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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (FRITSCHEL GIBSON.) 



was the original Hiram Sloane in May Blossom 

 at the Madison Square Theater, April 12, 1884, 

 and retained the part for the long run of the play. 

 In April, 1885, he went to the Lyceum Theater 

 and was the first player of Noel in Datolar. In 

 the spring of 1886 he became a member of the 

 company supporting Richard Mansfield, playing 

 with that actor for several seasons in the United 

 States, Canada, and England. He retired from 

 the stage in 1897 and became private secretary 

 to his brother-in-law, Jacob Hess, commissioner 

 of police of the city of New York. 



Fritschel. Sigmund, educator, born in Nurem- 

 berg, Bavaria, Dec. 2, 1833; died in Dubuque, 

 Iowa, April 20, 1900. He was educated in his na- 

 tive city, and became connected with the Lu- 

 theran theological seminary of the Iowa Synod. 

 For several years he served as a missionary in 

 Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and in 1858 re- 

 turned to the theological seminary, which had 

 meanwhile been re-established as Wartburg Semi- 

 nary at St. Sebald, Iowa, and his brother Gottlob 

 had become one of the professors in 1857. He 

 remained in connection with the seminary during 

 the rest of his life, and for many years was 

 its president. In 1800 his synod sent him to Eu- 

 rope to solicit help for its work among the Ger- 

 mans in America. This journey took him as far 

 as St. Petersburg and Moscow. In 1866 he was 

 again sent to Europe to obtain the opinions of 

 Lutheran theologians on the synod's doctrinal 

 position with reference to the predestinarian con- 

 troversy with the Missouri Synod, and to repre- 

 sent the synod of Iowa at the second anniversary 

 of the Society of Home Missions at Neuendettel- 

 sau. In 1870 he was sent to Germany a third 

 time, to secure young men for the seminary and 

 for the rapidly increasing work of missions. In 

 the doctrinal controversies of the Iowa and Mis- 

 souri synods he took a prominent part, and 

 wrote many of the reports and essays in defense 

 of the position of Iowa. In connection with his 

 brother he edited the Kirchliche Zeitschrift, es- 

 tablished in 1876, and he also wrote numerous 

 theological articles for periodicals. In 1879 Muh- 

 lenberg College conferred on him the degree of 

 doctor of divinity. He and his brother Gottlob 

 (died July 13, 1889; see Annual Cyclopaedia for 

 1889, page 630) were for many years the two most 

 influential theologians, educators, and literary 

 workers in the German Iowa Synod. Their books 

 were published in this country and republished in 

 Germany. 



Fuller-ton, William, lawyer, born in Minisink, 

 N. Y., May 1, 1817; died in Newburg, N. Y., 

 March 15, 1900. He was graduated at Union 

 College in 1838, and in 1841 was admitted to the 

 bar. Soon afterward he became district attorney 

 of Orange County. His reputation won for him 

 in 1852 an invitation by Charles O'Conor to re- 

 move to New York city and enter into partner- 

 ship with him. This partnership was dissolved 

 in 1860, and Mr. Fullerton formed the firm of 

 Fullerton, Raymond & Knox, which after sev- 

 eral changes became in 1873 Fullerton, Knox & 

 Crosby. Mr. Fullerton was appointed to the 

 Supreme Court bench in 1868, and became ex 

 iiflirio a member of the Court of Appeals, in which 

 he sat till the expiration of his term. He was 

 one of the counsel for the defense in the many 

 indictments and civil proceedings against William 

 M. Tweed. The most noted incident in his career 

 was his cross-examination of Henry Ward 

 Beecher in the famous Tilton-Beeeher case. 



Fulton, Albert Kimberly. dramatist, born in 

 Baltimore, Md., in 1836; died there, Jan. 31, 1900. 

 He was a son of Charles Fulton, editor of the 



Baltimore American, and served during the civil 

 war as an engineer in the United States navy. 

 For three years he served on board the Hartford, 

 Admiral Farragut's flagship. At the close of the 

 war he became a member of the editorial staff 

 of the American. He was the author of a libretto 

 of Jack Sheppard, a musical comedy, and a com- 

 edy which was very successfully acted by Miss 

 Lotta, called Mademoiselle Nitouche. 



Galloupe, Dwight, clergyman, born in Stam- 

 ford, N. Y., in 1871; died in Newark, N. J., 

 July 11, 1900. He was graduated at Alfred Uni- 

 versity, and studied for two years at the Albany 

 Medical College; he also studied theology at 

 Hobart College and at Harvard University. His 

 first charge was at Angelica, N. Y. Then for two 

 years he was an assistant in the cathedral in 

 Portland, Me. He was appointed rector of St. 

 Paul's Episcopal Church, Newark, N. J., in 1896. 

 He was known as an orator of rare ability. In 

 1898 he offered his services to the President, and 

 on May 8 was ordered to join the 9th Infantry at 

 Tampa, Fla., as its chaplain. He endeared himself 

 to the men by enduring their hardships, and while 

 assisting the wounded on the firing line in the 

 battle of Santiago he was wounded by a piece 

 of shell, and, although he returned to his duties, 

 he never fully recovered. 



Garrison, Lloyd McKim. author, born in 

 Orange, N. J., May 4, 1867; died at Lenox, Mass., 

 Oct. 4, 1900. He was a grandson of William 

 Lloyd Garrison. He was graduated at Harvard 

 in both the academic and the law departments, 

 and was admitted to the New York bar in 1892. 

 He published Ballads of Harvard and Other Verse 

 1891) and History of the Hasty-Pudding Club 

 (1897). 



Gear, John Henry, merchant, born in Ithaca, 

 N. Y., April 7, 1825; died in Washington, D. C., 

 July 14, 1900. At the age of ten he removed with 

 his parents to Galena, 111.; two years later to 

 Fort Snelling, Minn.; and in 1843 to Burling- 

 ton, where he became a clerk in a grocery. In 

 1849 he was made a partner, and in 1854 became 

 sole owner of the business. In 1852 he was elected 

 alderman, and in 1863 mayor of Burlington. In 

 1872 he was elected to the Legislature, serving 

 three terms, in the latter two of which he was 

 Speaker of the House. From 1878 till 1881 he 

 was Governor of Iowa. He was elected to Con- 

 gress in 1886, was twice re-elected, and was de- 

 feated on his fourth nomination. He was a mem- 

 ber of the Ways and Means Committee that 

 framed the McKinley tariff law. Nov. 19. 1S1V2. 

 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the 

 Treasury by President Harrison, and in IS'.U 

 was elected United States Senator from Iowa ; 

 his term would have expired in 1901, and lie had 

 been re-elected. At the time of his death he was 

 chairman of the Committee on Pacific Railroads, 

 and a member of the Committees on Agriculture 

 and Forestry, Education and Labor, Interstate 

 Commerce, Post Offices and Post Roads, and Im- 

 provements of the Mississippi River. 



Gerry, Charles F., author, born in Sudbnry. 

 Mass., June 3, 1823; died there, Sept. 4, "1900. He 

 was graduated at Wesleyan University. Middle- 

 town, Conn., in 1851, and became a teacher in the 

 Boston Mercantile Acadeiuy. and later in the Kort 

 Hill School, Boston. In 1877 and 1880 he was a 

 member of the Legislature. He also served in the 

 State Senate in 1882-'83. He was a frequent con- 

 tributor to periodical literature, and published 

 Meadow Melodies (l.oston, 1887). 



Gibson, Charles Hopper, lawyer, born in 

 Queen Anne County, Maryland, Jan. 19, 1842; died 

 in Washington, D. C., March 31, 1900. He was 





