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=Gallatin, Albert.= _Sd._, 1761-1849. A financier of distinction. He
came to America from Switzerland in 1780, and was active in political
affairs. He was secretary of the treasury under President Jefferson;
an associate of Adams and Clay in negotiating the Treaty of Peace
with Great Britain in 1815; minister to France 1816-23; subsequently
minister to Great Britain. After his retirement from public life he
became a banker in New York city. Considerations on the Currency and
Banking System of the United States; Synopsis of the Indian Tribes;
Notes on the Semi-Civilized Nations of Mexico, Yucatan, and Central
America; Peace with Mexico; War Expenses. His writings have been edited
in six volumes by H. Adams, _supra_. _See Lives by H. Adams, J. A.
Stevens._ _Lip._
=Gallaudet= [găl-aw-dĕt´], =Edward Miner.= _Ct._, 1837- ----. Son of T.
H. Gallaudet, _infra_. Popular Manual of International Law; Life of T.
H. Gallaudet, _infra_.
=Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins.= _Pa._, 1787-1851. A celebrated educator of
deaf-mutes, who was superintendent of the institution for deaf-mutes
at Hartford, the first in the United States, 1817-30. Child’s Book of
the Soul; The Youth’s Book of Natural Theology; Sermons Preached to an
English Congregation in Paris; Bible Stories for the Young. _See Lives
by H. Humphrey, E. M. Gallaudet._
=Gallitzin, Demetrius Augustine.= Prince. _Hd._, 1770-1841. The son
of the Russian ambassador to France, he came to America in 1792, was
educated as a Sulpitian priest, and founded the Roman Catholic colony
of Loretto in Pennsylvania in 1803. Defence of Catholic Principles;
Appeal to the Protestant Public; Six Letters of Advice; Letter to a
Protestant Friend on the Holy Scripture. _See Lives by Lemcke, Heyden,
Brownson._
=Galloway, Charles Betts.= _Mi._, 1849- ----. A bishop of the Methodist
Church South. Methodism a Child of Providence; Aaron’s Rod in Public
Morals.
=Galloway, Joseph.= _Md._, 1731-1803. A Philadelphia lawyer who was a
noted loyalist, and went to England after the evacuation of the city
by the English. Historical and Political Reflections on the American
Rebellion; The Prophetic History of the Church of Rome.
=Gallup, Joseph Adams.= _Ct._, 1769-1849. A Vermont physician,
professor in Vermont Medical College, which he founded. Epidemic
Diseases in Vermont; Outlines of the Institutes of Medicine.
=Gammell, William.= _Ms._, 1812-1889. An educator of Rhode Island,
professor at Brown University, 1835-64. Life of Roger Williams; History
of American Baptist Missions.
=Gannett, Ezra Stiles.= _Ms._, 1801-1871. A Unitarian clergyman of
prominence in Boston for many years, who published a great number of
single sermons and addresses. See _Memoir by W. C. Gannett._
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