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HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.

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New York university; became a trustee of Hamilton college in 1900; and became regent of the university of the state of New York in 1903. He is a member of the bar association of New York City a member of the state bar association; and a member of the Metropolitan riding and a trustee of the

He is the author of Race United States; National Aid to Education; Proposed Anglo-American Alliance; Our Right to Acquire and Hold ForArdsley clubs.

Problem

in the

eign Territory; The Constitution and Our Possessions; A Constitutional and Educational Solution of the Negro Problem; True Expansion of the Empire State; Constitutional Powers of the President; and Constitutional Discretion of the President.

clergyman, author, 1822 in Maine. He was an episcopal clergyman; and professor in the Berkeley divinity school at Middletown since 1869. He is the author of The Island of Life, an Allegory; Commentary on Epistle of Jude; Harmony of the Four Gospels in Greek; Harmony of the Four Gospels in English; Diatessaron; The Principles of Textual Criticism; The Old and New Testaments in their Mutual Relations, and Aids to Scripture Study. Gardiner, Harry Norman, educator, psychologist, author, was born Nov. 6, 1855, in Norwich, England. In 1865-70 he attended Gardiner,

was born

Frederick,

in

the Bristol

grammar

school of England; in

1878 graduated from Amherst college; and in 1882 graduated from Union theological seminary; after which he studied for two years on a seminary fellowship at German universities. Since 1884 he has been instructor and is now professor of philosophy in SmiDh college of Northampton, Mass. In 1902-04 he was secretary, and in 1907 was president of the American philosophical association. He is the author of Outlines in Modern Philosophy. Gardiner, James Terry, civil engineer, was born May 6, 1842, in Troy, N.Y. In 187686 he was director of the state survey of New York; and in 1880-86 a member of the New York state board of health. He is president Mexican coal and coke company; and other corporations. Gardiner, John, lawyer, statesman, was born in 1731 in Boston, Mass. He moved to Pownalboro, Maine; and represented that town in the Massachusetts legislature until his death.

He

died Oct. 15, 1793, in

Cape

Ann, Mass. Gardiner,

John Hays, educator, author,

was born April

6, 1863, in Gardiner, Maine. assistant professor of English at Harvard university of Cambridge, Mass. He is the author of Forms of Prose Literature; Elements of English Composition; The Bible as English Literature; and Unmarried. Gardiner, John Sylvester John, clergyman, scholar, was born in June, 1765, in south Wales. He took priest's orders in 1791,

He

is

became assistant rector of Trinity church of Boston in 1792, and in 1805-30 was rector. died July 29, 1830, in England. Mills, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 30, 1830, in RusHe was prosecuting attorney selville, Ohio. for Fayette county for four years; a state senator in 1862-64; and a presidential elector in 1864. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1866-68; a member of the state constitutional convention in 1873. In 1877-79 he was a representative from Ohio to the forty-fifth congress as a repub-

He

Gardiner,

lican.

Gardiner,

Sylvester,

physician,

pioneer,

was born June 29, 1707, in south ICingston, R.I. He became proprietor of a part of Plymouth purchase on the Kennebeck river. About the middle of the century he colonized it with Germans; and settled the town of Pittston, from which the present city of Gardiner, Maine, was afterward set off. He died Aug.. 8, 1786, in Newport. Gardner, Augustus Kingsley, physician, author, was born July 3 3, 1812, in Roxbury, Mass. He was professor of disease^ of women and children in the New York medical college of New York City. He was the author of The French Metropolis; Causes of Sterility; Conjugal Sins; Our Children; a for Parents; Old Wine in New Ships and Shipbuilders of New York; and translation of Scanonzi's DisHe died April 7, 1876, eases of Females.

Handbook Bottles;

in

New York

City.

Gardner, Augustus Peabody, statesman, congressman, was born Nov. 5, 1865, in Boston, Mass. In 1886 he graduated from Harvard college. For two terms he was a member of the Massachusetts state senate. During the Spanish-American war he served as captain and assistant adjutant-general on the staff of General James H. Wilson. In 1901-11 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth es as a republican.

and

sixty-first congress-

Gardner, Celia Emmeline, lecturer, author, was born Nov. 4, 1844, in Sharon, Conn. She is the author of Stolen Waters, a story in verse; Broken Dreams; Tested; Rich Medways Two Loves Every Inch a King Compensation; A Twisted Skein; Seraph or Mortal Won Under Protest and Literary poet,

A

Tramp. Gardner, Charles Kitchell, soldier, author,

was born in 1787 in Morris county, N.J. He was a United States army officer; and was postmaster of Washington during President Polk's administration. He was the author of Dictionary of United States Army Commissioned Officers from 1789 to 1853; Compendium of Military Tactics; and Permanent Designation of Companies.

He

died in

1869.

Gardner, Charles L., lawyer, government statesman, was born May 27, 1839,

official,