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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Gould, Will Daniel, educator, lawyer, was 17, 1845, in Cabot, Vt. He received the rudiments of his education at the

born Sept.

public and high schools of his native city ; the academies oi St.

JohHsbury

and

and in graduated from

of Barre, Vt.;

1871 the university of Michigan. He became principal of the graded schools at Passumpsic, at Marshfield

and Plainfield, Vt.; and was superintendent

of

schools

in

his

native

town when

twenty-one years of age. In 1872 he settled in Los Angeles, Cal., where he has since been successfully engaged in the active practice of law.

Goulden, Joseph A., naval ance, congressman,

officer,

was born Aug.

1,

insur1844,

in Adams county, Pa. In 1864-66 he served in the navy. In 1884-88 he was state manager of the Pennsylvania reformatory; and in 1895-98 was school commissioner in York City. He is engaged in the insurance

New

business. In 1903-05 he was democratic representative from New York City to the fifty-eighth congress. Goulding, Francis Robert, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 28, 1810, in Midway, Ga. He was the author of Young Marooners on the Florida Coast; Marooner's Island; Frank Gordon; Fishing and Fishes; Woodruff Stories; Little Josephine; Cousin Aleck; Adventures Among the Indians; and Boy Life on the Water. He died Aug. 22, 1881, in Eoswell, Ga. Goulding, Herbert Jay, educator, author, was bom May 9, 1870, in Saginaw, Mich. Since 1895 he has been an instructor in the university of Michigan. He is the author of Elementary Mechanical Drawing. Goulding, Thomas, clergyman, was born March 14, 1786, in Midway, Ga. On the establishment of a theological seminary by the synod of South Carolina and Georgia, he was appointed its only professor. At the end of a year the seminary was transferred to Columbia, S.C, and he was professor of ecclesiastical history and church government until 1835, when he took charge of the church at Columbus, Ga. He was many years president of the board of trustees of He died June 26, Oglethorpe university. 1848, in Columbus, Ga. Gouley, John William Severin, physician, author, was born March 11, 1832, in New He is professor in the uniOrleans, La. versity of New York. He is the author of External Perineal Urethrotomy; Diseases of the Urinary Organs; and Diseases of

Man. Gouraud, George Fauven, lawyer, author, He is the in 1872 in New York. author of Ballads of Coster-Land.

was born

61S

Gourdin, Theodore, congressman. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina in 1813-15. He died Jan. 17, 1826,

South Carolina. Govan, A. R., congressman, was born in Orangeburg, S.C. In 1821-27 he was a representative from South Carolina to the in

seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth conHe died in South Carolina.

gresses.

Gove, Aaron, soldier, educator, was bom Hampton Falls, N.H. In 1861 he entered the union army as a private; and attained the rank of major in the third regiment Illinois volunteer infantry. In 1864-74 he had charge of schools at Normal, 111.; and in 1874-1904 was superintendent of schools of Denver, Col. In 188788 he was president of the national eduSept. 26, 1839, in

cational association; and is a thirty-three degree mason. Gove, Samuel F., soldier, merchant, con-

gressman, was born March 9, 1822, in Weymouth, Mass. He was a captain and assessor of taxes for Bibb county in the confederate service. In 1868-69 he was a representative from Georgia to the fortieth congress as a republican. Gove, William Hazeltine, orator, legislator, was born July 10, 1817, in Weare, N.H. He gained the title of the silver-tongued orator of New Hampshire. He was elected u. member of the legislature in 1851, 1852

and 1855. He died March 11, 1876, in Weare, N.H. Gove, William Henry, lawyer, manufacturer, statesman, was born Sept. 3, 1851, in South Berwick, Maine. He was educated in the public schools of his native town; attended Oak Grove seminary of Vassalboro; in 1869 graduated from the high school of Lynn, Mass.; in 1876 graduated with the degree of A.B. from Harvard college; and in 1877 graduated with the degree of LL.D. from Harvard law school. He is a successful lawyer and manager of manufacturing corporations at Salem, Mass. In 1878-81 he was a member of the school committee of Lynn, Mass.; in 1894-96 was alderman of Salem, Mass.; and in 1903-04 was a representative in the Massachusetts state legislature; in 1908 he was an alternate delegate from the sixth Massachusetts congressional district to the republican national convention at Chicago; and has held numerous other positions of trust and honor.

Gow, George Coleman, musician, composer,

was bom Nov. 27, 1860, in Ayer, In 1889-95 he taught music at Smith college; and since 1895 at Vassar college. He is the author of Structure of Music; and author,

Mass.

about fifty songs. Gowans, William, bookseller, antiquarian, author, was born March 29, 1803, in Scotland. From 1S28 until his death he was identified with the book business of New York Citv. He died Nov. 27, 1870, in New

York

City.