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his way to the Federal lines near Savannah, Ga. , Dec. 23, 1863. He was then commissioned 1st lieutenant in the 26th New York eavalry, and served through the war, receiving the brevet rank of captain. After the war he wrote a num- ber of volumes on military subjects, in which he depicted his own experiences. On May 9, 1S76, he started from Boston, Mass., travelled on horseback across the contiuent to study the habits and customs of the people, and lectured in the larger cities on " Echoes from the Revolu- tion." In Wyoming he was captiu-ed by the Indians, but escaped on one of their mustangs and reached San Francisco, Cal., December 26. In 1881, accompanied by his brother and a representative of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, he penetrated to a lake south of Lake Itasca in Minnesota, which he believed to be the true source of the Mississippi river. With his party he descended the Mississippi in canoes to the sea in one hundred and seventeen days. The lake which he discovered was named in his honor. Glazier lake, and his claim regarding the source of the Mississippi was substantiated in 1891 by a party of scientists. Among his published works are Capture, Prison-Pen and Escajye (1865); Three Tears in the Federal Cavalry (1871); Battles for the Union (1874); Heroes of 'ITiree Wars (1878); Pecu- liarities of American Cities (1883); Down the Great Rieer (1887); Heudioaters of the Mississippi (1892); Orean to Ocean on Horseback (1894), and con- tril)utions to periodicals.

GLEASON, Frederic Grant, musician, was born at Middletown, Conn., Dec. 18, 1848; son of Frederic Lathrop and Martha (Willard) Gleason; grandson of Lathrop and Clarissa (Grant) Glea- son; and a descendant of Matthew Grant, who landed in America, May 30, 1630. Both his father and mother were amateur musicians. In 1864 he began an oratorio called "The Captiv- ity," which was cast aside, and he completed the same year a " Christmas Oratorio." Although he was not then a master of liarmony, the com- position exhibited marked talent, and lie began study at Hartford under Dudley Buck. In 1869 he went to Europe and studied at Leipzig under Moscheles, Richyer, J. C. Lobe and Plaidy, and in Berlin imder Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, Au- gust Haupt, A. Loeschhorn, Oscar Raif and other eminent teachers. While in Berlin he prepared Gleason "s motette collection. Upon his return to America he accepted a ])osition as organist in a Hartford, Conn., church, continuing his composi- tions. In 1877 he removed to Chicago and was for some years music editor of the Cliicatjo Tribune. In 1884 he was elected a member of the board of directors and an examiner of the American college of musicians; was president of the Chicago manuscript society, 1896-98; and

became president-general of the American patri- otic musical league in 1897. He was awarded a gold medal of honor by the Associatioue dei Benemeriti Italiano of Palermo, Sicily, " for dis- tinguished services in the cause of art." Among his compositions are: a three act romantic opera, Otho Visconti (1876); an Overture Triumphale (1879), for the organ; two cantatas, God, Our Deliverer (1879), and The Culprit Fay (1880); another romantic opera, Montezuma (1884); a Praise Song to Harmony (1885); the Auditorium Ode (1889), specially composed for the dedication of the Chicago Auditorium; Processional of the Holy Grail (1893); Edris, a syini^honic poem (1896); The Song of Life, a symphonic poem (1899); and vai'ious symphonic works, besides a numbei- of minor jiieces for the voice and piano.

QLEESON, William, R.C. domestic prelate, was born in parish of Youghal, near Nenagli, diocese of Killaloe, Tipperary, Ireland, in 1828. He was baptized by the Rev. James Rjan, after- ward bishop of Killaloe, but the records of the church. Bally- William, Nenagh, were with the church destroyed by fire in October, 1828. He emigrated to America in 18.50, studied for the priesthood and was ordained at Rocliester, N.Y., July 16, 1854, by Bishop Timon. He was named Right Reverend Monsiguor and Domestic Prelate, May 15, 1888, and invested by Bishop S. V. Ryan in the cathedral at Buffalo, N.Y. He died in Buffalo, X.Y'., Dec. 2, 1895.

QLENNON, Jolin Joseph, R.C. bishop, was born in the parisli of Clonard, county Meath, Ireland, June 14, 1862. He was educated at St. Mary's college, Mullingar, and was graduated in theology at All Hallows college, Dublin, in 1883. He was ordained to the priesthood, Dec. 20, 1884, in the cathedral at Kansas City, Mo., by Bishop Hogan; was assistant pastor and pastor of St. Patrick's church, Kansas City, Mo., 1884-87; pastor at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Con- ception under Bishop Hogan, 1887-92; vicar-gen- eral of the diocese, 1892-94, and administrator of the diocese, 1894-05. He was appointed bishop coadjutor of the diocese of Kansas City and was consecrated bishop of Pinara with right of succession to the bishopric of Kansas City, June 29, 1896, by Archbisliop Kainof St. Louis, assisted Ijy Bishops Fink and Burke.

GLISSON, Oliver S., naval officer, was born in Ohio, Jan. 18, 1809. He was appointed from Iniliana a midshipman in the U.S. navy, Nov. 1, 1826; was promoted passed midshipman, April 18. 1832; lieutenant, March 8, 1837; commander, Sept. 14, 1855; captain, July 16, 1862; commo- dore, July 25, 1866; and rear-admir.al. June 10, 1870. During his service he made his first cruise to the We.st Indies. 1827-28. to the Mediterranean in 1836; commanded the Reefer during the Mexi-