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 GUNDERSEN

GUNNING

grandson of Samuel and Rachel (James) Gum- mei'd. He was educated at his father's school in Burlington, N.J.; was a teacher of mathematics and other branches at tae Friends' school, Provi- dence, R.I., 1831-3-i; at Havei'ford school, 1834- 43; conducted the school established by his father at Burlington, N.J., lS43-Gi, and was jiresident of Haverford college, 18G'.3-74. He was married twice: first to Abigail, daughter of John Gris- coni, and secondly to Elizabeth Hooton Barton. He was a member of the American philosophical society. He died in Haverford, Pa., Oct. 23, 1874.

QUNDERSEN, Henrick, educator, was born in Troinso, Norway, Jan. 31, IS.")?; son of Ole and Berthine (Olsen) (Hmdersen. He was graduated from the Tromso academj- in 18T2; from Bethel theological seminary, Stockholm, Sweden, in 1884; from Christiania university. Norway-, inl886, and from the last-uaiiied universit)- with the de- gree of Candidatus Philosophiaj in 1888. He was pastor in Trondhjem, Norway, 1886-87. He re- moved to the United States in 1888 and was professor of Greek and of New Testament inter- pretation in the Danish-Norwegian department of the Baptist Union theological seminary from 1888 until 1893. when that institution became the Divinity school of Chicago university, and he was continued as assistant professor of the New Testament interpretations and of biblical litera- ture at the University of Chicago. 1892-95, and became profe.ssor and dean of the Danish-Norwe- gian theological seminary connected with the University of Chicago in 1895. He received the degree of D. B. from the Baptist Union theologi- cal seminary in 18811.

QUNN, Frederick William, educator, was born in Washington, Conn.. Oct. 4, 181G; son of John N and Polly (Ford) Gunn. He was graduateil fri»;n Yale in 1837, and the following year opened a school for boys in his native town. In the fall of 1845, his school being reduced to nine, on ac count of his fearlessness and activity as an aboli- tionist, he accepted an invitation to teach in New Preston, a village of Washington, and re- mained there until 1847, when he established a school at lowanola. Pa. But after two years, being assured by influential friends that the old time prejudice had died away, he returned to the academy in Washington. In 1850. with his wife, he took possession of the house which was the nucleus of the present " Gunnery " and started the family school of which he was principal until his death in Washington, Conn., Aug. 16, 1881.

QUNN, James, senator, was born in Virginia in 1739. He attended the common schools and was admitted to the bar. He served in the Patriot army dviring the Revolutionary war. and as a captain of dragoons he participated, under Gen- eral Wavne, in the movement for the relief of

Savannah, Ga., in 1782. On the termination of the war he made his home in Savannah, and there practised law. He was made colonel of the first regiment of Chatham county militia, and later rose to the grade of brigadier-general of Georgia militia. On Feb. 10, 1787, the Georgia legislature el-^cted him a delegate to the Conti- nental congress, but it is believed that he never took his seat in that body. He was elected a U.S. senator from Georgia in 1789, and .served in the lst-6th congresses inclusive, 1789-1801. He became implicated in the famous Yazoo frauds in 1795. in which the legislature of Georgia had been induced by bribes to cede to the Yazoo land companies the public lands west of its pres- ent area claimed by the state, and when the scheme was exposed, ceded by the state to the United States. Senator Gunn died suddenly at Louisville. Ga.. July 30, 1801.

QUNNELL, Francis M, naval ofticer. was born in Washington, D.C., Nov. 27, 1827; eon of James and Ilellen (McCall) Gunnell; grandson of William Gunnell of Loudoun county. Va., and a descendant of William Gunnell cf England. He was graduated from Georgetown university, D.C., in 1845, and from the medical school of Columbia imiversity. Washington, D.C., in 1846, receiving an honorary AM. in 1852. He was appointed to the U.S. naval service from the Dis- trict of Columbia, as an assistant -surgeon, IMarch 22, 1849; was promoted passed assistant surgeon, April 7, 1854; surgeon, April 23, 1861; medical inspector. March 3. 1871; medical director. Feb. 3, 1875, and surgeon-general, U.S.N., in 1884. He was on duty at various stations and during the civil war in the North and South Atlantic block- ading squadrons and at the naval hospital, Wash- ington. He was retired with the relative rank of commodore, Nov. 27, 1889, on reaching the age of sixty two 3-e;ivs.

QUNNINQ, Thomas Brian, inventor, was liorn in London. England, in 1814. He immigrated to the United States and settled in New York city in 1840. where he studied and practised dentistry. He established himself in practice and applied himself to the invention of dental and surgical apparatus, inventing in 1861 the hard rubber in- terdental splits for fractured jaws, which proved to be valuable in surgery. He was appointed in 1867 a member of the commission to choose the medical and surgical instruments to be exhibited in the U.S. section of the Paris exposition, and made an exhibition of his inventions in that line at the Centennial exhibition in 1876. He is the author of Physiolnf/ical Action of the 31vfrles con- cerned in the Movement of the Lower Jaw (1867); The Larynx the Source of Vocal Sound (1874); Hard Jinhher Appliances for Conrienital Cleft Palate (187S^ He died at New Brighton, N.Y., Jan. 8, 1889.