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=Goodwin, William Watson.= _Ms._, 1831- ----. Nephew of I. Goodwin,
_supra_. An eminent Greek scholar, Eliot professor of Greek at Harvard
University from 1860. He has published Syntax of Moods and Tenses of
the Greek Verb; A Greek Grammar. _Gi._
=Goodyear, William Henry.= _Ct._, 1846- ----. An art educator of New
York city, the son of the noted inventor, Charles Goodyear. Roman and
Mediæval Art; Renaissance and Modern Art; History of Art; The Grammar
of the Lotus; Ancient and Modern History. _Bar. Fl._
=Gookin, Daniel.= _E._, _c._ 1612-1687. A colonial writer of
Massachusetts, the friend of John Eliot, the “Indian apostle,” and a
man far in advance of the general sentiment of his time and country in
regard to the treatment of the Indians. For the last thirty years of
his life he was superintendent of the Indians in Massachusetts. His
writings include Historical Collections of the Indians in New England;
Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New
England. The first of these remained in manuscript until 1792, and the
second until 1836. _See Tyler’s American Literature._
=Gordon, Adoniram Judson.= _N. H._, 1836-1895. A Baptist clergyman of
Boston, pastor of the Clarendon Church from 1869 until his death. Grace
and Glory; In Christ; Ministry of Healing; The Ministry of the Spirit;
The Life that Now Is and That to Come; The Holy Spirit in Missions;
Ecce Venit. _See Life of, by E. B. Gordon, 1896._ _Bap. Rev._
=Gordon, Archibald D.= _I._, 1848-1895. A dramatic critic and
playwright of New York city. The Ugly Duckling; Is Marriage a Failure?;
That Girl from Mexico, are among his plays.
=Gordon, Armistead Churchill.= _Va._, 1855- ----. A lawyer of Staunton,
Virginia, co-author with T. N. Page, _infra_, of a volume of verse
entitled Befo’ the War; Echoes in Negro Dialect; Congressional
Currency. _Put._
=Gordon, Clarence.= “Vieux Moustache.” _N. Y._, 1835- ----. A writer of
Newburg, New York. His writings, intended for juvenile reading, include
Christmas at Under Tor; Our Fresh and Salt Tutors; Two Lives in One;
Boarding-School Days.
=Gordon, George Angier.= _S._, 1853- ----. A prominent Congregational
clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Old South Church from 1884. The
Christ of To-Day; The Witness to Immortality in Literature, Philosophy,
and Life; Immortality and the New Theodicy. _Hou._
=Gordon, George Henry.= _Ms._, 1823-1886. A lawyer of Boston who served
as a brigadier-general in the Federal army during the Civil War.
History of the Second Massachusetts Infantry; The Campaign of the Army
of Virginia under General Pope; War Diary of Events in the War of the
Great Rebellion; Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain. _Hou._
=Gordon, Julien.= _See Cruger, Mrs. Julia._
=Gordon, M. Lafayette.= _Pa._, 1843-1900. A Congregational clergyman
and physician, formerly a missionary to Japan, and subsequently a
professor in Dōshisha University, Kyōto. An American Missionary in
Japan. _Hou._
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