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 GUTHRIE

GUTHRIE

and in 1868 went to Paris, where he entered the Eoole des beaux arts and studied under Pils and Cabanel. He subsequently studied in Brussels and Antwerp and in 1871 in Rome. In 1873 he exhibited in Rome and in Munich and returned tx> America, locating in Memphis, where he was commissioned to design the pageants for the mystic crews of the Memphi and later those of the Veiled Prophets of St. Louis. Mo. The sub- jects of the pageants were: " Ancient History of Memphis," '• India," " Poetry," " Mother Goose," "Discovery of America," "Flora," "Mythol- ogy," "Fairyland," "Inventions," "Shakes- peare." and others. Removing to St. Louis in 1874 he organized with his pupils the art work in the Washington university and assisted H. C. Ives in establishing the school and museum of flue arts in connection with the same institution. In 1881 he returned to Europe, working under Gustave Boulaiiger and Lefebvre. taking prizes in drawing, painting and sketching in the Julian academy and exhibiting regularly in the Salon in Paris. In 189.5 he was commissioned to decorate the seven ceiling panels in the congressional readmg room in the library of congress, Wash- ington, the panels representing the pictorial " Spectrum of Light." In 1896 he established his home in Wasliington, D.C. He was awarded medals and diplomas at the international exposi- tions at Philadelphia. 1876. and Paris, 1889, and was a member of the art jury at the World's Columbian expositioti, 1893. Besides those already mentioned his pictorial works include: Ecce Hamo; The Aii-akiug Spriny; Dakota; Sappho; The Liijlit of Incarnation; Arcessita ab Angelis; Angel of the Tomb; Evening of the Sixth Day; The Bering Sea Arliitration Court and a number of portraits.

QUTHRIE, Alfred, engineer, was born in Sher- burne. N.Y.. April 1, 180.5; son of Dr. Samuel Guthrie, the discoverer of chloroform. He stud- ied medicme and chemistry with his father and practised medicine at Sacket Harbor. N. Y., for ten years, when he took up the stvidy of mechan- ical engineering. He removed to Chicago, 111., in 1846. The hydraulic works of the lUniois and Mioliigan canal were designed and con.structed b}^ him and besides ."upplying the canal with water from Lake Michigan he utilized the surplus power in conveying the sewage of Chicago to the canal and thence to the Mi.ssissiypi river. He studied the cause of the frequent steamboat explosions of 1851 and his research resulted in the passage of the U.S. steamboat inspection act, drawn by him and passed by congress through his personal efforts in 1852. His brother Edwin, also a physician, born Dec. 11. 1806, was a resi- Aeni of Iowa and gave to Guthrie county its name. He was captain of Iowa vokmteers in

Mexico, 1846^7, was wounded at Pass la Hoya, and died at Castle Perote, Mexico, July 20, 1847. Alfred died at Chicago, 111., Aug. 17, 1882.

QUTHRIE, James, cabinet officer, was born near Bardsiown, Ky., Dec. 5, 1792. He was educated at Bardstown academy and engaged in business in 1812, transporting merchandise to New Orleans on flat-boats. He becamea lawyer in 1817 and set- tled in Louis- ville, Ky. He was prosecuting attorney for his

county, was a representative in the state legislature for nine years, and was in the state senate for six years. He presided over the state constitutional convention of 1851, engaged in the banking business, and organ- ized and was the first president of the Nash- ville and Louisville railroad. He was secre- tary of the ti'easury in President Pierce's cabinet, 1853-57, a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Chicago in 1864, and was elected U.S. senator in 1865 to succeed Lazarus AV. Powell. He resigned in February, 1868, on account of failing health and was succeeded by Thomas C. McCreary, who completed his term. He was a delegate to the Union national conven- tion at Philadelpliia in 1866. He died in Louis- ville, Ky.. March 13, 1869.

QUTHRIE, John Julius, naval officer, was born in Washington, N.C, in 1814. He was warranted a midshipman in 1834, a passed mid- shipman in 1838, and commissioned a lieutenant in 1842. He saw service in the Mexican war, 1846-18, and with the Asiatic squadron in the attack on the Barrier forts in Canton river in November, 1856. In this affair he pulled down a Chinese flag which he presented to his native state as a tropliy and received from the legisla- ture of North Carolina a vote of thanks. He entered the Confederate service in 1861, was on duty in New Orleans in 1863, and commanded the Confederate steamer Advance in carrying supplies for the army between the Bermuda islands and Wilmington, N.C. He was a citizen of Portsmouth, Va., at the close of the war and was the first officer of the regular service who had resigned to accept service in the Confederate government, to receive a pardon from the Presi dent At the same time his disabilities were removed by a unanimous vote of congress and he was restored to the service. He was superintend ent of the life-saving stations from Cape Henry to Cape Hatteras and while engaged in rescuing the passengers and crew of the Huron, off Cape Hatteras in November, 1877, he lost his life.