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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (GILLESPIE GORHAM.) 



da Bandeira, he received from the King of Por- 

 tugal, with the consent of Congress, the decora- 

 tion of Knight of the Military Order of Christ. 

 For services to the British men-of-war Flint and 

 Dawn he received the thanks of the British Gov- 

 ernment, and for similar services to the French 

 gunboat Scorpion those of the commander-in- 

 chief of the French East India station. After 

 special duty in Brooklyn in 1870 he was attached 

 to the Marine Rendezvous in Philadelphia, and 

 was a member of examining boards. Three years 

 later he was surgeon of the ileet on the European 

 station. He designed and superintended the con- 

 struction of the model hospital ship for the Cen- 

 tennial Exposition of 1870, and at that exhibition 

 presented his ambulance cot, which was adopted 

 for use in the navy. He was made a medical 

 director in 1870, and was afterward on duty in 

 Norfolk, Va.. Washington, D. C., Mare Island, 

 Cal., Brooklyn, and New York. May 1, 1895, as 

 senior medical director, he was transferred to 

 Washington, to take charge of the medical head- 

 quarters. He was retired, Sept. 28, 1895, with the 

 rank of commodore. He was author of Practical 

 Suggestions in Naval Hygiene (1871); Public 

 Health (papers and reports of the American Pub- 

 lic Health Association, 1877 to 1898) ; Naval Hy- 

 giene and other papers in Wood's Handbook of 

 the Medical Sciences (1885); and Demography, 

 in Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences 

 (1885). 



Gillespie, Elizabeth Duane, philanthropist, 

 born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 15, 1821; died 

 there, Oct. 13, 1901. She was a great-grand- 

 daughter of Benjamin Franklin, and at her death 

 was his oldest descendant. Her father, William 

 Duane, in 1805 married Deborah Bache, a grand- 

 daughter of Franklin. Elizabeth Duane married, 

 in 1849, Lieut. Gillespie, of the United States 

 Marine Corps, who died in 1859. At the out- 

 break of the civil war she was placed in charge 

 of the hospital for wounded soldiers, and later 

 she became interested in the Women's Sanitary 

 Fair, held in Logan Square, Philadelphia. She 

 was a member of the women's committee ap- 

 pointed to cooperate with the Board of Finance 

 in securing money for the Centennial Exposition 

 in 1876, and she not only secured a large amount 

 for the exposition itself, but was instrumental in 

 erecting and furnishing the Women's Building. 

 In 1877 Mrs. Gillespie went to Europe, w r here for 

 four years she interested herself in the giving of 

 entertainments to the deserving poor: Upon her 

 return to the United States she took a leading 

 part in organizing the Colonial Dames and other 

 patriotic societies. She was also an active worker 

 in many charitable organizations. In 1890 liti- 

 gation was begun simultaneously in Philadelphia 

 and Boston to set aside some of the trusts pro- 

 vided for in the will of Benjamin Franklin. Mrs. 

 Gillespie was appointed administrator of the 

 Franklin residuary estate with the will annexed, 

 and the litigation was prosecuted until April, 

 1895, when Judge Arnold, by sustaining a de- 

 murrer of the defendants (the city of Philadel- 

 phia and the Board of City Trusts), put an end 

 to it. She published A Book of Remembrance. 



Gleason, Elliott Perry, inventor and manu- 

 facturer, born in Westmoreland, N. H., June 27, 

 1821; died in New York city, Sept. 26, 1901. At 

 the age of fifteen he removed to Boston, and later 

 to Providence, where in 1851 he went into busi- 

 ness, under the firm name of Mooney & Gleason, 

 in the manufacture of gas-burners and supplies. 

 He invented the regulating Argand gas-burner, 

 the two-hole or fish-tail gas burner tip, and many 

 other devices, an.d was identified with the devel- 



opment of electric lighting. In 1861 he removed 

 his business to New York, where in 1871 he in-. 

 corporated the E. P. Gleason Manufacturing 

 Company, of which he was president and prin- 

 cipal owner. He also owned the Gleason Knit- 

 ting and Manufacturing Company, and was the 

 principal owner of the Gleason & Bailey Com- 

 pany, manufacturers of fire-department appa- 

 ratus both in Seneca Falls, N. Y., where he was 

 known as " the working man's friend." He was 

 president of the Gleason-Peters Air-Pump Com- 

 pany, the Lawyer Water-Feed and Darnper-Regu- 

 lator Company, and the Steam-Boiler Equipment 

 Company, of New York, and he conducted in 

 Brooklyn the manufacture of glassware for illu- 

 minating. 



Gobrecht, William H., surgeon, born in Phil- 

 adelphia, Pa., March 7, 1828; died in Washing- 

 ton, D. C., July 19, 1901. He was graduated at 

 the Pennsylvania Medical College, March 7, 1849, 

 and soon afterward he was appointed demon- 

 strator of anatomy there, where he served until 

 he was made Professor of Anatomy in the Phila- 

 delphia College of Medicine, from which he was 

 transferred to the professorship of Anatomy in 

 the Pennsylvania Medical College. He filled this 

 chair till the outbreak of the civil war, when he 

 entered the National army as surgeon of the 49th 

 Pennsylvania Volunteers, in August, 1861. Early 

 in 1863 he was appointed surgeon United States 

 Volunteers, and detailed on the board to examine 

 applicants for appointment as surgeons. While 

 on this duty he was successively surgeon in 

 charge of Seminary United States General Hos- 

 pital, at Covington, Ky., and West End United 

 States General Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio; sub- 

 sequently organized and was appointed surgeon 

 in charge and treasurer of the Military Hospital 

 for Officers at the same place. He was subse- 

 quently post surgeon at Camp Dennison, Ohio, 

 then post surgeon at Johnson's island. In the 

 early part of 1866 he was honorably discharged 

 with the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel for 

 faithful and meritorious services. Before the 

 close of the war he was appointed Professor of 

 Anatomy in the Medical College of Ohio, Cincin- 

 nati, which chair he held about ten years. After- 

 several years he accepted the chair of Anatomy 

 in Fort Wayne Medical College and Fort Wayne 

 College of Medicine, remaining there four years. 

 He was then appointed in September, 1882, quali- 

 fied surgeon in the Bureau of Pensions at Wash- 

 ington, D. C. Dr. Gobrecht edited Allen's Dis- 

 sector's Guide, Wilson's System of Human Anat- 

 omy, Curling on Disease of the Testis, Miller's 

 Obstetrics, and Eve's Remarkable Cases in Sur- 

 gery. He was a member of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences. 



Gorham, Charles T., banker, born in Dan- 

 bury, Conn., May 29, 1812; died in Marshall, 

 Mich., March 11, 1901. He went to Michigan in 

 1836, and in 1840 engaged in banking, which he 

 conducted till 1865. In that year he organized 

 the First National Bank of Marshall, and he 

 continued at its head till his retirement -in Janu- 

 ary, 1898. In the early days he was a Demo- 

 crat, but upon the organization of the Repub- 

 lican party he identified himself with it. He was 

 well known as a friend of the slaves, and assisted 

 many of them to escape. In 1858 he was major- 

 general of the Michigan State Militia, and the 

 following year he served in the State Senate. He 

 also served as minister to The Hague during Pres- 

 ident Grant's first term, resigning to return to. 

 look after his business affairs, and as Assistant 

 Secretary of the Interior during the term of Presi- 

 dent Hayes. 



