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Rh treasurer. He owns one of the finest collections of Washington and Lincoln relics; and also a collection of historical manuscripts. He is president of the Coliseum; a thirtythird degree mason; a trustee of the Chicago academy of science; a memher of the Chicago historical association; and a membr of the Chicago art institute; and a member of the Union league and Iroquois clubs. Gurler, Henry Benjamin, soldier, dairy farmer, author, was born May 21, 1840, in Chesterfield, N.H. He was educated in the country schools and at the high school of De Kalb, 111. He served in the civil war as corporal of company K, forty-second regiment Illinois volunteer infantry; and as second lieutenant of com-

and was one of the founders of He was the author of Life of Jehudi- Ashmun Mission to England for the American Colonization Society; and Life terests; Liberia.



Eloquence of Rev. Sylvester Larned. died July 30, 1872, in Washington, D.C. Gurley,

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volunteer infantry. In 1864-68 he was in the mercantile business in Pe Kalb, 111.; in 1868-82 was a dairyman; and since 1882 has been proprietor of a creamery. He is presideht of the De Kalb dairy company; in 1891 was instructor in butter-making at the Wisconsin agricultural

college;

for

two terms

nati, Ohio.

Gurley, Ralph Randolph, clergyman, auwas born May 26, 1797, in Lebanon, Conn. In 1822-72 he acted/ as the agent and secretary of the American Colonization society; visited Africa three times in its inthor,

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the same position in the Vermont agricultural college; and for three terms in the Pennsylvania college. In 1895-1906 he supplied certified milK to Chicago, being a pioneer in the business. In 1886-92 he was a member of the board of education; and in 1896 was a member of the De Kalb common council. He has been president of the National dairy show association; and has lectured extensively on dairy subjects. He is the author of American Dairying. Gurley, Henry H., lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1787 in Lebanon, Conn. In 1823-31 he was a representative from Louisiana to the eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first congresses. He previously held the office of United States judge for the district court of Louisiana. He died in 1832 in Baton Rouge, La.

Gurley, John A., clergyman, journalist, congressman, governor, was born Dec. 9, 1813, in East Hartford, Conn. In 1834-37 ne was settled as a preacher at Methuen, Mass., when he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where for fifteen years he published a paper called the Star of the West. In 1859-63 he was a representative from Ohio to the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh congresses. In 1863-63 he was governor of the territory of Arizona. He died Aug. 19, 1863, in Cincin-

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Gustafson, Mrs. Zadel Barnes, author, was born March 9, 1841, in Middletown, Conn. She was educated at home; at the St. Thomas’ hall female seminary of Flushing, N.Y.; and

at the Wilbraham academy of Massachusetts. At the age of thirteen she began writing in local papers and for years wrote poems for the Home Journal. She

has continued to contribute stories, poems, biographies, reviews on art, drama and descriptive papers; and also reviews on art, drama and literature to leading papers and magazines here and abroad. She has traveled extensively; and has lectured on temperance and woman suffrage in the United States, England and Australia. In 1884 she edited the Nationa) Philanthropist of London, England. She is the author of Can the Old Love; Meg, a Pastoral, and Other Poems; Zophiel; A Study of the Drink Question; and other works.

Gustine, Amos, congressman. In 1841-43 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the twenty-seventh congress. He died March 3, 1844, in Mifflintown, Pa.

Guthe, Karl Eugen, educator, scientist, auwas born March 5, 1866, in Germany. In 1893 he began teaching physics; and since 1905 has been professor of physics at the state university of Iowa. In 1908 he was vice-president of the American association for the advancement of science. He is the author of Manual of Physical Measurements; Laboratory Exercises with Primary and Storage Cells; and other works.