GIGER
GIHON
Sul).sequently lie turned bis attention to land-
.scajie painting, and sjjent the years 1855-57 and
1808-69 in European study and travel. As a
meniljer of the 7tli New York regiment he \yas
twice called to do active service during the civil
war and then gathered material for some of his
later pictures. He was elected a member of the
National academy of design, of the Century asso-
ciation and of the Union league club. New
York city. Among his better knowii works are:
llniiis of the Parthenon, hung in the Corcoran art
gallery; Baltimore in 1S62 (1863) ; Mornimj in the
Adirondadcs (1867) ; Mount Mansfield (1869) : San
Giorgio, Venice (1870); Tiroli (1871); Fishinrj-
lioats (1873) ; Sunset on the Sweet ]]'ater, Wyoming
(1874) ; At Beni-Llassan and Near Palermo (1876) ;
Leander's Tower; Sunset on the Hudson nnd Fire
Island Beach (1877) ; and Sunset, Bay of Xew York
(187S). He died in New York city, Aug. 29, 1880.
QIQER, George Musgrave, educator, was
boru in Pliiladelphia, Pa., June C, 1823. He was
graduated from tlie College of New Jersey in 1841,
subsequently studied theology at Princeton and
was ordained by the Presbytery of New Bruns-
wick. He was connected with the College of
New Jersey as tutor, 1844—16; as adjunct profes-
sor of mathematics, 1846-47, as adjunct professor
of Greek, 1847-54, and as professor of Latin lan-
guage and literature, 1854-65. He was also ap-
])ointed secretary of the faculty in 1845 and
libi-anan in 1850, holding both offices till his
death. He was an active advocate of education
for the negroes and i:)reaclied regularly for many
years to a colored congregation in 'Witherspoon
church, Princeton, N.J. In his will he left his
books and §80,000 to his alma mater. He died in
Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 11, 1865.
QIHON, Albert Leary, medical director, U.S.N. , was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 28, 1833 ; sou of John Hancock and Mar}- Jane Gihon, and grandson of John Hanover and Ann Gihon. He was grad- uated from the Cen- tral high school of Philadelpliia, A.B., 1850; A.M., 1855, and was graduated M.D. in 1852 from the Philadelphia college of medicine and surgery. He re- ceived also the de- gree of A.M. from the College of New Jersey in 1854. He was professor of chemistry and toxicology in the Philadelphia college of medicine and surgery, 1853-54, and on May 1. 1805, entered the U.S. navy as assistant surgeon.
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He was married, April 3, 1860, to Clara Montfort,
daughter of Charles H. Campfield of Savannah,
Ga., and their two sons, Albert Dakin and Clar-
ence Moutfort, became well-known aitists in
Paris. Their married. life was subsequently sad-
dened by the death of their only daughter, Char-
lotte. He was j^romoted passed assistant surgeon,
May 1, 1860; surgeon, Aug. 1, 1861, and was .sen-
ior medical officer at the Portsmouth, N.H.,
navy yard, 1865-68. He was attached to the
storesliip Idaho, 1868-70, anchored at Nagasaki,
Japan, as hospital-ship for the Asiatic station,
and was on board during the memorable typhoon
of Sept. 21, 1869, when the ship was wrecked by
passing through the centre of the cyclone when
the barouieter fell to the uni^recedented figure of
27.63. For services rendered on this station to
the Portuguese colony at Dilly, Island of Timor,
and the Portuguese men-of-war Principe Don
Carlos and So, da Bandeira he I'eceived from the
King of Portugal, with the consent of congress,
the decoration of Knight of the Jlilitary Order of
Christ; for services to H.B.M. ships Flint and
Dawn, the thanks of the British government ; and
for similar services to the French gunboat Scor-
pion, the thanks of the commander-in-chief of the
French East India station. He returned to the
United States in 1870, and was a member of the na-
val medical board of examiners at Philadelphia,
1870-72, and at Washington, 1873-73. He was
promoted medical inspector, Nov. 7, 1872, was on
board the flagship Wahash as surgeon-of-the-fleet
on the European station in 1873, and held the
same position. 1874-75, on board the flagship
Franklin. He was head of the medical depart-
ment at the U.S. naval academy, Annapolis, 1875-
80. At the request of the chief of the bureau of
medicine and surgery he designed and superin-
tended the construction of a model of a hospital-
ship for the Centennial exhibition at Philadelphia
in 1876, and at the same exhibition presented the
" Ambulance cot "' bearing his name, which was
approved by the board of officers, July 5, 1877,
and adopted for use in the navy. In 1878 he was
appointed inspector of recruits and recruiting
stations. He was comnii.ssioned medical director,
Aug. 30, 1879, was a member of the board of in-
spection of the navy, 1880-83 ; and in charge of
various naval hospitals after 1883. He became
senior medical director of the navy in 1893, and
on May 1, 1895, attained the rank of commodore
(brigadier general) having then been forty years
in the naval service, of which an aggregate of less
than two years had been unemployed. He was
retired from active service, Sept. 38, 1895. Up to
1875 much of this service was at sea, after which
time his rank exempted liim from duty afloat.
After 1876 Dr. Gihon rep esented the medical de-
nartment of the navy in the prominent medical.
