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Wade Hampton. He was wounded at Lovejoy Station and in October, 1865, resumed business in Savannah, Ga. He was a representative in the Georgia legislature, 1884-90, and chairman of the finance committee, 1880-90. He was senior colonel in the state militia and commanded the state troops in suppressing mobs and riots four separate times. He was elected president of the Savannah cotton exchange, vice-president of the Merchants national bank and held other promi- nent positions in the city and state. On May 29, 1898, he was appointed by President McKinley- brigadiergeneral of volunteers and assigned to the 2d brigade, 1st division, 4th army corps, consisting of the 2d Texas, the 2d Louisiana and the 2d Alabama regiments. He joined his bri- gade at Mobile, Ala. He declined promotion to the command of a brigade in a northern camp in order to see service at the front, expecting to go to Puerto Rico. The 1st Alabama was trans- ferred to the 7th corps and he commanded his brigade while encamped at Miami and at Jack- sonville, Fla. He was relieved from duty in the 7th corps, Aug. 16, 1898, and appointed with Rear- Admiral Schley and Major-General Brooke a commissioner to arrange for the evacuation of Puerto Kico by the Spanish troops, and on his return in October, he was assigned to the com- mand of the 2d brigade, 1st division, 1st army corps, with headquarters at Macon, Ga. On March 24, 1899, General Gordon, with twelve other brigadier-generals, was honorably dis- charged, "their services being no longer re- quired by reason of the muster-out of volunteer regiments."'

QORDY, Wilbur Fisk, educator, was born near Salisbury, Md., June 14, 1854; son of Elijah Melson and Martha (Sheppard) Gordy; and grandson of William and Elizabeth (Melson) Gordy and of Benjamin and Sarah (Lloyd) Shep- pard. He attended Dickinson college, 1876-77, and then entered the sophomore class at Wes- leyau university where he was graduated in 1880. He was vice-principal of the high school. Middle - town. Conn., 1881; suijerintendent of schools, Ansonia. Conn., 1882-84; and supervising princi- pal of the Nortli school, Hartford, Conn, after 1884. He was elected president of the Connect- icut state teachers' association in 1891, and of the Connecticut council of education in 1894. He vvas married, July 9, 1889, to Isabel, daughter of Jolin and Mary (Begg) Hunter. He lectured extensively before institutes and summer schools on the teaching of American history and is the author of .4 .School JiixUiry of the. United States (1898) and co-author of tlie Pathfinder in Ameri- can History (1892). He made a thorough study of all problems affecting modern school manage- ment and wrote largely for educational journals.

QORE, Christopher, senator, was born in Boston. Mass., Sept. 21, 17,58; son of John Gore, a loyalist. He vvas graduated from Harvaid in 1776; was the first U.S. district attorney for Massachusetts, 1789-96; was with William I'incU- ney a commissioner to England to settle the claim of the United States on Great Britain for spoliations, 1796-1804_; was clumji' d'affaires at London, 1803-04; governor of Massacliusetts, 1809; and served in the U.S. senate. 1813-16, as successor to James Lloyd, resigned. He resigned his seat in 1816, was succeeded by Eli P. Ashmun,

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and retired to his home at Waltham, Mass., tak-_ ing no further part in politics. He received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard in 1809. Upon his death he left bequests to the American acad- emy of arts and sciences and to the Jlassa- chusetts historical society, of both of which associations he was a member. He was an overseer of Harvard, 1810-15. and a fellow, 1812- 20, and left to that institution $100,000, which sum was used for the erection of Gore Hall, which was used as a library building. He died in Waltham, Mass., March 1, 1827.

QORE, James Howard, educator, was born near Winchester, Va.. Sept. 18, 1856; son of Mahlon and Sydney (Gather) Gore. He was graduated from Columbian university, D.C., in 1879; was tutor in mathematics there, 1878- 80; adjunct professor of mathematics, 1880-82; professor of mathematics from 1882 and of the German language and literature from 1887. He was also professor of mathematics and geodesy in the Corcoran scientific school, 1884-87, and professor of geodesy from 1887. He was elected a member of the Anthroijological and Philosophical societies of Washington. He was astronomer on the U.S. geological survey and acting assistant on the U.S. coast survey. He received tJie degree of Ph.D. from the Columbian imiversity -in 188S. His published works include: Key to Neiixomh's Algebra ; Elements of Geodesy (1884 and 1888) ; Bibliography of Geodesy (1889) ; A History of Geodesy (1891) ; German Science Reader (1891) ; The Decimal System and its History.