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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (GODDING GREENE.) 



and till within recent years was engaged in the 

 construction of railroads and gas works in the 

 Eastern, Middle, and Southern States. Mr. Gill 

 wrote monographs on subjects pertaining to his 

 profession. 



Godding, William Whitney, alienist, horn in 

 Winchendon, Mass., May 5, 1831 : died in Wash- 

 ington, D. C., May (>. 1899. He was graduated at 

 Dartmouth College in 1854 and at Castleton Medi- 

 cal College in 1857. He was appointed assistant 

 at the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane 

 in 1855), and in 1802 resigned to engage in general 

 practice in Fitchhurg. Mass. In 1803 he became 

 assistant physician at the Government Hospital 

 for the Insane, in Washington, in 1870 he was 

 made superintendent of the Massachusetts Hos- 

 pital, at Taunton, and since 1877 had occupied 

 the similar post at the Government Hospital. 



Goesbriand. Louis de. clergyman, born in St. 

 Urbain. France. Aug. 4, 1810: died in Burlington, 

 Yt., Nov. 3. 1899. He was ordained to the priest- 

 hood in Paris, July 13, 1840, and went to Cin- 

 cinnati, where he remained seven years. On the 

 erection of the diocese of Cleveland, he was made 

 vicar general and rector of Bishop Rappe's cathe- 

 dral. In 1853 he was ordained bishop and as- 

 signed to the newly erected see of Burlington, Vt. 

 He was installed on Nov. 6, 1853, and began the 

 work of building up a diocese with great zeal. 

 In 1858 he attended the session of the Vatican 

 Council at Rome, and he again visited the Pope 

 in June, 1893, at which time he was presented 

 by the Pope with a link from the chain of St. 

 Peter. 



Gosman, Abraham, clergyman, born in Dan- 

 by, N. Y., July 25, 1819; died in Lawrenceville, 

 N. J., Jan. 5, 1899. He was graduated at Wil- 

 liams College in 1843 and at Princeton Theo- 

 logical Seminary in 1847, was instructor in He- 

 brew at the seminary in 1850-'51, and was pastor 

 of the Presbyterian Church at Lawrenceville from 

 1851 till 1895, when he became pastor emeritus. 

 He received the degree of D. D. from Princeton 

 in 1802. Dr. Gosman was selected to complete 

 The History of the Israelitish Nation from Sam- 

 uel to the Babylonish Captivity, left unfinished 

 by Dr. Archibald Alexander, and he partly trans- 

 lated and edited Genesis and Numbers, and en- 

 tirely, with a special introduction, Deuteronomy 

 in the American edition of Lange's Commentaries. 



Gray, Joshua, inventor, born in Sheffield, Vt., 

 May 4. 1824; died in Medford, Mass., June 25, 

 1899. He received a public-school education, and 

 when eighteen years old went to work in the 

 Manchester (N. H.) Locomotive Works. While 

 there he invented a system of quick-steaming 

 boiler tubes, which was adopted by the concern, 

 and also supervised the construction of the first 

 locomotive built wholly by it. Subsequently he 

 served many years in the construction depart- 

 ment of other locomotive plants. Among his 

 inventions were the rubber-tipped lead pencil, 

 a breech-loading magazine rifle, a sewing machine 

 shuttle, a railroad signal, and a seven-armature 

 dynamo. At the time of his death he was per- 

 fecting plans for a new electric car carrying a 

 dynamo on the roof, and was also engaged on a 

 magnetized car wheel. His inventions yielded 

 him handsome returns. 



Greathouse. Clarence B., lawyer and editor, 

 born near Versailles, Ky., in September, 1845; 

 died in Seoul, Korea, Oct. 21, 1899. He was 

 graduated at Bethany College, Virginia, studied 

 law, was admitted to the bar, and became a mem- 

 ber of the firm of Porter & Greathouse, the senior 

 partner being at that time Governor of Kentucky. 

 He served a term as county attorney of Wood- 



ford County, and later was one of the founders 

 of the Woodford Weekly. In 1870 he removed 

 to San Francisco, where for several years he 

 practiced law. He was one of the founders and, 

 from 1880 till 1885, editor of the San Francisco 

 Examiner. In 1880 he was appointed consul gen- 

 eral at Yokohama, Japan. During his service 

 there he became acquainted with Ni-Kung, King 

 of Korea, to whom he gave much advice. His 

 good address so pleased the King that he asked 

 him to accept the newly created office of Ho-Pang, 

 or Prime Minister. Mr. Greathouse resigned the 

 consulate and accepted the premiership in 1890, 

 and went to Seoul to live. His career in Korea 

 was one of constant excitement. During the dis- 

 turbances in 1894, which ended in the assassina- 

 tion of the Queen, he was appointed to investi- 

 gate the murder, and he caused the arrest of 

 several of the murderers, who were adjudged 

 guilty and beheaded. Later he detected and frus- 

 trated a plot to kill the King, the Prime Minister, 

 and the chief notables of the court. He held the 

 office of adviser to the King till his death. He 

 was the author of a volume of Korean tales. 



Greene, George Sears, soldier, born in War- 

 wick, R. I., May 0, 1801 ; died in Morristown, N. J., 

 Jan. 28, 1899. He was descended from John 

 Greene, who came from Salisbury, England, in 

 1035, and settled in Warwick ten years later. 

 George was graduated at West Point, second in 

 his class, in 1823; was made second lieutenant, 

 3d Artillery, July 1; was promoted first lieuten- 

 ant, May 31, 1829; and resigned, June 30, 1830. 

 In the course of his regular army service he per- 

 formed garrison duty and was an instructor in 

 mathematics at the Military Academy. On leav- 

 ing the army he established himself as a civil 

 engineer, and for twenty years was engaged in 

 railroad construction. His high reputation as a 

 builder of extensive engineering works led to his 

 employment by the Croton Aqueduct Department 

 of New York city in 1850, and while so engaged 

 he designed and built the reservoir in Central 

 Park, the enlargement of High Bridge, and a 

 new reservoir near it. In January, 1802, he was 

 commissioned colonel of the GOth New York In- 

 fantry, and on April 28 following was appointed 

 a brigadier general of volunteers. He commanded 

 his brigade in the battles of Cedar Mountain 

 and Chancellorsville, and in the intermediate bat- 

 tle of Antietam he commanded the 2d Division 

 of the 12th Corps. At Gettysburg, on the night 

 of July 2, 1803, he performed a most important 

 service by holding the right wing of the Army 

 of the Potomac at Culp's Hill, with a part of his 

 brigade, against more than a division of Con- 

 federate troops, thereby averting the disastrous 

 effects of a turning of the wing. In September, 

 1803, he was transferred to the West, and on 

 Oct. 28, in a night engagement near Chattanooga, 

 he received a wound in the jaw that disabled 

 him till January, 1805. He then rejoined Gen. 

 Sherman's army in North Carolina and took part 

 in the operations leading to the surrender of 

 Gen. Johnston. On March 13, 1805, he 'Was bre- 

 vetted major general of volunteers for his services 

 during the war, and on April 30, 1800, he was 

 mustered out of the volunteer service. In 1894 

 Congress, in recognition of his military services 

 and also of the fact that he was then the oldest 

 living graduate of the Military Academy, author- 

 ized his reappointment to the regular army with 

 the rank of a first lieutenant of artillery. The 

 appointment was made on Aug. 2, and on the 

 llth he was placed on the retired list. After 

 the civil war he resumed professional work. He 

 was chief engineer and commissioner, of the 



