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 GALLINGER

GALLITZIN

Et. Rev. Joseph Pere Bell Wilmer, deceased, in 1879, and was consecrated, Feb. 5, 1880, by Bishops Green, R. H. Wilmer, Robertson and Dudley in Trinity church. New Orleans, La. He was a trustee of the University of the South, and received tlie degree of D.D. from that institu tion in 1880 and from Columbia in 1875. He was married to Lottie, daughter of John Barber, mayor of Louisville, Ky, and had three sons and two daughters. His health failing in April, 1891, he was given an assistant in the person of his son-in-law, the Rev. Davis Sessums, rector of Christ church. New Orleans, who was conse- crated, June 14, 1891, and succeeded to the bishop- ric upon the death of Bishop GaUeher, in New Orleans, La.. Dec. 7, 1891.

QALLINQER, Jacob Harold, senator, was born in Cornwall, Ontario, March 28, 1837; son of Jacob and Catharine (Cook) Gallinger; and of Dutch ancestry, his paternal grandfather having emigrated from Holland previous to the Revolu- tionary war, first settling in New York and afterward in Canada. He attended the public schools and learned the trade of a printer. He was graduated an M. D. from the Medical insti- tute, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1858, and after two years of travel and study he removed to Concord, N.H., where he pi'actised medicine and surgery. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1873, 1873 and 1891 ; was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1876, and of the state senate in 1878, 1879 and 1880, being presi- dent of that body the last two years. In 1879 he was made surgeon -general of the state with the rank of brigadier general. He was chairman of the Republican state central committee, 1883-90, and was re-elected to the position in 1898. He was a Republican representative from New Hampshire in the 49th and 50th congresses, de- clining renomination to the Slst congress. He was chairman of the state delegation to the Re- publican national convention of 1888 and seconded the nomination of Benjamin Harrison. In 1891 he was elected U.S. senator and was re-elected in 1897, his term of service expiring March 3, 1903. Dartmouth college conferred upon hun the honoi^ary degree of A.M. in 1885.

GALLITZIN, Demetrius Augustine, known for many years as " Augustine Smith," clergy- man, was born in The Hague, Holland, Dec. 23, 1770; the son of the Russian ambassador at The Hague, and member of an ancient and noble Russian family. His mother was a daughter of Count Von Schmittan, a field-marsbal and favor- ite general in the army of Fi'ederick the Great. He was brought up an infidel, but became a Christian in 17S7. his mother having returned to her mother church the year before. He was baptized Augustine. In the campaign of 1793

he was for a short time aide-de-camp to Van Lilian, the Austrian commander. The same year he emigrated to America and to avoid pub- licity adopted the name Augustine Schmittan, which was Americanized .Smith. He bore letters to Bishop Carroll of Baltimore and reached that city Oct. 38. 1793. Declaring his intention to become a priest, he was sent to St. Suljiice semi- nary, where he pursued his theological course and was ordained, March 18, 1795, the .second to receive the rite in the United States and the first to receive holy orders, as his senior. Father Bazin, had been made a deacon in France. Father Smith, as he was then known, joined the order of Sulpi- ■^S^'-'"' '<• "'' '-'i\ti ^^

. cian fathers. He served at Port Tobacco, at Con- ewago and in

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too great zeal. In 1799 he organized a colony in Cambria county. Pa., with half a dozen families. In 1800 he had the only R.C. church between Lancaster and St. Louis. With funds received from his family in Russia he purchased 20,000 acres of land and suppUed homes for settlers on easy terms. In 1803 his father died and his remittances were cut off about the time he was building the village of Loretto. His mother con- tinued remittances until her deatli in 1806 and in

1808 the Czar decided that as a Roman Catholic priest he could not inherit property. His sister, the Princess Maria, continued to send him large sums till her marriage with the Prince of .Salm. He kept up his work, however, and foimded congregations in several Pennsjdvania towns. In

1809 his territory was included in the diocese of Philadelphia, and, as he had been naturalized as Augustine Smith, he applied to the state legisla- ture which authorized him to resume his real name. In 1811 Bishop Ryan paid him his first ofljicial visit and administered the rite of con- firmation. Father GaUitzin was mentioned as bishop of Bardstown and was nominated to Detroit, but declined both honors. In 1817 his colony was free of debt and he had expendtKl §150,000 on its organization. In 1821 he was made vicar-general of the diocese of Philadelphia and Bishop Conwell desired to make him his coadjutor, which office he declined. He resigned his vicar-generalship in 1823 and devoted himself to his colony which he saw grow to a consider- able village. He published: Defence of CatJwUc Priiiciples hi a Lettrr to a Protestant Chrnymnn (■1816); Letter to a Protestant Friend on the Holy