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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (GARDNER GRAHAM.) 



sang at the Metropolitan Opera House, under an en- 

 gagement with Messrs. Abbey & Grau, and subse- 

 quently was heard as soloist in many musical festivals 

 and concerts. In 1891 she was engaged to take charge 

 of the vocal department of the New York College of 

 Music, and for a time she was a member of the Amer- 

 ican Opera Company. Her last appearance in public 

 was at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, as 

 Ortruda in "Lohengrin," on Feb. 6, 1894. 



Gardner, Dorsey, author, born in Philadelphia, Pa., 

 Aim-. 1, 1*42 ; died in Short Hills, N. J., Nov. 30,1894. 

 He removed to Trenton, N. J., in 1854; was a student 

 in Yale College in 1860-'62 ; edited the " Daily Moni- 

 tor 1 ' of Trenton, an administration and antimonopoly 

 origin, in 1864-'65 ; was an editor of the " Eound 

 Table," a critical and literary journal of New York 

 city, in 1866-'6S ; and subsequently was connected 

 editorially with the " Christian Union " and the " Com- 

 mercial Advertiser," in New York. In 1872 he re- 

 turned to Philadelphia and became one of the secre- 

 taries of the United States Centennial Commission, 

 and during the exhibition in 1876 he also acted as 

 private secretary to Director-General A. T. Go-shorn. 

 After the exhibition he had charge of the publication 

 of the catalogue and of all the official documents and 

 reports. He was also employed by the State Depart- 

 ment in Washington to prepare for publication the 

 official report of Richard C. McCormick, the United 

 States commissioner general to the International Ex- 

 hibition in Paris, in 1881. Since 1882 he had been 

 engaged principally in the revision of the Webster 

 " International Dictionary." He published " Quatre 

 Bras, Ligny, and Waterloo : A Narrative of the Cam- 

 paign in Belgium, 1815" (Boston and London, 1882), 

 and u A Condensed Etymological Dictionary of the 

 English Language" (Springheld, .Mass., and New 

 York. 1884; London, 1886). He received the degree 

 of M.'A. from Yale College in recognition of his work 

 on the " International Dictionary." 



Q-aston, William, lawyer, born "in Killingly, Conn., 

 Oct. 3, 1820 ; died in Boston, Mass., Jan. 19, 1894. He 

 was graduated at Brown University in 1840 ; was ad- 

 mitte'd to the Norfolk bar in 1844; practiced in Rox- 

 bury till 1865 and then formed a law partnership in 

 Boston. While in Eoxbury he was mayor for two 

 terms, city solicitor for five years, and a State Senator 

 for one term. In 1870 and 1871 he was elected mayor 

 of Boston ; in 1872 was defeated by Henry L. Pierce ; 

 and in 1874 was elected Governor, defeating Gen. 

 Butler for the nomination, and Gov. Talbot for the 

 office. He was the first Democratic Governor of Mas- 

 sachusetts in more than a generation, and during his 

 term both branches of the Legislature were Republi- 

 can. While Governor he commuted the death sen- 

 tence of Jesse Pomeroy, the " boy murderer," to im- 

 prisonment for life, and this act doubtless cost him a 

 renomination. He continued in practice till within 

 a few months of his death. Gov. Gaston received the 

 degree of LL. D. from Harvard College and Brown 

 University in 1875. 



Gibson, "William Harvey, military officer, born in Jef- 

 ferson County, Ohio, in 1822 ; died in Tifflin, Ohio, 

 Nov. 22, 1894. He was brought up on a farm ; was 

 admitted to the bar in 1841 ; became widely known as 

 a political orator, first in the Whig party and after- 

 ward in the Republican ; and was the first Republi- 

 can elected State Treasurer of Ohio (1860). At the 

 beginning of the civil war he resigned the office of 

 Treasurer, organized the 49th Ohio Volunteers, and 

 went to the front as its colonel. While leading a 

 charge at the battle of Shiloh he received a severe 

 bayonet wound, and his horse was shot under him. 

 He served to the end of the war, the last two years as 

 brigade and division commander ; participated in 42 

 battles, and was brevetted brigadier general in March, 

 1865. After the war he resumed law practice, and was 

 a conspicuous champion of Republican principles in 

 the most important campaigns in the Western States. 

 He was adjutant general of Ohio under Gov. Charles 

 Foster, and rendered the State valuable service in re- 

 organizing its militia. 



Gilfillan, James, jurist, born in Scotland in 1829; 

 died in St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 16, 1894. In 1830 his 

 parents came to the United States and settled on a 

 farm in New York, where he remained till 1845, 

 when he began studying law. He was admitted to 

 the bar in Albany in 1850, and removed to St. Paul, 

 Minn., in 1857. At the beginning of the civil war he 

 enlisted in the 7th Minnesota Volunteers, which was 

 one of the regiments ordered to the defense of the 

 settlers of the State against the ravages of the Sioux 

 Indians. lie was promoted captain on Oct. 8, 1862, 

 was commissioned colonel of the llth Minnesota 

 Volunteers in November, 1864, and was honorably 

 discharged on July 16, 1865. During the last year of 

 his service he was in command of the military dis- 

 trict of Middle Tennessee. After the war he resumed 

 law practice in St. Paul. In 1869 he was appointed 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Minnesota, to fill 

 a vacancy ; in 1865 he was elected for a full term of 

 seven years ; and at every subsequent election he was 

 re-elected without opposition. At the State Republi- 

 can Convention in July, 1894, he failed to secure a re- 

 nomination. His most important decision as Chief 

 Justice was the one holding to be valid the issue of 

 $2,500,000 in State bonds to aid in the construction of 

 railways in the early days of the State. Judge Gil- 

 fillan annotated the first 20 volumes of the " Minne- 

 sota State Reports." 



Goodell, William, gynecologist, born in the island 

 of Malta in 1829 ; died in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 27, 

 1894. He was a son of the Rev. William Goodell,. 

 D. D., of Ilolden, Mass., who was long engaged in 

 missionary work in Turkey. The son was graduated 

 at Williams College in 1852, and at the Jefferson 

 Medical College in 1854 ; rejoined his father in Con- 

 stantinople, and remained in practice there till 1861. 

 He then settled in West Chester, Pa., and while in 

 general practice made a specialty of obstetrics and 

 diseases of women. In 1865 he was appointed phy- 

 sician in charge of the Preston Retreat, Philadelphia; 

 in 1870, lecturer on obstetrics and diseases of women 

 at the University of Pennsylvania ; and in 1874 clin- 

 ical Professor of the Diseases of Women and Children 

 at the same institution. Dr. Goodell was author of 

 " Lessons in Gynaecology." 



Goodrich, Prank Boptt, author, born in Hartford, 

 Conn., in 1826 ; died in Morristown, N. J., March 15, 

 1894. He was a son of Samuel Griswold Goodrich, 

 well known many years ago by his writings under 

 the name of Peter Parley, and was educated at 

 Harvard College. In 1851 his father was appointed 

 United States Consul at Paris, France, and he accom- 

 panied him. During his residence at the French 

 capital Louis Napoleon accomplished his coup d'etat,. 

 was elevated to the throne, and married, and these 

 and other important events of the day were described 

 by the younger Goodrich in a series of letters to the 

 "New York Times" signed Dick Tinto, and after- 

 ward published in book form under the title of " Tri- 

 colored Sketches." On the return of the father and 

 son they settled in New York city, where the son be- 

 came interested in dramatic matters. He was associ- 

 ated with Dion Boucicault, William Stuart, and Frank 

 Warden in writing several plays, of which " The Poor 

 of New York " was the most successful. Besides con- 

 tributing to periodicals, he published " The Court of 

 Napoleon " and " The Tribute Book," a record of the 

 efforts of Northern citizens to sustain the Govern- 

 ment and aid the soldiers during the civil war. 



Graham, Andrew Jackson, stenographer, born in Green 

 Creek, Sandusky County, Ohio, Aug. 2,1830: died in 

 Orange, N. J., May 19, 1894. He was educated at 

 home and in Spring Arbor (now Hillsdale) College, 

 Michigan, of which his eldest brother, the Rev. D.M. 

 Graham, was president, and began preparing for the 

 ministry, but as he could not accept the theological 

 doctrines that he studied he abandoned the intention 

 and became a bookkeeper in New York city. After 

 a year's service he determined to apply himself whol- 

 ly to phonetics and stenography. He returned to 

 Michigan and was first employed as a stenographer 



