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detained in prison for several years, but it 

 does not appear that he was severely treated, 

 as he was allowed to pursue his studies until 

 prevented by blindness. 



GALL, Franz Joseph, 1758-1828, Ger. phy- 

 sician ; founder of phrenology. 



GALLATIN, Albert, 1761-1849, Am. states- 

 man ; native of Switzerland. 



GALVANI, Aloisio, 1737-89, It. discoverer 

 of galvanism. 



GAMA, Vasco da, 1450?-1524, Port, naviga- 

 tor. 



GAMBETTA, Leon, 1838-82, Fr. statesman. 



GAMBIER, James, Baron, 1756-1833, Br. 

 admiral. 



GARFIELD, James Abram, 1831-81, twen- 

 tieth president of the United States ; born in 

 Ohio ; worked on a farm in boyhood, and 

 learned the trade of a carpenter ; afterwajd 

 became driver and helmsman of a canal-boat ; 

 graduated at Williams College in 1856 ; ap- 

 pointed professor of Latin and Greek at Hiram 

 College, Ohio, and chosen president of that in- 

 stitution in 1858 ; married Miss Lucretia Ran- 

 dolph, and occasionally acted as a Campbellite 

 minister; elected to the State Senate, 1859, 

 and in 1861 was chosen colonel of an Ohio 

 regiment 5 promoted to the rank of brigadier- 

 general ; elected to Congress, 1862, and re- 

 mained in that body until 1880, when he was 

 made senator ; nominated for the presidency 

 by the Republican party in 1880, and elected ; 

 shot by Charles J. Guiteau, in Washington, 

 July 2, 1881, and died on September 19 of 

 same year. 



GARIBALDI, Giuseppe, 1807-82, It. patriot 

 and general. 



GARRICK, David, 1716-79, Eng. actor. 



GARRISON, William Lloyd, 1804-79, Am. 

 abolitionist. 



GATES, Horatio, 1728-1806, Am. Revolu- 

 tionary general ; born in England ; captured 

 Burgoyne's army at Saratoga. 



GAUSS, Carl Friedrich, 1777-1855, Ger. 

 mathematician . 



GAY, John, 1688-1732, Eng. poet. 



GENGHIS KHAN, 1163-1227, Mogul con- 

 queror ; subdued China and Persia. 



GENSERIC, 406V-477, king of the Vandals; 

 invaded Africa, 429 ; defeated the Romans in 

 numerous battles ; captured Carthage, 439 ; 

 captured and sacked Rome, 455 ; defeated the 

 navy of the Emperor Marjorian, 457. 



GEOFFROY of Monmouth, 1100?-54, Eng. 

 chronicler. 



GEORGE I. (Lewis), 1660-1 727, king of Great 

 Britain ; II. (Augustus), 1683-1760, defeated 

 the French at Dettingen in 1743 ; Charles Ed- 

 ward Stuart was defeated at Culloden, 1746, 

 by the duke of Cumberland, and the latter 



part of the reign of George II. was marked by 

 victories over the French in Canada, in India, 

 and on the ocean ; III. (William Frederick), 

 1738-1820, arbitrary and ignorant and through 

 his obstinacy lost the American colonies ; be- 

 came insane in 1810; IV. (Augustus Freder- 

 ick), 1762-1830, "the first gentleman of Eu- 

 rope"; led a dissipated life and incurred an 

 immense debt ; married, in 1786, Mrs. Fitz- 

 herbert ; she being a Roman Catholic, the 

 marriage was illegal ; his father refusing to 

 pay his debts unless he contracted a regular 

 marriage, he was induced, 1795, to marry his 

 cousin, whom he regarded with great dislike, 

 a separation being the result ; became regent, 

 1811; took little interest in public affairs ; one 

 year before his death an act was passed reliev- 

 ing Roman Catholics from political disabil- 

 ities. 



GEORGE, Saint, fl. third century, bishop of 

 Alexandria ; patron saint of England ; to him is 

 attributed the destruction of a terrible dragon. 



GEORGE, Henry, 1839-1898, Am. author 

 and economist, and advocate of the single tax. 



GERRY, Elbridge, 1744-1812, Am. revolu- 

 tionary statesman ; signer of the Declaration 

 of Independence ; governor of Massachusetts, 

 1810; vice-president, 1812. 



GHIBERTI, Lorenzo, 1378-1455, Florentine 

 sculptor. 



GIBBON, Edward, 1737-94, Eng. historian. 



GIBSON, John, 1791-1866, Eng. sculptor. 



GIFFORD, Sanford Robinson, 1823-80, Am. 

 painter. 



GIFFORD, William, 1757-1826, Eng. writer 

 and critic. 



GILBERT, Sir Humphrey, 1539-83, Eng. 

 navigator. 



GIRARD, Stephen, 1750-1831, Am. merchant 

 and banker ; born in France; founded Girard 

 College. 



GIULIO ROMANO, 1492-1546, It. painter and 



GLADSTONE, William Ewart, 1809-1898, 

 Eng. premier. 



GLUCK, Christoph Wilibald von, 1714-87, 

 Ger. composer. 



GODFREY OF BOUILLON, 1058?-! 100, lead- 

 er of first crusade, 



GODIVA (Lady Godiva), fl. llth century, 

 Eng. heroine ; wife of Leofric, earl of Leices- 

 ter. 



GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832, 

 Ger. poet and author, dramatist, scientist and 

 statesman. 



GOLDSMITH, Oliver, 1728-74, Ir. poet and 

 writer. 



GOMEZ, Sebastiano, 1616-90, Sp. painter; a 

 slave of Murillo, who liberated him and took 

 him into his studio 



