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sey in 1794 and was graduated with first honors, A.B., 1796, A.M., 1799. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1798. He was elected a state senator in 1800 and a member of the house of commons and speaker in 1808. He was a Fed- eral presidential elector in 1809; a representative in the 13th and 14th congresses, 1813-17, when lie voluntarily retired from the national legislature; was a state representative and senator at various times between 1818 and 1833, and justice of the supreme court of the state by election by the state legislators, 1833-44. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1835 and de- clined a seat in the U.S. senate offered by the state legislature. He was a trustee of the Uni- versity of North Carolina, 1803—14, and received the degree of LL. D. from the University of Penn- sylvania in 1819; from Harvard in 1826; from the University of the city of New York in 1834; from Columbia in IS'SCt, and from the College of New Jersey in 1835. He was elected a member of the American philosophical society in 1817. He died at Raleigh, N.C., Jan. 23, 1844.

GASTON, William, governor of Massachu- setts, was born in Killingly, Conn., Oct. 3, 1830; son of Alexander and Kesia (Arnold) Gaston; and a descendant on his father's side from Jean Gaston, a French Huguenot; and on liis mother's side from Tliomas Arnold, who emigrated from England to New Eng- land in 1636. He at- tended the academies at Brooklyn and Plamfield, Conn., and w .IS graduated from Blown in 1840. He was admitted to the bai in 1844 and began piactice in Roxbury, M.IS3. He was a member of the state legislature in 1853-54 and 1856; was city solicitor of Roxbury for five years, and - mayor in 1861 and

1862. He was state senator in 1868 and after the annexation of Roxbury to Boston he was mayor of the latter city, 1871-73. In 1874 he was elected governor of Massachusetts and served one term. He was married. May 27, 1852, to Louisa Augusta, daughter of Laban S. and Frances A. (Lines) Beecher. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard and from Brown in 1875. He died in Boston, Mass.. Jan. 19, 1894.

QATCHELL, Charles, physician, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 8, 1850; son of Horatio P. and Anna Maria (Crane) Gatchell; and grandson of Horatio and Alice (Pa,ge) Gatchell and of

Thurston and Anna (Owens) Crane. The Gatch- ells settled in Virginia in 1630 and subsequently a branch of the family removed to Maine, where Horatio P. Gatchell was born. Charles was grad- uated at Kenosha, Wis., high school and at the Pulte medical college, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1874. He was lecturer in the Hahnemann medical col- lege, Chicago, 111., 1875; professor of the theory and practice of medicine, University of Michigan, 1877-80 and 1889-93; attendmg physician, Cook county hospital, Chicago, 1882; and professor in the Chicago homoeopathic medical college from 1894. He was president of Illinois homoeo- pathic medical association, 1889, and president of the homoeopathic medical society of Chicago, 1896; chairman of the section of clinical medicine. World's congress of homoeopathic pliysicians and surgeons, Chicago, 1893; and chairman of the section in clinical medicine, American institute of homoeopathy, 1899. He is the author of: Diet in Disease (1880): Keij-\otes of Medical Practice (1883); Haschisch; A Xovel (1886); Medical Dic- tionary (1890); They Say (1897); and 3Ietho(ls of Mind-Iieaders in The Forum, April, 1891. He also established in 1883 and edited the Medical Era, Chicago.

GATES, George Augustus, educator, was born at Topsham, Vt., Jan. 24, 1851. He was pre- pared for college at St. Johnsbury academy and was graduated at Dartmouth in 1873. He was principal of People's academy, Morrisville, Vt., 1873-75; studied at Andover theological semi- nary; was a private tutor in Boston, Mass., 1877- 78, and in 1878 went to Europe, where he studied at the Universities of Giittingen and Bonn, spent some months at Paris and Neuchatel. Switzerland, under Godet, and afterward studied at the uni- versities of Zurich and Leipzig. In January, 1880 he returned to the United States and com - pleted his course at Andover. He preached at Littleton, N.H., and at Upper Montclair, N.J., es- tablishing a church at the latter place, where he was ordained and installed, April 13, 1882. He was married, Dec. 14, 1882, to Isabelle A. Smith of Syracuse, N.Y. In 1887 he resigned his jiastor- ate to accept the presidency of Iowa college. He resigned that office, and became pastor of a church in Cheyenne, Wy., in 1901. He re- ceived the degree of D.D. from Dartmouth in 1893 and that of LL.D. from the University of Neljraska in 1H94.

GATES, Horatio, military commander, was born in Maiden, Essex county, England, in 1728. The place of his birth was the castle of the Duke of Leeds, and but little is known of his parent- age except rumors that he was the natural son of Sir Robert Walpole, and others that made liis father the butler in the employ of the Duke. He was trained as a soldier and fir.st saw service