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exhibited at the Centennial exposition, Pliiladel- pliia. Pa., in 1876. In this statue he was at first accused of having copied Canova's " Hebe," but subsequently proved the accusation to be without foundation. He executed a portrait statue of John Hancock, which was set up in the town hall at Lexington, Mass., at the centennial cele- bration of that town in 1875; and the same year one of John A. Andrew, which was placed in the Hinghani cemetery, Mass., by the G.A.R. "While visiting Boston in 1878 he exhibited a high-relief piece, " The Ghost in Hamlet "; and modeled two other pieces in high-relief, " Steam " and " Elec- tricit}'," which were placed on either side of the vestibule of the Herald building, Boston, Mass. Some of his other works are statues of Cleopatra, Ariel, and Timon of Athens; and a portrait bust of Emerson, in the Harvard Library; one of John A. Andrew, owned by the Andrew family; one of Seth Cheney, owned by the Cheney family in Connecticut; and one of the elder Booth. He died m Florence, Italy, Nov. 26, 1881.

QOULD, Walter, painter, wasborn in Phila- delphia, Pa., in 1829. He studied under the artists Thomas Sully and J. R. Smith and in 1846 was elected a member of the Artists" fund society of Philadelphia. He had a .studio in Philadelphia, and one in Petersburg, Va., where he iiainted a number of portraits which were nearly all de- stroyed during the civil war. In 1849 he went to Europe, spent some months in Paris, and finally removed to Florence, Italy. There he resided for the remainder of his life, making frequent visits to the east, and painting portraits and compositions on Oriental subjects. He was the doyen of the American art colony of Florence in William Dean Howell's novel " Indian Sum- mer." His better known works include portraits of the governor of Hungary and Kossuth (1851); and An EnMcrn Slory-TeUer. He died in Florence, Italy, in January, 1893.

QOULDINQ, Francis Robert, author, was born in Midway, Ga., Sept. 28, 1810; son of the Rev. Thomas Goulding (1786-1848), pastor of the Pres- byterian church at White Bluff, Ga., 1816-23; sole professor of the theological seminary at Lex- ington, Ga., in 1822, and after its removal to Columbia, S.C, in 1823, professor of ecclesiastical history and church government until 1835; and pastor at Columbus. Ga., 1835-48. Francis was graduated from the University of Georgia in 1830 and from the Theological seminary at Co- lumbia, SC. ,in 1833. He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1833 and preached at various parishes in Georgia until 18G5, after which he devoted his time entirely to literary work. His published volumes include: Little Josephine (1844), Bobert and Harold, or the Yonncj Marooners on the Florida Coast (1853); Marooners'

Island (1868); Frank Gordon (1869); Fishinij and Fishes (1870); Life Scenes from the Gospel Uistonj (1870); and Woodruff Stories (1870). He died in" Roswell, Ga., Aug. 22, 1881.

QOWANS, William, antiquarian, was liorn in Lismahagow parish, Scotland, March 29, 1803. , In 1821 he emigrated to the United States with his famil}' and became successively deck-hand on a Mississippi fiat-boat, a gardener in New York city, a stone cutter, a stevedore, a vender of newspapers, a bill distributor for the Bowery theatre, and finally in May, 1827, a clerk in a book-store. The next year he began business for himself as an antiquarian book-seller and auc- tioneer. Until his death he was well known among the book collectors and literary men of his day. He published twenty-eight book cata- logues, interspersed with valuable notes and remarks on noted men he had met. He left a stock of 300,000 volumes, including hundreds of very rare books, which were sold at auction, 1871-72, and five historical reprints entitled Goican's Bihliotheea Americana. He died in New York city. Nov. 27, 1870.

QOWEN, Franl<Iin Benjamin, law\-er, was born in Philadelphia, Pa.. Feb. 9, 1836. Heat- tended a school in Enimitsburg, Md., and a Mo- ravian school at Lititz, Pa.; engaged in coal mining in 1858; was admitted to the bar in 1860 and began practice in Schuylkill. In 1862 he was elected district attorney of Scluiylkill county, served two years, then resumed practice and was appointed general counsel in connection with the mining interests of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad and of the Girard coal trust. He was president of the Philadelpliia & Reading railroad, 1869-81, and was again elected in 1883. He was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1873, and became especially well known for )iis successful prosecution of the " Molly Ma- guire " murderers in 1876. The honorary degree of LL.D, was conferred upon him by Washing- ton and Lee university in 1879. He died in Wash- ington, D.C., Dee. 14, 1889.

QOWEN, Isaac William, clergyman, was born in New Brunswick, N.J., Dec. 29, 1858; son of Henry and Margaret (Hopper) Gowen; and grandson of Andrew and Sarah (Van Cleef) Hop- per. He attended the New Brunswick public schools and Rutgers preparatory school and was graduated from Rutgers in 1879, receiving his M.A. degree in 1883. He was ordained a minis- ter of the Reformed church of America at Cold- spring, N.Y., in June, 1883, and was pastor there, 1883-85. In the latter year he became pastor at New Durham. N.Y. He was editor of the Mission Field of the Reformed Chnrch, 1888-92, associate editor of the Christian Jntelliqencer, 1893-94, and editor of the Sunday-school and Christian En.