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gaged in sugar growing in Santo Domingo; and in 1900 was appointed collector of customs at Monte Cristo. In 1903 he was appointed

consul

at

San Juan

del

Norte,

Nicaragua; in 1903| he was transferred to Callao, Peru; and in 1905 he was promoted to consul-general without change of post. He is a member of the seventh regiment New York national guard of New York. He is the author of a volume of poems and magazine articles. Gottschalk, Louis Moreau, musician, composer, was born May 8, 1829, in New OrHe was the author of a numleans, La. ber of compositions, among which are Le Bamboula; La Savane; Le Danse des Ombres; and the Cradle Song. 18, 1869, in Rio Janeiro.

Gotwaia,

Luther

He

Alexander,

died Dec.

clergyman,

1833, in York Pa. He has held pastorates at Shippensburg and Lebanon, Pa.; at Dayton, Ohio; at Chambersburg and York, Pa.; and at Springfield, Ohio. He is the author of Church Orders, or the Necessity of a. Right Call to the Office of the Ministry. Goucher, John Franklin, clergyman, college president, pliilanthropist, was born June 7, 1845, in Waynesboro, Pa. He was one of the original incorporators of the Woman's college of Baltimore, of which he has been president since 1890. Goudy, William C, lawyer, state senator, was born May 15, 1824, in Indiana. In 1853 he became state's attorney; and in 1856 was sent to the state senate. In 1859 he opened an office in Chicago; and for thirty-four years practiced law with great success. He died April 27, 1893, in Chicago, 111.

author, Springs,

was born Jan.

31,

Gougar, Mrs. Helen M., lawyer, lecturer, was bom July 18, 1843, in Litchfield, Mich. She was the author of the law granting municipal suffrage to women in Kansas; and has been largely instrumental author,

securing school suffrage for women in several other states. She has also published Women Wealth Winners, and other works. She died in 1907 in La Fayette, ^ Ind. in

Gouge, Henry A., sanitary engineer, inwas born in 1829 in Hartford, Conn. He was the inventor of one of the earliest safety car heaters; and was also the inventor of a system of ventilating public school houses and other public buildings. For twenty-five years he lived in New Rochelle, N.Y. He died Oct. 8, 1905, in New Rochelle, N.Y. Gouge, William M., government official, author, was born Nov. 10, 1796, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a financial writer; and for thirty years was in the treasury department at Washington, D.C. He was the author of History of the American Banking System; Expediency of Dispensing with Bank Paper; and Fiscal History of Texas. He died July 14, 1863, in Trenton, N.J. ventor,

Gough,

John

temperance

Bartholomew,

was born Aug. 22, 1817, in England. He was the author of Autobiography; Temperance Lectures; Sunlight and Shadow, or Gleanings from My Life Work; Temperance Dialogues; and also Platform lecturer, author,

Echoes. Died Feb. 18, 1886, in Frankf ord, Pa. Gould, Ashley Mulgrave, lawyer, jurist, was bom in October, 1859, in Nova Scotia. He was educated in the public and high schools of Northampton, Mass.; in 1881

graduated from Amherst college; and in 1884 from the law school of Georgetown university. In 1884 he began the practice of law; in 1898 was a representative in theMaryland state legislature; and in 1901-03 was United States attorney for the District of Columbia. He is lecturer in the George-

town university law

school. ciate justice of the supreme District of Columbia for life.

He

is

asso-

court of the

Gould, Augustus Addison, eonchologist, author, was born April 23, 1805, in New Ipswich, N.H. For two years he taught botany and zoology in Harvard college. He was the author of System of Natural History; Mollusea and Shells; Olia Conchologia; The Mollusea of the North Pacific Expedition; and The Invertebrata of Massachusetts. He died Sept. 15, 1866, in Boston, Mass.

bom May He was comand was the last man

Gould, Benjamin, soldier, was 15, 1751, in Topsfield, Mass.

missioned captain; to leave Charlestown neck at the retreat of the continental forces from Bunker Hill in 1775. He died May 30, 1841, in Newburyport, Mass. Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, educator, author, was bom June 15, 1787, in Lancaster, Mass. In 1814-28 he was principal of the Boston latin school; and in 1830 became a ship-owner in the China and East Indian importing business. He was the author of The Prize Book; Adam's Latin Grammar; and editions of Horace, Ovid, and Virgil. He died Oct. 24, 1859. in Boston, Mass.

Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, astronomer, auwas born Sept. 24, 1824, in Boston, Mass. In 1868-85 he was director of the Argentine Republic national observatory at Cordova; and subsequently a resident of Cambridge. He was the author of Uranometry of the Southern Heavens; and Trans -Atlantic Longitude as Determined by the Coast Survey. He died Nov. 26, 1896, thor,

in

Cambridge, Mass.

Gould, founder,

Charles

Albert, manufacturer, 13, 1849, in BaN.Y. In 1869 he was one of the founders of the first foundry in America for making iron castings. In 1870-80 he was deputy postmaster of Buffalo Creek; 1880-84 and in he was collector of cus-

was born Jan.

tavia,

toms

for the district of Buffalo Creek. Gould, Edward Sherman, civil engineer, author, was bom Aug. 13, 1837, in New