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the boats of the Niaijara which cut out the Con- federate steamer Aid from under the guns of Fort Morgan in August, 1861. He commanded the Omasco of Admiral Porter's mortar fleet in the Mississippi river, at the passage of Forts Jackson and St. PJiilip and at the bombardment of Vicks- burg. In the two attacks on Fort Fisher, N.C., he commanded the monitor Lehigh and the steamer Itasca. His promotions were: lieutenant 1850; captain 1866, and commodore 1873. He commanded the navy yard at Portsmouth, N.H., and died there Jan. 13, 1879.

QUFFY, Bayless Leander Durant, jurist, was born in Mulileuburg county, Ky., Dec. 34. 1833; son of James and Malinda ( Jame.son) Guflfy, and grandson of Alexander and Ann (Puntney) Guffy. He passed liis boyhood on a farm in Logan county, Ky., and attended the common schools and Urania college, Gla.sgow, Ky. He removed to Butler county in 1854, was admitted to the bar in 1856, and began to practise in Morgantown in 1857. He was assistant assessor of the county in 1^58, and in the same year was elected police judge of Morgantown. He was appointed assistant U.S. marshal in 1860, and in 1863 was elected county judge of Butler county as a Union Democrat, being re-elected in 1866. He was the Republican nominee for elector on the Grant and Colfax ticket in 1868; was defeated as the Greenback candidate for representative in congress in 1876; was elected county judge in 1878 and re-elected in 1883; was the nominee of the People's party for attorney -general in 1891, and in 1894 was elected as a Republican judge of the court of appeals in the 3d appellate district, for a term of eight years.

GUILD, Curtis, journalist and publisher, was born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 13, 1837; son of Curtis and Charlotte Louisa (Hodges) Guild; grandson of Moses

and Abigail (Everett) Guild, and of Ezra Hodges, and a de- scendant in the 7th generation of the Very Reverend John Guild of Aberdeen, Scotland, who was born in 1586, founded the trade hospital, was patron of the " seven incorporated trades of Aberdeen," and whose descend- ant John Guild came to America in 1636, settled in Dedham, Mass., and married Elizabeth Crooke of Roxbury in 1645. Curtis Guild's maternal grandfather, Ezra Hodges, was

a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and one of his great-uncles served as surgeon's mate on the ship Bon Homme Richard under Commodore John Paul Jones; his father was graduated from Har- vard in 1833, and became a well known mer- chant of Bo.ston, and he received his education at the grammar and English high scliools of Boston after which he engaged for a few years as clerk in a mercantile house and in 1847, entered the office of the Boston Journal as a clerk and was soon advanced to the position of reporter. In 1853 he began to contribute regularly to the Knickerbocker Mafjazine of New York, and to sev- eral other literary periodicals. In 1849 he became chief clerk in the counting room of the Boston Evening Traveller and in 1856 was admitted to partnership in the firm. While connected with this paper he originated and introduced the dis- played bulletin board, hitherto imused by the newspapers of Boston. Soon after his admission to the firm the Dailt/ Chronicle and the Boston Atlas were consolidated with the Traveller. The experunent ended in failure in 1858 and Mr. Guild extricated himself at considerable pecu- niary sacrifice. He was married in September.

1858, to Sarah C, daughter of David W. and Abby (Crocker) Cobb, and granddaughter of Gen. David Cobb, aide to General Washington throughout the Revolutionary war. On Jan. 1,

1859, he started the Commercial Bulletin and be- came its editor and sole manager. This paper was a new feature in Boston journalism and gave special attention to many departments of busi- ness, notably manufactures and finance, and was so successful as to necessitate its enlargement three times. He was elected to membership in the Commercial club of Boston, of which he was president in 1883 and 1883; president and a charter member of the Bostonian society, and president of the Club of Odd Volumes. His sons, Curtis and Courtenay Guild, were graduated from Harvard in 1881 and 1886, respectively. Mr. Guild is the author of; Over the Ocean (1869); Abroad Again (1873); Britons and Muscovites (1888); A Chat About Celebrities (1897) and From Sunrise to Sunset, a volume of poetry published in 1894.

GUILD, Curtis, soldier, was born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 3, 1863; son of Curtis and Sarah C. (Cobb) Guild. He was prepared for college at Chauncey Hall school, Boston, and was graduated from Harvard in 1881 with first honors. While an undergraduate he was for a time editor of the Harvard Crimson and in his senior year of the Harvard Lampoon. After graduation he entered the office of the Commercial Bulletin published by his father, and was subsequently admitted into the firm. On Nov. 1, 1891, he joined the 1st battalion of cavalry, troop A, and was elected 2d