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removed to Chelsea, Mass. He was graduated from Wesleyan university in 1870, and entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church serving in various churches in New York and Connecticut, 1870-79, and in Massachusetts, 1880-89, officiating as presiding elder for two years in the New England southern conference. In 1889, he became president of Lawrence univer- sity, Appleton, Wis., resigning in 1893 to accept the presidency of Maine Wesleyan seminary and college, Kents Hill, Maine. In 1897 he accepted a position in Lasell seminary, Auburndale, Mass. He was married in 1876 to Emilie Eliza Hubbard of Brooklyn, N. Y., who died in 1890. He was later married to Evangeline Coscarden of Providence, R.I. He twice represented his conference in the General conference of the Methodist Episcopal church; and he received the degree of D.D. from the Little Rock imiversity. Ark. His published writings consist of contributions to religious periodicals, and God Berealecl, or Nature's Best Word (1899) ; adopted in the reading cour.se of the Epworth league of the M.E. church.

QALLAQHER, Hugh Patrick, educator, was born in county Donegal, Ireland, in 1815. He di- rected his education with a view to the priesthood and on emigrating to America in 1837 completed his studies at the theological seminary of St. Charles Borromeo, Overbrook, Pa., in 1840; mean- while filling the chair of classics in the seminary. In 1840 he was ordained priest and assigned to St. Patrick's church, Pottsville, Pa. Here among other reforms he formed a temperance society with ."JOOO members. In 1844 he was elected president of the theological seminary then estab- lished in Pittsburg, had charge of one of the larg- est churches of the city ; and founded and edited the Plttshnrfj Catholic. He founded St. Francis's college for boys, and in 18.50, Mt. St. Aloysius's academy for girls at Loretto, Pa., which he placed under the charge of the Sisters of Mercy, introduced to the diocese by him in 1843, when St. Mary's convent, the mother-house of Pitts- burg, was founded. The sisters afterward built Mt. St. -Aloysius's Convent of Mercy at Loretto, near Cresson, Pa., the mother house of the order there. He was theologian to the first plenary council of Baltimore, 18.52, and after the council adjourned he went to California where he built St. Dominic's church at Benicia, helped to com- plete St. Mary's cathedral at San Francisco, and laid the foundation for the church of the Im- maculate Conception at Oakland. He established and edited the CatJioUc Standard in 1853, the pioneer Roman Catholic newspaper on the Pacific coast. He visited Europe in 1853, where he ob- tained a number of priests. Sisters of Mercy and Pi'esentation nuns for his proposed churches, schools and hospitals in California. He also se-

cured large donations of money to be used in his proposed work. On the failure of Adams's express and banking company in 1855, which impoverished so many of the working classes in California, Father Gallagher, by unanimous con- sent, was made the future custodian of their fimds and while he acted in this capacity milUons of dollars were safely entrusted to his care. In 1860 his health demanded a change and he went to Yreka, where he built SS. Peter and Paul's church, also churches at Carson City, Reno and Vii-ginia City, afterward included in the diocese of Sacramento. On returning to San Francisco in 1861, he established the parish of St. Joseph, building a church, two school houses and a chapel to St. Vincent's school. He founded St. Maiy's. hospital, and in 1865, the Magdalen asylum, iilac- ing both uu<lerthe charge of the Sisters of Mercy. He died in San Francisco, Cal., in March, 1883.

QALLAQHER, Nicholas Aloysius, R.C. bishop, was born in Temperanceville, Ohio, Feb. 19, 1846; son of John and Mary Ann (Brinton) Gallagher, and grandson of Edmund Gallagher. He made his studies for the priesthood at Mt. St. Mary's seminary of the West, Cincinnati, Ohio,. 1862-68. and was or- dained priest, Christ- mas, 1868, in Holy Cross church, Colum- bus, Ohio, by Bishop Rosencrans. He was assistant priest at St. Patrick's church, Columbus, 1868-71 ; president of St. Aloy- sius seminary, Cobun- bus, 1871-76 ; pastor of St. Patrick's church, Columbus, 1876-78, and adminis- trator of the dio- cese, 1878-80. Bishop Watterson appointed him vicar-general of the diocese, and he served, 1880-82. He was conse- crated bishop of Canopus, April 30, 1882 ; admin- istrator of the diocese of Galveston, 1882-92, succeeding the Rt. Rev. C. M. Dubuis. D.D., re- signed, and was appointed bishop of Galveston, Dec. 16, 1892, when Titular Bishop Dubuis was promoted to an archbishopric.

QALLATIN, Albert, diplomatist, was born in Geneva. Switzerland, Jan. 29, 1761 ; son of Jean and Soi)hia Albertina Rolaz du Rosey de Galla- tin, and grand.son of Abraham and Susanne (Vaudinet) de Gallatin. When nine years old he was left an orphan and his education was directed by Mademoiselle Pictet, a relative of his father. He was graduated at the University of Geneva, in 1779, declined a lieutenant -colonelcy in the

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