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=Garrison, William Lloyd.= _Ms._, 1805-1879. A very celebrated
anti-slavery journalist of Boston who established The Liberator in
1831, and was its editor for the thirty-five years of its existence.
His uncompromising attitude roused the fiercest opposition in both
North and South, and he was at one time dragged through the streets of
Boston by a mob who intended to hang him for his newspaper utterances,
but he fortunately lived to see the triumph of his ideas and the
liberation of the slave. Thoughts on African Colonization; Sonnets and
Other Poems. _See Johnson’s Garrison and his Times; Life by his Sons._
=Gath.= _See Townsend, G. A._
=Gay, Ebenezer.= _Ms._, 1696-1787. A Unitarian clergyman of Hingham
from 1718 until his death. The Old Man’s Calendar, a sermon preached on
his eighty-fifth birthday, went through several editions in America and
England, and was translated into several continental languages.
=Gay, Eben Howard.= _Ms._, 1858- ----. Nephew of S. H. Gay, _infra_. A
banker of Boston who has published A Treatise on Municipal Bonds.
=Gay, Sydney Howard.= _Ms._, 1814-1888. Great-grandson of E. Gay,
_supra_. A journalist of New York and Chicago, during the Civil War the
managing editor of the New York Tribune. Life of James Madison; Bryant
and Gay’s Popular History of the United States, of which the preface
only was the work of Mr. Bryant. _Hou. Scr._
=Gayarré, Charles Étienne Arthur.= _La._, 1805-1895. A jurist of New
Orleans, profoundly versed in the history of his State. Histoire de
la Louisiane; Romance of the History of Louisiana; Colonial History
of Louisiana; Louisiana as a French Colony; The Spanish Domination in
Louisiana; Philip the Second, a Biography; Louisiana Supreme Court
Reports; School for Politics, a drama; Fernando de Lemos, a novel;
Aubert Dubayet, a sequel to the preceding; School for Politics, a
Dramatic Novel.
=Gayler, Charles.= _N. Y._, 1820-1892. A dramatist of New York city
among whose many plays are, The Gold Hunters; Taking the Chances;
Fritz. Among his various novels are, The Romance of a Poor Young Man;
Out of the Streets, both of which were dramatized by their author.
=Gaylord, Glance.= _See Bradley, Warren._
=Geer, George Jarvis.= _Ct._, 1821-1885. An Episcopal clergyman, long
rector of St. Timothy’s Church, New York city, and the author of The
Conversion of St. Paul, a series of Discourses.
=Gemünder, George.= _Wg._, 1816-1899. A violin-maker who came to
America from Würtemberg in 1847, and settled in New York city, 1852. He
published Progress in Violin-Making.
=Genin, John Nicholas.= _N. Y._, 1819-1878. A noted hatter of New York
city who wrote a History of the Hat from the Earliest Ages.
=Genth, Frederick Augustus Louis Charles William.= _G._, 1820-1893. A
professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania from 1872.
Ammonia Cobalt Bases (with O. W. Gibbs, _infra_); Minerals of North
Carolina; First and Second Preliminary Reports on the Mineralogy of
Pennsylvania.
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