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 GUENTHER

GUERNSEY

daughter of John Randolph, the last royal attor ney general of Virginia, and niece of Peyton Ran- dolpa, president of the Continental congress. The son removed to Louisiana in 1808 ; was a vol- unteer aide to General Jackson at the battle of Ne.v Orleans, receiving the complimentary notice of his chief iu dispatches to the war department. He was Jackson's counsel in the U.S. bank case and was opposition counsel to Daniel Webster in the .M3'ra Clark Gaines will contest. He served at Jijferent times as U.S. district attorney, as attorney general of the state of Louisiana, as representative iu the state legislature and as a member of the state constitutional convention. He was a principal in two " affairs of honor " in one of which he was severely wounded. He died in Nrfxv Orleans, La., Dec. -1, 1854.

QUENTHER, Francis L., soldier, was born in Buffalo, N.Y., Feb. 2i, 1838; son of Francis Henry and Katheriue (Knoth) Guenther. He gradu- ated at the U.S. military academj- brevet id lieu- tenant of artillery, July 1, 18.J9; was promoted 2d lieutenant of the 4th artillery, Nov. 2, 1859; served in garrison at Fort Monroe, Va., 1859-60, and on frontier duty at Fort Randall, Dak., 1860- 61. He was promoted 1st lieutenant in the 5th artilleiy. May 14, 1861, and served in the civil war iu the Western Virginia campaign, June to Dacenibsr, 1861 ; at Camp Wood, Ky. , December, 1861, to February, 1863; and in the Tennessee and Mississippi campaign, army of the Ohio, February to June, 1863. He was brevetted cap- tain, April 7, 1803, for gaUant and meritorious services at the battle of Shiloli, Tenn. He was in command of a battery, army of the Ohio, in operation in North Alabama, and the movement through Tennessee to Louisville, Ky., June to September, 1863, and participated in several skirmishes in the advance into Kentucky in Octo- ber, 1863. He commanded the battery in Major- General Rosecrans's Tennessee campaign, army of the Cumberland, and took part in all the en- gagements from October, 1862, to August, 1863. He was brevetted major, Dec. 31, 1862, for gal- lant and meritorious services at the battle of Stone's River ; was promoted captain of the 5th artillery, July 3, 1863; commanded Camp Mar- shall, Washington, September, 1863, served about Chattanooga, October, 1863. to April, 1864, was enga.ged in the battle of Missionary Ridge. Nov. 25, 1863, and commanded a batterj' it Nashville, Tenn., April to September, 1864. He was a pro- fessor of military and international law and of geo.graphy, history and ethics at the U.S. mili- tary academy, October, 1864. to July, 1865. and assistant professor of the same from July 1, 1865, to Aug. 25, 1866. He was brevetted lieutenant- colonel and colonel, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during the war. He

was promoted major and assigned to the 2d ar- tillery, June 36, 1883; lieutenant-colonel and assigned to the 5th artilleiy, July 1, 1891, at which time he was No. 1 on lineal list and No. 19 in relative rank, U.S.A. He was promoted colonel and assigned to the 4th artillery, June 6, 1896. being No. 3 on lineal list. In the war with Spain he was made brigadier-general of volun- teers, assigned to the 3d corps at Falls church, Va., was honorably discharged, Nov. 30, 1898, and on May 6, 1899, was made commander of Fort Monroe.

QUENTHER, Richard, reiiresentative, was born iu Potsdam, Prussia. Nov. 30, 1845. He was educated in his native city and emigrated to the United States in 1866, settling in Oshkosh, Wis., in 1867, where he engaged in business as a pharmacist. He was state treasurer of W'iscon- siu, 1878-82, and was a Rej^ublican representative from the 6th district of Wisconsin in the 47th, 48th and 49th congresses and from the 2d district in the 50th congress, 1881-89. He was U.S. con- sul-general to Mexico, 1890-93 ; vice-president and afterward jiresident of the state board of control of Wisconsin, 1895-98, and was appointed consul- general of the United States at Frankfort-onthe- Main, Germany, Jan. 15. 1899.

GUERNSEY, Alfred Hudson, author, was born iu Brandon, Vt., May 13, 1)S18; son < f Harvey and Abigail (Lacey) Guernsey; grandscn of Harvey and Lucy (Wainwright) Guernsey, and a descendant of Oliver and Rachel (Waie; Guernsey. He studied at the Oneida institute, a manual labor school, near Utica, N.Y., attendi d Union theological seminary, New York city, 1841^3 and 1845-46, and was graduated frcm there in 1846. He was editor of Mai-per's Sh'ya- zine, 1851-69; an associate editor of the Americmt Cijdopmlia (1872-76); and editor of Alden's Cyclo- pedia of Universal Literature, most of the articles having been prepared by him (20 vols., 1884-91). His writings include Harper's Pictorial History nf the Great Rebellion (with Henry M. Alden. 186:!- 67) ; The Spanish Annaila (1878): Thomas Car- hjle: His Theories and 02nnions (1880) : Rnlj^h Waldo Emerson, Philosopher and Poet (18S\) ; and 37(6 World's Opportunities and How to Use Them (1884). He died in New Y'ork city, Jan. 16. inO"

QUERNSEY, Egbert, physician, was born in Litchfield, Conn., July 8. 1823 ; son of Noah and Amanda (Crosby) Guernsey; grandson of Ncah and Hannah (Hollister) Guernsey, and a direct descendant from John Guernsey, who emigrated to America from the Isle of Guernsey in 1638, and whose name appears among the 180 Puritans who establislied the Colony of New Haven. He was a student at Phillips academy, Andover, Mass., and at Yale, and was graduated in medicine at the University of the city of New York in 1846.