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graduated at Washington College, Chestertown, 

 Md. ; was admitted to the bar in 1864, and began 

 practice in Easton. In 1809 he was appointed 

 commissioner in chancery, and in 1870 was 

 made auditor of the county. This latter office 

 he vacated the same year to become State's at- 

 torney for Talbot County, to which office he was 

 elected for a full term of four years in 1871 and 

 again in 1875. He was elected to Congress in 

 1885, and served three terms. Nov. 19, 1891, he 

 was appointed United States Senator to fill the 

 vacancy caused by the death of Senator Wilson, 

 and Jan. 21, 1892, was elected for the unexpired 

 term. He served till March 3, 1897, and then re- 

 turned to the practice of law. 



Gilbert, Mahlon Norris, clergyman, born in 

 Laurens, N. Y., March 23, 1843; died in St. Paul, 

 Minn., March 2, 1900. He was educated at Fair- 

 field Seminary and Hobart College, and after pre- 

 paring for the Episcopal ministry at Seabury Di- 

 vinity School, in Faribault, Minn., took orders in 

 1875. From 1875 to 1881 he was rector of St. 

 Peter's Church, Helena, Mont., t.nd in 1881-'86 

 rector of Christ Church, Minneapolis, Minn. In 

 October of the last-named year he was consecrated 

 Assistant Bishop of Minnesota, receiving at a 

 later date the title of bishop coadjutor. 



Gilder, William Henry, explorer, born in 

 Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 16, 1838; died in Morris- 

 town, N. J., Feb. 5, 1900. At the outbreak of the 

 civil war he enlisted as a private in the 5th New 

 York Volunteers (Duryee's Zouaves). He was 

 transferred as a lieutenant to the 40th New T York 

 Regiment, of which his father was chaplain. He 

 served until the close of the war with the Army 

 of the Potomac, and was wounded at Fredericks- 

 burg and at Gettysburg. He was commissioned 

 captain in 1864, and bre vetted major in 1866. 

 After the war he engaged in artistic and journal- 

 istic work. From 1871 till 1877 he was managing 

 editor of the Newark Register. From 1878 till 

 1880 he served as second in command of the 

 Franklin search expedition, conducted by Lieut. 

 Schwatka, which made a sledge journey in King 

 William's Land lasting twelve months. He acted 

 on this expedition as a correspondent of the New 

 York Herald. In 1881 he accompanied the De 

 Long expedition under Capt. Berry, in the Rodgers, 

 and when that vessel was burned on the western 

 shore of Bering Strait he was assigned to take 

 the news to the nearest telegraph station, which 

 involved a winter journey of nearly 2,000 miles 

 across Siberia. Having accomplished this task, 

 he joined in the search on the Lena delta for 

 the survivors of the Jeannette. In 1882 he was 

 commissioned by the Herald to go on a French 

 war vessel to observe the war in Annam. In 1886 

 he set out to reach the far north alone and on foot, 

 but was driven back after reaching Point Barrow. 

 He wrote during his later life for various maga- 

 zines and newspapers. He recorded his arctic ex- 

 periences in two published volumes Schwatka's 

 Search (New York, 1881) and Ice Pack and Tun- 

 dra (1883). 



Glenny, William, soldier, born in Virgil, 

 N. Y., May 31. 1831; died in New York city, 

 Jan. 6, 1900. When a young man he lived for 

 several years in Kansas. Later he returned to his 

 native State, and at the outbreak of the civil war 

 recruited a company at Ehnira for the 64th New 

 York Regiment. He was promoted to the colo- 

 nelcy, and at the close of the war was brevetted 

 brigadier general. At the battle of Fair Oaks he 

 was severely wounded. He was postmaster of 

 Ithaca during President Grant's administration. 

 For twenty-four years previous to his death he 

 was a clerk in the post office in New York city. 



Goebel, William, lawyer, born in Sullivan 

 County, Pennsylvania, in 1856; died in Frankfort, 

 Ky., Feb. 3, 1900. With his parents he removed 

 to Covington, Ky., and from that place he went 

 to Cincinnati to learn the jewelry trade. Before 

 completing his apprenticeship he returned to Cov- 

 ington, and entered a law office in 1873. He be- 

 gan practice with the firm with whom he studied, 

 and later became the law partner of ex-Governor 

 John W. Stevenson, and still later of John G. 

 Carlisle. In 1887 he was elected State Senator 

 for Kenton County, and by successive re-elections 

 he continued to represent it in the Legislature till 

 his death. In 1897 he secured the passage of what 

 is known as the Goebel election law, the aim 

 of which was to put the control of State election 

 returns into the hands of election commissioners, 

 who were the appointees of the Legislature, by 

 which control the Democrats hoped to secure the 

 State government. The election commissioners 

 appoint in each county local canvassing boards, 

 who declare the results, which the State Board 

 approves. With this machinery in Democratic 

 hands, Mr. Goebel believed that nothing could 

 defeat the candidates of his party, and he set out 

 to secure the nomination for Governor. He suc- 

 ceeded in obtaining this nomination in June, 1899, 

 after an exciting convention. The result of the 

 campaign that followed was officially declared as 

 follows: Taylor (Republican), 193,714; Goebel 

 (Democrat), 191,331; Brown (Anti-Goebel Demo- 

 crat), 14,050. Taylor was inaugurated Governor 

 Jan. 12, 1900. Goebel began a contest before a 

 committee of the Legislature, which was Demo- 

 cratic. The committee was to hear arguments be- 

 fore reporting to the Legislature, when Goebel 

 was shot on Tuesday, Jan. 30, by some person 

 unknown, as he was walking to the Capitol. Gov. 

 Taylor, on account of the excitement at the 

 Capitol, adjourned the Legislature to meet in 

 London, Laurel County. The Democratic mem- 

 bers tried to hold a meeting, but were shut out 

 of all the public buildings, and finally the mem- 

 bers signed a certificate declaring, on the report 

 of the committee, that Mr. Goebel was the duly 

 elected Governor, and he took the oath of office 

 Jan. 31, on his dying bed. The candidate for 

 Lieutenant Governor with him was also sworn in. 



Gotwald, Luther A., theologian, born in York 

 Springs, Pa., Jan. 31, 1833; died in Springfield, 

 Ohio, Sept. 15, 1900. He was educated at Witten- 

 berg College, Springfield, Ohio, and at Pennsyl- 

 vania College, Gettysburg, Pa. He was ordained 

 to the office of the ministry in the Lutheran 

 Church in 1859, and held the following pastorates : 

 At Shippensburg, Pa., 1859-'63; at Lebanon, Pa,, 

 1863-'65; at Dayton, Ohio, 1865-'69; at Chambers- 

 burg, Pa., 1869-74; at York, Pa., 1874-'86: and 

 at Springfield, Ohio. 1886-'88. He was Professor 

 of Practical Theology in Wittenberg Seminary 

 from 1888 till 1895, when he was disabled by 

 paralysis. He published pamphlets on doctrinal 

 and practical subjects, and was a frequent con- 

 tributor to the periodicals of the Church. 



Gould, Annie A., missionary of the American 

 Board, born in Bethel, Me., Nov. 8, 1867; killed 

 in Paoting-Fu, Chi-Li province, China, July 1, 1900. 

 She was graduated, the valedictorian of her class, 

 at Mount Hoi yoke College in 1892. She joined 

 the North China Mission, in Paoting-Fu, in 1893. 



Gould. Ezra Palmer, clergyman, born in Bos- 

 ton, Mass.. Feb. 27, 1841; died at White Lake, 

 N. Y., Aug. 22, 1900. He was educated in the 

 Latin Schools of Roxbury and Boston, and served 

 in a Massachusetts regiment during the civil war. 

 At its close he was mustered out with the rank 

 of captain. He then entered the Baptist Theo- 





