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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (GEDDES GILMOBE.) 



include : " A Leaf from the Black Book " ; " Taking 

 the Chances " (1856) ; " Olympiana." written for Frank 

 8. Ghanfrau; "The Love of a Prince," in which 

 Laura Keene, Mrs. John Wood, and Maggie Mitchell 

 appeared at different times ; " The Son of the Night," 

 an adaptation from the French ; " The Bobbers of the 

 Ehine"; "The Romance of a (Very) Poor Young 

 Man"; "The Female American Cousin"; "The 

 American Cousin at Home," written for Mr. Sothern ; 

 "Bull Run" (1861); "The Wizard's Tempest"; 

 " Aurora Floyd " ; " The Connie Soogah," written for 

 Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams; "Inflation" (1876) ; 

 " Lord Tatters, Irish " ; " The Bohemians," pro- 

 duced in 1885; "98"; "Master of Arts"; "Lights 

 and Shadows of New York," produced in 1888 ; 

 and " Fritz, our Cousin-German " ; the last two being 

 his latest and most successful compositions. Mr. 

 Gayler was almost a giant in stature. 



Geddes, George "W., jurist, born in Mount "Vernon, 

 Ohio, July 16, 1824; died in Mansfield, Ohio, in No- 

 vember, 1892. He received a common-school educa- 

 tion, studied law with Columbus Delano, was admitted 

 to the bar in 1845, was elected judge of the Court of 

 Common Pleas of the 6th Judicial District of Ohio in 

 1856, 1861, and 1862, serving fifteen years in all ; and 

 was elected to Congress from the 16th Ohio District, 

 as a Democrat, in 1878, 1880, 1882, and 1884. During 

 his last term he was chairman of the Committee on 

 War Claims. 



Gibbons, James Sloane, banker and author, born in 

 Wilmington, Del., July 1, 1810; died in New York 

 city, Oct. 17, 18 ( J2. He received a private-school 

 education, engaged in mercantile business in Phila- 

 delphia, and in 1835 came to New York city and en- 

 tered the banking business. He was identified with 

 the abolition movement from its inception, and he 

 and his father-in-law, Isaac T. Hopper, were expelled 

 from the Society of Friends for editing and publish- 

 ing the antislavery " Standard." In 1863 he illumi- 

 nated his residence in honor of President Lincoln's 

 emancipation proclamation, for which it was sacked 

 by the mob during the draft riots. . During his bank- 

 ing career he was a founder and cashier of the Ocean 

 Bank, a founder of the Broadway Bank, a frequent 

 contributor to the "Banker's Magazine," author of 

 " The Banks of New York : their Dealers, the Clear- 

 ing-house, and the Panic of 1857," and " The Public 

 Debt of the United States: Its Organization, its 

 Liquidation, and the Financial System " ; and of the 

 famous war song, " We are coming, Father Abraham, 

 Three Hundred Thousand more." 



Gibson, Randall Lee, lawyer, born in Spring Hill, 

 Ky., Sept. 10, 1822 ; died in Hot Springs, Ark., Dec. 

 15, 1892. He was a grandson of Randall Gibson, a 

 Revolutionary soldier of note, and son of Tobias Gib- 

 son, a sugar planter in Louisiana. He was graduated 

 at Yale in 1853, and studied law in the University of 

 Louisiana and in Berlin. While abroad he was an 

 attache of the American legation in Madrid, and, re- 

 fusing the secretaryship of that legation in 1855, re- 

 turned to Louisiana and was engaged in sugar grow- 

 ing till the beginning of the civil war. He entered 

 the Confederate army as a private, was soon commis- 

 sioned captain, and, after serving at Fort Jackson, 

 below New Orleans, was elected colonel of the 13th 

 Louisiana Infantry. At Shiloh he commanded a 

 brigade which attacked the " hornet's nest " in front 

 and was four times repelled ; and for his services at 

 Perryville, during Bragg's Kentucky campaign, he 

 was recommended for promotion. In that battle, as 

 well as at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga, his com- 

 mand lost heavily. During Johnston's retreat from 

 Dalton to Atlanta, Gen. Gibson took part in all the 

 engagements, and at Jonesboro he lost half of his com- 

 mand during the fight. He covered the retreat after 

 Gen. Hood's defeat at Nashville, and in Gen. Canby's 

 campaign against Mobile he was charged with the 

 defense of Spanish Fort, where he held the national 

 forces at bay for two weeks, and then withdrew his 

 entire command. He attained the rank of major- 

 general before the close of the war. After the war, 



having been financially ruined by it, he engaged in. 

 the practice of law and entered public life. In 1872 

 he was elected to Congress as a Democrat, but was 

 not admitted, and in 1874, 1876, 1878, and 1880 he was 

 re-elected. During his last term he was elected 

 United States Senator, taking his seat March 4, 1883, 

 and in 1888 was re-elected. During his last term in 

 the Senate he was a member of tile committees on 

 Agriculture and Forestry, Commerce, Naval Affairs, 

 Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, and Univer- 

 sity of the United States. 



Gilmore, Patrick Sarsfield, musical director, born near 

 Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 25, 1830 ; died in St. Louis, 

 Mo., Sept. 24, 1892. His parents placed him in a mer- 

 cantile house in Athlone, where his apprenticeship 

 was cut short by his employer, who, noticing his re- 

 markable taste for music, agreed to give him his 

 time if he would instruct his son in music. Young 

 Gilmore had become a favorite of the master of the 

 military band in Athlone, which, besides its military 

 duties, played the instrumental parts of the mass in 

 the Catholic church, and he not only received special 

 instruction from the bandmaster, but became conver- 

 sant with the works of the best composers. In 1849 

 he came to the United States, settled in Boston, and 

 was almost immediately chosen leader of a band. His 

 fame as a cornet player spread through the State, and 

 led to his being engaged as leader successively of the 

 Charlestown, Suffolk, and old Boston Brigade bands. 

 From Boston he went to Salem, where he remained 

 four years, and, returning to Boston after having es- 

 tablished a reputation as a bandmaster by nearly 

 1,000 concerts, he organized in 1858 what has since 

 been known as Gilmore's Band, the one with which 

 he subsequently gave concerts throughout the United 

 States and over half of Europe. At the beginning of 

 the civil war he and his band volunteered with the 

 24th Massachusetts Regiment. He accompanied Gen. 

 Burnside to North Carolina, and while he was in New 

 Orleans, in 1864, Gen. Banks placed him in charge 

 of all the bands of rnusic in the Department of the 

 Gulf. On March 4, 1864, at the inauguration of 

 Michael Hahn as Governor of Louisiana, Mr. Gilmore 

 gave the first great jubilee of peace, a national concert 

 in which 500 musicians, 10,000 school children, and 

 adequate artillery took part in rendering national airs. 

 At the close of the war he returned to Boston and 

 resumed his musical vocation. He organized the 

 mammoth peace jubilees held in that city in 1869 and 

 1872, in which more than 20,000 people and 2,000 

 musicians, together with the best military bands of 

 Europe, participated. For these festivals, buildings 

 holding 30,000 and 50,000 people respectively were 

 erected, and for his services Mr. Gilmore received pres- 

 ents amounting in value to over $50,000. In 1873 he 

 removed to New York, and became bandmaster of the 

 22d Regiment, and during the next three years he 

 gave more than 600 popular concerts in what was 

 then known as Gilmore's Garden. During the Cen- 

 tennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, in 1876, his band 

 played daily in the main building. The next two 

 years were spent in giving concerts in the principal 

 cities of the United States, and at its close he took 

 his band to Europe, gave concerts in the principal 

 cities there, and won honors at the World's Exposi- 

 tion in Paris in 1878. From 1878 till his death his 

 band played daily during the summer seasons at 

 Manhattan Beach, and from 1884 he gave annual con- 

 certs in autumn and winter at the expositions at Louis- 

 ville, Ky., Kansas City, Mo., and St. Louis. His band 

 of 100 pieces welcomed the opening of the four hun- 

 dredth anniversary year of the discovery of America 

 in front of the City Hall, New York, playing at mid- 

 night to an audience of 30,000 people. Two days be- 

 fore his death he was appointed musical director of 

 the World's Columbian Exhibition, of which he said : 

 " It is the highest honor ever bestowed on a musician 

 in the world's history. I wish to round out my fame 

 with the grandest musical season ever known, and 

 the World's Fair will give me the opportunity." Mr. 

 Gilmore was the author of numerous musical coin- 



