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yean*, and had served in the Institution for tin- Dent 

 iimt Dumb in Philadelphia, in u special branch 

 school, and its Principal o!' the I'cmisN Ivania Oral 

 School lor the Deaf, which was established l.y phil- 

 anthropic citi/eiis expressly for her, itinl which was 

 awarded a medal by tin; judges of the Paris F.xposi- 

 ti"ii of 1 ss'.i. For nearl\ two \ears she had been in 

 charge oi'a home at Bala, Wtft I'hiladclphia, which 

 \v;is conducted on adumccd t'euturcB of her original 

 and unii|iu' plitn. A se\,-iv siege of nervous prostra- 

 tion, increased by the excitement of (lie exposition, 

 atlectcd her mentally und led to suicide. 

 Genth, Frederick Augustas Louis Charles William, chem- 



iBtjborninWacchtcrshaeh, Hesse Cassel..Ma\ 17, 1S'20 ; 

 died in 1'hiladelphia, 1'a., Feb. -2. 1-M'".. He was de- 

 scended from an old Hessian family, and his father 



was u Govcrn- 

 inent otlieial hav- 

 ing charge of the 

 foresto. From 

 boyhood his 

 powers of ob- 

 servation were 

 trained by his 

 father, who en- 

 couraged his 

 growing interest 

 in botany, miner- 

 alogy, and other 

 natural sciences. 

 His early educa- 

 tion was obtained 

 at the gymnasi- 

 um in Hanau, 

 whence in 1839 

 he passed to the 

 University of Heidelberg. Two years later he went 

 to Giessen, studying there under Liebig, and then 

 to Marburg, where he completed his studies under 

 Bunsen, and in 1846 received the degree of Ph. D. 

 He was then appointed privat-docent and continued 

 at Marburg for nearly three years, serving also as as- 

 sistant to Bunsen. In 1848 he resigned his university 

 appointment and came to the United States, establish- 

 ing himself in Philadelphia as an analytical chemist. 

 Soon afterward he was called to the charge of the 

 Washington mines, Davidson County, N. C., where 

 he remained till 1851. He then returned to Phila- 

 delphia and resumed his practice as an analyst. In 

 1872 he became Professor of Chemistry and Mineral- 

 ogy in the University of Pennsylvania, which chair lie 

 held until 1888. Prof. Genth was chemist to the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Pennsylvania, and also from 1877 to 

 1884 he served in similar capacity the Pennsylvania 

 Board ofAgriculture. He served as a. juror pn"chcmi- 

 cal matters at the World's Fair held in Philadelphia 

 in 1876. In 1875 he became a member of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 and in 1888, at the request of the chemical section, 

 was made a fellow of the association. In the do- 

 main of mineral chemistry he was easily the tirst 

 authority in the United States, and his" Contributions 



ican Journal of Science." The identification of '23 

 new mineral species was due to his researches. In 

 the " American Contributions to Chemistry," Ben- 

 jamin Si Hii mm says that he "has no superior in this 

 country as an analytical chemist." The ammonia- 

 cobalt bases, originally discovered by him in 184ti. were 

 subsequently more fully studied with Wolcott Gibbs, 

 and in joint authorship they published Researches 

 on the Ammonia-Cobalt Bases" (Washington, 1856), 

 forming a portion of the ninth volume of the" Smith 

 sonian Contributions to Knowledge." His separate 

 papers were over one hundred in number, and included 

 the following larger works: " Tabellarischc I'eber- 

 Bicht der Wichti-rsten Keactionen welche Bascn in 

 ihren Salzen zeigeu" (Marburg, 1845) ; also the same 

 in relation to "Acids" (1845); "Minerals of North 



Carolina," being Appendix " C " of the " Kc|>ort on 



ology of North Carolina" (Raleigh. 

 " First and Second Preliminary KejM.rt* on the Min- 

 eralogy of Pennsylvania" < flurrihburg. lb?;'> ",>'>) ; 

 ' Minerals and Mineral Localities )' North < aral'ma" 

 < Kaleigh, IhHl;; and " Mineral** of North Carolina," 

 heinir liulli-tin No. 7-1 of I'nited Mutes (,>, logical 

 Survey i Washington, 1891^. 



Gibbons. Abby Hopper, philanthropist, born in Phil 

 adelphia. Pa., Dee. 7. 1*"1 ; died in New York city, 

 Jan. 10, 1893. She was a daughter of the late Isaac 

 T. Hopper, a well-known abolitionist and philanthro- 

 pist, and the widow of .lames Sloan Gibbon 

 "Annual Cyclopaedia" for 1692, page 548). >he 

 was of Quaker parentage and devoted her life to 

 educational and benevolent work, taking a special 

 interest iii matters relating t-> hospital management. 

 She labored earnestly to promote the welfare of the 

 colored people before, during, and after the civil war, 

 and because of the prominence in this work of her 

 husband and herself their home in New York city was 

 sacked by a mob during the draft riots in 1863. She 

 aided her father in planning and establishing the 

 Women's Prison Association and the Isaac T. Hopper 

 Home, and was a manager of the N'ew York Infant 

 Asylum and the Diet Kitchen Association. Largely 

 through her persistent efforts the New York Legisla- 

 ture established the State Reformatory for Women 

 and Girls, and authorized the appointment of matrons 

 in police stations to look after female prisoners. As 

 long as her strength permitted she visited regularly 

 the institutions in which she was interested. 



Giles. Cbauncey. clergyman, born in Charlempnt, 

 Mass., Mav 11, 1813; died in Philadelphia. Pa., Nov. 

 6, 1893. He was educated at Williams College, spent 

 three years in teaching in his native State, and from 

 1836 till 1852 conducted private schools in various 

 towns in Ohio. In the latter year he was ordained 

 into the first grade of the ministry of the Church of the 

 New Jerusalem in Cincinnati, where he preached for 

 ten years. In 1858 he was elected President of Urban a 

 University ; in 1863 was consecrated as ordaining min- 

 ister (now known as general pastor) in Philadelphia; 

 in 1864-'78 was pastor of the New Jerusalem Church 

 in New York city ; and from 1878 till his death pas- 

 tor of the First Church in Philadelphia. He was 

 chosen president of the General Convention of the 

 Church in 1875, and had been re-elected annually 

 ever since. He was also for some years editor of the 

 " New-Church Messenger "and the " Children's New- 

 Church Magazine." Air. Giles was a forcible and pro- 

 lific writer. More than 200 of his sermons have been 

 published in tract and book form, and several of 

 them, including " Man as a Spiritual Being" (1868), 

 were translated into foreign languages and widely cir- 

 culated. 



Goddard. Thomas Poynton Ivea, philanthropist, bom 

 in Providence, R. 1., in 1833; died there, March 80, 

 1893. Under the firm name of Goddard Brothers, he 

 was associated with three brothers in cotton manu- 

 facturing in the Blackstone valley, and in numerous 

 manufacturing and business interests in Massachu- 

 setts and other States. All the brothers became very 

 wealthy, and gave liberally to local charitable and 

 educational institutions. Thomas was a founder of the 

 Rhode Island Hospital and of the Butler Hospital for 

 the Insane; was a fellow of Brown University; and 

 was an officer in several financial institutions and in 

 organizations connected with the Protestant Episco- 

 pal Church. 



Goebel. Henry, electrician, born in Springer, Han- 

 over, Ccrmany. April '20, lf<ls ; died in New York 

 city. Dee. 4. I'M'.".. He was apprenticed to a watch- 

 maker and optician, invented many devices in the 

 mechanism or clocks and watches and experimented 

 with optical instruments of his own construction, and 

 became interested in electricity while attending the 

 Hanover Technical School. In 1849 he removed to 

 New York city, and in the following year resumed 

 experimenting with incandescent lights. His first 

 lamps were made from cologne bottles with a thick 



