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mittee of the Diocese of Michigan, and examining chaplain. Since 1896 he has been rector of St. Luke's, at Ypsilanti, Mich. Dr. Gardam was a deputy to the General Convention, 1904, also 1910 delegate to the Pan-Anglican Conference, 1908. He is a contributor to various magazines including the Church Eclectic of New York Churchman, contributing editorial writer for the Detroit Free-Press, and writer of many biographical and other sketches. He has traveled extensively in Europe and America. Dr. Gardam married at Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 27, 1881, Mary Chase, great-granddaughter of Rt. Rev. Philander Chase, First Bishop of Ohio and Illinois. Address: Ypsilanti, Mich.

Gardiner, Asa Bird, lawyer and lieut.-col., U.S.A., retired, was born N.Y. City, Sept. 30, 1839; son of Asa and Rebeka Willard (Bentley) Gardiner; grad. Coll. City of N.Y., A.B., 1859, A.M., 1862; Dartmouth Coll., A.M., 1864; Columbia Univ., A.M., 1869; N.Y. Univ., LL.B., 1860, LL.D., 1876; Hobart Coll. L,.H.D., 1896; married 1st Oct. 18, 1865, Mary Austen (died 1900); 2d, Nov. 5, 1902, Harriet Isabella Lindsay. Admitted to N.Y. Bar, November, 1860. Appt'd 1st lieut., 9th U.S. Inf., July 20, 1866; 1st lieut., Feb. 14, N.Y. State Vol. Inf., May 31, 1862; 1st lieut. and adj., U.S. Veteran Reserve Corps, Feb. 11, 1865; 2d lieut., 9th U.S. Inf., July 20, 1866; 1st lieut., Feb. 14, 1868; transferred to 1st U.S. Art'y, April 13, 1869; acting dept. div. judge advocate and asst. adj. gen., 1871, maj. and judge advocate, Aug. 18, 1873, prof. law (lieut.-col.), U.S. Mil. Acad., 1874-78; asst. to sec. of war, 1887-88; retired, Dec. 8, 1888, for disability in line of duty. In Civil War served with reg't in Va., 1861; on regimental recruiting service, N.Y. City, July-August, 1861; resigned from that duty and resumed practice of law. Under subsequent proclamation of President calling for troops, raised company of 22d N.Y. Vols. and served with it in the 8th Army Corps in Maryland and the Shenandoah Valley, May-September, 1862; returned to service until June 18, 1863, as cap't same reg't in Army of Susquehanna, and in 6th Corps, Army of the Potomac in Pa. and Md. to close of Gettysburg campaign at Williamsport, Md.; participated in fight near Fairfax Court House; battles of Blackburn's Ford and Bull Run; skirmish at Winchester, Va., Aug. 30, 1862; combat at Sporting Hill, Pa., June 30, 1863; defense of Carlisle against Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Va., July 1-2, 1863 (in which was wounded), and fight before Hagerstown, Md.; bvt'd capt., U.S.V., for gallant and meritorious services; awarded medal of honor for distinguished services during Civil War. Judge Court of Common Pleas, N.C., to fill vacancy, January-April, 1866; dist. atty. N.Y. County, 1897-1900; sec. Gen. Soc. of the Cincinnati since 1884; pres. R.I. State Soc. of Cincinnati since 1899; mem. Mil. Order Loyal Legion; mem. and incorporator U.S. Mil. Service Inst'n; one of founders and incorporators Sons of Revolution; pres. Military Soc. of War of 1812, since January, 1909, Col.-Commandant Veteran Corps of Art'y, State of N.Y.; mem. Beta chapter Phi Beta Kappa, Nu chapter Delta Kappa Epsilon; deputy to L.I. Diocesan Conv. Episcopal Ch.; mem. Standing Comm'n on Archives Gen. Conv. Episcopal Ch.

Clubs: Union, Metropolitan, West Point, Manhattan, Church, United Service, Governor's Island. Address: Union Club, N.Y. City.

Gardner, Augustus Peabody, 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. He was a member of the fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fiftyninth, sixtieth, sixty-first and sixty-second congresses from Massachusetts as a Republican. He was re-elected to the sixty-third congress and resides in Hamilton, Mass.

Gardner, Charles W., comptroller Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Ry. Office, Minneapolis, Minn., born Feb. 17, 1861, at Rushville, N.Y. Entered railway service August, 1878, since which he has been consecutively to autumn of 1879, office boy and messenger in general freight agent's office, and stationer and car service clerk St. Paul & Pacific Rd. at St. Paul, Minn.; autumn of 1879 to April, 1880, clerk Red Line Fast Freight, same city; April, 1880 to March, 1883, clerk and stenographer Minnesota Pool Lines, same city; March, 1883 to May 1, 1884, secretary same lines at Chicago; May 1, 1884 to May 16, 1886, general agent Northwestern Traffic Association at Minneapolis, Minn.; May 17, 1886 to July 1, 1887, auditor Minneapolis & Pacific Ry., now Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Ry.; July 1, 1887 to April, 1909, auditor Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic Ry. and its successor, the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Ry.; April, 1909 to date, comptroller same road.

Gardner, George A., capitalist. He is a director of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., the Boston and Lowell Railroad Co., the Boston and Providence Railroad Co., the Lawrence Manufacturing Co., the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Co., and the Old Colony Railroad Co.; and is vice-president and trustee of the Provident Institution for Savings. Address, 40 State St., Boston, Mass.

Gardner, William Henry, manufacturer and author of Boston, Mass. Was born Oct. 28, 1865, in Boston, Mass. Since 1898 he has been head of the firm of W. H. Gardner and Co., manufacturers of cotton goods, of Boston, Mass. He is the author of Little Songs for Little Singers, and other works.

Gardner, William J., insurance official, of 59 John St., New York City, was born, Wisconsin, Aug. 14, 1869; studied law; began ins. business with Fidelity & Casualty Co., as sp'l agent in 1898; resident mgr. in Chicago for New Amsterdam Casualty Co., 1901-03; mgr. Western Dept. in San Francisco of Etna Life Ins. Co., 1905-06; resident sec. N.Y. branch, N.Y. City, of Accident and Liability Dept., Etna Life Ins. Co., 1906-09; vice-pres. and gen. mgr. of Commercial Casualty Ins. Co. of Newark, N.J., 1910-11; asst. gen. mgr. of United States branch of The Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp., Ltd., of London, Eng., 1912-13; and United States mgr. since Jan. 1, 1914.

Garnaas, Lewis Bjornson, merchant, banker; born in Norway, July 1, 1870; son of B. L. and Ingred (Svenkerud) Garnaas; educated in common schools of Norway; married, Towner, N. Dak., Jan. 6. 1897, Carrie P. Halverson; six children. President Farmers' and Merchants' Bank, Garnaas Bros. ; director Farmers' Elevator Co.; owns 5,000 acres of the most fertile land in Wells, Benson and Eddy counties, and farms very extensively. Republican; Lutheran. Trustee Good Samaritan Hospital, Rugby, N. Dak. Club: Odin. Address: Sheyenne.

Garner, John Nance, congressman and lawyer, born in Red River County, Texas, Nov. 22, 1869. He was admitted to the bar in December, 1890, and served two terms in the Texas House of Representatives. He was elected from the 15th Texas district. to the fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth, sixty-first, sixty-second and sixty-third congresses, and re-elected to the sixty-fourth congress. Mr. Garner was a delegate to the National Democratic Conventions in Kansas City in 1900 and in St. Louis in 1904. He married Nov. 25, 1895, Ettie Rheiner. Address: Uvalde, Texas.

Garretson, Garret James, jurist, born in Newton, N.Y., in 1847. He was educated at private schools and the Flushing (L.I.) Institute in New York. He was admitted to the New York bar, 1869; served as school commissioner of Queens County, N.Y., 1873-75; surrogate, 1880, and county judge of Queens County, 1886-96; member of the Greater New York Charter Commission, 1896. He was elected in 1896 justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York for the term expiring Dec. 31, 1910. Reelected, 1910, and now serving. He married first, at Roslyn, N.Y., 1876, Eliza L. Eastman (died 1888) by whom he has three daughters and a son and he married, second, in Brooklyn, 1897, Sara Wilson. Address: Elmhurst, N.Y.

Garrett, Alexander Charles, bishop of Dallas, born in Ballymot, County Sligo, Ireland, Nov. 4, 1832; son of Rev. John Garrett and Elizabeth (Fry) Garrett. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, graduating with the degree of B.A. in 1855. He received from his alma mater the degree of D.D. in 1882, and that of LL.D., from the University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss., in 1876. He was ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church by the Bishop of Winchester in 1856 and was ordained to the priesthood by the same bishop in 1857. During the years of 1856-59 he was curate of East Warldham, Hants, and following that he became missionary in the British Colonies, holding the office for ten years. He was rector of St. James Church, San Francisco, Cal., 1870-72, and dean of Trinity Cathedral, Omaha, Neb., 1872-74. He was made bishop of Dallas, Tex., in 1874, and was consecrated by Bishops Clarkson, Tuttle, Hare and Spalding. Bishop Garrett is author of: Historical Continuity, 1875; The Eternal Sacrifice, and other Sermons, 1881; Baldwin Lectures on the Philosophy of the Incarnation, 1891, and occasional sermons and addresses. Address, Dallas, Tex.

Garrett, Daniel E., United States congressman at large from Texas, was born April 28, 1869, in Robertson County, Tenn. He is a lawyer; and has been a member of the State Senate.

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was elected to the sixty-third congress for the term of 1913-15; and resides in Houston, Tex.

Garrett, Finis James, congressman, was born Aug. 26, 1875, near Ore Springs, Tenn. In 1897 he graduated from Bethel College of Tenn.; and for several years taught in the city schools of Milan, Tenn. In 1899 he began the practice of law; and in 1900-05 was master in chancery. He was elected to the fiftyninth, sixtieth, sixty-first and sixty-second congresses. He was re-elected to the sixty-third congress from the ninth district of Tennessee for the term of 1913-15; and resides in Dresden, Tenn.

Garrett, John Biddle, retired, born Philadelphia, Dec. 30, 1836; graduated from Haverford College, 1854; married, Sept. 6, 1866, Hannah Rhoads Haines. He was in business as a merchant and manufacturer, 1854-74, and in 1874 he engaged with the Lehigh Valley Railroad of which became third vice-president in 1887, afterward second vice-president and vice-president until 1901, when retired; also treasurer, vice-president and president of Girard Trust Co. of Philadelphia, 1879-87, still director of same. A manager of Haverford College. In 1895 was chairman of the First Mohonk International Arbitration Conference. Minister in the Society of Friends. Address, Rosemont:

Garver, John A., lawyer, born 1854; grad. Phillips Acad., Andover, Mass., 1871; Yale, A.B., 1875; Columbia Law School, LL.B., 1877; married, New Haven, Conn., Rebecca C. Brewster; one son, Chauncey Brewster Garver, born April 4, 1886 (Yale, 1908, Harvard Law School, 1911). Mem. since 1884 of law firm of Shearman & Sterling, formed in 1874 by the late Thomas G. Shearman and by John W. Sterling, the present partners being John W. Sterling, John A. Garver, and James M. Beck; the firm of Shearman & Sterling is one of the oldest in New York, and is counsel for many banks and other large corporations; the firm represented the Consolidated Gas Co. in the eighty-cent gas litigation; and Mr. Garver was senior counsel. He was also one of the counsel in the Brazilian coffee case, the Longacre case, etc. Member Association Bar City of N.Y., N.Y. Law Institute. Clubs: University, Yale, City Lunch, Piping Rock. Address: 55 Wall St., N.Y. City.

Garvin, Herbert C., flour miller, financier; born, Fond du Lac, Wis., April 23, 1863; son of Benjamin and A. A. (Kimball) Garvin; attended public schools of Fond du Lac and Oshkosh, Wis.; married, 1895, Louise Dana. Messenger, 1878, C. & N.W. Ry., Oshkosh, Wis.; 1879, telegraph operator New Ulm, Minn.; 1880, night train dispatcher Winona, Minn.; 1881, agent C. & N.W. Ry., Tracy, Minn.; 1883, traveling agent Huron, S.D.; 1884, traveling freight and passenger agent Watertown, S.D.; and general agent, 1888-98 for Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Lines in Minnesota and South and North Dakota; since 1898 secretary and treasurer of the Bay State Milling Co. of Winona, Minn. Direetor First National Bank of Winona, and in other corporations. Clubs: Minneapolis (Minneapolis); Union League (Chicago); Arlington (Winona). Address: Winona.

Gary, Elbert Henry, lawyer, jurist and banker of New York City, was born Oct. 8, 1846, in Wheaton, Ill. He was educated in the public schools, at Wheaton College; and in 1867 he graduated from the Law Department of the Chicago University. In 1867 he was admitted to the practice of law in Illinois; and in 1878 was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States. He was general counsel of several railroad companies, manufactories and other corporations. In 1893-94 he was president of the Chicago Bar Association. He was connected with the organization of the Federal Steel Co.; and in 1898 retired from the practice of law to become president of that company. He was prominently identified with the organization of the United States Steel Co. He is president of the Gary-Wheaton Bank of Wheaton, Ill.; and is a director of several banks in Chicago, New York and many other corporations. He is a trustee of the Northwestern University; and is the builder of the Gary Memorial Church in Wheaton, Ill. He is the real founder of Gary, Ind., destined to become the greatest steel manufacturing city in America.

Gary, Hampson, lawyer; born Tyler, Tex., April 23, 1873; son of Franklin Newman and Martha Isabella (Boren) Gary, lineal descendant of Gen. Joseph Dickson of Revolutionary fame; educated in Bingham School, N.C., and Univ. of Virginia; married Dec. 18, 1901, Bessie Royall, daughter of N. R. Royall of Palestine, Tex.; children: Franklin, born 1905; Helen, born 1907. Admitted to bar, 1894, and since in practice at Tyler; vice-president Royall National Bank; director Guaranty State Bank. Captain U.S. volunteers in Spanish-American War, 1898; later was colonel Third Infantry Regiment, T.N.G. Member House of Representa tives of Texas, 1901-02; member State Democratic Executive Committee, 1902-04; delegate to Democratic State Conventions in 1904, 1906, 1912, and Democratic National Convention, Denver, 1908; nominated Democratic presidential elector for state-atlarge, 1908, but declined honor. Referee in bankruptcy for several years. Standing Master in Chancery U.S. Court for entire eastern district of Texas since February, 1913; regent of Univ. of Texas, 1909-11. Trustee Tyler Public Library. Member Texas State Bar Association, National Geographic Society, American Bar Association. Residence, 407 South Broad Ave. Office, 218 West Ferguson St., Tyler, Tex.

Gary, Peter G., United States congressman from the second district of Rhode Island, was born Sept. 18, 1879, in New York City. He has been a representative in the Newport Council. He was elected to the Sixty-third Congress for the term of 1913-15; and resides in Providence, R.I.

Gates, Isaac Edwin, capitalist; born at Preston, Conn., Jan. 2, 1833; son of Cyrus and Patty (Hewitt) Gates; educated in public schools, Connecticut Literary Institution, Suffield, Conn., Colgate University and Theological Seminary, Hamilton, N.Y.; ordained to Baptist ministry and remained in that profession nine years, retiring on account of ill health in 1869; married, at Oneonta, N.Y., 1861, Ellen M. Huntington; one daughter, Helen (Mrs.

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