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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. of The Boys of Eaglewood School; The Silver Library; Friends in Need; and The Merman and the Figure Head. Guernsey, Eghert, physician, author, was born July 8, 1823, in Litchfield, Conn. In 1848 he established the Broolclyn Daily Times. At the same time he was acting as physician and writing a school history of the United States. For six years he was professor of materia mediea' in the New liomcEopathic medical college and was president of the

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Metropolitan hospital. In 1864-68 he was a surgeon in the New York national guard. In 1872-1902 he edited the iledical Times of New York City. He is the author of Homoeopathic Domestic Practice; and A Gentleman's Book of Homoeopathy; and A History of the United

Louisville, Ky.; then with the Adams and express company in Nashville, Tenn. subsequently became agent of a large oil He well machinery firm of Pennsylvania. became the largest oil producer and operator in the United States in the petroleum fields of Pennsylvania; is also the owner of valuable coal mines in Pennsylvania and West Virginia; and of gold and silver works in Colorado and Idaho. He is president of the Trade dollar mining and milling company of Silver City, Idaho; and the new town of Guffey, thirty miles from Cripple Creek, has been named in his honor. In 1908 he became a member of the democratic national

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committee for Pennsylvania; and resides in Pittsburg, Pa. Guilford, Simeon Hayden, dentist, scienauthor, was born April 11, 1841, in

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Lebanon, Pa.

He graduated from Franklin and Marshall colleges and the Philadelphia college of dental surgery. In 1862-63 he served as a private in

Since civil war. 1872 he has practiced

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States.

Guernsey, Frank Edward, lawyer, banker, congressman, was bom Oct. 15, 1866, in Dover, Maine. He was educated in the common schools. Foxcroft academy of eastern Maine, Conference seminary at Bucksport, Maine Wesleyan seminary at Kents Hill, and the Eastman business college at Poughkeepsie, X.Y. In 1890 he was admitted to the practice of law; and in 1890-96 was trea'iurer of Piscataquis county, Maine. In 1897-99 he was a member of the Maine house of representatives; and in 1903 was a member of the Maine state senate. He is president of the Piscataquis savings bank at Dover, Maine. In 1908-11 he was a representative from Maine to the sixtieth congress to fill a vacancy and to the sixty-first congress as a republican. Guernsey, Eocellus Sheridan, lawyer, author, was born April 10, 1836, in Westford, N.Y. He has been a member of the bar of the United States supreme court since 1863. He is the author of Juries and Physicians on Insanity; Mechanics' Lien Laws for New York City; Municipal Law and Its Relations to the Constitution of Man; Key to Story's Equity Jurisprudence; Living Authors at the New York Bar; Suicide, a History of the Penal Laws Relating to It; New York City and Vicinity During the War of 1812; and Taxation 'and Its Relations to Capital and Labor. Guffey, James McCIurg, merchant, manustatesman, was born Jan. 19, facturer, 1839, in Sewickley, Pa. He is of Scotch descent and his paternal ancestor came to Philadelphia in 1838; in 1858 they settled in Westmoreland county; and in 1780 purchased part of the territory of the present township of Sewickley, Pa., where the deFor scendants of the Guffeys still dwell. several years he was in the railway service

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dentistry in Philadelphia, Pa. has been professor in the Philadelphia dental college since 1881; and in

1895-1905 was dean of same. He is the author of Nitrous O.xide; and Orthodontia. He has written chapters on Orthodontia; Anomalies of the Teeth and Maxillae; Hypercementosis; American System of Dentistry; Chapters on Preparation of Cavities and

Contour Filling; and American Textbook of Operative Dentistry. Quillet, Joseph Henri, soldier, journalist, educator, lawyer, was bom Jan. 11, 1853, in Marieville, Province of Quebec. At the age of sixteen he enlisted in the famous regiment, the Pontifical Zouaves, Rome, and served during the campaigi»s of 1870 up to the fall of Rome. He returned to America and entered journalism at Lowell, Mass.; subsequently taught school; and is now a noted lawyer of that city. He was decorated by the Pope with a, military medal; was created by Leo XIII a knight commander of He th Military Order of Saint Sylvester. has been president of several associations.

Guiney, Louise Imogen, author, poet, was born Jan. 7, 1861, in Boston, Mass. She Is the author of Goose -Quill Papers; Brownies and Bogies Three Heroines of New England Romance, with Mrs. Spofford and Alice Brown; Monsieur Henri, a Footnote to French History; A Little English Gallery; Patrins, a collection of essays; Verse: Songs at the vStart: The White Sail; A Roadside She has Harp; and The Martyr's Idyl.

poems of James Clarence Mangan, with a study of his life and work; and various translations. edited the select

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