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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (GORDON GEBSHAM.) 



>* (1868). lit waa one of the 



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. York city and attar* 

 I8ta; Md attbeeqttetitW WM 

 mmmattm In New York and 



self ekUij to dramatic 



India miaoionary : came 

 a publishing house in 



Chicago, applying hm,'- 

 I Ic waa master of 

 Hi> b*t plays were: 

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Da^SlnV - duc*d by flra, Leslie < .ncr ; " I. M^ 

 Ha*t a Failarf written for Stusrt Kobson: and 



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Otvaa Jsaa E. enfinaar. b--m >n I.vmu Mas*, 

 March a. I**; died In Paw, France, May 7, 1895. 

 :m-an War ho raised the Kussian fleet 

 that had been sunk in the l. - -,,M- r .l by 



tbe Bnarfans Ha waa an engineer of world-wide 

 AM* awl raoaivad the order of Commander 

 ftlaaiilsai from the Emperor of Russia, the Star of 

 tfc* Madfcdl from the Sultai. the decora- 



tion of Chevalier of >t. Mam 

 UM Kin* of Italv. that of the Lev 



Honor from the Emperor of the French, and a dia- 



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educator, born in Ack worth. N. 11.. 

 i:.. !*>; died In Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 

 SO, 1886. Ha was graduated at Madison (now Colgate) 

 18*8, taking both the collegiate and 



; was pastor in Ann Arbdr. 



ssor of Greek in Kalamazoo Col- 



University In 

 JJ i fl3f!jW?p M |U BO r 



ID l^^ >l I rOIQHKir \^a ^iwaa> IKS aa> mn aa BM*W ws 



laftuaad of Systematic Theology in the Theological 

 Seminary in 1861-'&9 ; and pastor in Norwich, Conn., 

 ialittt-70. In the last year he waa called to a Bap- 

 tM churrh in Grand Rapids, where he remained till 

 IMtt and than became president of the Baptist Sem- 

 - In Atlanta, Ga.. retiring in 1894. His principal 



tlinm of Theology n (1898> 

 Patty, diplomat, born in Dnwnington, 

 ty. l'a..0ct. IS, 188; died in Mcxkv 

 M. 1996. Accompanving his parents to 

 Ohio in childhood, ha settled in New rfadion in 

 1818, where be WM educated and became proprietor 

 of a dry- foods store. In 1866 he removed to Union 

 Ctar, iBd-wbere be carried on business for three years, 



4 add service. In 1844 he was a candidate l 

 trass* be* waa defeated bir George W.Julian; in 1868 

 waa eteatad to the State Senate, and became its presi- 

 dent In 1878 be wa. a delegate to the Liberal Re- 

 MbUaao Convention. Ha waa elected Lieutenant 

 Governor on the Democratic ticket headed by James 

 D. WUttM. in 1876; soecaeded to the executive 

 tair on UM death of GOT. Williams shortly before 

 tka tad of the term: waa defeated for Lieutenant 



1880; and was elected Governor in 1884. 



of State and county 



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of the State st a lower 

 it had ever paid. On March 9, 

 toMarieo. 



in Princeton, 

 K ixabeth, N. J., May 

 a anso of the Bev. Ashbel 



1866, and was 



t/tba boroojgh oourta in 1867 

 rney la 186& He wao electe 



la tfltf W w. amtatsd m 



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in the 'i he waa ohairman of the commtttssj 



.|j I. ill >r rights ';>-. limit.. 



power of .Mid L'fiit nil :i!i.l 



lation. ilu was an unsuccessful 1. n. 



T Congrew in 1868, and a suoceasftil 



. '. l I . . . Mi.-l .. I N. \\ .If!'-. \ in 1-M',; 



iin-i :i- H|<]H>int4-l \ u-e-Chanoellor in 1890. 

 Oresbam. Walter Qnhitan,Htatesmni Lanea- 



villr. llarr 



n-school education, spent a year 

 Univcrxiu. rtodled law in Corydon. l 

 admitted to the bar in 1868. 

 tran in the presidential canvass of 1866, v 

 advocated the election of J 

 he was elected to the Legislature ax a i:.|.til>h 

 as cliairriinii <>t it.- Committee to v 

 introduced and secured the passage of a mil 

 under which the r t troops for 



armies waa greut: ted, ll< declin 



nomination in 1861, enlisted as a ] '. S8tii 



I n< liana Volunteers, waa elected itslieut- 

 and n-aolicd tin- tirld in time t take {-art in ' 

 tie of si,ii..li. In December, 1861, ho was .- 

 Htoned colonel of the r>.'ul In-liau.. 

 bravery before C'orintli ami at \ i<-k- 

 promoted to Lri^ailiiT i/-m-ral <>f vt>hint-rr. 



r< nun. M. lation of Gens. Grant and Sh^^H 



Aujr. 11, 1863. While coinmandii 



>ln Tiuan's army he was shot In i 

 Leggetfs Hill, ni-ur Atlanta, and disal 



a in tli. Atlanta campaign he \\ 

 major general <>f v.lui h l:;. }*;;.. 



the war Gen. (in-.-ham n-nin<-<l lla- |ira> ' 

 New Albany, Ind. In 1866 he was an 

 Republican candidate for Conirrow in a < 1 

 Democratic, but so reduced UK mai-irity "t h 

 nenta that soon afterward t\\ Democratic oj^^H 

 were added to the congressional district i^^H 

 1867-*78 he wan financial agent of In. liana 

 V<>rk. In 1869 President Grant offered him 

 jMi'mtim-nt >f collector f th<- ]>rt -.f \ 

 which lie declined ; hut later in the year he c 

 the apjK.intnirnt .:' I'niteil States distr 

 Indiana. He held this otli.-,- till Aj.ril. is? 

 <lurintr this [>eriod waa an unsuccessful 



lited Btatea Senate. In IHS-J. ,, n the d< 

 rst master-General Howe, President An 

 ed him to till the vacancy, and in 1^1. i.n tl 

 of Secretary Folger, he was transferred to the Treas- 

 ury Department, hut held the oilier 

 months, re>iirniiiL' it to U e-ept the U |>; 

 United Stot. for tin- 7th Ju.r, 



His administration, .t'the Post-Otli 



.H-morahli- )y his successful j> roc ceding* against 

 the Louisiana lottery oorporati"ii: and "in 

 most important act* a* United State* judge w 

 in/ the hearing f >f tlic celebrated Wabash Hailrosd 

 case in 1886, when he ordered th< I-.-M. 

 ceiver, appointed at the in8tan'< of the C,\i'; 

 eat, and put .lud^e Thomas M. ('< 

 In 1884 and 1888 he was a candidate for t h.- ; 

 lican nomi nation for I'renident Aft* r tl 

 the latter year he urged reform in s- 

 declariiiir t^iat tlie conviction of a th"i, 

 voters for bribery would in effect be as nothing com- 

 pared with that of one pminincnt man. In. I 

 an organization that met in Omaha, Neb.. IK 

 name of the People's party virtually oil 

 Greaham a nomination for the }<r 

 offer waa declined, and in ' Moher folio-... 

 Holy announced his intention of v<.tii, 

 crat'ir- tick< -.eland'* <-. 



ration Judge Grenham was appointed Secret 

 State, and he held the office till his death. 

 the notable diplomatic u bit term 



Hawaiian question, the Mosquito Reser 

 dispute between Nicaragua and (ireat P.rir 

 Nicaraguan trouble with (J rent Britain 

 alleged insults to British nubjects, the M"r 

 against Spain, the case of ex-United States ' 



