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he gave sixty concerts in Philadelphia at the Centennial exposition, then made a tour of the United States. In 18TS he visited Europe with his band, played at the Paris exposition of that j'ear and made a tour of the capitals of the conti- nent. Returning to New York the same 3-ear he continued his concert tours in the United States and Canada, and played fourteen seasons at Man- hattan beach. New York city. On Dec. 31, 1891, he inaugiu'ated a grand Columbian tour by a midnight concert near New York city hall, and shortly afterward opened the first engagement of this tour at the St. Louis, Mo., exposition where he died of heart failure. He wrote the words and music of popular songs, including Good Xetcs from Home and ]Vhcn Johnnie Comes jilairhiny Home. He dieil in St. Louis, Sept. 24, 1892.

QILMOUR, Richard, R.C. bishop, -was born in Glasgow, Scotland, Sept. 28, 1824; son of John and Marj^ (Callender) Gihnour. He was brought hy his parents to Canada in 1828 and to Pennsyl- vania about 183.5. He was brought up in the Presbyterian faith and in 1842 became a convert to Catholicism and determined to enter the priesthood. He was baptized by the Rev. Patrick Rafferty in Philadelphia, Aug. 15, 1842; was edu- cated at Mount St. Mary's seminary, Enmiitts- burg, Md., and was ordained priest, Aug. 30, 1852, by Archbishop Purcell in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was given missionary duties in Ohio and built churches and schools at Portsmouth, Ironton and Gallipolis, 1852-57. He was placed in charge of St. Patrick's church, Cincinnati, in 1857, where he erected a parochial school building in cliarge of the Sisters of Mercy. He then served as pro- fessor in the Semmary of Mt. St. Mary's of the West, and afterward as pastor of St. Joseph's church, Dayton, where he erected a parochial school building and placed it imder charge of the Sisters of Charity. On Feb. 15, 1872, he was nominated as bishop of Cleveland to succeed Louis Amadeus Rappe, resigned, and was con- secrated by Archbishop Purcell in the cathedral of Cincinnati, April 14, 1872. He encouraged the building of handsome churches and convenient parochial school buildings, successfully combated the proposed tax on church property in the courts of the state, founded and maintained the Catholic Universe, compiled "The Catholic Na- tional Readers," and published a Bible history and a collection of hymns. He was a speaker on the occasion of the meeting to express sympathy with Pi'esident Garfield when wounded by the assassin (1881), and addressed the congress of churches, a non-Catholic organization, on the necessity of religious education. After his death the people of Cleveland, irrespective of creed, met to the number of 5000 in Music hall, where they were addressed by representatives of th»

Protestant churches, both lay and clerical, on the loss sustained by the community. He died in St. Augustine, Fla., April 13, 1891.

GILPIN, Henry Dilworth, statesman, was born in Lancaster, England, April 14, 1801; son of Joshua and Mary (Dilworth) Gilpin. He came to America with his parents in 1802. His mother was a native of Lancaster, and his father, an author and poet, was the son of Thomas Gilpin, manufacturer, and projector of the Chesapeake and Delaware canal. Henry was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, valedictorian, in 1819, and practised law in Phil- adelphia, 1822-60. He was government director of the U.S. bank, 1833-35; U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, 1832-35; soli- citor of the U.S. treasury, 1837, and attorney- general in President Van Birren's cabinet, 1840-41. He was president of the Pennsylvania academy of fine arts; vice-ijresident of the Pennsylvania historical society, and a trustee, 1853-58; member of the American philosophical society, 1832; a director of Girard college, 1856- 58; an associate member of the Massachusetts historical society, and secretary and director of the Chesapeake and Delaware canal. He was married to Mrs. Eliza Johnston of New Orleans, La. He edited Atlantic Souvenirs (7 vols., 1836- 32), and The Papers of James Madison (3 vols., 1840); and published Gilpin's Reports (1837), and Opinions of Attomcys-Oeneral of the United States (lail). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 29, 1860.

GILPIN, William, governor of Colorado, was born in Newcastle county, Del., Oct. 4, 1814; son of Joshua and Mary (Dilworth) Gilpin; and grandson of Thomas Gilpin, manufacturer, 1728- 78. His great^ grandfather, Joseph, emigrated from England in 1696. He entered the junior class of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in 1831, graduating in 1833. He then studied law with his brother, Henry Dil- worth Gilpin, in Phil- adelphia. He was cadet at the U.S. military academy, 183.5-36; 1st and 2d lieutenant, 2d dra- goons, U.S.A., 1836; served in the Sem- inole war, and then resigned his commission in the army to engage in the practice of law in Inde- j)endence. Mo. He was secretary of the house of assembly, 1841^3, crossed the plains with a narty of 125 pioneers in 1844, and founded the

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