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and the Carrolls and prominent in the war of 1812. In 18.J3 Arthur was a2)i)ointed a page in the house of representatives, Wasliingtou, D.C., and through the influence of Stejjhen A. Doug- las, a friend of his father, he was transferred to the senate chamber, where he was successively page, messenger, assistant postmaster and post- master. He was also private secretary to Sena- tor Douglas and resided in the senator's family. When General Early made his famous raid on the national capital, young Gorman was 1st lieu- tenant of a company of volunteers, made up of employees of the government. In 1866 he left the employ of the senate as postmaster on account of alleged officious partisanship. He was appointed by President Johnson collector of internal rev- enue for the fifth Maryland district, and was removed by President Grant. In 1869 be was elected a director of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and the same year a delegate in the state legislature. In 1871 lie was speaker of the house of delegates, and in 1873 was elected president of the canal company. He was state senator, 1875- 81, and U.S. senator for three senatorial terms, 1881-99, failing of re-election in 1898. He was the leader of the Democratic party in the senate during his last two terms and served as chairman of the committee on printing and the select com- mittee on library, and as a member of the com- mittees on appropriations, commerce, interstate commerce, pensions and rules. On April 29, 1898, he resigned the chairmanship of the senate Dem- ocratic caucus, and Senator Turpie of Indiana was elected bis successor.

GORMAN, James Sedgwick, representative, was born in L3'udon, Mich., Dec. 28, 1850; son of Peter and Catherine Gorman; and grandson of Edward Gorman of county Down, Ireland. He was graduated from the Union school, Chelsea, Mich., in 1874, and from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1876, practising law at Jackson, where be was for two years as- sistant prosecuting attorney. In 1879 he re- moved to Dexter, and in 1880 was elected to the Michigan house of repi'esentatives, serving 1881- 83. He then removed to Chelsea and served in the state senate, 1887-89. He was a Democratic representative from Michigan in the 52d and 53d congresses, 1891-05.

GORMAN, Willis Arnold, soldier, was born near Flemingsburg, Ky., Jan. 12, 1814. He pur- sued a course in law at the University of Indiana and in 1835 was admitted to the bar, practising in Bloomington, Ind. He was state senator for several terms and at the outbreak of the Mexican war in 1816 entered the service as major of a regiment of Indiana volunteers. He was wounded at Buena Vista and in 1847 was promoted colonel of the 4th Indiana regiment. He was civil and

military governor of Pueblo in 1848; was a Dem- ocratic representative from Indiana in the 31st and 33d congresses, 1849-53; governor of Min- nesota Territory, 1853-57; delegate to the Minne- sota state constitutional convention of 1857, and a i-epresentative in the state legislature in 1858. In 1861 be entered the Federal army as colonel of the 1st Slinnesota regiment, partici- pated in the first battle of Bull Run, Julj- 31, 1861, was promoted brigadier -general of volun- teers, Sept. 7, 1861, and commanded a brigade at the battles of Savage's Station, July 1, 1862, South Mountain, Sept. 14, 1863, and Edwards's Ferry, Oct. 21, 1863. After the war he practised law in St. Paul, Minn., where he died May 20, 1876.

GORRIE, Peter Douglas, clergyman, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, April 31, 1813. He was taken to the United States in 1820. He preached in various churches in New York state and contrib- uted frequently to religious periodicals. He pub- lished: The Churches and Sects in the United States (1850); Episcopal Methodism as it Was and Is (18.53); Lives of Eminent Methodist Ministers in Europe and America (1853); and Black liiver Con- ference Memorial (2 \o\s., 1853-1881). He died in Potsdam, N.Y., Sept. 12. 1884.

GORRINGE, Henry Honeychurch, naval officer, was born in Barbadoes, W.I, Aug. 11, 1841. His father was a clergyman of the Church of England and the son at an early age joined the merchant marine service, sail- ing from New York. In July, 1862, he joined the U.S. navy as a sailor before the mast and was at- tached to the Mis- sissippi squadron, gaining promotion rapidly. In the Red River expedition he commanded the

Cricket as acting vol- unteer lieutenant un- der Admiral Porter. After the war lie was appointed to the re^'- ular navy and in 1868 was lieutenant commander. He com- manded the Ports- mouth in the South Atlantic squadron, 1869-71; was an officer of the hydrographic bureau, Washington, D.C., 1873-76; on special service in the Mediter- ranean as commander of the Gettysburg, 1876-78,

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