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 GEDDINGS

GENTH

GEDDINGS, Eli, physician, was born in New- berry district, S.C., in 1799. He attended Abbe- ville (S.C.) academ}', and in 1820 was licensed to practise by the examining board of the Medical society of South Carolina. He attended lectures at the Universit}' of Pennsylvania, 1831-22, and in 1824 settled to practise in Charleston, S.C, wrhere in 1825 he was one of the first to receive a degree from the Medical college of the state of South Carolina. He was demonstrator of anat- omy in that institution, 1825-28, meanwhile spending a j'ear in the hospitals of London and Paris; conducted a private school of practical anatomy and surgery at Charleston, 1828-31 ; was professor of anatomy and physiology in the University of Maryland, Baltimore, 1831-37 ; and professor of pathological anatomy and medical jurispru<lence in the Medical college, Charleston, S.C, l.s:!7-l, also holding the chair of surgery there, 1849-58. During the civil war he was a surgeon in the Confederate army and in 1865 he returned to the South Carolina medical college. In 1871 he resigned his chair and was made pro- fessor emeritus of the institutes and practice of medicine, but the same year he was elected to a new professorship of clinical medicine which he held till 1878. During his connection with the University of Maryland he edited in 1833 the Baltimore Mi'dicaJ Journal. This was changed in 1835 to the North American Archives of Medical and Surgical Science which he continued to edit. He died in Charleston, S.C, Oct. 9, 1878.

GEE, Joshua, clergyman, was born in Boston, Mass., June 29, 1698. He was graduated from Harvard in 1717 and served there as librarian, 1721-22. In 1723 he was ordained pastor of tlie Old North cliurch in Boston, Mass., and lield that position till his death. He published a Sermon on the Death of Cotton Mather and The Strait Gate and the Narroio Way lutiiiitely Preferable to the Wide Gate and the Broad Way (1739). He died in Boston, Mass., May 23, 1748.

QEER, Theodore Thurston, governor of Oregon, was born in Marion county. Ore., March 12, 1851; son of Heman J. and Cynthia (Eoff) Geer. His ancestry was English. He was edu- cated at Willamette university, Salem, Ore. ; became a farmer; was a representative in the Oregon legislature in 1880, 1889, 1891 and 1893; speaker of the house, 1891, a McKinley presiden- tial elector in 1896 and carried the vote of the state to Washington, and governor of Oregon, 1898-1902.

GENTH, Frederick Augustus Louis Charles William, chemist, was born in Waechtersbach, Hesse-Cassel, May 17, 1830; son of George Fred- erick and Amelia (von Schwarzenau) Genth. His father was high forester to Prince Issenburg at Waechtersbach and his mother was the

daughter of Baron von Schwarzenau, resident at Darmstadt, Hesse. He attended the gymnasium in Hanau and the University of Heidelberg, and in 1841 went toGiessen to study under Liel)ig, and thence to Marburg to complete his studies under Bunsen, receiving the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Marburg in 1846. He continued there as as- sistant to Professor Bunsen for nearly three years and then emigrated to the, United States, had charge of the Wash- ington mines, David- son county , N . C ., 1 849- 50, and then estab- lished himself in Phil- adelphia, Pa., as an ""^^^ ^2* ^^ analytical chemist. He was professor of analyti- cal and applied chemistry and mineralogy at the University of Pennsylvania. 1872-74; professor of chemistry aud mineralogy there, 1874-88 ; chemist to the geological survey of Pennsylvania, 1877-90; juror on chemical matters at the Centennial exjjosition, 1876; and chemist to the state board of agriculture, 1877-84. In 1872 he was elected a member of the National academy of sciences; in 1875 became a member of the American asso- ciation for the advancement of science, and in 1888, at the request of the chemical section, was made honorary fellow of the association. His researches resulted in the identification of twentj'-three new mineral species and in the discovery in 1846 of the ammonia-colialt bases, which he more fully studied with Prof. Wolcott Gibbs, in collaboration with whom he contributed to Vol. IX. of " Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge," a monograph on "Researches on the Ammonia-Cobalt Bases " (18.56). In 1852 he was married to Minna Pauline Fischer; their son, Frederick Augustus, born in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 12, 1855, was graduated from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in 1876 and was assistant professor of chemistry there, 1883-88. Besides many papers, he published in German tabular summaries of the most important reactions of acids, bases and salts (1845); Corundum: Its Al- terations and its Associated Minerals (1878) ; Min- erals of North Carolina ; appendix C of the Report on the Geolor/y of North Carolina (1875) ; First and Second Preliminary Reports on the Mineralorjy of Pennsylvania (1875-76) ; Minerals and Mineral Lo' caUties of North Carolina (1881); and Minerals of North Carolina, bulletin No. 74 of the U.S. Geo- logical survey (1891), He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 3, 1898.