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one daughter surTived infancy. His last resting place is on Smilax Path in Forest Hills cemetery, Boston, near the Soldiers" monument and French's bronze tablet for the sculptor Millmore. The public library and the state house in Boston also perpetuate his name on their walls. He died in New York city, May 34, 1879,

GARRISON, William Re Tallack, capitalist, was born in Goderich, Canada, June 18, 1834; son of Cornelius Kingsland and Mary Noye (Re Tal- lack) Garrison. He was graduated at Pahnyra college in 1853; joined his father at San Fran- cisco, Cal., in 1853; entered the bank of Garrison & Fritz, and thencefortii was closely connected in business with his father. Shortly after his settlement in San Francisco he was apijointed aide on the staff of Governor Bigler and for a number of years acted as colonel of the state artillery. He removed to New York city in 1864 and subsequently established several steamship lines connecting that city with southern ports. After his father's purchase of the Missouri Paci- fic railroad property in 1876 he was vice-president of that company and acting president until the road was sold. He next turned his attention to rapid transit in New York city ; was president of the Metropolitan elevated railroad and with his father controlled the Loan and Improvement company which owned the lines of the Metropol- itan elevated. He was then president of the con- solidated Manhattan and Metropolitan and New York conipany. He was a director in several other large railroad and gas corporations and in the U.S. life-saving service. He was interested in the cause of education and particularly in Washington and Lee university, Va., which he endowed. He was married Nov. 35, 1856, to JIary Elizabeth, daughter of Gen. James Madison Estill of Kentucky, and great' granddaughter of Wal- lace Estill, a lineal descendant of a sister of Sir William Wallace the Scottish hero, and Lady Mary Anne Campbell of the Argyll clan. Of their four children, Martha Estelle became the wife of the Hon. Charles Maule-Eamsaj', son of Admiral Ramsay, twelfth earl of Dalhousie ; Marj' Noye, married LeComte Gaston Chaudon de Briailles of France; William Re Tallack married Constance Clementine, daughter of Charles Coudert of New York city, and Katherine Esther was not mar- ried. He was killed in a railroad accident at Elberon, N.J., July 1, 1HS3.

QARRITT, Joshua Belles, educator, was born in Litchfield, Conn., Jan, 23, 1832; son of Joshua and Margaret Cowan (Bolles) Garritt. and grandson of Daniel and Huldah (Smith) Garritt and of Ebenezer and Abigal (Penfield) Bolles. He was prepared for college by the Rev. E. W. Wright, D.D., at Delphi, Ind. He was graduated at Hanover college, Ind., A.B.. 1853, A.M., 1856;

and acquired his theological education at New Albany, Ind., 1854, and at Princeton theological seminary, 1855. He was ordained to the Pres- byterian ministry in 1863 ; was stated supply at Lancaster and Lexington, Ind., 1862-64, at Han- over, Ind., 1866-68, 1873-75,1878-83 and 1885-86; a member of the United States Christian com- mission in 1864, and was elected professor of Greek language and literature at Hanover college in 1856. The degree of Ph.D. was conferred on him by Wooster imiversity in 1881. He was mar- ried, Dec. 35, 1856. to Sarah Almira Crowe, and his son, the Rev. Joshua Ci'owe Garritt, became a missionary in Hangohow, China,

OARTLAND, Francis Xavier, R.C. bishop, was born in Dublin, Ireland, Jan. 19, 1805. He emigrated to America and received tonsure at Baltimore, Md., from Bishop F. P. Kenrick, be- came subdeacon Sept. 36, 1830, and deacon Oct. 2, 1831. He was ordained a prie.st at Philadel- phia by Bishop Conwell, Aug. 5, 1832, and con- secrated as bishop of the newly erected see of Savannah, Ga., at Philadelphia Nov. 10, 1850, by Archbishoio Eccleston of Baltimore assisted by Bishops Kenrick and O'Connor. He took posses- sion of his new field and began his task of organ- ization. While in the midst of his work the scourge of yellow fever visited the place and while ministering to the afflicted and nursing the sick he took the disease and died at the house of Michael Pendergast, Savannah, Ga., Sept. 20, 1854.

QARTRELL, Lucius J., representative, was born in Wilkes county, Ga., Jan. 7, 1821. He attended Randolph-Macon college, Va., and Frank- lin college. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., and in 1842 was admitted to the bar, practising in Washington, Ga. He was solicitor-general of the northern judicial circuit of Georgia, 1843^7, and a representative in the state legislature, 1847-51. He removed to Atlanta, Ga., in 1854, was a presidential elector in 1856, and was a rep- resentative in the 35th and 36th congresses, 1857- 61, resigning his seat on the secession of his state. He was a regent of the Smithsonian institution. In 1861 he organized the 7th Georgia regiment and became its colonel. He withdrew from the Confederate army in 1862 to become a represent- ative in the 1st Confedei'ate congress, and after the expiration of his term of service returned to the field with the rank of brigadier-general. He raised Gartrell's brigade and commanded it until the end of the war. when he returned to the prac- ticeof law. He died in Atlanta, Ga., April 7, 1891.

QARY, James Albert, cabinet officer, was born in Uncasville, Conn,, Oct. 32, 1833; son of James Sullivan and Pamelia A. (Forrest) Gary; grandson of John Gary, and great-grandson of John Gary, a farmer, wlio emigrated from Lan- cashire, England, in 1713, and settled in New