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on Microscopical Methods (1887), besides numerous papers and contriliutions to cyclopaedias and dictionaries and to scieutitic periodicals.

QAQE, Susanna Stewart Phelps, scientist, was born at Morrisville, N.Y., Dec. 26, 1857; daugliter of Henry S. and Mary (Austin) Phelps; granddaughter of John and Betsey ( Ayer) Phelps, and of Asa and Susannah (Stewart) Austin; and a descendant of William Phelps, John Ajer, Ricliard Austin, Robert Stewart and other well known early Puritan and Scotch-Irish set- tlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts. She was prepared for college at the Cazenovia (N.Y.) seminary, and was graduated from Cornell uni- versity in 1880, essayist of lier class. She was married Dec. 14, 1881, to Simon Henry Gage, naturalist. She was elected a member of the American microscopical society; the Association of collegiate alumntu; the American morphologi- cal society; chairman of the section of embryol- ogy of the National science club, and recording secretary of the George Washington Memorial association. The last association was initiated in 1896-97, at lier suggestion, the purpose being to bring to fruition the long neglected bequest of Washington for the foundation of a National university for research. Slie published several monographs on the structure of muscle and the morphology of the brain, and, in connection with her husband, on the physiology of respiration. Articles by her relating to the proposed National university aijjjeared in the Outlook, the Xew Uaitij and the I'roccnlini/s of the convocation of the University of the state of New York.

QAILLARD, Edwin Samuel, physician, was born in Cliarleston district, S.C, Jan. 16, 1827; -son of Dr. Edwin and Mary Harriet Cantey (White) Gaillard, and a descendant of Jean Gail- lard of Montpellier, France. He was graduated from South Carolina college, Columbia, in 1845, from the Medical college of the state of South Car- olina, Cliarleston, in 1854, and the same year re- moved to Florida where lie practised till 1857 and tlien went to Europe for study and recreation. Returning from Eurojie he removed to New York city, where he remained till the opening of the civil war. He then enlisted in the Confederate army and served till 1865, during which time he filled positions from assistant surgeon of a regi- ment to that of medical director and hosjiital in- spector of the army. At the battle of Seven Pines, May 31, 1862, he lost his right arm. At the close of the war he settled to practise in Riclimond, Va., where in 1866 he jjublished the first number of the Richmond Medical Jmtrncd. In 1867 he was elected professor of general pathology and patho- logical anatomy in the medical college of Vir- ginia, Richmond, and in May of the following year he was elected to a professorship in the Ken-

tucky school of medicine, Louisville. At the request of the Medical society of Kentucky he moved his journal to Louisville in 1868 and con- tinued to publish it as the Bichmond and Louisville Medical Journal- He was professor of jirinciples and jjractioe of medicine in the Louisville medi- cal college, 1869-78, also first dean of that institu- tion. In 1874 lie established the American Medical Weekhj, and subsequently had an office in New Y''ork city where he jniblished Gaillard's Medical Journal. He was a member of several medical societies and received the honorary degrees of M.A. and LL.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1873. He was married to Mary Eliz- abeth, daughter of Dr. Charles Bell Gibson of Richmond, Va., and had five sons and one daugh- ter. Ilis daughter, Ellen Eyre, was married to Dr. ^V. W. Ashhurst of Philadelphia. He died at Ocean Beach, N.J.. Feb. 2, 1885.

QAILLARD, John, senator, was born in St. Stephen's district, S.C, Sept. 5, 1765; of French descent. He was elected to the U.S. senate in 1804 to succeed senator Pierce Butler, resigned, and held his seat by successive re-elections from Jan. 31, 1805, to the day of his death. He was elected jiresident pro tempore of the senate Feb. 28, 1810, and again April 17, 1810, serving in the second and third sessions of the 11th, the third .session of the 13th and the whole of each suc- ceeding congress up to and including the 19th, and on the death of Vice-President Elbrjdge Gerry, Nov. 23, 1814, becoming Vice-President of the United States, ex afflcio. He died in Wash- ington, D.C., Feb. 26. 1S26.

QAILOR, Thomas Frank, third bishop of Ten- nessee, and 170th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Jackson, Miss., Sept. 17, 1856; son of Maj. Frank M. and Charlotte (Moffett) Gailor. His father was editor of the Memphis ^lr«- lanche and as com- inauder of the 33d Mississippi regiment was killed at Periy- ville, Ky., Oct. 8, 1862. Major Gailor was of New England descent, from Col. Caleb Hazen of Massa- chusetts and Edward Hazen, 1649; and his wife was of Scotch- Irish parentage, the family being loyal to the Church of England, surviving child devolved upon the mother who determined that he should be educated for the church. He was graduated at Racine college in

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