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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (GiLMOUR GEIEE.) 



ship-joiner's trade. The work proved congenial, and 

 he soon became expert in it. Realizing the difficul- 

 ties of repairing large vessels in the water, lie began 

 studyin"- the problem how to get them on a do'ck. 

 Night after night and year after year were spent in 

 calculations and experiments, till at length he solved 

 the problem by inventing the balance dry-dock, now 

 used at all important sea ports in the world. He in- 

 corporated the New York Dry-dock Company ; built 

 the Erie Basin dry-dock, for many years the largest 

 in the world, and soon had requests to build such 

 docks in many countries. He ouilt docks for the 

 United States Government at Kittery, Me., and at 

 Charleston, S. C., and superintended the construc- 

 tion of the one at Mare Island Navy Yard, San 

 Francisco ; spent several years as naval construct- 

 or in the service of the Austrian Government, chiefly 

 on important works in the port of Polo ; and when 

 sixty years old declined tempting contracts tendered 

 by the Eussian Government, because he thought 

 himself too old to assume the responsibility. 



Covenanter till 1842, when he became a Catholic. He 

 was educated for the ministry at Mount St. Mary's 

 Seminary, Emmetts- 

 _-^-="-_ burg, Md., and was 



ordained to the priest- 

 hood by_ Archbishop 

 Purcell in Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, Aug. 30, 1852. 

 After a successful ca- 

 reer as pastor in Ports- 

 mouth, Ironton, Cin- 

 cinnati, and Dayton, 

 Ohio, he was con- 

 secrated Bishop of 

 Cleveland, April 14, 

 1872,succeeding Bish- 

 op Bappe. In this 'wid- 

 ened field of labor and 

 responsibility his zeal, 

 his business tact, and his efforts in behalf of Catholic 

 education had full sway. But he overtaxed his physical 

 strength, and in consequence was obliged to cease work 

 for two years, going to southern France to recuperate 

 his health. On his return, in Julv, 1878, he resumed 

 his heavy burden of office, and within a few years had 

 the satisfaction of seeing his diocese ranked by com- 

 mon consent among the first in the country in point 

 of order and healthy growth. Under his care the 

 charitable, religious, and educational institutions 

 founded by his predecessor were multiplied and 

 strengthened. Everywhere throughout the diocese 

 handsome and often cathedral-like churches sup- 

 planted the unpretentious buildings first erected, so 

 that the diocese of Cleveland has more fine churches 

 in proportion to its population and means than any 

 other in the United States. He compiled a series of 

 readers known as " The Catholic National Eeaders," 

 which soon attained a large circulation. He also pub- 

 lished a Bible history and a collection of school hymns, 

 both largely in use. He had a facile pen, wrote in 

 plain, terse language, and treated with keen logic any 

 subject he discussed. The Catholic press found in 

 him a stanch and liberal supporter. He founded in 

 1874, and maintained to the end of his episcopal 

 career, the " Catholic Universe," a paper of wide influ- 

 ence. He was a valiant defender of the Catholic 

 faith. In public questions he took a leading part, 

 and he was often called upon to discuss them from 

 the rostrum. Shortly after the assassination of Presi- 

 dent Garfleld a meeting of the citizens of Cleveland 

 was held to express sympathy with their chief magis- 

 trate. Bishop Gilmour was one of the speakers, and 

 this was his first appearance before his fellow-citizens 

 in his civil capacity. He also addressed the Con- 

 gress of Churches, a non-Catholic organization, at its 

 annual meeting held iu Cleveland in 1886, his subject 

 being " The Necessity of Eeligion in Education." 



Shortly after his death a meeting in Music Hall, at- 

 tended by over 5,000 people of all shades of belief, was 

 addressed by many Protestants, lay and cleric, of 

 Cleveland, each paying a tribute to his memory and 

 expressing the loss sustained by the community, 

 country j and religion in the death of the man aiid 

 prelate in whose honor the meeting was called. His 

 remains repose in the crypt beneath St. John's Cathe- 

 dral, Cleveland. 



Glover, John Montgomery, lawyer, born in Mercer 

 County, Ky., Sept. 4, 1824 : died in Newark, Mo., 

 Nov. 12, 1891. He received a collegiate education, 

 but was not graduatedj and had practiced law but a 

 short time when the civil war broke out. Early in 

 1861 he was appointed by President Lincoln a colonel 

 of cavalry, and on Sept. 4 he was commissioned 

 colonel of the 3d Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, with 

 which he served till 1864, when he was forced to re- 

 sign by failing health. He was collector of internal 

 revenue for the 3d District of Missouri from November, 

 1866, till March 3, 1867. In 1872, 1874, and 1876 he 

 was elected to Congress from the 12th Missouri Dis- 

 trict as a Democrat, and he served as chairman of the 

 standing Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury 

 Department and of the select Committee on the Eeal- 

 Estate Pool and the Jay Cooke Indebtedness, and as a 

 member of the committees on Agriculture and on 

 Military Affairs. After his third term in Congress he 

 retired from public life. 



Godshalk, William, jurist, bom in East Nottingham, 

 Chester County, Pa., Oct. 25, 1817 ; died in Doyles- 

 town, Pa., Feb. 7, 1891. He received a common- 

 school education ; studied in Union Academy, Dolyes- 

 town ; was elected an associate judge of the Bucks 

 County Court in 1871, and held the office five years. 

 He was elected to Congress as a Eepublican in 1878 

 and 1880, and defeated for renommation in 1882. 

 While in Congress he served on the committees on 

 Agriculture and Manufactures. 



Gooch, Daniel Wheelwright, lawyer, born in "Wells, 

 Me., Jan. 8, 1820 ; died in Melrose, Mass., Nov. 1, 1891. 

 He was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1843, was 

 admitted to the bar in 1846, and began practicing in 

 Boston. In 1852 he was elected to the Legislature, in 

 1853 to the State Constitutional Convention, and in 

 1856 to Congress to fill a vacancy from the 7th 

 Massachusetts District. He was re-elected to Con- 

 gress in 1857, 1859, 1861, 1863, 1865, and 1873, and 

 was one of the most active Eepublicans on the floor 

 of the House and in committees. During the four 

 years of the investigations of the joint congressional 

 committee on the conduct of the war, he was chair- 

 man of the House members, and he personally con- 

 ducted the inquiry into the Fort Pillow massacre. 

 On Sept. 1, 1865, he resigned his seat in Congress to 

 assume the duties of naval officer of the port of Bos- 

 ton, to which he had been appointed by President 

 Johnson, who also removed him in less than a' year. 

 In 1876, he was appointed United States pension 

 agent at Boston, and he held the office till 1886, when 

 he resumed law practice. 



Green, Caleb Smith, jurist, born in Mercer County 

 N. J., in 1819 ; died in Trenton, N J., Feb. 20, 1891. 

 He was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 

 1837, and" admitted to the bar in 1843. He was for 

 many years a judge of the New Jersey Court of 

 Errors and Appeals; President of the Trenton Savings 

 Fund Association from 1854 ; director of the Trenton 

 Banking Company; a trustee of the College of New 

 Jersey ; and one of the executors of the estate of 

 John C. Green, of New York, who gave large sums of 

 money to that college. 



Grier, David Perkins, grain merchant, born near 

 Wilkesbarre, Pa., in 1837; died in St. Louis, Mo., 

 April 21, 1891. He received a common-school edu- 

 cation, and in 1852 removed to Peoria, 111., where he 

 established himself in the grain business. In asso- 

 ciation with a brother, he built the first grain elevator 

 in Peoria, and three or four others elsewhere. In 1879 

 he removed to St. Louis, and had charge of the erec- 

 tion and management of the Union elevator. At the 



