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jurisdiction was erected into the diocese of Dal- las in 1895. He made Dallas the see city; erected St. Matthew's cathedral and St. Mary's institute for girls, and served as rector of both. At the time of liolding the first annual conven- tion in 1896 he had under his jurisdiction twenty clergymen, twenty lay leaders, and 2123 communicants. The diocesa was divided into tliirteen parishes and thirty-four mis- sions, covering a ter- ritory of 100,000 s square miles. He re- ^\ ceived the honorary ^ degree of D.D. from Nebraska college in 1872 and from Trinity college, Dublin, in

C.^!^'^^^U '^iZ/'A^ LL.D. from the Uni-

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in 1876. He delivered the commencement oration at the University of the South in 1870, and a catliedral sermon in the Columbian course, estab- lished by Bishop Coxe, of Western New York, at St. Paul's catheilral, Buffalo, in 1893.

GARRETT, Edmund H., artist, was born in All)any. X.Y., Oct. 19, 18.-)3; son of Anthony and Eliza Ann (Miers) Garrett; grandson of Francis and Joanna (Van Campano) Grenier (English, Garretf) and of James Alexander and Deborah Hart (Massey) Miers, and a direct descendant from the fir.st male child born in Salem, Mass. His paternal grandfather was a native of Bordeaux, France, and his grand- mother of Brussels, Belgium. His mater- nal grandfather was , ^ a native of New York

/', city and his grand-

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f'/^ ' /* Mass. Edmund H.

'^, was educated at the

~^d'^^t77^ ^K«^ li*g'^ school. Roxbury, Mass., and studied art in the Acadfimie Julian, Paris, under Lefebvre and Boulanger. He was also a pupil of Le Roux and Jean Paul Laurens. On returning to America he learned the business of wood engraving and drawing on the wood, and gained a reputation as an illustrator of books and a painter in oils and water colors. He was elected a member of the Boston art club, of the New York water color club, of the Paint and Clay, Boston, of the Duo

decimos, of the Caxton club, Chicago, and of the Calumet, Winchester. He was married, Sept. 24, 1877, to Marietta Goldsmith of Roxbury, Mass. He illustrated and published: Elizabethan Songs (1891); Buses of Romance {\'6'd\) \ Flowers uf Fancy (1891); Tliree Heroines of Nern Enrjlaml Itumance (1894); Victorian Songs (1895); Carmen (1896); Romance and Reality of the Puritan Coast (1897), and illustrated many other books.

QARRETT, John Work, railroad president, was born in Balthnuiv, Jbl, July 31, 1820; son of Robert Garrett, whose parents emigrated from the north of Ireland to Cumberland county, Pa. His father was a prosperous merchant of Balti- more. John was graduated at Lafayette college in 1838, and took his place in liis father's count- ing rooms, becoming in 1842 a partner in the banking house of Robert Garrett & Sons. He embarked in the business of railroading in con- nection with the building of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, which was completed to Wheeling, Va., in 1853. In 1857 he was elected a director of the corporation, then on the verge of bank- ruptcy, and in 1858 became its presitlent. The history of the rise and success of this corporation is the history of the management of Mr. Garrett, and in addition to building up the system, he organized lines of steamers between Baltimore and the ports of Bremen and Liverpool. After the strike of 1877 he organized the Baltimore and Ohio "railroad employees' relief association, plac- ing the organization in the hands of the employees themselves, and it proved a decided success. He also organized the Baltimore and Ohio express, and the Baltimore and Ohio telegraph companies. He was a trustee of Johns Hopkins university, 1867-84, and he commissioned Thomas LeClear to paint for the university the portrait of Jolins Hopkins, the founder. He was a liberal patron of the Baltimore Y.M.C. A., and other institiitions both educational and cliaritable. He was mar- ried to Rachel Harrison and had two sons, Robert and Thomas Harrison, and one daugliter, Mary Elizabeth. They succeeded to his estate and con- tinued his benefactions, his daughter presenting to the trustees of Johns Hopkins university 8300,977 to complete an endowment of 6500,000 needed for the medical school in 1892 in addition to §5000 contributed in 1889 to the emergency fund of the university. Mr. Garrett dietl at Deer Park, Garrett county, Md., Sept. 26, 1884.

QARRETT, Robert, railroad pre.sident, was born in Baltimore, Md.. April 9, 1847; son of John Work and Rachel (Harrison) Garrett, and grand- son of Robert Garrett. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1867 and received a business education in the banking house of his father. In 1871 he succeeded Gen Robert E. Lee as president of the Valley railroad of Virginia, a