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sanitary and climatological ai^boeiat^uns aud iu- ternational medical congresses and was honored by election to the liighest office. He was elected to membership in many of the principal medical, historical and scientific societies of the United States and Europe; was president of the naval medical societ}-, of the American academy of medicine, of the American public health associa- tion, and of the Association of military surgeons of the United States, and was for six years one of the eilitors of tha Annual of the Uniccrsal JiU'dkal Sciences. He published: J'racticdl Sv!i<ieMi<ms in Naval Hygiene (1871) ; Tlw Seed of iSanitary lie- form iu Ship Life (1877); Sanihmj Commonplaces applied to the Xavy (1877); and J'rerention of Ve- nereal Disease by Legislation (1SB2); besides nu- merous papers, addresses, and contributions to periodicals. He died in New York, Nov. 7, 1901. GILBERT, Abijah, senator, was born in Gil- bertsville, Otsego county, N.Y., Jime IS, 18UG; son of Joseph and grandson of Abijah Gilliert. who founded the town of Gilbertsville in 1787. He was graduated at Hamilton college in 1822 and was a merchant iu New York city, 1822-!)0. He was an anti-slavery advocate and after the civil war removed to St. Augustine, Fla., where he was elected to the U.S. senate by the Republican party in 1869. At the close of his term in 1875 he continued to reside at St. Augustine till just before his death, when he returned to Gilberts- ville, N Y.. where he died Nov. 23. ISSL

GILBERT, Anne Jane Hartley (Mrs. George Henry Gilbert), actress, was born at Rochdale, Lancashire county, England, Oct. 31, 1831; daugliter of Samuel and Ann Jane (Colborn) Hart- ley; and granddaugliter of James Hartley. Her professional career dates from 184G when she ap- peared on the stage as a dancer under the direction of Manager Abington in the Nor- wich, England, cir- cuit. In 1847 she was married to George Henry Gilbert, the maitre de ballet of the comjjany. With her husband Jlrs. Gilbert appeared

throughout the Eng- li.sh provinces in ballet pantomimes, and in 1849 accom- janied him to the United States. They first appeared in Chicago and for some time toured the cities of the west. In Louisville and Cmcinnati Jlrs. (Jilbert played small speaking parts in addition to her appear- ance in Uillet and by 18.")7 she began to be known

as a legitimate actress in the line of eccentric old women. That year while playing at John EUsler's theatre, Cleveland, Ohio, she gave up dancing for acting. Lady Creamly in "The Serious Family" aud Mrs. Hardcastle in "She Stoops to Conquer," were among her first parts. In 18.58 she played first old ■ woman in Louis Baker's company in Louisville, Ky., and in 1861 went to George Wood's theatre at Cincinnati. Her reputation was established by her interpreta- tion of Wichavendes in " Pocahontas," played to the Powhatan of Brougham. Her first appear- ance in New York city was as the Baroness in " Fi- nesse " at the Olympic theatre, September, 1864. Her husband died in 1866 and she afterward played at the Broadway theatre till that house was destroyed in 1869. In August, 1869, she joined Augustin Daly's company, opening on the 16th of the month at the Fifth Avenue theatre as Mrs. Kiupeck iu Robertson's "Play." She continued under Daly's management, excepting for a brief period, for the remainder of her pro- fessional life, playing a variety of parts, ranging from farce and pantomime to Shakespearian com- edy and serious drama, but was best known as the Marquese St. Maur in "Caste"; Dame Quickly in the "Merry Wives"; Curtis in the "Taming of the Shrew"; Hester Dethridge in "Man and Wife"; Mrs. Eutycia Laburmim in the "Railroad of Love,'' and Mrs. Ju.stinian Babbitt in "A Night Oft." In 1899 she joined the Empire Theatre stock company, making her first appearance under Mr. Frohman's manage- ment at the Lyceum theatre. New York city, Sept. 7, 1899.

GILBERT, Cass, architect, was born in Zanes- ville, Ohio, Nov, 24, 18.59; son of Brig. Gen. Samuel A. and Elizabeth Fulton (Wheeler) Gil- bert; grandson of the Hon. Charles Champion Gilbert, first mayor of Zanesville, and of Benja- min Wheeler of Zanesville; and a descendant of Col. Samuel Gilbert of the Revolutionary army, of Jonathan Gilbert the emigrant, whose sons were among the founders of Hartford, Conn., and of Col. Henry Champion of Connecticut, a soldier in the Colonial wars and in the Revo:u- tion. Cass was educated in the i)ublic schools of Zanesville and St. Paul, Minn., and at the Massachusetts Institute of technology. He prac- tised his profession in New York and St. Paul, Minn., and was the architect of the state capitol and other buildings in St. Paul, and also of the Agricultural building at the Trans Mississippi exposition in Omaha, Neb., 1897. He was archi- tect of the Brazer building in Boston, and the Broadway Chambers building in New York city. He was a member of the national jur}' of fine arts at the World's Columbian exposition in Chicago, in 1893, and also a member of the jury on