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1914 Biographical Sketches Gaddis, Benjamin Lloyd, Jr., bank cashier, born Kellyton, Coosa County, Ala., Sept. 12, 1881; son of Benjamin Lloyd and Mary (Hester) Gaddis; graduated from Fifth District Agricultural School, Wetumpka, Ala., June, 1899; married, Wetumpka, June 26, 1906, Rebecca Buyck. Raised on a farm; started bookkeeping in hardware firm of Smith & Gamble, 1900; elected assistant cashier Bank of Wetumpka upon organization, 1901, and cashier 1904, still continuing position. President Gaddis Loan and Investment Co.; vice-president, treasurer and director 'Wetumpka Fertilizer Co., treasurer and director Jenkins Brick Co. of Wetumpka; Gamble Hardware, Co., Lancaster-Johnson Lumber Co., vice-president and director Bank of Wetumpka, and senior member firm Gaddis Bros., real estate and insurance. Democrat; steward Methodist Church, secretary and treasurer Methodist Sunday school. Knight of Pythias, Knight of Korassan, Red Man. Address: Wetumpka. Vice-president Fourth National Bank, Montgomery, Ala.; president Bank of Eclectic, Eclectic, Ala.; treasurer and director Atlas Life Assurance Co. of Montgomery.
Gaebelein, Arndo C., clergyman and author of 456 Fourth Ave., New York City, was born Aug. 27, 1861, in Greiz, Germany. He has held numerous pastorates. He is the editor of "Our Hope." He is the author of "Commentaries on Matthew," "Acts of the Apostles," "Daniel," "Joel," "Zechariah," "The Putatench" and numerous other volumes on biblical research. Gage, Carl McKinney, president and general manager Huntington & Broad Top Rd. Office, Philadelphia, Pa. Born April 12, 1867. Educated in the public schools at Huntingdon. Entered railway service 1883, as clerk Huntingdon & Broad Top Rd., and served through the various departments on that road until he was made president and general manager, which position he now holds. Gage, Nelson W., publisher, 114 Liberty St., New York City; residence,. 39 West 20th St. President and director Gage Publishing Co. Gage, Stephen DeMeritte, experiment station, Lawrence, Mass. Was born Durham, N.H., Jan. 4, 1874. B.S., Mass. Inst. Tech., 1896. Asst. bacteriologist, Lawrence Exp. Sta., 1896-97, biologist and chief asst., 1897-1914, chemist Rhode Island State Board of Health, 1914; M.A.A.; Soc. Bact.; Chem. Soc.; Pub. Health Assn.; New Eng. Water Works Assn.; Mass. Assn. Boards Health; Boston Soc. Civil Eng. Water purification and sewage disposal; chemistry and bacteriology of water and sewage.
Gaines, Frederick F., superintendent motive power Central of Georgia Ry. Office, Savannah, Ga. Born March 28, 1871, at Hawley, Pa. Educated at Cornell University. Entered railway service 1888, since which he has been consecutively two and one-half years freight and ticket clerk Erie Rd.; was then for four years at Cornell University and about one year in the shops of the Erie & Wyoming Valley Rd. August, 1895, to January, 1896, draftsman Lehigh Valley Rd.; Rd. 1896, to April, 1897, engineer of tests; April, 1897, to Nov. 1, 1902, mechanical engineer, and Nov. 1, 1902, to Oct. 15, 1904, master mechanic Wyoming division same road; Nov. 1, 1904, to Dec. 10, 1906, mechanical engineer Philadelphia & Reading Ry.; Dec. 10, 1906, to date, superintendent motive power Central of Georgia Ry. Inventor and patentee of Gaines locomotive furnace.
Gallagher, Thomas, congressman, was born in 1850, in Concord, N.H. He moved to Chicago, Ill. He is a director of the Cook County State Savings Bank; and was twice elected a member of the Chicago City Council. For six years he was a member of the board of education; has served as president of the county democracy; and as chairman of the county central committee. He was a representative from Illinois to the sixty-first and sixty-second congresses as a Democrat; was re-elected to the sixty-third congress for the term of 1913-15; and resides in Chicago, Ill.
Gallavin, T. M., traveling salesman, Syracuse; residence, 415 South Crouse Ave. Born in Syracuse, Sept. 25, 1869. Educated in Syracuse public schools. (Married.) Vice-president of E. C. Stearns & Co. Member Citizens' Club and Knights of Columbus.
Gallinger, Jacob H., United States senator; born on a farm in Cornwall, Ontario, March 28, 1837, being one of the twelve children of Jacob Gallinger and Catharine (Cook) Gallinger. He received a common school and academic education; was a printer in early life; studied medicine and was graduated in 1858, and followed the profession of medicine and surgery in the city of his present residence from April, 1862, until he entered Congress. He was a member of the House of Representatives of New Hampshire in 1872-73 and 1891; was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1876; was a member of the State Senate in 1878, 1879 and 1880, being president of that body the last two years; was surgeon-general of New Hampshire with the rank of brigadier-general in 1879-80; received the honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth College in 1885. He was chairman of the Republican State Committee from 1882 to 1890, when he resigned the place, but was again elected to the position in 1898, re-elected in 1900, 1902, 1904, 1906 and 1908; was chairman of the delegation from his state to the Republican National Convention of 1888, and made a speech seconding the nomination of Benjamin Harrison; was also chairman of the New Hampshire delegation to the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia in June, 1900, which convention renominated President McKinley, and headed the delegation from his state to the National Conventions in 1904 and 1908; was for a time a member of the National Republican Committee; was chairman of the Merchant Marine Commission of 1904-05, composed of five senators and five representatives in Congress; is a member of the National Forest Reservation Commission. He was elected to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses, and declined renomination to the fifty-first congress; was elected United States senator to succeed Henry W. Blair, for the term beginning March 4, 1891; was re-elected in 1897, 1903 and 1909. His term of service will expire March 3, 1915. Address: Concord, New Hampshire.
Galloway, Beverley Thomas, director N.Y. State College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Aug. 1, 1914, assistant secretary of agriculture U.S. Department of Agriculture, March 4,1913 to July 1, 1914; chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1902-13; born in Millersburg, Mo., Oct. 16, 1863. He was graduated from the University of Missouri, B.S., 1884, and received from that university the degree of LL.D., 1902. He was assistant in horticulture in the University, 1884-87; assistant pathologist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1887-88; pathologist and chief of the Division of Vegetable Pathology and Physiology, 1888-1901; since then chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry. Dr. Galloway is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was secretary of Section G, 1893 and 1895; is a member of the Botanical Society of America, and of the Society for Plant Morphology and Physiology. He is author of numerous papers on botany, plant physiology and pathology to scientific journals and proceedings, and to the publications of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Residence: Cayuga Hghts., Ithaca, N.Y.
Gamble, John M., landscape painter of 1331 Santa Barbara St., Santa Barbara, Cal., was born Nov. 25, 1863, in Morristown, N.J. He received a gold medal from the Alaska-Yukon Exposition of 1910. He is a pupil of the San Francisco School of Design and of the Academie Julien, Paris. He paints landscapes with foregrounds of wild flowers. Gamble, John Rufus, hardware merchant; born Arkadelphia, Ala., Jan. 18, 1871; son Dr. J. W. and Martha (Hanby) Gamble; educated Southern Univ., Greensboro, Ala.; married Wetumpka, Ala., Nov. 22, 1893, Eulala V. Lancaster, two sons, two daughters. President Gamble Hardware Co., Wetumpka, Alexander City and Clanton, Ala.; president of Central Alabama Construction Co.; director Bank of Wetumpka, and Jenkins Brick Co. of Montgomery and Wetumpka. Democrat; steward Methodist Episcopal Church South, of Wetumpka, and chairman of Board. Member Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, Knights of Pythias, Red Men; president of Alabama Retail Hardware Dealers Ass'n for year 1910-11; mem. of Executive Committee, National Retail Hardware Association. Recreations: Fishing, boating. Address: Wetumpka.
Gard, Warren, United States congressman from the third district of Ohio, was born July 2, 1873, in Hamilton, Ohio. He has been judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He was elected to the sixty-third congress for the term of 1913-15; and resides it Hamilton, Ohio.
Gardam, William Hothersall, clergyman, born in Clitheroe, England, Oct. 18, 1851; son of James Briggs and Ellen (Hothersall) Gardam. He was educated in the schools of his native town, Headingly College, England, 1872-75, Lincoln Theological College, 1875-77, London University, 1875, and received the degree of B.D. from Seabury College, Minn., 1895; D.D. same college, 1913. He was ordained priest in Lincoln Cathedral, England, by Bishop Wordsworth; was minister for two years in Bourne Abbey Church, Lincolnshire, England, and has labored in the United States from 1880. He was dean of the Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour, at Faribault, Minn., 1887-96. Mr. Gardam is a member of the Standing Cornmittee of the Diocese of Michigan, and examining chaplain. Since 1896 he has been rector of St. Luke's, at Ypsilanti, Mich. Dr. Gardam was a deputy to the General Convention, 1904, also 1910 delegate to the Pan-Anglican Conference, 1908. He is a contributor to various magazines including the Church Eclectic of New York Churchman, contributing editorial writer for the Detroit Free-Press, and writer of many biographical and other sketches. He has traveled extensively in Europe and America. Dr. Gardam married at Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 27, 1881, Mary Chase, great-granddaughter of Rt. Rev. Philander Chase, First Bishop of Ohio and Illinois. Address: Ypsilanti, Mich.
Gardiner, Asa Bird, lawyer and lieut.-col., retired, was born N.Y. City, Sept. 30, 1839; son of Asa and Rebeka Willard (Bentley) Gardiner; grad. Coll. City of N.Y., A.B., 1859, A.M., 1862; Dartmouth Coll., A.M., 1864; Columbia Univ., A.M., 1869; N.Y. Univ., LL.B., 1860, LL.D., 1876; Hobart Coll. L,.H.D., 1896; married 1st Oct. 18, 1865, Mary Austen (died 1900); 2d, Nov. 5, 1902, Harriet Isabella Lindsay. Admitted to N.Y. Bar, November, 1860. Appt'd 1st lieut., 9th U.S. Inf., July 20, 1866; 1st lieut., Feb. 14, N.Y. State Vol. Inf., May 31, 1862; 1st lieut. and adj., U.S. Veteran Reserve Corps, Feb. 11, 1865; 2d lieut., 9th U.S. Inf., July 20, 1866; 1st lieut., Feb. 14, 1868; transferred to 1st U.S. Art'y, April 13, 1869; acting dept. div. judge advocate and asst. adj. gen., 1871, maj. and judge advocate, Aug. 18, 1873, prof. law (lieut.-col.), U.S. Mil. Acad., 1874-78; asst. to sec. of war, 1887-88; retired, Dec. 8, 1888, for disability in line of duty. In Civil War served with reg't in Va., 1861; on regimental recruiting service, N.Y. City, July-August, 1861; resigned from that duty and resumed practice of law. Under subsequent proclamation of President calling for troops, raised company of 22d N.Y. Vols. and served with it in the 8th Army Corps in Maryland and the Shenandoah Valley, May-September, 1862; returned to service until June 18, 1863, as cap't same reg't in Army of Susquehanna, and in 6th Corps, Army of the Potomac in Pa. and Md. to close of Gettysburg campaign at Williamsport, Md.; participated in fight near Fairfax Court House; battles of Blackburn's Ford and Bull Run; skirmish at Winchester, Va. Aug. 30, 1862; combat at Sporting Hill, Pa., June 30, 1863; Va., of Carlisle against Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Va., July 1-2, 1863 (in which was wounded), and fight before Hagerstown, Md.; bvt'd capt. U.S.V., for gallant and meritorious services; awarded medal of honor for distinguished services during Civil War. Judge Court of Common Pleas, N.C.' to fill vacancy, Janu- ary-April, 1866; dist. atty. N.Y. County, 1897-1900; sec. Gen. Soc. of the Cincinnati since 1884; pres. R.I. State Soc. of Cincinnati since 1899; mem. Mil. Order Loyal Legion; mem. and incorporator U.S. Mil. Service Inst'n; one of founders and incorporators Sons of Revolution; pres. Military Soc. of War of 1812, since January, 1909, Col.-Commandant Veteran Corps of Art'y, State of N.Y.; mem. Beta chapter Phi Beta Kappa, Nu chapter Delta Kappa Epsilon; deputy to L.I. Diocesan Cony. Episcopal Ch.; mem. Standing Comm'n on Archives Gen. Cony. Episcopal Ch. Clubs: Union, Metropolitan, West Point, Manhattan, Church, United Service, Governor's Island. Address: Union Club, N.Y. City.
Gardner, Augustus Peabody, congressman, was born Nov. 5, 1865, in Boston, Mass. In 1886 he graduated from Harvard College. For two terms he was a member of the Massachusetts State Senate. During the Spanish-American war he served as captain and assistant adjutant-general on the staff of General James H. Wilson. He was a member of the fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fifty- ninth, sixtieth, sixty-first and sixty-second congresses from Massachusetts as a Republican. He was re-elected to the sixty-third congress and resides in Hamilton, Mass. Gardner, Charles W., comptroller Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Ry. Office, Minneapolis, Minn., born Feb. 17, 1861, at Rushville, N.Y. Entered railway service August, 1878, since which he has been consecutively to autumn of 1879, office boy and messenger in general freight agent's office, and stationer and car service clerk St. Paul & Pacific Rd. at St. Paul, Minn.; autumn of 1879 to April, 1880, clerk Red Line Fast Freight, same city; April, 1880 to March, 1883, clerk and stenographer Minnesota Pool Lines, same city; March, 1883 to May 1, 1884, secretary same lines at Chicago; May 1, 1884 to May 16, 1886, general agent Northwestern Traffic Association at Minneapolis, Minn.; May 17, 1886 to July 1, 1887, auditor Minneapolis & Pacific Ry., now Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Ry.; July 1, 1887 to April, 1909, auditor Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic Ry. and its successor, the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Ry.; April, 1909 to date, comptroller same road. Gardner, George A., capitalist. He is a director of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., the Boston and Lowell Railroad Co., the Boston and Providence Railroad Co., the Lawrence Manufacturing Co., the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Co., and the Old Colony Railroad Co.; and is vice-president and trustee of the Provident Institution for Savings. Address, 40 State St., Boston, Mass. Gardner, William Henry, manufacturer and author of Boston, Mass. Was born Oct. 28, 1865, in Boston, Mass. Since 1898 he has been head of the firm of W. H. Gardner and Co., manufacturers of cotton goods, of Boston, Mass. He is the author of Little Songs for Little Singers, and other works. Gardner, William J., insurance official, of 59 John St., New York City, was born, Wisconsin, Aug. 14, 1869; studied law; began ins. business with Fidelity & Casualty Co., as sp'l agent in 1898; resident mgr. in Chicago for New Amsterdam Casualty Co., 1901-03; mgr. Western Dept. in San Francisco of AEtna Life lns. Co., 1905-06; resident sec. N.Y. branch, N.Y. City, of Accident and Liability Dept., AEtna Life Ins. Co., 1906-09; vice-pres. and gen. mgr. of Commercial Casualty Ins. Co. of Newark, N.J., 1910-11; asst. gen. mgr. of United States branch of The Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp., Ltd., of London, Eng., 1912-13; and United States mgr. since Jan. 1, 1914.
Garnaas, Lewis Bjornson, merchant, banker; born in Norway, July 1, 1870; son of B. L. and Ingred (Svenkerud) Garnaas; educated in common schools of Norway; married, Towner, N. Dak., Jan. 6. 1897, Carrie P. Halverson; six children. President Farmers' and Merchants' Bank, Garnaas Bros.; director Farmers' Elevator Co.; owns 5,000 acres of the most fertile land in Wells, Benson and Eddy counties, and farms very extensively. Republican; Lutheran. Trustee Good Samaritan Hospital, Rugby, N. Dak. Club: Odin. Address: Sheyenne. Garner, John Nance, congressman and lawyer, born in Red River County, Texas, Nov. 22, 1869. He was admitted to the bar in December, 1890, and served two terms in the Texas House of Representatives. He was elected from the 15th Texas district to the fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth, sixty-first, sixty-second and sixty-third congresses, and re-elected to the sixty-fourth congress. Mr. Garner was a delegate to the National Democratic Conventions in Kansas City in 1900 and in St. Louis in 1904. He married Nov. 25, 1895, Ettie Rheiner. Address: Uvalde, Texas.
Garretson, Garret James, jurist, born in Newton, N.Y., in 1847. He was educated at private schools and the Flushing (L.I.) Institute in New York. He was admitted to the New York bar, 1869; served as school commissioner of Queens County, N.Y., 1873-75; surrogate, 1880, and county judge of Queens County, 1886-96; member of the Greater New York Charter Commission, 1896. He was elected in 1896 justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York for the term expiring Dec. 31, 1910. Reelected, 1910, and now serving. He married first, at Roslyn, N.Y., 1876, Eliza. L. Eastman (died 1888) by whom he has three daughters and a son and he married, second, in Brooklyn, 1897, Sara Wilson. Address: Elmhurst, N.Y.
Garrett, Alexander Charles, bishop of Dallas, born in Ballymot, County Sligo, Ireland, Nov. 4, 1832; son of Rev. John Garrett and Elizabeth (Fry) Garrett. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, graduating with the degree of B.A. in 1855. He received from his alma mater the degree of D.D. in 1882, and that of LL.D., from the University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss., in 1876. He was ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church by the Bishop of Winchester in 1856 and was ordained to the priesthood by the same bishop in 1857. During the years of 1856-59 he was curate of East Warldham, Hants, and following that he became missionary in the British Colonies, holding the office for tens years. He was rector of St. James Church, San Francisco, Cal., 1870-72, and dean of Trinity Cathedral, Omaha, Neb., 1872-74. He was made bishop of Dallas, Tex., in 1874, and was consecrated by Bishops Clarkson, Tuttle, Hare and Spalding. Bishop Garrett is author of: Historical Continuity, 1875; The Eternal Sacrifice, and other Sermons, 1881; Baldwin Lectures on the Philosophy of the Incarnation, 1891, and occasional sermons and addresses. Address, Dallas, Tex. Garrett, Daniel E., United States congressman at large from Texas, was born April 28, 1869, in Robertson County, Tenn. He is a lawyer; and has been a member of the State Senate. He was elected to the sixty-third congress for the term of 1913-15; and resides in Houston, Tex. Garrett, Finis James, congressman, was born Aug. 26, 1875, near Ore Springs, Tenn. In 1897 he graduated from Bethel College of Tenn.; and for several years taught in the city schools of Milan, Tenn. In 1899 he began the practice of law; and in 1900-05 was master in chancery. He was elected to the fifty-ninth, sixtieth, sixty-first and sixty-second congresses. He was re-elected to the sixty-third congress from the ninth district of Tennessee for the term of 1913-15; and resides in Dresden, Tenn. Garrett, John Biddle, retired, born Philadelphia, Dec. 30, 1836; graduated from Haverford College, 1854; married, Sept. 6, 1866, Hannah Rhoads Haines. He was in business as a merchant and manufacturer, 1854-74, and in 1874 he engaged with the Lehigh Valley Railroad of which became third vice-president in 1887, afterward second vice-president and vice-president until 1901, when retired; also treasurer, vice-president and president of Girard Trust Co. of Philadelphia, 1879-87, still director of same. A manager of Haverford College. In 1895 was chairman of the First Mohonk International Arbitration Conference. Minister in the Society of Friends. Address, Rosemont.
Garver, John A., lawyer, born 1854; grad. Phillips Acad., Andover, Mass., 1871; Yale, A.B., 1875; Columbia Law School, LL.B., 1877; married, New Haven, Conn., Rebecca C. Brewster; one son, Chauncey Brewster Garver, born April 4, 1886 (Yale, 1908, Harvard Law School, 1911). Mem. since 1884 of law firm of Shearman & Sterling, formed in 1874 by the late Thomas G. Shearman and by John W. Sterling, the present partners being John W. Sterling, John A. Garver, and James M. Beck; the firm of Shearman & Sterling is one of the oldest in New York, and is counsel for many banks and other large corporations; the firm represented the Consolidated Gas Co. in the eighty-cent gas litigation; and Mr. Garver was senior counsel. He was also one of the counsel in the Brazilian coffee case, the Longacre case, etc. Member Association Bar City of N.Y., N.Y. Law Institute. Clubs: University, Yale, City Lunch, Piping Rock. Address: 55 Wall St., N.Y. City.
Garvin, Herbert C., flour miller, financier; born, Fond du Lac, Wis., April 23, 1863; son of Benjamin and A. A. (Kimball) Garvin; attended public schools of Fond du Lac and Oshkosh, Wis.; married, 1895, Louise Dana. Messenger, 1878, C. & N.W. Ry., Oshkosh, Wis.; 1879, telegraph operator New Ulm, Minn.; 1880, night train dispatcher Winona, Minn.; 1881, agent C. & N.W. Ry., Tracy, Minn.; 1883, traveling agent Huron, S.D.; 1884, traveling freight and passenger agent Watertown, S.D.; and general agent, 1888-98 for Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Lines in Minnesota and South and North Dakota; since 1898 secretary and treasurer of the Bay State Milling Co. of Winona, Minn. Director First National Bank of Winona, and in other corporations. Clubs: Minneapolis (Minneapolis); Union League (Chicago); Arlington (Winona). Address: Winona.
Gary, Elbert Henry, lawyer, jurist and banker of New York City, was born Oct. 8, 1846, in Wheaton, Ill. He was educated in the public schools, at Wheaton College; and in 1867 he graduated from the Law Department of the Chicago University. In 1867 he was admitted to the practice of law in Illinois; and in 1878 was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States. He was general counsel of several railroad companies, manufactories and other corporations. In 1893-94 he was president of the Chicago Bar Association. He was connected with the organization of the Federal Steel Co.; and in 1898 retired from the practice of law to become president of that company. He was prominently identified with the organization of the United States Steel Co. He is president of the Gary-Wheaton Bank of Wheaton, Ill.; and is a director of several banks in Chicago; New York and many other corporations. He is a trustee of the Northwestern University; and is the builder of the Gary Memorial Church in Wheaton, Ill. He is the real founder of Gary, Ind., destined to become the greatest steel manufacturing city in America. Gary, Hampson, lawyer; born Tyler, Tex., April 23, 1873; son of Franklin Newman and Martha Isabella (Boren) Gary, lineal descendant of Gen. Joseph Dickson of Revolutionary fame; educated in Bingham School, N.C., and Univ. of Virginia; married Dee. 18, 1901, Bessie Royall, daughter of N. R. Royall of Palestine, Tex.; children: Franklin, born 1905; Helen, born 1907. Admitted to bar, 1894, and since in practice at Tyler; vice-president Royall National Bank; director Guaranty State Bank. Captain U.S. volunteers in Spanish-American War, 1898; later was colonel Third Infantry Regiment, T.N.G. Member House of Representatives of Texas, 1901-02; member State Democratic Executive Committee, 1902-04; delegate to Democratic State Conventions in 1904, 1906, 1912, and Democratic National Convention, Denver, 1908; nominated Democratic presidential elector for state-at-large, 1908, but declined honor. Referee in bankruptcy for several years. Standing Master in Chancery U.S. Court for entire eastern district of Texas since February, 1913; regent of Univ. of Texas, 1909-11. Trustee Tyler Public Library. Member Texas State Bar Association, National Geographic Society, American Bar Association. Residence, 407 South Broad Ave. Office, 218 West Ferguson St., Tyler, Tex. Gary, Peter G., United States congressman from the second district of Rhode Island, was born Sept. 18, 1879, in New York City. He has been a representative in the Newport Council. He was elected to the Sixty-third Congress for the term of 1913-15; and resides in Providence, R.I.
Gates, Isaac Edwin, capitalist; born at Preston, Conn., Jan. 2, 1833; son of Cyrus and Patty (Hewitt) Gates; educated in public schools, Connecticut Literary Institution, Suffield, Conn., Colgate University and Theological Seminary, Hamilton, N.Y.; ordained to Baptist ministry and remained in that profession nine years, retiring on account of ill health in 1869; married, at Oneonta, N.Y., 1861, Ellen M. Huntington; one daughter, Helen (Mrs. Archer M. Huntington). Entered the service of the Central Pacific Railroad Co., in 1869, and remained with. that company and its successors for many years; has also been connected with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, the Elizabethtown, Lexington & Big Sandy Railroad, and the Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern Railroad as secretary and treasurer; formerly president of the Texas & New Orleans Railroad; now treasurer and director of the Old Dominion Land Co.; also vice-president and treasurer Newport News Light & Water Co. Baptist. Treasurer and trustee Hispanic Society of America; member Colgate University Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. Residence, Hotel Majestic. Office, 15 West 81st St., New York City.
Gatlin, Thomas Hall, Jr., assistant chief engineer maintenance of way Southern Ry. Office, Washington, D.C. Born Nov. 8, 1876, at Tarboro, N.C. Educated at Trinity College, Durham, N.C., 1894 to 1895. Entered railway service May, 1892, since which he has been consecutively to August, 1894, with the Atlantic Coast Line as rodman, assistant resident engineer, masonry and foundation inspector and engineer in charge of trestle work; 1896 and 1897, engineer for Edgecombe County Bridge Commission and engaged on other highway bridge work; 1897 and 1898, engaged in general engineering practice at Tarboro, N.C., 1899 to 1901, chief engineer East Carolina Ry.; 1901, engineer for Eagle Construction Co. of Toledo, 0., constructing 25 miles of new railroad; fall of 1902, transitman Trans-Appalachian Rd. on preliminary surveys through the mountains of western North Carolina; spring of 1903 to spring of 1904, transitman Southern Ry. on location and graduation work through western North Carolina and Tennessee; spring of 1904 to spring of 1905, assistant engineer same road in chief engineer's office at Washington, D.C.; spring of 1905 to July 1, 1906, assistant engineer same road in charge of drafting department chief engineer's office, in charge of track work and yards; July 1, 1906, to Aug. 1, 1911, engineer maintenance of way Middle district at Knoxville, Tenn.; Aug. 1, 1911, to date, assistant chief engineer maintenance of way same road at Washington, D.C.
Gaudin, William John, merchant, public official; born Fentress County, Tenn., Jan. 31, 1859; Swiss-French descent; son of John W. and Adelia (Very) Gaudin; educated Hiwassee College, Monroe County, Tenn.; began his business career as a school teacher and farmer; entered the. general merchandise business in 1892; married twice, first Z. A. Edwards, Nov. 6, 1881, second, J. A. Rich, May 19,1904; member Jamestown Lodge No. 281, F. and A.M., and 32d° Scottish Rite, Valley of Nashville. Republican. Appointed U.S. Commissioner by Department of Justice in 1882, and has held that office since. Member of Methodist Church; charter member Jamestown Lodge No. 83, I.O.O.F., and charter member of Encampment Lodge in same town.
Gauger, O. J., merchant, banker and business president of Sullivan, Ill., was born Feb. 11, 1856, in Turbutville, Pa. He has been a successful bookkeeper, salesman, private banker and business president. He is now president of the Sullivan Dry Goods Company; president of 0. J. Gauger and Company, dealers in lumber and hardware; and manages his two farms. Gauvreau, Charles Arthur, notary; born September 29, 1860, at Isle Verte, County of Temiscouata, Canada; son of Louis N. Gauvreau, N.P. and G.C.C. Seigneur of Villeray, by his wife Gracieuse Gauvreau; nephew, on father's side, of Sir N. F. Belleau, first lieutenant governor of Quebec; married, Sept. 7, 1887, Gertrude, daughter of Dr. Gauthier, of Montreal; educated at College of Rimouski (B.A.) and Laval University. Commissioner of Superior Court; elected to House of Commons at bye-election in 1897; reelected in 1900, 1904, 1908 and 1911. Is a Liberal in politics. Address: Fraserville, Quebec, County of Terisisconata. Gavin, Michael Freebern, physician; b. May 12, 1844, in Ireland; came to America in 1857; ed. in public schools and by private tutors, pursuing his higher studies at Harvard Medical School (M.D., 1864); Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland (F.R.C.S., 1866); and took a post-graduate course in the School of Medicine, Paris, France. After graduating from Harvard College in 1864, Dr. Gavin immediately entered Boston City Hospital and held the position of Senior Resident Physician for a year. Enlisted with the Fifty-seventh Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in 1865, being appointed Assistant Surgeon; remained with the regiment until the close of the war and then went abroad with the intention of making, a thorough study of surgery and surgical methods; lived in Paris till 1868, affiliated with several hospitals, and continuing studies; returned to Boston in 1868 and was appointed Visiting Surgeon Boston City Hospital, and held this position for several years; m., in 1876, Ellen Theresa Doherty, of New York. Served as Visiting Surgeon Carney Hospital; Consulting Surgeon St. Elizabeth's Hospital; Professor of Clinical Surgery at Boston Polyclinic, 1888-91. Trustee of Boston City Hospital, 1878-84; also trustee of Union Institution for Savings, and director of Mattapan Deposit and Trust Co. Contributor to magazines and medical papers at home and abroad, of scientific treatises on various professional subjects, notably The Treatment of Burns (Dublin Medical Press), and Comparative Statistics of Suicide (Appleton's Weekly). Member of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement; Massachusetts Medical Society; Boston Society for Medical Observation; American Medical Association; British Medical Association; Royal College of Surgeons; Boston Athletic Association; Boston Catholic Alumni. Club: Papyrus. Address: 546 Broadway, South Boston, Mass.
Gazzam, Joseph, M., lawyer; born in Pittsburgh, Dec. 2, 1842, son of Dr. Edward Despard Gazzam, physician, lawyer, statesman, one of organizers of the Free Soil party and its first candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, and Elizabeth Antoinette de Beelen de Bertholff, daughter of Constantine Antoine de Beelen de Bertholff, and granddaughter of Baron Frederick Eugene Francois d Beelen de Bertholff (Austrian Minister to the United States from 1783 to 1787). He was educated at the University of Western Pennsylvania. Admitted to the Allegheny County Bar, Jan. 6, 1864; to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in November, 1867; to the Circuit and District Courts of the United States in May, 1869, and to the Supreme Court of the United States, March 19, 1870. He practiced at Pittsburgh until 1879; member of the law firm of Gazzam & Cochran (Mr. Cochran ex-member of Congress and vice-president Missouri Pacific Railroad) from 1872 to 1879; and removed, 1879, to Philadelphia. He has since practiced law in the latter city and associated with William S. Wallace and formerly Gazzam, Wallace & Lukens, but now retired. Mr. Gazzam is a Republican in politics. He was a member of the city council of Pittsburgh in 1869-1873 and elected state senator in 1876, from the forty-third senatorial district of Pennsylvania. While so serving he introduced a bill for a marriage license law which was almost identical with the law now in force, but which was defeated in the lower House. He was author of the law which did away with the calls for special elections for state officers and thus effected a great saving to the State, and many other important acts. He was appointed by Governor William A. Stone commissioner from Pennsylvania to represent the State at the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition of 1902, and also a member of the Pennsylvania Commission by. Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis. Mr. Gazzam is president of the Rees Welsh Digest and Law Publishing Company, was one of the organizers of Quaker City National Bank of Philadelphia and fourteen years its vice-president. He is president of the Ames-Bonner Company of Toledo, 0., vice-president of the Dent's Run Coal Company, Pennsylvania; chairman of the board of directors of Peale, Peacock & Kerr, Incorporated; director in the Delaware Company and others. He was one of the projectors of the Beech Creek Railroad and the town of Gazzam was named for him. Mr. Gazzam is a life member of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, the Fairmount Park Association, the Franklin Institute, Horticultural Association of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Forestry Association, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Zoological Society, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, the Archaeological and Palaeontological Society of the University. He is a member and el-president of the Pennsylvania Club, a life member of the Union League and Lawyers' Club of Philadelphia; a member of the National Arts Club of New York City, City Club of New York, and the Toledo Club, Toledo, 0. Mr. Gazzam married, in 1893, Nellie M. Andrews of New Orleans, and they have two children: Joseph M. Gazzam, Jr., and Olivia M. de B. Gazzam. Residence, 265 South 19th St.
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Men of 1914, Chicago, Ill, 1915
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