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principal musical centre of the United States.
She also won success in oratorio, and sang fre-
quently \^th the Bi'ooklyn philharmonic society.
Her professional career ceased after her marriage
to Charles Monsou Raymond of Xew York city,
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CARY, George Lovell, educator, was born in Medway, Mass., May 10, 1830; eldest son of Wil- liam Hiram and Lydia D. (Lovell) Gary. He was educated at Williston seminary, Leicester acad- emy, and Harvard college, ■where he was gradu- ated in 1852. In 1856-'57 he was professor of Greek, and 1857-'62 of Greek and Latin in Antiocli college. Yellow Springs, Ohio. In 1862 he was called to the chair of New Testament literature in the Meadville (Pa.) theological school, subse- quently being instructor in philosophy and lan- guages. He was elected president of the institu- tion in 1890. He became a member of the New England historic-genealogical society, the Amer- ican Oriental society, the American institute of civics, the American academy of biblical and social science, the American statistical associa- tion, the civil .service reform association, and the American peace society. Harvard college con- ferred upon liim the degree of A.M. in 1857, and Allegheny college gave him an L.H.D. in 1893. His publislied writings include, Introduction to the Greek of the Netv Testament (1878), and The Synoptic Gospel (1900).
GARY, Joseph Clinton, inventor, was born in Brockport, N. Y., in 1829; son of Albigence Waldo Gary. For twenty years he operated as a specula- tor in WaU street, and in 1860 built two steam fire-engines, to which the Gary steam rotary force- pump, invented by his father, was attached. These powerful engines were used in New York city, and at large fires were very effective. He died at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., Aug. 7, 1884.
GARY, Phoebe, poet, was born in Miami valley, near Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 4, 1824, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Jessup) Gary. One of nine children, with parents in but moderate cir- cumstances, her early educational advantages were limited after the death of her mother in 1835. She was the constant companion of her sis- ter Alice, and developed a literary talent scarcely less marked. The record of their lives is almost identical, and between them grew up a sympathy and love of peculiar strength. At the age of thirteen she began to write verses. In 1849, with her sister, she collected and revised all their poems, w^hich were pubhshed in 1850 imder the title, Poem^ of Alice and Phcehe Gary. She was called the " wittiest woman in America." Her published works are : Poems and Parodies (1854) : Poeins of Faith, Hope, and Love (1868), and in 1869, in collaboration with the Rev. Dr. Charles F. Deems, Hymns for all Christians,
in which was included her beautiful hymn.
Nearer Home, beginning One Sweetly Solemn
Tliought. A memorial of Alice Gary, published
in 1871, was lier last work, a labor of love. She
died at Newport, R. I., July 31, 1871.
GARY, Samuel Fenton, representative, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 18, 1814, son of WilUam and Rebecca (Fenton) Gary. He was graduated at Miami university in 1835, and at the Cincinnati law college in 1837, practising his pro- fession in Cincinnati until 1844, when he became a lecturer in the interests of temperance reform. He lectured throughout the United States, Canada, and the British Isles. He edited at vari- ous times newspapers and magazines, and in 1847 was elected to the chief office of the Sons of temperance, at Baltimore, Md. In 1866 he was elected a representative to the 40th Congress, and after the expiration of his term in 1869 returned to the practice of law in Cincinnati. In 1876 he was nominated as vice-president of the United States on the Independent, or '"Greenback." ticket. He is tlie author of Gary Memorials (1874). He died at Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 30, 1900.
GASE, Augustus Ludlow, naval officer, was born in Newburg, N. Y., Feb. 3, 1813. He en- tered the navy in 1828 as midshipman, was pro- moted passed midshipman, June 14, 1834, and lieutenant, Feb. 25. 1841. He served in the Mexi- can war, taking part in the battles of Vera Cruz, Alvarado, and Tabasco. At the head of twenty- five men he succeeded in holding the town of Palisada for two weeks. In l852-'53, he was placed in command of the Warren, and for the four years following he was stationed in New York as inspector of light'houses. On Sept. 14, 1855, he was promoted commander, and in 1861, was made fleet-captain of the North Atlantic blockading squadron, taking part in the capture of Fort Clark on Aug. 28, and Fort Hatteras on Aug. 29, 1861. On Jan. 2, 1863, he was promoted captain and assigned to the Iroquois, and from 1865 to 1866 he was fleet-captain of the Eiiropean squadron. He was promoted commodore Dec. 8, 1868, and rear-admiral. May 24, 1872. During the troubles with Spain in 1874 he commanded the fleet at Key West, Fla. He was retired Feb. 3, 1875, and died in Washington, D. C, Feb. 17, 1893.
GASE, Mary Sophia, educator, was born at Washington, Franklin county, Ohio, March 2, 1854; daughter of William Phelps and Fredonia Whiting (Burr) Case. Her early education was chiefly acquired at home. In 1867 she removed to Columbus, Ohio, and was graduated from the Columbus liigh school in 1869. In 1873 she was graduated from the Cleveland. Ohio, female semin- ary, and afterwards taught in Burlington, N. J., in Omaha, Neb., and in Worthington. Ohio. In the faU of 1880 she entered the University of
