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He tben devoted liimself to the practice of sani tary eagineering, and also edited BtiiUUng, 1885- 86. In 1892 he became sanitary engineer on the staff of the state architect of New York; and was honorary consulting engineer of the Brooklyn healtli department, 1895-97 He was elected a member of several engineering and other scientific societies in Europe and the United States; a corresponding mem- ber of the American institute of archi- tects, and an hono- rary corresponding member of the Brit- ish tire prevention committee. He pub- lished numerous books upon sanitary subjects both in German and Englisli, including: House DraiiUKjii and SanUary Plumbiny (1883); Sanitary QiiesCions (1884); SanUary House Inspec- tion (ISSo): The Prevention of Fires (1886); Do- mestic Sfxnitary Appliances (1887); The Disposal of Household Wastes (1887); Gas- Lighting (1893); Tlieatre Fires and Panics (1895); Sanitary Engi- neerinij (1898); and Sanitary Enf/ineerinr/ of Build- inijs (2 vols., 1899), besides sanitary I'eports in the annuals of the state boards of health of Rhode Island, Indiana, Iowa and Connecticut.

QERHARDT, Karl, sculptor, was born in Bos- ton, JIass., Jan. 7, 18.53; son of Paul and Jo.seph- ine (Pianette) Gerhardt. He attended school at Boston, and was em ployed as a machinist in Chicopee, Mass. , and afterward as designer of machinery in Hartford, Conn. In 1880 he model- led " A Startled Bather," and a bust of his wife. Tlie merits of these two pieces called attention to his work and he was ena- bled to visit Paris, where he studied under Fal- i;uiere and Dubois, 1881- M. In 1882 he exhibited in the Paris salon a me- dallion of Mark Twain, and in 1884. Echo " and " Eve's Lullaby." He also made a bust of Gen- ' eral Grant (1885); and pclier (1886); a statue of Nathan Hale in the capitol at Hartford, Conn. (1885); one of

Gen Israel Putnam, in Brooklyn. Conn. (1887); anil one of Josiah Bartlett in Amesbury, Mass.; a statue of Gen. Gouverneur K Warren, erected at Gettysburg, Pa.; a tablet to the memory of Jolin Fitch \n the state capitol at Hartford, Conn.; Hunter Group, capitol grounds, Des Moines, Iowa: Soldiers" monument, Utica, N.Y., and the Frelinghuysen and Boyden statues, Newark, N.J.

QERHART, Emanuel Vogel, educator, was born in Freeburt;'. Pa., June i:!, 1817; son ot the Rev Isaac and .Sarah (Vogel) IJerhart; grandson of Abraham Gerliart, and a descendant of Peter Gerhart, a refugee from Alsace, about 1730 He was graduated from Marshall college in 1838 and from the Mercersburg theological seminary in 1841. He was jjastor of the Reformed church in Gettysburg, Pa., 1843-49, and in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1849-51; president of Heidelberg college, and professor of s}\stematic and practical theol- ogy in the Heidelberg theological seminary at Tiffin, Ohio, 1851-.55; president of Franklin and Marshall college, Lancaster, Pa., 1855-66, and professor of mental and moral philosophy there. 1855-68. In 1868 he was elected to the chair of theology in the Theological seminary of the Re- formed church, then located at Mercersburg, Pa , and in 1868 was appointed dean of the seminary. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Jefferson college in 1857 and that of LL. D. by Franklin and Marsliall college in 1887. He pub- lished many sermons, also Plulosophy and Logic (1858); a monograph on The Heformed Church (1863); Child's Heidelberg Catechism (18S2); Insti- tutes of the Christian Beligion, in two volumes (1891); and edited the Inner Life by Ranch

GERMAN, Obadiah, senator, was born in Duchess county, N.Y., about 1767. In 1792 he removed to Norwich, N.Y. He was a member of the assembly in 1798, 1804-05, 1807-09, and 1819, the la.st year being speaker. He succeeded Samuel L. Mitchell in the U.S. .senate, serving, 1809-15, and voting against the declaration of war in 1813, but afterward supiiorting the admin- istration. He was first judge of Chenango county, loan commissioner, and brigadier. general of mi- litia. He died in Norwich, N.Y., Sept. 24, 1842.

QERRY, Elbridge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born in Marblehead, Mass., July 17, 1744; son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Green leaf) Gerry. His father was a native of Newton-Abbot, England, and emigrated to America m 1730, settling at Marblehead. Mass., where he became a very prosjjerous merchant. Elbridge graduated at Harvard in 1762, and in his master's oration in 1765 he opposed the stamp-act and other revenue measures adopted by the mother country, that had proved oppressive to the colonists. He engaged in commercial pur-