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of Com. James Nicholson, U.S.N., and Frances Wittei", liis wife. They had two sons, James and Albert Rolaz, and one daughter, Frances. He publislied; Considerations on the Currency and Banking System of the United States (1831); JRiyht of the United States to the Northeastern Boundary (1840); Orerjon Question (1846); Peace With Mex- ico (1847); War Expenses (1848); and his scientific bibliography includes: Synopsis of the Indian Tribes, etc., etc. (1836); and Notes on the Semi-Civ- ilised Nations of Mexico, Yucatan, and Central America, with Conjectures on the Origin of Semi-civ- ilization in America (18^5). See: Writings of Albert Gallatin by Henry Adams (3 vols., 1879); Life of Albert Gallatin (ibid., 1879); and John Austin Stevens's biography in American Statesman Series (1883). He died in Astoria., N.Y.. Aug. 13, 1849.

QALLATIN, Albert Horatio, educator, was born in New York city, March 7, 1839; son of Albert Rolaz and Mary Lucille (Stevens) Gallatin. He was graduated in arts from the University of the city of New York in 1859, and in medicine in 1862, receiving his A.M. degree in the latter year. He was successively professor of chemistry in the Norwich imiversity, Northfield, Vt.; professor of analytical chemistry in the Cooper institute, N.Y., and lecturer on physics in the Rensselaer polytechnic institute, Troy, N. Y.; and from 1882 to 1890 held the chair of analytical chemistry in the University of the city of New York. He re- tired to private practice in New York city in 1890. He served in the civil v.-ar as assistant sur- geon of the 32d and 12th regiments, New York state militia, 1863-63. He was married in 1877 to Louisa Belford, daughter of Maskell Ewing. He is the author of numerous contributions, chiefly scientific, to i^eriodical literature.

QALLATIN, Albert Rolaz, lawyer, was born in New York city, Jan. 8, 1800; son of Albert and Hannah (Nicholson) Gallatin. He entered the College of New Jersey, leaving in 1815 to accom- pany his father, appointed U.S. minister to France. On his return in 1823 he was admitted to the bar and practised in Baltimore until 1826, when he again went abroad with his father who had been appointed by President Adams U.S. minister to Great Britain. The later years of his life were pas.sed in New York, where in 1839 he was married to Mary Lucille, daughter of Gen. Horatio Gates Stevens, and granddaughter of Gen. Ebenezer Stevens, a distinguished officer of the American Revolution. He had three sons, Albert Horatio, Frederic and James. He died in New York city, Feb. 3.'i, 1890.

QALLAUDET, Edward Miner, educator, was born at Hartford, Conn., Feb. 5, 1837; son of Tlionias Hopkins and Sophia (P'owler) Gallaudet. He was instructed at home by his father and sister until 1848, and was graduated from the

high school in his native city in 1851. He was clerk in a bank, 1851-54; and then entered Trinity college, where he was graduated as a bachelor of science in 1856. Before his graduation he began to teach deaf-mutes in the institution founded by his father at Hartford in 1817, and after complet- ing his course he as- .sumed the full duties of an instructor. In May, 1857, he took charge of a school for deaf mutes at Wash- ington, D.C., which in 1864 became the National deaf mute college, of which he was made president, holding also the chair of moral and political science. The institu- tion was afterward called Gallaudet col- lege in honor of his father. Congress made lib- eral appropriations to the college which was the first and in 1900 was the only institution for the higher education of deaf mutes in the world. Dr. Gallaudet visited Europe several times in the in- terest of his profession. In 1867 he made a report on the schools for the deaf in Europe, more than forty of which he carefully inspected. He was an honorary commissioner to the Vienna exposi- tion in 1873, and in 1880 he attended and ad- dressed a congress of instructors held at Milan, Italy. In 1886 by invitation of the British gov- ernment he gave evidence in London before the royal commission on the deaf and blind. In 1891 he delivered an address at Glasgow before the British deaf and dumb association. He was made chairman of the standing executive com- mittee of the convention of American instructors of the deaf in 1868, taking prominent part in the conventions and conferences and contributing much to the literatui-e of his profession. Dr. Gallaudet was elected a member of several of the scientific and literary societies of Washington. and of the Huguenot society, the American his- torical society, and the Social science association; and was one of the founders of the Cosmos club. He became a trustee of the Columbian university in 1881, and of Howard university in 1884. He received the degree of LL.D. from Trinity in 1869 and from Yale in 1895 and that of Ph.D. from the Columbian university in 1869. He published a Manual of International Law (1879; 4th ed., 1890); Life of Thomr^ Iloplins Gallaudet (1888), and nu- merous niasazuie articles.

QALLAUDET, Thomas, educator, was born in Hartford, Conn.. June 3, 1822; son of Thomas Hopkins and Sophia (Fowler) Gallaudet. He