in the Louisburg expedition, being also captain of the first company. He died Feb. 20, 1746, at Louisburg, Mass.

Gorman, Arthur Pue, United States senwas bom March 11, 1839, in Howard

ator,

county. Mo. In 1869-73 he was a member of the house of delegates of the Maryland legislature as a democrat. In 1875-83 he was a member of the Maryland state senate. In 1881-99 he was a member of the United States senate. He died June 4, "1906, in Washington, D.C.

Gorman, James Sedgwick, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was bom Dec. 38, 1850, in Lyndon, Mich. He was elected to the lower house of the Michigan legislature in 1880; and in 1886-90 was a member In 1891-95 he was a, of the state senate. representative to the fifty-second and fiftythird congresses as a democrat. Gorman, John Berry, physician, artist, author, was born Feb. 23, 1793, in Newberry district, S.C. He owned a valuable library, was fond of painting, and left a picture entitled the Nightmare. He was the author of Philosophy of Animated ExistHe died Nov. 13, 1864, in Talbot ence. county, Ga. Gorman, Willis Arnold, soldier, lawyer, congressman, governor, was bom Jan. 13, For several 1814, near Flemingsburg, Ky. years he was a member of the Indiana state He was major of the third Inlegislature. diana volunteers in the Mexican war; and in 1848 was civil and military governor of Pueblo. In 1849-53 he was a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-first and thirty-second congresses. He was governor of the territory of Minnesota in 1853-57. He was appointed brigadier-general in 1861; and was in the battles of Ball's Bluff and West Point. He died May 30, 1876, in St. Paul, Minn. Gorrie, John, physician, inventor, was born In 1850 Oct. 3, 1803, in Charleston, S.C. he patented a machine for making ice, which is now widely used in the southern states. He was unquestionably the original invenHe tor of the artificial production of ice. died June 16, 1855, in Appalaehicola, Fla. Gorrie, Peter Douglas, clergyman, author, bom April 31, 181.3, in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1836-84 he was a member of the methodist episcopal conference of New York. He was the author of Churches and Sects in the United States; Episcopal Methodism as It Was and Is; and Lives of Eminent Methodists. He died Sept. 13, 1884, in Pots-

was

dam, N.Y. Gorringe, Henry Honeychurch, naval offiauthor, was born Aug. 11, 1841, in

cer,

Barbadoes, W.I.

He

superintended the re-

moval of the obelisk from Egypt to

New

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