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Life Insurance Company, and others of like character. From 1898 to 1900 he was health officer at Excelsior Springs, but with this exception he has persistently declined public service. In 1884 Dr. Gaines married Miss Minna P. Lewton, a daughter of Jasper Lew- ton, a mill-owner of Adams County, Illinois. Mrs. Gaines was educated at the high school, Barry, Illinois, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a leader in all its society and benevolent work. She has much taste and skill in music and painting, and has produced meritorious work in both oil and water colors. A son-Grover Willis Gaines-has been born of the marriage.
Gaines, Noah Haydon, dentist, was born October 16, 1843, in Lexington, Lafay- ette County, Missouri. His father, Rev. Thomas N. Gaines, was a native of Hopkins- ville, Kentucky, and a distinguished minister of the Christian denomination. Rev. Gaines came to Missouri in 1840 and traveled extensively over the State, organizing churches and preaching the gospel to all who would hear. He died in 1876. The mother, Lucy Elizabeth Haydon, was a daughter of Noah Haydon, of Versailles, Kentucky. Noah H. Gaines was educated in the common schools of Versailles, Kentucky. After re- ceiving this rudimentary training he started out in practical life as a druggist's clerk at Lexington, in the same State. He decided at an early age to adopt dentistry as his life vocation, and in 1870 entered upon the studies necessary to the mastery of that pro- fession, having as his preceptor Dr. Sellers, of Natchez, Mississippi. He remained in that office one year and then engaged in cot- ton-planting. In 1874 he removed to Mis- souri and engaged in the practice of dentistry with his brother, Dr. Frank P. Gaines, at Richmond, remaining there until 1878, when he removed to Slater, Missouri. In 1887 Dr. Gaines changed his location to Inde- pendence, where he has since resided, enjoy- ing a lucrative practice and holding a happy position as one of the most able representa- tives of the profession in western Missouri, and a respected citizen of the community in which he lives. During the Civil War he saw service, enlisting in Colonel Scott's regiment of cavalry, Army of the Tennessee. He was afterward transferred to Company A, under Colonel D. Howard Smith, Fifth Regiment of
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Morgan's command of cavalry. He fought in the memorable battles of Big Hill, Rich- mond, Mt. Stering and Cynthiana, Kentucky; Greenville, Maryville, Rocky Ford, Knoxville and Snow Hill, Tennessee. During the lat- ter engagement he was wounded, April 3, 1863. He was also at Chickamauga. He was orderly sergeant in Captain Collins' company of scouts, and was promoted to the position of sergeant major of the second special cavalry battalion of Colonel Dick Morgan's regiment, and was acting adjutant at the time of the capture of Greenville, Tennessee. He was an eye witness to the killing of General John H. Morgan during the latter engagement. Politically Dr. Gaines is a Democrat. As an active and devoted member of the Christian Church he has followed in the footsteps of his good father, and while residing in Saline County was for nine years a deacon in the church. As a Mason Dr. Gaines enjoys high standing, being a member of McDonald Lodge, No. 324; Royal Arch Chapter, No. 12; Palestine Commandery, No. 17, and Ararat Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He was married November 30, 1876, to Miss Mary E. Shaw, of Richmond, Missouri, who died August 8, 1899. She was the daugh- ter of the late John B. Shaw, who was killed while robbers were looting a bank in his native town. Dr. Gaines has one son, Hay- don, who was born September 19, 1877. He was united in marriage to a granddaughter of General John M. Palmer, of Illinois, and is now a resident of Kansas City, Missouri. An adopted daughter, Miss Nellie Gaines, is being educated in Woodland College, Inde- pendence, under Professor George S. Bryant. Doctor Gaines is an honored representative of a worthy profession. His good reputation among the dentists of western Missouri is steadfast and sure.
Gainesville .- The county seat of Ozark County. It is an incorporated village, pleas- antly situated on Lick Creek, forty-five miles from West Plains, in Howell County, the nearest railroad station. Besides the county courthouse and jail it has a normal school, a good public schoolhouse, two churches, a bank, two hotels, a flouring mill, a shingle factory, a cotton gin, distillery, a weekly newspaper, the "Ozark County News," pub- lished by W. A. Conklin, and about half a dozen stores. Population, 1899 (estimated), 350.
Gale, Daniel Bailey, merchant, was born at Salisbury, New Hampshire, March 30, 1816, and died in St. Louis September 23, 1874. He was the son of a well-to-do farmer, and, though not reared in ease and idleness- for he did his share of work on the farm-had the comforts of a thrifty, old-fashioned New England home and enjoyed the advantages of a sound New England common school and academy education. His original purpose was to become a lawyer, and to this end his education at first was directed ; but when he grew to manhood the mercantile instinct as- serted itself, and, having converted the moderate patrimony inherited from his father's estate into a stock of goods and shipped them from Boston to New Orleans, to be sent from there up the river to Peoria, Illinois, he set out to that place by way of Pittsburg. While awaiting the arrival of his stock of goods from New Orleans, he met a friend and schoolmate from his native place in New Hampshire, Carlos S. Greeley, who persuaded him to accompany him to St. Louis. Each had a fair stock of means for that day, and when, by a simple verbal agree- ment, they formed the partnership of Greeley & Gale, it was a very respectable house to begin with. This was in 1838, and that house, with its succession in regular line, has continued ever since, existing to-day in the great establishment of the Scudder-Gale Grocery Company. Mr. Gale recognized and accepted the responsibilities that came with his success. He seems to have re- garded the wealth that crowned his efforts rather as a means of doing good, than of ministering to his own pleasure and influ- ence, and he took pains to find deserv- ing objects and enterprises, and assist them liberally. In his lifetime he was an active and liberal helper of the Provident Association, and of the Second Baptist Church, of which he was a faithful and attentive member, and, at his death, he bequeathed $5,000 to the Girls' Industrial Home and $5,000 to Shurt- leff College, in Upper Alton. He served in the city council as member from the Seventh Ward for several years, and was recognized as a valuable councilman ; but he had no ambition for public life and served in this position only for the public good. His habits were domestic, and he was never so happy as when, relieved of the cares of busi- ness, he could enjoy the sweet freedom of a
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home which it was the supreme object of his life to make cheerful and happy. He was married, in 1842, to Miss Caroline E. Petten- gill, of Salisbury, New Hampshire, and they had five children.
Galena .- The county seat of Stone Coun- ty, on the James River, forty-three miles south of Springfield, and twenty miles south- east of Marionville, its nearest railway ship- ping point. It has a public school, Christian and Methodist Episcopal Churches, a Repub- lican newspaper, the "Stone County Oracle ;" numerous secret societies, a bank, a flourmill, a sawmill and a boat-building shop. It is a pleasant resort for hunters and fishermen, and there are numerous curious caves in the vicinity. In 1899 the estimated population was 500. It is unincorporated, and was first known as James Town.
Gallagher, Thomas M., manufac- turer, was born December 27, 1840, in New Orleans, Louisiana. When he was two years old the family removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, and the son lived there until he was fifteen years of age, obtaining his education in the private and public schools of that city, and at St. Vincent's College, also of Cincinnati. He came to St. Louis in 1855, and, his father having been a blacksmith by trade, he inclined naturally toward working in iron. Follow- ing the bent of his inclination, he went to work in 1856 for Joseph B. Reed & Co., a firm which then operated a machine shop at the corner of Tenth Street and Washington Ave- nue. He started in to learn the machinist's trade, and remained with Reed & Co. until 1859, in which year he transferred his services to the old firm of Gaty & McEwing, engaged in the same line of business. In 1861 he left this firm and went to the St. Louis arsenal, where he was employed on government work until September of 1862. He then went to Jackson, Tennessee, to work for the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company, and after staying there for six months, went to Columbus, Ken- tucky, in the employ of the same corporation. At Columbus he was foreman of the com- pany's shops until 1863, when he was made master mechanic of the Mobile & Ohio Rail- road. This position he filled until 1865, when a serious illness compelled him to return to his home in St. Louis. During all the time that he was connected with the Mobile &
Ohio Railroad he was in the employ of the United States government-that road being then under government control-his pay be- ing that of a captain in the army and his offi- cial designation the same. In 1867 he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, to become superintend- ent of the works of the Southwestern Freight & Express Company, and remained there until 1869. He then returned to St. Louis and connected himself with the iron manufac- turing firm of Shickle, Harrison & Co., and in 1870 he was made foreman of their works. This position he held until 1882, having full charge of all their outside work in the con- struction of water and gas works. When the firm of Shickle, Harrison & Co. was suc- ceeded, in 1882, by the corporation known as the Shickle, Harrison & Howard Iron Company, he became a stockholder in this company and superintendent of its works. In 1895 he was made vice president of the corporation and general superintendent of its business, and still retains both positions.
Gallaher, John Albert, who served with distinction as State Geologist of Mis- souri, and was widely known also as a mining expert, was born October 5, 1842, in Monroe County, Tennessee, and died June 21, 1900, at his home in Warrensburg, Missouri. His parents were James A. and Mary Thompson (Wear) Gallaher, and the father, who was a native of Virginia, was reared in Tennessee. The elder Gallaher came to Missouri in 1829 and established his home in that part of Lafayette County which afterward became Johnson County. Up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1844, he was extensively engaged in various trading enterprises and milling operations. His wife, the mother of John A. Gallaher, died in Johnson County, in 1885. Both came of Colonial families, and Mrs. Gallaher was descended from the Lyle family, which settled in Virginia in 1740. In his youth John A. Gallaher attended the public schools in the neighborhood of his home and had completed a good English education when the Civil War began. Of Southern parentage, all his sympathies were with the South in that momentous struggle, and at the beginning of the war he entered the Confederate Army, in which he served as a non-commissioned officer, retiring there- from with an honorable record and bearing the scars of a wound received in action.
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After the restoration of peace he studied three years in the Christian Brothers' Col- lege, at St. Louis, and afterward completed a course at McDowell Medical College in the same city. He, however, never entered upon the practice of medicine, but turned his at- tention to the study of geological formations in Missouri, and his researches led him to locate a coal mine in Johnson County. He thereupon organized the Montserat Coal Company, of which he became the active manager. In the development of the mines of this company he sank several shafts and carried on an extensive business until 1883. For several years thereafter he was con- nected with various mining enterprises in Arkansas and Colorado, and while thus en- gaged took greater delight in the practical observation of geological formations than in seeking financial returns for his labors. In 1891 he opened the Brush Creek coal mines, near Kansas City, which he managed until 1893. In 1897 he was appointed State Geolo- gist of Missouri, and in discharging the duties of this position found the calling to which his tastes and self-acquired training peculiarly adapted him. Under his direction the Geo- logical Bureau occupied new quarters in the Armory Building at Jefferson City, and three months of his time was occupied in trans- ferring to that building and rearranging numerous specimen cabinets. While this was a necessary task, he engaged in it rather grudgingly, as he had a great anxiety to spend the larger share of his time in that thorough investigation of the mineral re- sources of the State which can only be made through field work. Upon his suggestion, the board of managers of the geological sur- vey, headed by Governor Stephens, author- ized a plan of work upon which he entered, and which he prosecuted with enthusiasm up to the time of his death. This plan involved the presence of three men in the field for a period of eight months in each year for the purpose of differentiating and correlating the rocks, forming a symmetrical system, begin- ning with the foundation of the geological formation throughout the entire State. In detail, this plan eliminates irrelevant schemes and will work out ten continuous cross sec- tions of the State from the southeast to the northwest on parallel lines, thirty miles apart. It will also individualize ore-bearing country rocks and delineate in them the requisite
structure for economic bodies, in each pro- ductive horizon of the older rocks and in the coal measures, in a geological map which will show at a glance the mineral product to be looked for in any particular section. The rock individualization is intended to show the particular kind of structure in which eco- nomic deposits may be reasonably expected. It was the belief of Mr. Gallaher that a new oil and gas field was discoverable in north- west Missouri, and he hoped to be able to locate it and trace it southward. In his de- sire to secure this result he contemplated enlisting the services of individual pros- pectors, extending to them the aid of the bureau. His action in this connection was based upon the core-drilling legislation of the Fortieth General Assembly. Mr. Gal- laher's papers, notably his biennial report for 1897-8, are models of clearness and prac- tical purpose. There was much of wisdom and an unconscious vein of sarcasm in his observation that they "may not be scientific enough for some individuals, but the so-called scientific touches, such as topographic maps and flowery essays on surface features may be easily added afterward." He contributed numerous important papers, all entirely prac- tical, to leading scientific and class journals, and was author of the able and carefully pre- pared article on the "Geology of Missouri" which will be found elsewhere in this "Ency- clopedia." During the last four years of his life he devoted much of his spare time to the preparation of an elaborate work, entitled "Cosmic Philosophy," for which he made many original drawings. He affiliated with the Democratic party, but took little interest in practical politics, being too much a student and scientist to be much of a politician. Although a member of no church, he enter- tained a profound reverence for the spirit of religion, was a man of the highest character and purest morals, and in every respect an ideal citizen. In a memorial address upon the life and character of his friend, Dr. George L. Osborne, he made a masterly argument in favor of the immortality of the soul and of its assignment to new and higher functions hereafter, basing his reasons on analogy, without reference to Bible teachings or theo- logical dogmas. Broadly informed, he was charmingly interesting in conversation, and especially interesting in discussing topics within the field of his researches, leaving
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upon the hearer much such impression as might have been left by Hugh Miller. Octo- ber 5, 1875, Mr. Gallaher married Miss Catherine Gillum, who died December 13, 1879, leaving two sons, Leo and Victor Gal- laher. He was again married, January 23, 1883, to Miss Pauline Gillum, a sister of his first wife. A daughter, Catherine Gallaher, was born of this marriage.
Gallatin .- The judicial seat of Daviess County, a city operating under special char- ter, located about one mile from Grand River, in the central part of the county, at the crossing point of the Wabash and Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroads, seventy-five miles from Kansas City and fifty-seven miles from St. Joseph. It was laid out as a town in 1837 by the commissioners appointed to locate a permanent seat of justice. It is nicely located on high land, and two sides of the town are fringed with groves, while the other two sides are bordered with fine open prairies. There are two fine public school buildings, a college under control of the Bap- tist Church-the Grand River College. seven churches, Presbyterian, Cumberland Presby- terian, Methodist Episcopal, Baptist, Chris- tian, and Baptist and Methodist Episcopal supported by the colored residents. There are lodges of the leading fraternal and benev- olent orders and a few public halls. The business of the city is represented by two banks, a flouring mill, planing mill, brick yard, two hotels, two newspapers, the "Demo- crat" and the "North Missourian," and about seventy miscellaneous business places, includ- ing stores, lumber and coal yards, shops, etc. In 1839 the town was burned by the Mor- mons. Population, 1899 (estimated), 2,200.
Gallaudet Union, St. Louis .- A charitable, literary and social organization for the advancement of the deaf, founded February 21, 1895. It meets regularly on the second Friday evening of each month and has a large membership. It is named after the Rev. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, founder of deaf-mitte instruction in America.
Galt .- A city of the fourth class, in Grundy County, located on Medicine Creek and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail- road, fourteen miles northeast of Trenton. It has a graded public school, a number of
churches, a flouring mill, broom factory, bank, operahouse, two weekly newspapers, the "Herald," and a Democratic paper called the "Express ;" a hotel, and about thirty mis- cellaneous business houses. Population, 1899 (estimated), 700.
Galt, Smith P., lawyer, was born No- vember 23, 1838, in Lancaster County, Penn- sylvania. He obtained his early education at Mt. Joy Academy, Lancaster County, and at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, graduating from that institution in the classi- cal course with high honors in the class of 1860. He then entered the law office of Hon- orable Thomas E. Franklin, of Lancaster, and completed his law studies. He was about to apply for admission to the bar when the breaking out of the Civil War temporarily changed the course of his life. Raising a company of volunteers in Lancaster County, he was mustered into the United States service as captain of Company C of the One Hundred and Twenty-second Pennsylvania Infantry, August 11, 1862. His regiment was soon afterward sent into the field, and, as captain of his company, he participated in the battles of Chantilly, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, being wounded in the Chan- cellorsville engagement. May 12, 1863, he was mustered out of the government military service with his regiment, and, returning to his old home in Pennsylvania, was admitted to the bar at Lancaster in September follow- ing. In 1864 he located at Sterling, Illinois, and there began the practice of law. He con- tinued in practice at that place until the spring of 1866, when he removed to St. Louis and became a member of the bar of that city. Since then he has devoted himself assidu- ously to the law, which he has regarded as a "jealous mistress," and nothing has been allowed to divert his attention from his pro- fessional duties and responsibilities. A career of more than thirty years at the bar has caused him to become recognized both by his profession and the general public as one of the ablest trial lawyers in Missouri, and a peculiarly safe and judicious counselor. He has taken no active part in politics, but has affiliated with the Republican party since lie became a voter. He is a Presbyterian churchman and a member of the Second Presbyterian Church, of which Rev. Dr. Nic- colls is pastor. He was for many years the
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confidential friend and counsel of the late Robert A. Barnes, of St. Louis, who left $1,000,000 to erect and endow the "Barnes Hospital." Made executor of this estate, without bond, he was also named in Mr. Barnes' will as one of the trustees of the hos- pital, and with Richard M. Scruggs and Sam- uel M. Kennard, the other trustees, has carried forward the work designed by one of the city's chief benefactors. He was married at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 10, 1872, to Miss Frances Olivia Franklin, daughter of Honorable Thomas E. Franklin, who was his preceptor in law, and previously Attorney General of Pennsylvania.
Galvez, Bernardo, Governor of the Province of Louisiana, was born in Malaga in 1755, and died in the City of Mexico in 1786. He was entered as a cadet in the regi- ment of Walloon Guards at sixteen years of age, and later served three years in a French regiment to perfect himself in military science. In the war against Algiers, he served as captain under General O'Reilly, and later rose to the rank of brigadier. In 1776 he was appointed second in command to Governor Unzaga in Louisiana, and suc- ceeded him as Governor in 1777. In 1778 he secretly assisted Captain Willing, sent to New Orleans as agent of the Continental Congress, with arms and ammunition and $70,000 in cash. When Spain declared war against Great Britain in 1779, Galvez entered upon a vigorous campaign against the Brit- ish colonies and captured Fort Baton Rouge, Fort Pamure, Fort Natchez, Mobile, Fort Charlotte and Pensacola. In 1783 he was appointed captain general of Cuba, and in 1785 he became viceroy of Mexico, holding the office last named until his death. He built a famous palace for himself and his succes- sors on the site of the ancient summer palace of the Montezumas, at Chapultepec, the cost of which was more than $300,000.
Gamble, Archibald, lawyer, was born in Winchester, Frederick County, Vir- ginia, in 1791, and died in St. Louis in 1866. He came to St. Louis in 1816, and was first connected with the old St. Louis Bank in a clerical capacity. Governor William Clark appointed him clerk of the circuit court and recorder of deeds and he held that office con- tinuously for eighteen years thereafter. After
that, having been admitted to the bar, he acted as legal agent of the public schools and was the trusted counselor and adviser of many of the pioneer citizens of St. Louis. He was closely identified with various business enterprises, accumulated a comfortable for- tune and lived in comparative retirement during the last twenty years of his life. He married Louisa Easton, who was the third daughter of Colonel Rufus Easton.
Gamble, Hamilton Rowan, Gov- ernor of Missouri and one of the most distin- guished members also of the St. Louis bar, was born in Winchester, Virginia, November 29, 1798, and died in St. Louis January 31, 1864. He was educated at Hampden-Sidney College, was admitted to the bar when but eighteen years of age, and before he was twenty years old had been licensed to practice in the States of Virginia, Tennessee and Mis- souri. He came to St. Louis in 1818, joining lıis elder brother, Archibald Gamble, who had begun the practice of law there some years earlier. Archibald Gamble was then clerk of the Circuit Court of St. Louis, and appointed his brother deputy, in which capacity he first became known to the local bar. After famil- iarizing himself with the methods of practice and legal processes then in vogue in Missouri Territory he removed to the town of Frank- lin-now called Old Franklin-in Howard County, and practiced there for several years thereafter, serving as prosecuting attorney of the circuit. In 1824 Governor Frederick Bates appointed him Secretary of State, and he removed to St. Charles, which was then the capital of Missouri. After the death of Governor Bates, in 1826, he removed to St. Louis, and his great success at the bar dated from that period. He at once engaged in active competition for professional honors and rewards with such men as Benton, Geyer, Robert Wash, the Bartons, Edward Bates and others, and was the peer of any as a lawyer. In 1846, when he was absent from the State, he was elected to the Missouri Legislature, and during the one term that he was a member of that body rendered a great service to his profession and the general pub- lic in aiding to make a complete and thorough revision of State laws. In 1851 he was elected a member of the Supreme Court of Missouri, his eminent fitness for the place causing him to be chosen by a majority of more than
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