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QAULT, Franklin Benjamin, educator, was bom iu Wooster, Ohio, May 3, 1851; son of Josej)!! and Caroline (Finn) Gault, and grandson of John Gault, He was graduated from Cornell college, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, B.S., 1877, M.S., 1880, and A.M., 1897, and was superintendent of schools at Tama, Iowa, 1877-81; at Mason city, Iowa, 1881- 83, and at Pueblo, Cal., 1883-88. He organized the public schools at Tacoma, Wash., 1888-92; was the organizer, teacher and president of the University of Idaho, 1892-98, and in 1899 accepted the presidency of Whitworth college, Tacoma, an endowed college, newly relocated, reorganized and revivifled. He was a member of the Wash- ington state board of education, 1891-92; chair- man, ex officio, of the Idaho free text-book commission, 1893, and president of the Idaho state teachers' association, 1893. He was first director of the National educational association for the state of Washington, and also for Idaho. He was elected a member of the American a.sso- ciation for the advancement of science and of other leading educational and learned societies. GAY, Ebenezer, clergyman, was born in Ded- liam, Mass., Aug. 26, 1696. He was graduated from Harvard in 1714 and entered the Congrega- tional ministry in 1718. He was pastor of the church of Hingham, Mass., during the rest of iiis life. During the Revolutionary war his S3mpa- thies were with the Clown. He \\ IS married to Jet usha Brad- f id grand - 1 I lighter of Go^emorBrad- ^^ loid He is 1 1 f ei 1 ed to in Smigue's Uni- fatliur of Unitariauism." Harvard conferred upon him the honorary degree of S.T.D. in 1785. He was the son of Nathaniel and Lydia (Lusher) Gay and graiuLson of John Gay, the emigrant, who settled in W^atertown in 1630. He died in Hingham, Mass., March 18, 1787. QAY, Edward, landscape painter, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in April, 1837; .son of Richard and Ellen (Kilduff) Gay. He removed to the United States in 1848, and settled in Albany, N.Y., where he studied under James M. Hart. The years 1863-67 were spent abroad, under Schirmer and Lessing in Carlsruhe. In 1867 he opened a studio in New Y'ork city and in 1870 was elected an associate of the National acad- emy. He also became a member of the American water-color club. His early prominent paintings include: Mountain Stream (1860); Der alt wasser (1869); Heady for the Beapers (1875); The Slopes of the Mohawk (1877); The Last Load (1878); The

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Uhl Estate (1881); and On the Sogne Fjord, Xorway (1883;. In 1887 he won the competitive prize of S3000 for his Broad Acres, liung in the Met- ropolitan museum. This was followed by Washed by the Sea, Layton gallery, Milwaukee; Waving Grain, Minneapolis fine arts gallery; Where Sea and Meadow Meet, Executive mansion, Albany; Mother Earth, San Francisco, 1893; and the Atlan- tis, Waste Lands, El Dorado, Those Happy Slimmer Fields, and My Lady's Estate (1898), all in private galleries.

QAY, Edward James, representative, was born iu Liberty, Va., Feb. 3, 1816; son of John H. and So|)liia (Mitchell) Gay. His father located in St. Louis, Mo., as a merchant in 1824. Edward was educated in St. Louis at Belleville, 111., and at Augusta college, Ky. He was iu business in St. Louis, 1838-89; engaged in sugar planting in Louisiana in 1850-89, making his home at St. Louis Plantation, near Plaquemine, La., and in New Orleans, where he was the first pres- ident of the Louisiana sugar exchange. He was a I'eijresentative from the 3d Louisiana district in the 49th, 50th and 51st congresses, 1885-89. He died at St. Louis Plantation, La., May 30, 1889.

QAY, Sidney Howard, author, was born in Hingliaiii, JIass. , Jlay 23, 1814; son of Ebenezer and Maiy AUyiie (Otis) G.a_v; grandson of Martin and Ruth (Atkins) Gay; and great-grandson of the Rev. Ebenezer and Jerusha (Bradford) Gay. He entered Harvard in the class of 1833, but ill health forced him to leave college before receiving his degree. This was conferred upon him in 1877 and he was placed on the record of Harvard alumni, class of 1833. He studied law in the office of his father for a time, but discontin- ued it because of his reluctance to swear allegiance to a consti- tution which upheld the institution of slavery. He became a prominent speaker and writer on anti slavery, and in 1842 was appointed lecturing agent for the American anti slavery so- ciety. He edited the Anti-Slavery Standard, New Y'ork city, 1844-57; was a writer on the staff of the New York Tribune, 1857-63, its managing editor, 1862-66; and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, 1867-71. In 1871, at the time of the Chicago fire, he rendered valuable assistance to the sufferers as a member of the relief committee, and in 1873-74, was an editorial writer on the New Y''ork Evening Post. In collaboration with

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