G a LICK
GUMJIERE
QULICK, John Thomas, missionary, was born
in Waimea, Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, March 13,
1833 ; son of Peter Johnson and Fanny Hinckley
(Tliomas) Gulick, and grandson of John Gulick, a
farmer in New Jersey, descended from Heudrick
Gulick, who came to America from the Nether-
lands in 1853. His mother was of English ancestry.
His father was a missionary, born in Freehold,
N.J., March Vi, 1797; was graduated from the Col-
lege of New Jersey, Princeton, in 1825; attended
the Priricetoa theological seminary, 1835-37, was
ordained evangelist by the Pi'esbytery of New
Brunswick, October, 1837; was stationed in the
Hawaiian Islands as missionary of the A. B.C.
P.M., 1837-7-1, and died in Japan in December,
1877. John Thomas removed to Oregon in 1848,
and was a miner in California, 1849-50. He i-e-
turned to the Hawaiian Islands; made his large
collection of Hawaiian land shells in 1851-53, and
went to New York in 1853 by way of San Fran-
cisco and the Nicaragua route, which was then
open. He attended the Universitj' of the city of
New York, 1854-55; was gi-aduated from Williams
college in 1859, and was a student in the Union
theological seminary, New Y'ork city, 1859-61.
He was ordained a Congregational minister in
Canton, Cliiaa, Aug. 33, 1864, and was a mission-
ary for the A.B.C.F.M, in Peking, China, 1864-65;
in Kilgan, North China, 1865-75 ; in Kobe, Japan,
1875-83, and iu Osaka, Japan, from 1883. He was
in Englanil and tlie United States on a furlough
during 1873, and again in 1888-89, and in 1900
was iu Oberlin, Ohio. He received the degree of
A.M. from Williams college and that of Ph.D.
from Adelbert college in 1889. He is the author
of: The DioersUtj of Evolntiun under One Set of Ex-
ternal Conditions (1873); Divergent Evolution
thronph Citmulatioe Secirerjation (1887); Intensive
Segregation (1889) ; in Linnasan Society's Jour-
Znology, Vols. XL, XX. and XXIII.); Divergent
Evidutionandtlm Darwinian Theory; The Inconsist-
encies of Utilitarianism ; The Preservation and Ac-
cnmnlation of Cross Infertility (in American Jour-
nal of Science, January, July and December,
1890); and Descriptions of Xeio Species of Land
Mnllnsks of the Hawaiian Islands in the Pl-oceedings
of the New York lyceum of natural history.
GULLIVER, John Putnam, educator, was born in Boston, Mass., May 13, 1819; son of John and Sarah (Putnam) Gulliver. He was graduated from Yale in 1840; studied at Yale theological seminary one j-ear and was graduated from An- dover theological seminary in 1845. He was ordained to the Pi-esbyterian ministry, Oct. 1, 1846; was pastor at Norwich, Conn., 1846-65, and at Chicago, 111., 186.5-68, and was president of Knox college, Illinois, 1868-73. He was pastor at Binghamton, N.Y., 1873-78, and Stone professor of relations of Christianity to the secular sciences
at Andover seminary, 1878-94. He received the
degree of D.D from Iowa college in 1867, and
that of LL.D. from Iowa state university in 1869.
He died in Andover, Mass., Jan. 35, 1894.
QUMMERE, Francis Barton, educator, was born at Burlington, N.J., March 6, 1855; son of Samuel James and Elizabeth (Barton) Gummere;' and grandson of John and Elizabeth (Buzby) Gummere. He was graduated from Haverford college, A.B., 1873, A.M., 1875; and from Har- vard, A.B.. 1875. He was teacher of English in the Friends' school. Providence, E.I., 1875-79, and in the latter year went abroad where he stud- ied in Freiburg university for two yeai'S, receiv- ing the degree of Ph.D. from that institution in 1881. He was instructor in English at Harvard, 1881-83; head master of the Swain free scliool at New Bedford, Mass., 1883-87, and accepted the chair of English at Haverford college in 1887. He is the author of The Anglo-Saxon Metaphor (1881) ; Handbook of Poetics (1885; 5th ed., 1896) ; Germanic Oric/ins ; a Study in Primitive Culture (1893); Old English Ballads (1894) and numerous essays.
QUMMERE, John, educator, was born in Willow Grove, Pa., in 1784; son of Samuel and Rachel (James) Gummere; grandson of John Gummere, and a descendant of Johann Goemere, a Hugvienot immigrant from Frencli Flanders, wlio arrived in America before 1700, and died in German town. Pa., in 1738. He acquired his edu- cation in Westtown, Pa. ; was a teacher at Ranco- cas, N.J., in the Westtown, Pa., boarding school (afterward Haverford school, and finally Haver- ford college) ; established in 1814 and conducted a boarding school at Burlington, N.J., 1814-33; was i^rofessor of mathematics at Haverford school, 1833—13, and principal of that institution 1834-43 and then resumed his boarding school at Burlington in connection with his eldest son Samuel J. Gummere. He was married to Eliza- beth Buzbv. His brother, Samuel R. Gummere. author of "Treatise on Geography" and other popular text books, was principal of a successful boarding-school for young ladies in Burlington, N.J., 1831-37. John Gummere was elected a mem- ber of tlie American philosophical society in 1814. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from the College of New Jersey in 1835 and from the University of Pennsylvania in 1836. He is the author of: Surveying (1814; 14 editions); and Elementary Treatise on Theoretical and Practical Aftronomy (1823; 6 editions). The last named work was highly commended by Nathaniel Bow- ditch, Alexander Dallas Bache and others. He died in Burlington. N.J.. in June, 1845.
QUMMERE, Samuel James, educator, was liorn at Rancocas, N.J., April 28, 1811; son of John and Elizabeth (Buzby) Gummere, and
