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 GAYLEY

GAZZAM

on the American and English stage, and the ma- jority were favorably recognized. His play, "The New President," was the tirst production on the boards of Wallack's theatre, New York city, and his " Bull Run " (1861) was the first war play. His other dramatic writings include: Takinff the Chances (1851); The Love of a Prince; The Son of the yight; The Maijic diarriage; A Mistress of Arts; The Connie Soogah; The Befugees; The American Cousin at Home; Ottr Female American Cousin; Olympauia; The Bobbers of the Bhin-o; The Bo- mance of a Very Poor Man; The Life Shadow; Aspasia; The Child Stealer; JVight and Morning; Tlie Wizard's Tempest; Out of the Streets; Dtist and Diamonds; ]Vith the Tide; Inflation; Brom Bones; Sleepy Hollow; Jacquine; Lord Tatters; Kissing the King; Jalina; Under the Bing; Miss Mollie; A Leaf from the Black Book; Master of Arts; The Bohemians, produced 1885 and 1898; Lights and Sliadows of Xew York (1888); and Fritz: onr Cousin-Germain. He also wrote the novels: Mon- tagone; The Bomance of a Poor Young Girl; Out of the Streets; Pet; and The Cousin Germain. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 28, 1893.

QAYLEY, Charles Mills, educator, was born in Shanghai. China. Feb. 22, 1858; son of the Rev. Samuel Rankin and Sarah (Mills) Gayley; and grandson of Andrew and Eleanor (Rankin) Gayley of Cavnabun, county Tyrone, Ireland, their ancestors having come from Scotland in 1715. His early Amer- ican ancestors were Thomas Rogers of the Mayflower, 1620; Si- mon Mills of Salem, Mass., who landed at Plymouth in 1628; Matthew Graunt,

freeman of Dorches- ter, Mass., 1631, and first surveyor of Windsor, Conn.; and John Skinner, an original proprietor of Hartford. Conn., in 1639. His parents were missionaries In China and he was prepared for college at Black- heath, England, and at the Royal academical institution, Belfast, Ireland. He was graduated at the University of Michigan in 1878, was princi- pal of the Muskegon, Mich., high school, 1878-80; instructor and assistant professor of Latin, Uni- versity of Michigan, 1880-86; a student in the universities of Giessen and Halle. 1886-87; assist- ant professor of English, University of Micliigan, 1887-89, and professor and head of the English department, University of California, from 1889. He spent the year 1897-98 in literary research in

the Bodleian and British museum libraries. He was elected a member of the American philologi- cal association and of the Modern language asso- ciation of America, and served on the executive couuoil of the latter, 1898-99. He was elected a director of the University of California bureau of republication in 1899; member of the O.xford Union (England), 1897; and honorary life mem- ber of the Fellows" common room of Lincoln college, O.xford, 1898. He was married, Dec. 17, 1891, to Sallie Pickett, daughter of the Rt. Rev. Samuel S. Harris, P.E. bishop of Michigan. He published; Songs of the Yellow and Blue (1885); Guide to the Literature of ^Esthetics (1890); The Classic Myths in English Literature (1893); English in the Secondary Schools (1894); and Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism (1899). In 1899 be was general editor of Bepresentative English Com- edies (5 vols . V(.l. I., 1899).

QAZZAM, Joseph Murphy, lawyer, was born in Pittsburg. Pa., Dec. 2, 1842; son of Dr. Edward D. and Elizabeth Antoinette (De Beelen) Gaz- zam; and grandson of William Gazzam who j)ub- lished a newspaper in Cambridge, England, in which he espoused the cause of the American colonies, thus of- fending George HI., who or- dered his arrest, in consequence of which he fled to Amer- ica in 1793, set- tling in Pitts- burg. Pa. His son Edward was born in Pitts- burg in 1803, studied law un- der the Hon. Richard Biddle, whose law partner he became; was state senator in 1855 and 1857; unsuccessful candidate for gov- ernor of Pennsylvania in 1856; and removed to Philadelphia in 1867, where he died in 1878. Joseph M. Gazzam attended the Western Uni- versity of Pennsylvania for nearly four years and was admitted to the bar in 1864. He was admitted to practice in the supreme court of Pennsylvania in 1867, to the circuit and district courts of the United States in 1869 and to the su- preme court of the United States in 1870, being one of the youngest attorneys ever admitted before that body. He was elected a state senator in 1876. He was married in 1878 to May Anna, daughter of John G. Reading of Philadelphia. He was elected a member of the Pennsylvania historical society, the Union league club, the Pennsvlvania club, and other associations. He

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