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 GAINES

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1876 with first honors, and at tlie General theo- logical seminary, New York city, in 1ST9, with "the degree of S.T.B. He declined a northern par- ish and went back to Tennessee where he was rector of the parish at Pulaski, 1879-^2. He was •ordained a deacon in 1879 and a priest in 1880. He was elected professor of ecclesiastical history in the University of the South in Aiigust, 1883, and chaplain of the university in August, 1883. In 1890 he was made vice-chancellor and admin- istrative head of the university to succeed Dr. Telfair Hodgson, resigned. He declined the bish- opric of Georgia to which he was elected in 1891, in order further to advance the course of higher education in the south. On April 20, 1893, he was elected by a unanimous vote coadjutor bishop of Tennessee, and as the position allowed him to keep in touch with the interests of the university, he accepted the office. He was con- secrated, July 25, 1893, and as assistant to Bishop Qulntard made his home at Memphis, Tenn., while the senior bishop resided at Sewanee. On Feb. 15, 1898, at the death of Bishop Quintard he succeeded to the episcopate of the Diocese of Tennessee. He received his AM. degree from Racine in 1879 and the honorary degree of S.T.D. from Columbia in 1891, from Trinit}' in 1892, from the University of the South in 1893 and from the Oeneral theological seminary in 1894. He was a deputy to the General convention, 1886-93 and •was placed on important committees of the house. He was made a trustee of the University of the South on his accession to the bishopric as coadju- tor, and a member of the executive, and of the discipline and order, standing committees to act during the recess of the board of trustees. He •established his winter residence at Memphis and hi-i summer home at Sewanee.

QAINES, Edmund Pendleton, soldier, was barn in Culpeper county, Va., Mai'ch 20, 1777; son of James Gaines, a captain In the American army during the war for independence and a member of the North Cai'olina legislature. Ed- mund was appointed 2d lieutenant in the 6th U.S. infantry, Jan. 10, 1799, and was promoted 1st lieutenant in 1802. He saw service on the southwestern frontier and accomplished the arrest of Aaron Burr for treason, under orders from President Jefferson in 1805. The same year he was collector of the port of Mobile, Ala. He was promoted captain in 1807 and resigned in 1808 to study law, but returned to the army in March, 1812, was commissioned major and pro- moted lieutenant-colonel in 1813. He was con- spicuous at Chrysler's Field. Nov. 11, 1813, in the skill which he displayed in covering the retreat of the American araiy, for which action he was made adj\itant general with the rank of colonel. On March 9, 1814, he was ])ronioted brigadier-

general. He was engaged in tlie defence of Fort Erie, in 1814, was severely wounded and brevetted major-general ' ' for repelling with great slaughter the attack of the British veteran army siiperior in numbers." Congress presented him with a gold medal and the thanks of the nation. In 1810 he was appointed by President Madison commis- sioner to arrange a treaty with the Creek Indians. In 1817, while in command of the south- ern military district, he moved against the Creeks and Seminoles in Georgia and Alabama and his little force was nearly exterminated when he was re-enforced by General Jackson and together they suppressed the troubles and drove the Semi- noles into Florida. In 1835 he was again ordered to march against the Seminoles and he was severely wounded at Ouithlacoochie, Fla. At the outbreak of the war with Mexico he called out the Southern militia without orders from the war department and barely escaped censure from a court-martial called to investigate his action. He was married, first to Barbara, daughter of Senator William and Mary (Granger) Blount, who died in 1836, leaving one son, Edmund Pendle- ton; and .secondly, in 1839, to Mrs. Myra (Clark) AVhitney, daughter of Daniel Clark, delegate to the 9th and 10th U.S. congresses from Orleans Territory (Louisiana) 1805-09, and widow of W. W. Whitney of New York city. He died in New Orleans, La., June 0, 1849.

QAINES, John Paul, representative, was born in Walton, Boone county, Ky. He jiractised law in Walton and at the outbreak of the war with Mexico joined Gen. Thomas Marshall's Kentucky cavalry brigade as major and was with Gen. John E. Wool. He was captured bj' the Mexi- cans in January, 1847, and on being exchanged served on the staff of Gen. Winfield Scott as aide decamp. He won distinction at the battle of Molino del Rey and while in Mexico was elected a representative from Kentucky in the 30th congress, serving 1847-49. President Fill- more appointed him governor of the territory of Oregon and he served 1850-52, succeeding Joseph Lane, elected delegate to the 32d congress. He afterward made his home in the territory, tak- ing active measures to suppress the Indian insur- rections and toward preparing the territory for statehood. He died in Oregon in 18.58.

QAINES, John Wesley, representative, was born in Davidson county, Tenn., Aug. 24, 1861; son of Dr. John W. and JIaria F. Gaines; and grandson of Thomas Lo\iis and Lucy (Pendleton) Gaines of Virginia, descendants of the Gaines and Pendleton families of Virginia. He was grad- uated in medicine from the University of Nash- ville in 1882. He then took up the study of law and in 1884 was admitted to the bar, practising in Nashville, Tenn. He was a presidential