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rial to the poet. In 1898 he brouglit about two impoi'tant conferences ot tiie leading European ■" Peace societies ' ' in Paris; and formally founded in Pai'is '"The LaFayette Society of France and the United States"", to aid in perpetuating the friendly relations between the two countries, with the Marquis de Rochambeau as honorary president anil William de Hetburne Washington and Frederic Coudert as vice-presidents. He was elected a member of the Astronomical society of Paris in 1898. He projected for the centenary of Poe"s birth (1909) a memorial temple to the poet, to be placed in "Poe Park," Fordham, N.Y., near the original Poe cottage. He was married, Nov. 13, 1888, to Edith Gwynne, the author of " Sweet- Scented Grass," a novel (1897). He engaged in editing books, 1864-80, and in playwriting, 1880-89, and also lectured throughout the coun- try. He is the author of Home Becreations (1865); The Martyred Church (1872); Seeds of Liberty, a poem written for the national centennial cele- bration of the Boston Tea Party (1873); The Life of Edgar Allan Poe, refuting the statements of Kufus W. Griswold, Poe's original biographer (1876); and editor of Lotus Leni'es (1874); Laurel Leaves (1875); The Horn of Plenty (1875); and Pnpyrns Leares (isso).

Gillam, Bernhard, cartoonist, was born in lianlniry, Oxfordshire, England, Oct. 28, 1856. In 1866 he emigrated to the United States with his parents and settled in Brooklyn, N.Y.. where Jie attended school. He was afterward clerk in fl. lawyer's office and about 1876 began to con- tribute drawings to illustrated periodicals. Meet- ing with several discouraging refusals of his work lie resolved to give up sketching and took up wood engraving for a time. Then he became a designer of show cards. In 1879 a place on Frank Leslie's Illustrated yero.'<paper was offered to him. Soon after he made this connection Mr. Leslie died, the policy of the paper was changed and Mr. Gillam went to the Graphic. During the Gar- field-Hancock campaign in 1880 he made car- toons for Harper's Weekly, working -with Thomas Nast. His work with the Harpers attracted at- tention, and in 1881 he was engaged as a cartoon- ist for Puck and afterward for Judge. In 1886, in company with W. J. Arkell he purchased Judge, and for the remainder of his life directed the art work of that journal, applying himself chiefly to political cartoons. In 1889 lie was married to Bertelle, youngest daughter of the Hon. James Arkell of Canajoliarie, N.Y. He died in Cana- joharie, N.Y., Jan. 19, 1896.

GILLEM, Alvan Cullem, soldier, was born in Jackson county, Tenn.. July 29, 1830. He was graduated at the U.S. military academy in 1851, and saw active service as brevet 2d lieutenant and 3d lieutenant of artillery in the Seminole war. 1851-.52. He was promoted 1st lieutenant in 1855; captain in 1861; was assistant quartermaster at Fort Taylor, Fla., 1861, and brigade and chief quartermaster in the army of the Tennessee, 1861-63. being engaged at Shiloli and Corinth. He was made colonel of the lOtli Tennessee volunteers in May, 1863, and served as provost- marshal of Nashville, Tenn. He was promoted brigadier-general in August, 1863, and with his brigade prosecuted a series of expeditions against General Bragg, which lasted till the end of the year For bravery on the field of bat- tle he received brevets including that of major- general in the regular army. When the state government of Tennessee was reorganized in 1865 he was vice-president of the convention and was elected a member of the first legislature convened under the new constitution. He commanded the Tennessee cavalry in an expedition into North Carolina in 1865 and aided in the capture of Salis- bury, which action gave him his highest brevet. He was promoted colonel in the regular army July 28, 1866, was mustered out of the voKmteer service in September. 1866, commanded the dis- trict of Mississipjii, 1867-68, served on the Texas frontier with the 11th infantry, and in California in 1870-73 with the 1st cavalry. In 1873 he en- gaged in the campaign against the Modoc Indians and led at the attack at the Lava Beds, April 15, 1873. He died near Nashville. Tenn., Dec. 2, 1875.

GILLESPIE, Eliza Maria, educator, was born near West Rrownville, Pa, Feb. 21, 1824. She removed with her parents to Lancaster, Ohio, while quite young, and was educated by the Sis- ters of St. Dominic at Somerset, Perry county, and at the Convent of the "Visitation, George- towD, D.C. Tliomas Ewing. secretary of the treasury under Harrison, was her god-father, and James Gillespie Blaine, secretary of state under Garfield, was her cousin. While in Wasliington she was a leader of society, and with Ellen Ewing, afterward wife of Gen. W. T. Sherman, collected large sums of money for the aid of the sufferers from the famine in Ireland, adding to the fund by their tajiestry handiwork and a magazine story which they wrote in collabora- tion. She was received into the congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1853, under the religious name of Mother Mary of St. Angela, and made her novitiate in France, taking her relig- ious vows from Father Moreau, founder of the order of the Holy Cross. She returned to Amer- ica in 1855 and was made superior of the academy of St. Mary's. Bertrand, Mich., which in 1856 she removed to Terre Haute, Ind., where it was known as St. Mary of the Immaculate Concep- tion, and became the mother liouse of the sis- ters of the Holy Cross. She oVitained for the institution a charter from the legislature and