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In 1859 he became pastor of the Tabernacle 

 Church, Albany, N. Y., and in December, 1803, 

 took charge of Tremont Temple congregation, 

 Boston, where he remained ten years, and won 

 his rank among the foremost pulpit orators. 

 When he assumed this pastorate there were only 

 50 members, but during his charge the member- 

 ship increased to 1,000, and the income to more 

 than $23,000. In 1873 Dr. Fulton was called to 

 Hanson Place Baptist Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 which he left in 1875 for the Clinton Avenue 

 Chapel, where in December of the same year the 

 Centennial Baptist Church was organized. In 

 September, 1879, the Clermont Avenue Rink was 

 occupied by the church as a place of worship. 

 In November, 1894, he became pastor of the First 

 Baptist Church of Somerville, Mass., where the 

 remainder of his life was spent. He retired from 

 active duty in 1897. He was a popular lecturer. 

 While in St. Louis he published his Roman Cath- 

 olic Element in American History. At one time 

 his lectures became so virulent that it became 

 difficult for him to secure a hall. One of his 

 books on the priesthood was confiscated by An- 

 thony Comstock, and in 1879 he was suspended 

 by the Baptist Preachers' Association of New 

 York, but he was reinstated. His books and 

 published lectures include Why Priests should 

 Wed; How to Win Romanists; Washington in 

 the Lap of Rome; The Fight with Rome; Sam 

 Hobart, the Railroad Engineer; Spurgeon our 

 Ally; Timothy Gilbert; Cornelia Harmon, or the 

 Way Out; The True Woman; Rome in America; 

 and Witnessing for the Truth. In 1875 he made 

 an extended trip through the South, lecturing 

 upon The American of the Future: Shall he be 

 a Partisan or a Patriot? 



Gardner, Anna, abolitionist, born in Nan- 

 tucket, Mass., Jan. 25, 1816; died there, February, 

 1901. She was of Quaker ancestry. When a girl 

 she read the Liberator and became interested in 

 the antislavery cause. In 1841 she published the 

 call for the first antislavery meeting in Nan- 

 tucket, at which Frederick Douglass made his 

 first public speech and electrified his audience. 

 She delivered many lectures during the years im- 

 mediately preceding the civil war, and after the 

 war she taught in freedmen's schools in Virginia 

 and North and South Carolina. In 1878 she re- 

 turned to New York city, where soon afterward 

 she was severely injured in a carriage accident. 

 After many weeks of suffering and a partial re- 

 covery, she returned to her old home in Nan- 

 tucket. She lectured several times before the 

 Nantucket Athenaeum. She was a fluent writer, 

 and in 1881 she published her best work in a 

 volume of prose and verse entitled Harvest 

 Gleanings. 



Gardner, William Montgomery, soldier, 

 born in Augusta, Ga., in 1823; died in Memphis, 

 Tenn., June 16, 1901. He was graduated at West 

 Point in 1846. As a lieutenant, in the battle of 

 Contreras, Mexico, Aug. 26, 1847, he won distinc- 

 tion by storming a battery with a single platoon 

 of American soldiers and taking the guns. At 

 the outbreak of the civil war he became colonel 

 of the 8th Georgia Regiment. 



Gemiinder, Otto, violin-maker, born in New 

 York city, Aug. 10, 1871; died there, June 10, 

 1901. He was the youngest of the three sons of 

 the late George Gemiinder, the famous maker of 

 violins, who followed their father's business, and 

 he showed great promise in his chosen art. Dur- 

 ing the last ten years of his life the father did 

 no active work himself, but bent every effort to 

 instilling into his sons the love for his art and the 

 cunning of his hand in the fashioning of violins. 



Getchell, Emily Adam ... !)01M in 



Nevvbury (now a part \ .\, i( M ;I SH., 



Feb. 7, 1850; died there, Julv :' I ,, ,, an ' 



to write when a child, ainl \\-\n-i\ : i7',-n 



years old her first poems appe;n< <; I,"IH 



She also composed the IIIUMC | ()) 

 She was well known throughout >.. |;, 

 for her active interest in charities am! it, IH 

 ieal research. For several years -In 1 

 secretary of the Old Newbury Historical ,,< i < 

 and of the General Charitable Society ot .V v 

 burypprt. The organization of the Nation;]! As- 

 sociation of the Pillsbury Family was brought 

 about chiefly through her efforts, and in 1898 she 

 published the History of the Pillsbury Family in 

 America. 



Getty, George Washington, soldier, born in 

 Georgetown, D. C., Oct. 2, 1819; died in Forest 

 Glen, Md., Oct. 2, 1901. He was graduated at 

 West Point in 1840, and entered the service as 

 a 2d lieutenant, 4th Artillery. He was made 

 a 1st lieutenant, Oct. 31, 1845; a captain, Nov. 

 4, 1853; transferred to 5th Artillery, May 14, 

 1861; commissioned major, Aug. 1, 1863; colonel, 

 37th Infantry, July 28, 1866; transferred to 3d 

 Infantry, March 15, 1869; transferred to 3d Ar- 

 tillery, Jan. 1, 1871; transferred to 4th Artillery, 

 July 17, 1882. Col. Getty served in the Mexican 

 War, and Aug. 20, 1847, he was bre vetted cap- 

 tain for gallant and meritorious services at Con- 

 treras and Churubusco. In the civil war he 

 served in the Army of the Potomac. He was 

 commissioned lieutenant-colonel of volunteers, 

 Sept. 28, 1861; he served as aide-de-camp during 

 the Peninsular campaign, and was made briga- 

 dier-general of volunteers, Sept. 25, 1862. He was 

 severely wounded in the battle of the Wilderness, 

 but recovered sufficiently to join his command 

 before Petersburg. For gallant and meritorious 

 services in various battles of the civil war he 

 received the following brevet commissions: Lieu- 

 tenant-colonel, April 19, 1863; colonel, May 5, 

 1864; brigadier-general and major-general, March 

 13, 1865; and major-general of volunteers, Aug. 

 1, 1864. He was honorably mustered out of the 

 volunteer service, Oct. 9, 1866. On April 3, 1867, 

 he was placed in command of the district of New 

 Mexico. He commanded the troops along the 

 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad during the riots of 

 1877. He was retired Oct. 2, 1883. 



Gihon, Albert Leary, medical director United 

 States navy, born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 28, 

 1833; died in New York city, Nov. 17, 1901. He 

 was educated in the Philadelphia High School, 

 receiving the degree of A. B. in 1850; of M. D., 

 from the College of Medicine and Surgery, in 

 1852; and of A.M., from Princeton, in 1884. He 

 was Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology in 

 the Philadelphia College of Medicine and Surgery 

 in 1853 and 1854, and entered the navy as assist- 

 ant surgeon, May 1, 1855. He was assigned to 

 the sloop-of-war Portsmouth, and was present in 

 November, 1856, at the battle that resulted in 

 the taking of the Barrier forts at Canton, China. 

 He served on the Paraguay expedition in 1858 

 and 1859, and in 1860 he was sent to the Brook- 

 lyn Naval Hospital, where he remained a year. 

 He was in the brig Perry, cruising off the coast 

 of the Southern States, when the Confederate 

 privateer Savannah was captured. From 1862 to 

 1865 he was on the St. Louis, and after the war 

 was sent to the Portsmouth yard as senior med- 

 ical officer. He was on board the Idaho when 

 that ship was wrecked in the typhoon of Sept. 21, 

 1869, and for services in the Portuguese colony 

 at Dilly, on the island of Timor, and to the Por- 

 tuguese men-of-war Principe Dom Carlos and Sa 



