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resigned and left Kansas on March 4, 1857, and he was succeeded by Robert J. Walker, under appointment of President Buchanan. In April, ISOl, he raised a regiment of 1500 men and reported for duty to General Banks at Harper's Ferry, Va. He was wounded at Bolivar Heights, captured Leesburg, Va., March 8, 1862, was made brigadier-general, April 35, and was twice wounded at the battle of Cedar Mountain, Au- gust 9. On recovering he was placed in command of the 2 1 division, 13th army corps and led the division at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. He joined the army of the Cumberland, was at the battles of Wauhatohie and Lookout Mountain, and was assigned by General Sherman to the command of the 2d division of the 30th corps in the march through Georgia. He was made military governor of Savannah on reaching the seacoast. Bee. 33, 1864, the honor being accorded him for his conduct at Fort Jackson and in the capture of Savannah, lie being the first general officer to enter the city. He was brevetted ma- jor-general of volunteers early in 1865, on being mustered out of the service. He was elected governor of Pennsylvania in 1866, his opponent being Hiester Clymer, Democrat, and he was re-elected in 1869. His administration was emi- nently successful and on liis death, eighteen days after the expiration of his second term of service, the general assembly of Pennss'lvania began measures which led to the erection of a monument over his grave at Harrisburg. He was married to Margaret Ann Logan of West- moreland county, Pa., who died in 1853. His son, Edward Ratchford, a student at Jefferson college, enlisted in the Federal army in 1861 and was killed at Lookout Mountain, Nov. 28, 1863, after fighting at Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Governor Geary was married a second time in 1858 to Mrs. Mary C. Henderson of Cumberland county. Pa. He received his A.M. degree from Jefferson in 1867. He died at Hamburg, Pa., Feb. 8, 1873.

QEARY, Thomas J., representative, was born in Boston, Slass. , Jan. 18, 1854. He removed with his parents to California in 1863 and was admitted to the bar in 1877, practising law in Santa Rosa, Cal. He was district attorney of Sonoma co^mty, 1882-84, and was elected as a Democrat a representative in the 51st congress, and was re-elected to the 53d and 53d congresses.

QEDDES, George W., representative, was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, July 16, 1824. He attended the public schools, was admitted to the bar in 1845; was judge of the court of common pleas of the 6th judicial district of Ohio, 1856-71, and represented the 16th district of Ohio in the 4flth, 47th. 48th and 49th congresses, 1879-87. He died in Mansfield, Ohio, Nov. 10, 1893.

GEDDES, James, representative, was born near Carlisle, Pa., July 33, 1763. He attended the district school and worked upon a farm until 1794 when he removed to New York state anil organized a company for the manufacture of salt at Onondaga. He was elected a magistrate in 1800 and was a member of the assembly in 1804 and in 1831; made the jireliminary surveys for the Erie canal, 1808; was appointed an associate county justice, 1809, judge of the court of com- mon pleas, 1813, and was a representative from New York in the 13th congress, 1813-15. He was appointed engineer of the Erie canal in 181G; chief engineer of the Champlain canal in 1818; of the Ohio canal in 1832; assisted in locating the Chesapeake and Ohio canal in 1827 and the Pennsylvania canal in 1828. He died in Geddes, Onondaga county, N.Y., Aug. 19, 1838.

QEDDES, James Lorraine, soldier, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Mar'.-li 19, 1837; son of Capt. Alexander Geddes, with whom he emi- grated to Canada in 1837. In 1843 James re- turned to Scotland whence he went to India where he studied tw^o years at the Calcutta mili- tary academy and served seven years in the British artillery there, receiving a medal and clasp for services. In 1854 he returned to Canada and in 1857 settled in Vinton. Iowa, as a teacher. He enlisted as a private in the 8th Iowa volunteers in August, 1861. He received rapid promotion and was wounded and taken prisoner and not released till 1863, when he served under Grant at Vicksburg and luider Sherman at Jackson, Miss. He was made briga- dier-general in October, 1863, and with his bri- gade was ordered to Brownsville, Texas. In 1864 he was provost marshal of Memphis, Tenn., and prevented the capture of the city by General Forrest. He then led his brigade in the cam- paign against Mobile in August, 1864, and by Iiis military skill effected the capture of Spanish Fort. He was brevetted brigadier-general in the volunteer service, June 5, 1865, and mustered out of the service. He was made superintendent of the College for the blind, Vinton, Iowa, 1865-68. He helped to organize and was vice-president, professor of military tactics, treasurer and land agent of the Iowa state agricultural college, Ames, Iowa, 1868-87. He is the author of The Soldier's Battle Prayer and The Stars and Stripes. He died at Ames. Iowa, Feb. 21, 1887.

GEDDES, John, governor of South Carolina, was born in Charleston, S.C., in 1773. He was educated at the College of Charleston and ad- mitted to the bar in 1797. He represented his city in the state legislature for several years and was speaker of the house, 1810 and 1813. He was gov- ernor of the state, 1818-20, served in the state mi- litia, and died in Charleston, S.C, March 5, 1828.