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Roljinsou. He was transferred to the regular
service as 2d lieuteuant, 9th U.S. iufantry, July
30, lti66, and served on the staff of General Fes^
seuden at Baltimore, Md., from June to August,
1860. He then served on the staffs of Generals
Butterfield and Reeve and was promoted 1st
lieutenant, Feb. 14, 1868, and was transferred to
the 1st U.S. artillery, April 3, 1809. He was
bre vetted 1st lieutenant, U.S.A., for "gallant
and distinguished services in the field during the
Gettysburg campaign of 1803 " and captain,
U.S.A., for " gallant and meritorious services in
the field during the war," to rank from Marcli 3,
1867. In 1885 he was ordered by the secretary of
war to prepare a suitable text-book for the corps
of cadets at the US. military academy on the
suV),ject of military and martial law and the
practice and procedure of military tribunals and
l)oards under the laws of the United States and
the laws of nations. He was assistant to the secre-
tary of vv'ar
in his office,
1887-88, serv-
ing meanwhile
on the staffs
of Generals
Sherman and
Hancock, and
was honora-
bly discharged,
Dec. 8, 1888, by reason of disability contracted in
the line of duty. He was elected district attorney
of New York in November, 1897, by a plurality
of 80,000 over his next competitor. He became a
member of the American ethnological and the
Now York historical societies and in 1867 a com-
panion of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States. He was one of the
incorporators of the Military service institution
and a founder and incorjiorator in 1873 of the
Society of the Sons of the Revolution. He
served as secretary -general of the Society of the
Cincinnati from May, 1884; as vice-president of
the Rhode Island society of the Cincinnati and as
vice commandant of the military society of the
war of 1812 and of the Veteran corps of artillery.
He was also elected a member of the Union,
Metropolitan, West Point, Democi'atic, Seventh
Regiment, Veteran and C^iurch clubs, of New
York city. He received the degree of A.M. from
the College of the city of New York, in course,
in 1863, the honoi'ary degree of A.M. from Dart-
mouth college in 1864 and from Columbia
college in 1869; that of LL.D. from the Uni-
versity of the city of New York in 1875 and that
of L.H.D. from Hobart college, N.Y., in 1896. He
is the author of; JurUdktion and Forcers of the
United States and State Courts in Beferenee to Writs
of Habeas Corpus as Affecting the Army and
Nary; Evidence and Practice in Military Courts;
Practical Forms for Use in Courts Martial and
Tiemarks as to Procedure; and numerous historical
addresses published in pamphlet form.
GARDINER, Frederic, clergj-man, was born in Gardiner, Maine, Sept. 11. 1822; son of the Hon. Robert Hallowell and Emma J. (Tudor) Gardiner. He was a student at Hobart college for one year; was graduated at Bowdoin in 1842, attended the General theological seminary, and was ordained in 1845. He was rector at Saoo, Maine, 1845-47; assistant rector at St. Luke's, Philadelphia,, 1847-48; rector at Bath, Maine, 1848-53; was in Europe, 1854-55, and rector at Lewiston, Maine, 1855-56. He was married in 1846 to Caroline, daughter of Col. William Oliver Vaughan. He was an assistant to Bishop Bur- gess, at Christ church, Gardiner, Maine, 1856-60; a jirofessor in the Diocesan theological school, Gardiner, 1861; and took a course in chemistry under Charles W. Eliot at Harvard, 1863. He held the chair of literature and interpretation of the scripture, together with that of Christian evi- dences in Gambler (Ohio) theological seminary, 1865-66, and was professor of natural philosophy in Kenyon college, 1866-67. He was associate rector at Middletown, Conn., 1867-68; and pro- fessor of Old Testanrent literature and evidences, 1868-83, and of New Testament interpretation and literature, and evidence, and also librarian, 1883-89, at Berkeley divinity school. He founded the society of Biblical literature and exegesis in 1880; and was president of the Middletown scien- tific association, 1869-89. He received the degree of S.T.D. from Kenyon college in 1869 and that of D. D. from Trinity in 1870. His published works include: The Island of Life (1851); Com- mentary on the Epistle of St. Jade (1856); Harmony of the Gospels in Greek (1871, 7th ed., 1884); Har- mony of the Gospels in English (1871); Diatessaron; the Life of our Lord in the Works of the Gospels (1871); Religion and Chemistry, lectures delivered at the Brooklyn institute (1868); The Principles of Textual Crftidsm (1876); The Old and New Testaments in Their Mutucd Pelations (1885); and Aids to Scripture Study (1890). He also contrib- uted exegetical works for commentaries. He died in Middletown. Conn., July 17, 1889.
GARDINER, John Sylvester John, clergy- man, was born in Haverfordwest, southern Wales, in June, 1765. His father, John Gardiner (1731- 1793), was a native of Boston, educated as a law- yer in London, practised there and in Wales, was attorney -general in St. Christopher, West Indies, 176Q-83; returned to Boston in 1783, removing to Pownalboro, Maine, whence he was a representative in the Massachusetts legis- lature, 1788-93, and was prominent in changing King's chapel, Boston, from an Episcopal to
