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QILLET, Charles William, lepiesentatiTe. was born at Addison, N.Y., Nov. 20, 1840; son of Joel D. and Lucy (Patten) Gillet, and grandson of Solomon Gillet of Colchester, Conn. He was graduated from Union in 1861, and enlisted in the 86th N.Y. volunteers in August, 1861. He was made adjutant in November, 1861, and .served as such until discharged for disability in 1863. Returning to his native place he engaged in the lumber business. He was a Republican repre- sentative from New York in the 5:id-58th con- gresses, 189a-1903, serving in the 56th congress as chairman of the committee on expenditures in the department of agriculture.

GILLET, Ransom H., representative, vs'as born in New Lebanon, N.Y., Jan. 37, 1800. He removed with his parents to Saratoga county, and in 1819 to St. Lawrence county, where he was admitted to the bar and settled to practice at Ogdensburg. He was a member of the Democratic national convention, 1832 ; a representative in the 23d and 24th congresses, 1883-37; Indian commis- sioner, 1837-39; register of the U.S. treasury, 1845^7; solicitor of the treasury, 1847-49; assist- ant U.S. attorney-general, 1855-58; and solicitor of the court of claims, 1858-61. He published Life nj Silas Wright (1847) ; a History of the Demo- .cratir Pari;/ (1868); The Federal Government (1871). He died at Ogden.sburg, N.Y., Oct. 24,1876.

GILLETT, Charles Ripley, clergyman, vi-as born in New York city, Nov. 29, 1855; son of Prof. Ezra Hall and Mary (Kendall) Gillett; grandson of Ely Hall and Mary (Williams) Gillett, and a descendant of Jonathan Gillett, a Huguenot, who arrived in Dorchester, Mass., May 30, 1630, in the 3Iary and John, and removed to Windsor, Conn., with the Rev. John Warham in 1636. Charles was graduated from the Uni- versity of the city of New York in arts in 1874, and in science and engineering in 1876, and from the Union theological seminary in 1880, receiving from the latter " prize fellowship " honors. He studied in the ishilosophipal faculty of the Uni- versity of Berlin, 1881-83, making a specialty of Egyptology, and on his return became librarian of the Union theological seminar}'. He was or- dained by the presbytery of New Y'ork, May 10, 1886. He was married, April 26, 1881, to Kate, daughter of William Van Kirk. He became liter- ary editor of the Maefazine of Christian Literature., in 1889, and instructor in propaedeutics at Union theological seminary in 1893. In 1898 he was elected secretary of the New York state branch of the Egypt exploration fund. He received the degree of D.D. from his alma mater in 1898 and that of L.H.D. from Beloit college in 1899. His published works include a Translation of Har- iiack's History of Momuiticism (1895) ; Cataloejue of Egyptian Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of

Art, Xew York City (1896, 3ded., 1898) ; translation of Kruger's History of Early Christian Literature (1897) ; and General Catalogue of Union Theologi- cal Seminary (1886 and 1898).

GILLETT, Ezra Hall, author, was born in Colchester, Conn., July 15, 1823; son of Ely Hall and Mary (Williams) Gillett. He was graduated from Yale in 1841, and from the Union theologi- cal seminary in 1844. After a post graduate course at the latter institution he was licensed by the 4th Presbytery of New York, April 11, 1844. and on April 16, 1845, was ordained pastor of the Harlem (N.Y. city) Presbyterian church, where he remained until April 4, 1870. He was professor of jiolitical science in the University of the city of New York, 1870-75. He received the honorary degi'ee of D.D. from Hamilton in 1864. Besides numerous contributions to periodi- cals and other minor works, he published The Life and Times of John Huss (2 vols., 1863-64-67) ; His- tory of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (2 vols., 1864-67; rev. ed., 1875); Life Lessons in the School of Christian Duty (1864) ; England Txco Hundred Years Ago (1866) ; Ancient Cities and Empires (1867) ;■ God in Human Thought (2 vols., 1874); and The Moral System (1874). He died in New York city. Sept. 2. 1nT5.

GILLETT, Frederick Huntington, represent- ative, was born in Westfield, Mass., Oct. 16, 1851; son of Edward Bates and Lucy (Fowler) Gillett, and grandson of Edward Gillett and of James Fowler. His father was born Aug. 24, 1818, was graduated at Amherst, 1839; was state senator, 1852; district attorney, 1856-71; presidential elector. 1860, and died at Westfield, Mass., Feb. 3, 1899. Frederick H. was graduated at Amherst in 1874 and from the Harvard law school in 1877, and was admitted to the bar at Springfield, Mass., in 1877. He was assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts, 1879-82; a representative in the state legislature, 1890-91, and a Republican i-epre- sentative from the 2d district of Massachusetts in the 53d, !54th, 55th, 56th, 57th and 58th congre.sses, 1893-1905, serving in the 56th-.58tli congresses as chairman of the committee on civil service.

GILLETT, William Kendall, educator, was born in New York city, May 16, 1860; son of Ezra Hall and Mary Jane (Kendall) Gillett, and brother of Charles Ripley Gillett. He was grad- uated at the University of the city of New York, A.B., 1880; A.M., 1883; and was a student in the Columbia college law school, 1880-81 ; at the Uni- versity of Berlin, 1881-83, and at the University of Paris, and in Florence, Italy, 1883-85. Return- ing to the United States he was instructor in the French and German languages in Lehigh university, 1885-88. He then studied at the Uni- versity of Paris, and at Madrid and other places in Spain, 1888-90, and was elected professor of