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=Gough= [gŏf], =John Bartholomew.= _E._, 1817-1886. A celebrated
temperance lecturer. He came to America in 1829, fell into habits of
dissipation, but reformed and signed the pledge in 1842. Entering
into the temperance movement as a lecturer, he soon rose to fame.
Autobiography (1846); Temperance Lectures; Sunlight and Shadow, or
Gleanings from my Life Work; Temperance Dialogues; Platform Echoes.
_See Life, by Carlos Martyn, infra._
=Gould= [goold], =Augustus Addison.= _N. H._, 1805-1866. Son of N. D.
Gould, _infra_. A conchologist of Boston. System of Natural History;
Mollusca and Shells; Olia Conchologia; The Mollusca of the North
Pacific Expedition; The Invertebrata of Massachusetts.
=Gould, Benjamin Apthorp.= _Ms._, 1787-1859. An educator of
Massachusetts who published The Prize Book; Adam’s Latin Grammar; and
editions of Horace, Ovid, and Virgil.
=Gould, Benjamin Apthorp.= _Ms._, 1824-1896. Son of B. A. Gould,
_supra_. A distinguished astronomer, from 1868-1885 director of the
Argentine Republic national observatory at Cordova, and subsequently
a resident of Cambridge. Uranometry of the Southern Heavens;
Trans-Atlantic Longitude as Determined by the Coast Survey.
=Gould, Edward Sherman.= _Ct._, 1808-1885. Son of J. Gould, _infra_. A
merchant and author of New York city. The Sleep Rider; The Very Age, a
comedy; John Doe and Richard Roe, a tale of New York life; Classified
Elocution; Good English.
=Gould, Ezra Palmer.= _Ms._, 1841-1900. An Episcopal clergyman,
professor of New Testament literature in the Philadelphia Episcopal
Divinity School. Commentary on Corinthians; Notes on the Lessons of
1885.
=Gould, Hannah Flagg.= _Vt._, 1789-1865. Sister of B. A. Gould, 1st,
_supra_. A verse-writer of Newburyport whose work was simple in
conception but not unpleasing. The Snow Flake and the Frost still find
a place in anthologies, and afford a fair example of her style. Hymns
and Poems for Children; The Golden Vase; The Youth’s Coronal; Mother’s
Dream, and Other Poems; Diosma, poems original and selected; Gathered
Leaves, a volume of prose. _See North American Review, October, 1835._
=Gould, James.= _Ct._, 1770-1836. A jurist of Connecticut who published
The Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions.
=Gould, John W.=[4] _Ct._, 1814-1838. Son of J. Gould, _supra_.
Forecastle Yarns; Private Journal of Voyage from New York to Rio
Janeiro.
=Gould, Nathaniel Duren.= _Ms._, 1781-1864. A musician and penman of
Boston who published A History of Church Music.
=Goulding, Francis Robert.= _Ga._, 1810-1881. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Georgia whose Young Marooners on the Florida Coast, a tale for boys,
has long been popular. Other works of his include Marooner’s Island;
Frank Gordon; Fishing and Fishes; Woodruff Stories; Little Josephine;
Cousin Aleck; Adventures among the Indians; Boy Life on the Water. _Do._
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