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student at the University of Virginia, I808-6I, a soldier in the Confederate army, 1861-65, a stu- dent at Washington college, Va., 1867-68, and treasurer and clerk of the faculty of Washington college, 1868-69. He studied theology, 1869-72, and was ordained a Presbyterian minister in July, 1873. He was pastor at Lebanon, Va.; of the Independent Presbyterian church, Savannah, Ga.; at Salem, Va., and at Lexington, Mo., 1872- 94. He was president of Westminster college, Fulton, Mo., 1894-98, and became pastor at Lexington, Sic, in 1898. He was married, Nov. 12, 1873, to Maiy Fi-ances Bell of Goshen. Va. He is the author of: The Sunday School Teacher's Work: ]Vhat it is and Horn to do it (1886), and con- tributions to periodicals.

GORDON, George Angier, clergyman, was born in Oyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Jan. 2, 1853; son of George and Catherine (Hutcheon) Gordon. He was educated in the schools of Insch. Scotland, and in 1871 came to the United States and settled in Boston, Mass. He was graduated from Bangor theo- logical seminary, Maine, in 1877 was ordained to the Con- giegational nimistry, June 20, 1S77 and was pastor at Temple, Maine for one j ear. He then enteied Harvard and was grad- uated there in 1881. He w as pastor

of the Second Congregational chureh, Green- ^\i(•h, Conn., 1^81-83, and in I'-Si accepted a call to the Old THE «Ew" OLK SOUTH <a««RMArio«Ai. cBuRca South church

Boston, Mass. He was a University preacher at Harvard, 1886-90, and at Yale, 1888-99, and was also made an overseer at Harvard in 1897. He was married, June 3, 1890, to Susan Huntington Man- ning of Boston, Mass. He received the degree of D.D. from Bowdoin and from Yale in 1893 and from Harvard in 1895. He is the author of: The Witiiens of ImmortaUty (1893); The Christ of To-day (1895) and Immortality and the Neio The- olofiy (1S97).

GORDON, George Henry, soldier, was born in Charlestown, JIass., July 19, 1824. He was graduated at the U.S. military academy in 1846 and was forwarded to Mexico to join the army of occupation as brevet lieutenant in the mounted rifles. He took part in the siege of Vera Cruz, 1847; was wounded at Cerro Gordo and for his bravery there was brevetted 1st lieutenant; and fought at Contreras and Chapultepec, and in

the assault and capture of the Mexican capital. Attacked near San Juan bridge by two guerillas. Dec. 21, 1847, he defended himself in a hand-to- hand figiit and was severely wounded. He was promoted 3d lieutenant, Jan. 8, 1848, and was on frontier duty in Washington Territorj- and on the coast survey, 1850-54, receiving promo- tion to the rank of 1st lieutenant, Aug. 30, 1853. He resigned his commission, Oct. 31, 1854, stud- ied at the Harvard law school and practised law in Boston, 1857-61. He %vas chosen colonel of the 2d Massachusetts vohmteers, May 24. 1861, was military governor of Harper's Ferry, com- manded a brigade in Banks's campaign in the Shenandoah valley, and for his masterly retreat from Stra.sburg to Williamsport was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers. His brigade, which formed a part of Williams' division of the 12th corps, was in the battles of Cedar Mountain, August 9; Groveton, August 28-29; Antietain, Sept. 16-17, 1863; and on guard duty at Harper's Ferry. He w.-'s engaged under Gillmore in the operations against Charleston, S.C., 1863-64; in command of the Department of Florida from May to Jul3', 1864; and on the White river, Ark., in July and at Mobile, Ala. , in August, 1864. He com- manded the eastern district of the Department of Virginia, 1864-65, and was brevetted major-gen- eral of volunteers, Aug. 9, 1865. He returned to the practice of law in Boston, Mass. , at the close of the war and was collector of internal revenue for 7th Massachusetts district, 1866. He ])ublished: The Army of Virginia from Cedar Mountain to Alexandria (1880) A War Diary (1881) and From, Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain (1883). He died at Frainingham. Mass., Aug. 30, 1886.

GORDON, James Wright, governor of Michi- gan, was born in Plainlield, Conn., in 1809. He was elected lieutenant-governor of Blichigan in 1839, taking his seat, June 7, 1840. The same j'ear he vi-as the regular Whig candidate for U.S. senator, but a fusion of Democrats and dissatis- fied Whigs in the legislature combined against him and elected Governor William Woodbridge and on Feb. 24. 1841, on the resignation of G< v- ernor Woodbridge to take his seat in the senate, Goodwin succeeded to the governorship, sf vvin.g to Jan. 3, 1842. He then retired from public life, went to South America for his health and died from the effects of a fall from a balcony at Per- nambuco. S, A., in December, 1853.

GORDON, John Brown, governor of Georgia, w;is born in U]ison county, Ga., Feb. 6, 1832; son of the Rev. Zachariah Herndon and Malinda (Cox) Gordon. His great-grandfather was one of seven Gordon brother's who emigrated from Scotland to North Carolina and Virginia and were soldiers in the Revolutionary war. He matriculated at the University of Georgia in 1851, but was not