HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Ganse, Hervey Doddridge, clergyman, auwas born Feb. 7, 1822, in Fishkill, N.Y. In 1883 he became first secretary of the presbyterian board of aid for colleges and academies, in Chicago, 111. He is the author of Bible Slave-holding hot Sinful. thor,
Gansevoort, Henry Sanford, soldier, lawwas born Dec'. 15, 1834,. in Albany, N.Y. In 1865 he was promoted to brigadier -genyer,
eral.
He
died in 1871.
Gansevoort, Leonard, state senator, congressman, was born in 1751 in Albany, N.Y. In 1787-88 he was a delegate from New
He was to the continental congress. a state senator in 1791-93 and 1797-98; and was a member of the state assembly in 1778He died in 1810 in Albany. 79 and 1788. Gansevoort, Peter, soldier, was born July
phone company of Ohio. In 1899-1903 he was a member of the Ohio state legislature. In 1903-05 he was representative from Ohio to the fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth congresses as a democrat. Garber, John, lawyer, jurist. He was an associate justice of the supreme court of Nevada sometime between 1865-99.
Garter, Milton C, lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 30, 1867, in Humboldt, Cal. In 1887-90 he attended the Upper Iowa university; in 1893 graduated from the law department
Albany, N.Y. He was commissioner of Indian affairs; military agent; and in 1809 was made a brigadier-general United States army. He died July 2, 1812, in Albany, N.Y. Ganson, John, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. ], 1818, in Le Roy, N.Y. He was a member of the state legislature in 1863; and in 1863-65 he was 17, 17-19, in
a representative from New York to the He died Sept. 28, thirty-eighth congress. 1874J in Buffalo, N.Y. Gantt, Edward, clergyman, chaplain, was born in 1746 in Prince George county, Md. In 1795 he removed to Georgetown, D.C., and occupied himself in the duties of the ministry. After 1800 he was repeatedly chosen chaplain to the United States senate. He died about 1837 near Louisville, Ky. Gantt, James Britton, soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 26, 1845, in Putnam counDuring the civil war he served in ty, Oa. the confederate army. In 1880-86 he was circuit judge of Henry circuit of Missouri and an associate justice of the state supreme court of Missouri in 1890-98; and chief justice in 1890 for the terms ending in 1910. Gantvoort, Arnold Johann, musician, composer, was born Dec. 6, 1857, in Amsterdam, In 1894 he became head of the Holland. department for preparing public school for music teachers in the college of music at Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of" a series of music readers for public school children and The High School Ideal The Model Music Course and Gantvoort's Shorter Music Course.
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Gantz, Martin
K.,
lawyer,
congressman,
1862, in Miami county, elected mayor of the city of Troy; and in 1891-93 he was a representative from Ohio to the fifty-second congress as a democrat. Garter, Harvey C, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born in Hill Grove, Ohio. He began life as a telegraph operator; became manager of the Western union telegraph company; and since 1898 has been assistant general solicitor of the Central union tele-
was born Jan. Ohio. He was
28,
Iowa state uniand the same year began the practice of law in Guthrie, of the
York
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lahoma; and upon the admission of the territory in 1907 he was elected judge of the twentieth judicial district of Oklahoma for the term ending in 1911. Garber, Silas, governor. He was the fourth governor of Nebraska in 1875-79. He died in 1905 in Lincoln, Neb. Garcelon, Alonzo, physician, surgeon, governor, was born in 1813 in Maine. He served in the house of representatives of the Maine legislature; and was surgeon-general on the staff of the governor of Maine during the He was an unsuccessful candicivil war. date for congress in 1868, and for governor in 1878. There having been no choice for governor at the election in 1878, he was elected to that office by the state legislature, and served as twenty-sixth governor of
Maine in 1879-8-0. Gardam, William H., clergyman, author, was born on Oct. 18, 1851, in England. In 1875 he was alumnus of the London university. In 1875 was a student in the Lincoln theological college of England; and in 1893 received the degree of B.D. from Seabury divinity college of Minnesota. In 1877-80 he was curate of Bourne abbey church of Lincolnshire, England. His American ministry has been spent in Minnesota and Michigan; and in 1887-96 was dean of the cathedral at Faribault, in close association with Bishop Whipple. Since 1896 he has been rector of St. Luke's at Ypsilanti, Mich. For some time he was an editorial writer on the New York Churchman; and is a frequent contributor to the Eclectic of New York City; and to current magazines
and journals. Garden,
Alexander,
was born about 1685 50 he was rector of
clergyman,
author,
in Scotland. In 1719St. Philip's parish In
Charleston, S.C. He was the author of Six Letters to the Reverend George Whitefield; and Two Sermons. He died Sept. 37, 1756, in Charleston, S.C.
