GEDDINGS
GENTH
GEDDINGS, Eli, physician, was born in New-
berry district, S.C., in 1799. He attended Abbe-
ville (S.C.) academ}', and in 1820 was licensed to
practise by the examining board of the Medical
society of South Carolina. He attended lectures
at the Universit}' of Pennsylvania, 1831-22, and
in 1824 settled to practise in Charleston, S.C,
wrhere in 1825 he was one of the first to receive a
degree from the Medical college of the state of
South Carolina. He was demonstrator of anat-
omy in that institution, 1825-28, meanwhile
spending a j'ear in the hospitals of London and
Paris; conducted a private school of practical
anatomy and surgery at Charleston, 1828-31 ; was
professor of anatomy and physiology in the
University of Maryland, Baltimore, 1831-37 ; and
professor of pathological anatomy and medical
jurispru<lence in the Medical college, Charleston,
S.C, l.s:!7-()l, also holding the chair of surgery
there, 1849-58. During the civil war he was a
surgeon in the Confederate army and in 1865 he
returned to the South Carolina medical college.
In 1871 he resigned his chair and was made pro-
fessor emeritus of the institutes and practice of
medicine, but the same year he was elected to a
new professorship of clinical medicine which he
held till 1878. During his connection with the
University of Maryland he edited in 1833 the
Baltimore Mi'dicaJ Journal. This was changed in
1835 to the North American Archives of Medical and
Surgical Science which he continued to edit. He
died in Charleston, S.C, Oct. 9, 1878.
GEE, Joshua, clergyman, was born in Boston, Mass., June 29, 1698. He was graduated from Harvard in 1717 and served there as librarian, 1721-22. In 1723 he was ordained pastor of tlie Old North cliurch in Boston, Mass., and lield that position till his death. He published a Sermon on the Death of Cotton Mather and The Strait Gate and the Narroio Way lutiiiitely Preferable to the Wide Gate and the Broad Way (1739). He died in Boston, Mass., May 23, 1748.
QEER, Theodore Thurston, governor of Oregon, was born in Marion county. Ore., March 12, 1851; son of Heman J. and Cynthia (Eoff) Geer. His ancestry was English. He was edu- cated at Willamette university, Salem, Ore. ; became a farmer; was a representative in the Oregon legislature in 1880, 1889, 1891 and 1893; speaker of the house, 1891, a McKinley presiden- tial elector in 1896 and carried the vote of the state to Washington, and governor of Oregon, 1898-1902.
GENTH, Frederick Augustus Louis Charles William, chemist, was born in Waechtersbach, Hesse-Cassel, May 17, 1830; son of George Fred- erick and Amelia (von Schwarzenau) Genth. His father was high forester to Prince Issenburg at Waechtersbach and his mother was the
daughter of Baron von Schwarzenau, resident at
Darmstadt, Hesse. He attended the gymnasium
in Hanau and the University of Heidelberg, and
in 1841 went toGiessen to study under Liel)ig, and
thence to Marburg to complete his studies under
Bunsen, receiving the
degree of Ph.D. from
the University of
Marburg in 1846. He
continued there as as-
sistant to Professor
Bunsen for nearly
three years and then
emigrated to the ,
United States, had
charge of the Wash-
ington mines, David-
son county , N . C ., 1 849-
50, and then estab-
lished himself in Phil-
adelphia, Pa., as an ""^^^ ^2* ^^
analytical chemist. He was professor of analyti-
cal and applied chemistry and mineralogy at the
University of Pennsylvania. 1872-74; professor of
chemistry aud mineralogy there, 1874-88 ; chemist
to the geological survey of Pennsylvania, 1877-90;
juror on chemical matters at the Centennial
exjjosition, 1876; and chemist to the state board
of agriculture, 1877-84. In 1872 he was elected
a member of the National academy of sciences;
in 1875 became a member of the American asso-
ciation for the advancement of science, and in
1888, at the request of the chemical section, was
made honorary fellow of the association. His
researches resulted in the identification of
twentj'-three new mineral species and in the
discovery in 1846 of the ammonia-colialt bases,
which he more fully studied with Prof. Wolcott
Gibbs, in collaboration with whom he contributed
to Vol. IX. of " Smithsonian Contributions to
Knowledge," a monograph on "Researches on
the Ammonia-Cobalt Bases " (18.56). In 1852 he
was married to Minna Pauline Fischer; their
son, Frederick Augustus, born in Philadelphia,
Pa., Feb. 12, 1855, was graduated from the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania in 1876 and was assistant
professor of chemistry there, 1883-88. Besides
many papers, he published in German tabular
summaries of the most important reactions of
acids, bases and salts (1845); Corundum: Its Al-
terations and its Associated Minerals (1878) ; Min-
erals of North Carolina ; appendix C of the Report
on the Geolor/y of North Carolina (1875) ; First and
Second Preliminary Reports on the Mineralorjy of
Pennsylvania (1875-76) ; Minerals and Mineral Lo'
caUties of North Carolina (1881); and Minerals of
North Carolina, bulletin No. 74 of the U.S. Geo-
logical survey (1891), He died in Philadelphia,
Pa., Feb. 3, 1898.
