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Sul).sequently lie turned bis attention to land- .scajie painting, and sjjent the years 1855-57 and 1808-69 in European study and travel. As a meniljer of the 7tli New York regiment he \yas twice called to do active service during the civil war and then gathered material for some of his later pictures. He was elected a member of the National academy of design, of the Century asso- ciation and of the Union league club. New York city. Among his better knowii works are: llniiis of the Parthenon, hung in the Corcoran art gallery; Baltimore in 1S62 (1863) ; Mornimj in the Adirondadcs (1867) ; Mount Mansfield (1869) : San Giorgio, Venice (1870); Tiroli (1871); Fishinrj- lioats (1873) ; Sunset on the Sweet ]]'ater, Wyoming (1874) ; At Beni-Llassan and Near Palermo (1876) ; Leander's Tower; Sunset on the Hudson nnd Fire Island Beach (1877) ; and Sunset, Bay of Xew York (187S). He died in New York city, Aug. 29, 1880. QIQER, George Musgrave, educator, was boru in Pliiladelphia, Pa., June C, 1823. He was graduated from tlie College of New Jersey in 1841, subsequently studied theology at Princeton and was ordained by the Presbytery of New Bruns- wick. He was connected with the College of New Jersey as tutor, 1844—16; as adjunct profes- sor of mathematics, 1846-47, as adjunct professor of Greek, 1847-54, and as professor of Latin lan- guage and literature, 1854-65. He was also ap- ])ointed secretary of the faculty in 1845 and libi-anan in 1850, holding both offices till his death. He was an active advocate of education for the negroes and i:)reaclied regularly for many years to a colored congregation in 'Witherspoon church, Princeton, N.J. In his will he left his books and §80,000 to his alma mater. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 11, 1865.

QIHON, Albert Leary, medical director, U.S.N., was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 28, 1833 ; sou of John Hancock and Mar}- Jane Gihon, and grandson of John Hanover and Ann Gihon. He was grad- uated from the Cen- tral high school of Philadelpliia, A.B., 1850; A.M., 1855, and was graduated M.D. in 1852 from the Philadelphia college of medicine and surgery. He re- ceived also the de- gree of A.M. from the College of New Jersey in 1854. He was professor of chemistry and toxicology in the Philadelphia college of medicine and surgery, 1853-54, and on May 1. 1805, entered the U.S. navy as assistant surgeon.

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He was married, April 3, 1860, to Clara Montfort, daughter of Charles H. Campfield of Savannah, Ga., and their two sons, Albert Dakin and Clar- ence Moutfort, became well-known aitists in Paris. Their married. life was subsequently sad- dened by the death of their only daughter, Char- lotte. He was j^romoted passed assistant surgeon, May 1, 1860; surgeon, Aug. 1, 1861, and was .sen- ior medical officer at the Portsmouth, N.H., navy yard, 1865-68. He was attached to the storesliip Idaho, 1868-70, anchored at Nagasaki, Japan, as hospital-ship for the Asiatic station, and was on board during the memorable typhoon of Sept. 21, 1869, when the ship was wrecked by passing through the centre of the cyclone when the barouieter fell to the uni^recedented figure of 27.63. For services rendered on this station to the Portuguese colony at Dilly, Island of Timor, and the Portuguese men-of-war Principe Don Carlos and So, da Bandeira he I'eceived from the King of Portugal, with the consent of congress, the decoration of Knight of the Jlilitary Order of Christ; for services to H.B.M. ships Flint and Dawn, the thanks of the British government ; and for similar services to the French gunboat Scor- pion, the thanks of the commander-in-chief of the French East India station. He returned to the United States in 1870, and was a member of the na- val medical board of examiners at Philadelphia, 1870-72, and at Washington, 1873-73. He was promoted medical inspector, Nov. 7, 1872, was on board the flagship Wahash as surgeon-of-the-fleet on the European station in 1873, and held the same position. 1874-75, on board the flagship Franklin. He was head of the medical depart- ment at the U.S. naval academy, Annapolis, 1875- 80. At the request of the chief of the bureau of medicine and surgery he designed and superin- tended the construction of a model of a hospital- ship for the Centennial exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876, and at the same exhibition presented the " Ambulance cot "' bearing his name, which was approved by the board of officers, July 5, 1877, and adopted for use in the navy. In 1878 he was appointed inspector of recruits and recruiting stations. He was comnii.ssioned medical director, Aug. 30, 1879, was a member of the board of in- spection of the navy, 1880-83 ; and in charge of various naval hospitals after 1883. He became senior medical director of the navy in 1893, and on May 1, 1895, attained the rank of commodore (brigadier general) having then been forty years in the naval service, of which an aggregate of less than two years had been unemployed. He was retired from active service, Sept. 38, 1895. Up to 1875 much of this service was at sea, after which time his rank exempted liim from duty afloat. After 1876 Dr. Gihon rep esented the medical de- nartment of the navy in the prominent medical.