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QODMAN, John D., pliysician, was born in Annapolis, MJ. , Dec. 30, 179-t; son of a Revolu- tionary soldier. In 1814 he fought as a common sailor at the bombardment of Fort McHenry In 1815 he began to study medicine and later removed to Baltimore to finish his studies at the University of Maryland. After his first course of lectures there he was appointed to take the place of the profe.ssor of anatomy, who was ill. After graduation in 1818 he practised for several years in Maryland and in Pennsylvania, and in 1821 removed to Cincinnati, Ohio. He was pro- fessor of anatomy at the medical college of Ohio, 1831 -33 ■ practised and lectui-ed to a private class in Philadelpliia, Pa., 1833-36, and was professor of anatomy and physiology in Rutgers medical college, New Brunswick, N.J., 1826-37. He re- signed the last position on account of failing health and went to the West Indies, whence he returned to settle in Germantown, Pa. He was at one time associate editor of the PhilndeJphin Journal of Medical Sciences ; contributed scien- tific articles to the Encijclopcedia Americana, to the American Quarterly Review, and to other scientific papers; translated Levasseur's Account of Lafay- ette's Progress through the United States (1834); and is the author of American Natural History (3 vols., 1833-3S) : Rambles of a Naturalist; Account of Ir- regularities of Structure and Morbid Anatomy; Contributions to Physiological and Pathological An- atomy, and other works. He died in German- town. Pa.. April 17, 1830.

QODMAN, William Davis, educator, was born in M.iriou, Ohio, Sept. 8, 1839; son of Gen. James H. au 1 Anne S. (Davis) Godnian, and grandson of William Godman and of Benjamin Davis. He was graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan university, A.B., 1846, A.M., 1849; the only member of the class and the first graduate of the institution. He was tutor in the Ohio Wesleyan university, 1849-.'50, was principal of the Worthington female seminary, 18.50-53; was admitted to the North Ohio conference; was professor of Greek lan- guage and literature in Northwestern university, Evanston, 111., 18.5.5-60; professor of mathematics at Oliio Wesleyan, 1860-64: professor of theology and biblical literature there, 1864-65; president of Baldwin university, 1875-78; and in 1878 ac- cepted the principalship of Gilbert seminary (afterward Gilbert academy and medical college) St. Mary's parish. La. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Ohio AVesleyan university in 1867.

QODON, Sylvanus William, naval officer, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 18, 1809. He became a midsliipman in the U.S. navy in 1819; was promoted passed midshipman in 1837; lieu- tenant in 1836; commander in 18.55; captain in 1861; commodore in 1863; and rear-admiral in

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1866. He cruised in the Mediterranean with Com Isaac Hull on the flagship Ohio, 1839-41: served on the KssutiiHs during the Mexican war: commanded the Mohican, 1861, and participated in tlie attack on Port Royal by Admiral Du Pont when his sloop was third in the line of attack on Forts Walker and Beauregard, Nov. 7, 1861, the main squadron comprising seventeen ves sels under Commander C. R. P. Rogers. He was commodore of the 4th division of Admiral Porter's fleet in both attacks on Fort Fisher, De- cembei', 1864, and January, a

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mendation for the manage- ment of his ship, the Sus- quehanna. He was rear-admi- ral of the South Atlantic squad- ron, 1866-67 ; commandant at the Brooklyn navy yard, 1868-70 ; and in 1871 was placed on the re- tired list. He died in Blois, France, May 10, 1879. GODSHALL, Lincoln Derstine, chemist and metallurgist, was born in Lansdale, Pa., Nov. 26, 1865; son of Abraham and Anna (Derstine) God- shall. His first ancestor in America came from Germany with a colony of Germans brought over by William Penn and settled at German- town, Philadelphia, where he was pastor of the Mennonite col- ony, the first formed. The name was origin- ally Gottschalk. He was graduated at Lafayette college, B.S., in chemistry, in 1887, and M.S. and Ph.D. by thesis and examination in 189(1. During his college days he was very prominent in ama- teur athletics, win- ning the amateur

championship of the United States in 1888 in pole-vaulting, and holding the intercollegiate record for pole-vaulting, 188.5-92. He was elected a member of the American institute of mining engineers and of the Colorado scientific society, and became a frequent contributor to their Pro- ceedings as well as to other scientific journals. From 1889 until 1894 he was engaged as superin- tendent and metallurgist of various smelting enterprises in Colorado. In 1894 he became super-