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 GANSEVOORT

GARDEN

on the staff of General Miles at Fort Monroe, 1866, was promoted captain in the 5th artillery. May, 1867, and coniniandeJ Battery E at Fort Barrancas, Fla., later transferring the battery to Fort Independence, Mass. In May, 1870. his battery was ordered to St. Albans, Vt., in view of threatened Fenian troubles on the Canadian border. He went to Nassau, N.P., for his health in the winter of 1870-71, and returning, died on the steamer Drew on the Hudson river wlien near Rhiuebeck, N.Y., April I'i. 1871.

QA^SEVOORT, Leonard, delegate, was born in Albany, N.Y., 1731; a descendant of the early Dutch settlers of Albany, N.Y., the Gansevoorts having immigrated from Groningen, Holland. He was a younger bi-otlaer of Peter Gansevoort, the hero of Fort Stanwi.x. He was a delegate to the Continental congress, 1787-88. a member of the New York provincial congress, state senator, 1793-93 and 1797-1802, and member of the state assembly, 1778, 1779 and 1788. He died at "White' Hull," near Albany, N.Y., in 1810.

QANSEVOORT, Peter, soldier, was born in Albany. N.Y., July 17, 1749; elder brother of Leonard Gansevoort, delegate to the Continental congress, 1787-88. He was a descendant of the early Dutch settlers of Albany, a zealous patriot, and in July, 1775, was made major of the 2d New York regiment by congress and with it joined General Mont- gomery in his expe- dition against Quebec in 1775. On March 19. 1776, he was pro- mote<l lieutenant- colonel and was made colonel of the 2d New York regiment. Nov. 21, 1776, and assigned to the command at Fort George. He de- fended Fort Stanwix (Rome, N.Y.) against the British and Indians under St. Le.ger for twenty days in April, 1777, and thus prevented the reinforcement of Burgoyne at Saratoga. For this action he received the thanks of congress. He was with Sullivan in his western expedition of 1779 and captured the Indians congregated at the lower Mohawk castle. The legislature of New York appointed him a brigadier-general in 1781 and in 1783 he accompanied General Wash- ington in his tour to the Northern battle-fields. He was U.S. commissioner of Indian affairs, commissioner for fortifj'ing the frontier and military agent for the war department. On Feb. 15, 1809, he was made brigadier-general in the regular army. He was regent of the Univer-

sity of the state of New York, 1808-12, and a director in the New York state bank, 1803-12. He die 1 in Albany, N.Y,, July 2, 1812.

QANSEVOORT, Peter, jurist, was born in Albany, N.Y, Dec. 22, 1788; son of Gen. Peter Gansevoort, Revolutionary patriot. His mother was a Van Schaick. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1808, receiving his M.A. degree in 1811. He studied law at Litchfield, Conn., and under Harmauus Bleecker in Albany, N.Y., and was admitted to the bar in 1811. He was private secretary to Gov. DeWitt Clinton, 1817-19, and judge-advocate-general on his mili- tary staff, 1819-21. He was a member of the state assembly, 1830-31; a state senator, 1833-36; first judge of the court of common pleas, 1843-47 ; a trustee of the Albany academy, 1826-76; cliairman of its board of trustees, 1856-76, and director of the New York state bank as successor to his father, 1812-70. He was married in 1833 to Mary, daughter of Chancellor Nathan Sanford. She died in 1841 and in 1843 he was married to Susan, daughter of Abraham G. Lansing. She aied in October, 1873. Judge Gansevoort died in Albany. N.Y,, Jan. 4, 1876,

QARCELON, Alonzo, governor of Maine, was born in Lewiston, Maine, May 6, 1813: son of Col. William G. and Mary (Davis) Garcelon; grand.son of William Garcelon; and great-grand- son of James Garcelon, who came to America in 1752 and so far as is known was the first and only immigrant of the name. He worked on the farm, attended the academies in Monmouth. Water- ville and Newcastle, and was graduated from Bowdoin in 1836, having paid his college expenses by teaching school. He studied medicine at Dartmouth, was graduated from the medical col- lege of Ohio at Cincinnati in 1839, and returned to Lewiston, Maine, to practise his profession. He represented his city in the state legislature in 1853 and 1857; served in the state senate in 1855; was mayor of Lewiston in 1871 ; and in 1878 re- ceived the Democratic nomination for governor, being elected by the legislature in 1879 as there was no election by the people. He took an active part in the erection of the first cotton mill in the city of Lewiston in 1845-46 : obtained railroad connections for the city; established the 'Lewiston Journal, the first newspaper there, in 1847, and was influential in the formation of Androscoggin county and all other public inter- ests of the city. He was married first to Ann Augusta Waldron of Dover, N.H., who died in 1857; and secondly, on Jan. 13, 1859. to Olivia N. Spear of Rockland, Slaine, who died in 1889.

GARDEN, Alexander, soldier, was born in Charleston. S.C. Dec. 4, 1757; son of Alexander Garden, naturalist, 1730-91, a physician in Charleston, S.C, 1752-83, who being a royalist