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GIBSON, Francis M .:
Captain (retired) U. S. Navy, and Dep- uty Commissioner of street cleaning de- partment of N. Y. City; 1867, assigned to the Seventh Cavalry, U. S. Army, as second lieutenant, from civil life; remain- ed with regiment until retired, 1891; since 1895 has been the executive directly in charge of five thousand men, having served through five municipal administra- tions. Address, Park Avenue Hotel, N. Y. City.
GIBSON, Rogert Williams:
Architect; born Aveley, England, Nov. 17, 1854; received private school educa- tion in Gravesend; studied in Royal Acad- emy of Arts, London, 1875-79; graduating, 1879; 1880, traveled in Spain France and Italy on sketching tour; 1881, came to U. S., making his home in Albany till 1888, when he came to N. Y. City; designed P. E. Cathedral, Albany; in N. Y. City, the U. S. Trust Co. building, Wall street; Fifth Avenue and Greenwich Savings Banks; Clearing House; Coffee Exchange; N. Y. Eye and Ear Infirmary; N. Y. Botanical Garden Museum Building; St. Michael's and Collegiate Reformed Churches; also numerous dwellings, club houses, banks, etc., in other sections of the country; has been director of Amer- ican Institute of Architects; twice presi- dent of Architectural League; member of Chamber of Commerce of State of N. Y., Century Association, N. Y. City; National Arts Club; Botanical Gardens Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seawan- haka, Corinthian Yacht Clubs; married, Sept. 1, 1890, Caroline Hammond. Resi- dence, 15 East 77th St .; office, 76 Wil- liam St., N. Y. City.
GIBSON, William C .:
Rear-admiral, U. S. Navy; born Al- bany, N. Y., July 23, 1838; entered the service as volunteer officer, Dec. 15, 1862; served during the Rebellion on Potomac Flotilla and North and South Atlantic Blockading Squadrons; commissioned as ensign in regular service, March 12, 1868; master, Dec. 18, 1868; lieutenant, March 21, 1870; Narragansett, West India Sta- tion, 1869; Navy Yard, N. Y., 1870; Mo- hican, Pacific Fleet, 1871-72; Pensacola, (second rate), Pacific Fleet, 1872-73; On- ward, store ship at Callao, 1873; Roan- oke, (iron clad), 1874-75; Frolic, South Atlantic Station, 1875-77; Navy Yard, N. Y., 1877-80; Yantic, North At- lantic Station, 1881-86; promoted as lieu- tenant-commander, July 13, 1884; com- mandant Navy Yard, Pensacola, Fla., 1884-88; store-ship Monongahela, as ex- ecutive officer, Oct., 1888, to Feb., 1890; commanded the Monongahela, Feb., 1890, to Oct. 1890, made the passage under sail, San Francisco to New York, in 106 days; Navy Yard, N. Y., special and equipment duty, Nov., 1890, to March, 1892; com- manded supply steamer Fern, March, 1892, to Nov., 1893; promoted to command- er, July 4, 1893; equipment officer, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., Nov., 1893, to Nov., 1896, commanded training-ship Adams in the Pacific, Jan. 7, 1897, to May, 1898; commanded the chartered steamer City of Peking, May to Aug., 1898, the City of Peking, carried the first California Volunteer Regiment to Manila; senior member of board of inspection, Navy Yard, N. Y., Oct., 1898, to Feb., 1900; promoted to captain, Feb., 1900; commanded battleship Texas, Feb. to July, 1900; retired with rank of rear-admiral, July 23, 1900. Address, 1412 Pacific St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
GIDEON, David:
Turfman; born N. Y. City, 1854; edu- cated in the public schools. Served two terms as member of the N. Y.Assembly. Has been prominent on the turf for ten ycars past. The firm of Gideon & Daly having won most of the stake events. Mr. Gideon is now the sole owner of Homedale Stock Farm in N. J. Address, 208 West 59th St., N. Y. City.
GIEGERICH, Leonard A .:
Jurist; born Bavaria, May, 1855; studied in parochial and public schools and De La Salle Institute; admitted to Bar, 1877; member of Assembly, collector internal revenue, N. Y., 1887-90; Judge Court of Common Pleas, 1891-95; Judge Supreme
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Court since 1896. Address, 267 Seventh | N. J .; received his education New Haven, St., N. Y. City.
GIFFIN, John Henry:
Secretary of the Manhattan Life In- surance Co .; born N. Y. City, July 2, 1848; educated in the public schools of that city and was one year in the College of the City of N. Y .; connected with the Niagara Fire Insurance Co. for a short time, then with C. C. Warren & Co., wholesale boot and shoe dealers, and later with S. H. Benoist & Co., a banking and brokerage firm in Wall Street. He joined the Manhattan Life Insurance Co. in 1866; 1890 was appointed assistant secretary, and in 1900 secretary of the company. Is one of the trustees of Enoch Morgan's Sons Co. Address, 66 Broad- way, N. Y. City.
GIFFORD, John Clayton:
Forester; born May's Landing, N. J., Feb. 8, 1870; son of Daniel and Emily Frazier Gifford; was graduated from Swarthmore College; special courses Uni- versity of Michigan, Johns Hopkins Uni- versity of Munich; for the last, receiving degree of Doctor of Economics; married, Philadelphia, Edith Wright; assistant professor of forestry, N. Y. State Col- lege of Forestry, Cornell University; in- structor economic botany, Swarthmore College; member N. J. Geological Survey; writer for magazines, particularly The Forester, of which he was the founder; Swiss Journal of Forestry and Reports on Forestry to Geological Survey of N. J .; author : Practical Forestry, Address, Princeton, N. J.
GIFFORD, Robert Swain:
Artist; born Naushon Island, Mass., Dec. 23, 1840; educated in public schools, New Bedford, Mass .; studied painting un- der Albert Van Beest, Rotterdam, Hol- land; married Frances Eliot; received medals at Centennial Exposition, 1876, and International Exposition, Paris, 1889; $2,500 prize from American Art Asso- ciation, N. Y., 1885; silver medal, Pan- American Exposition; gold medal Charles- ton Exposition; member of art jury of awards, World's Columbian Exposition; member National Academy Design; Soci- ety American Artists; American Society Painters in Water Colors, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Society Etch- ers, Society of Painter-Etchers, London, Eng .; Clubs: Century, Arctic. Address, 152 W. 57th St., N. Y. City.
GILBERT, Alexander:
President Market & Fulton National Bank; born August 10th, 1839, Elizabeth,
Conn .; mayor of Plainfield, N. J., 1890 to 1896; elected for two
terms without opposition; delegate to Minneapolis Con- vention, 1892; secretary of N. Y. Clearing House, 1893 and 1894; member of Clear- ing House Committee, 1903-04; married, June 6th, 1865, Louise F. Randolph; ap- pointed cashier of bank at age of 24, and for many years was youngest bank officer in New York; Republican in politics. Ad- dress, Plainfield, N. J.
GILBERT, Cass:
Architect; born Zanesville, O., Nov. 24, 1859; son of Brigadier General Samuel A. and Elizabeth Fulton Wheeler Gilbert; ed- ucated at public schools, Zanesville and St. Paul and Massachusetts Institute Technology; married, T. 1887, Julia Finch, Milwaukee, Wis .; among the nota- ble buildings of which he was architect are the new N. Y. Custom House, Union Club and Broadway-Chambers, N. Y. City; Brazer building. Boston; Art build- ing, and Festival Hall, La Purchase Ex- position; new State Capitol, St. Paul, Minn., Essex Co. Court House, Newark, N. J .; member of committees on designs for N. Y. Public Library, and West Point Military Academy; Architectural League (founder), Sons Revolution, American In- stitute Architects ; clubs : Century, Metro- politan, Union, Lawyers (New York), Cosmos (Washington), Minnesota (St. Paul). Residence, 45 E. 78th St .; office, 79-85 Wall St., N. Y. City; also 524 Endi- cott Building, St. Paul.
GILBERT. Charles Allan:
Illustrator; born Hartford, Conn., Sept. 9, 1873; educated at public schools. Hart- ford; student at Art Students League and under Julien, Paris; drawings: Over- heard in the Whittington Family; Port- folio of Heads; Collection of Heads in Color; Separate Drawings in Color. Stu- dio, 7 West 42d St., N. Y. City.
GILBERT, Charles Benajah:
Educator, editor and publisher; born Wilton, Conn., March 9, 1855; studied at Williams, graduating in 1876; principal of high schools, Mankato and Winona, Minn .; at Beaver Dam and Oshkosh, Wis., 1878-83; principal of St. Paul High School, 1883-89; superintendent of schools at St. Paul, 1889-96; superintendent of schools, Newark, N. J., 1896-00; Rochester, N. Y., 1900-03; lecturer at Teachers' College, Columbia University, 1897-00; member of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, City Club, Nation- al Arts Club, New York, University Club,
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Boston, Society of Genesee, Society of | GILDER. Jeannette Leonard:
Minnesota, National Council of Education and Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C .; editor-in-chief educational department, D. Appleton & Co., 1903-04; Part author of: Stepping Stones to Literature (8 vols), and Stories of Heroes (6 vols.). Address, 1,170 Broadway, N. Y. City.
GILBERT, Charles Pierrepont, H .:
Architect; born New York, Aug. 29, 1861, of New England descent; son of Loring Gilbert and Carolyn C. Etchiveri; married Florence Cecil Morse, Sept. 14, 1888; took special college courses in civil engineering and architecture, and studied painting, sculpture and fine arts under noted artists; since 1886 has designed ho- tels, office and bank buildings, churches, railroad stations, factories and business buildings, and some of the most promi- nent private residences in the city and suburbs; director and stockholder in sev- eral manufacturing concerns; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects; member of the Architectural League, Fine Arts Society, Municipal Arts Society, So- ciety of the Sons of the Revolution, Soci- ety of Colonial Wars, New England So- ciety, War of 1812 Society, member of the Chamber of Commerce and charter mem- ber and one of the founders of Squadron A, Cavalry, N. G. of N. Y .; member of GILBERT, John Ingersoll:
Lawyer, editor; born Pittsford, Vt., Oct. 11, 1837; son of Simeon and Marga- ret Ingersoll Gilbert; graduate of Univer- sity of Vermont, 1859; A. M., 1862; L.L. D., 1884; married, Orange, N. J., 1870, Katharine Fessenden; admitted to Bar, 1869; member Assembly, 1876-78; member N. Y. Senate, 1884-85; member of com- mittee to investigate N. Y. State Normal Schools, 1878; senate committee to inves- tigate Consolidated Gas Co. of N. Y. City, 1885; trustee State Normal School, Pots- dam, N. Y., since 1869; editor (with Louis W. Pratt) Revised Edition first 10 vols. N. Y. Court of Appeals Report. Address, Malone, N. Y.
GILBERT, William W .:
Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Army (re- tired); born New York, March 3, 1840; received degrees of A. B. and A. M. from University of Rochester, N. Y .; appointed first lieutenant 19th infantry, May 14, 1861; regimental adjutant from Aug. 1, 1861 to Jan. 7, 1864 ; captain, July 7, 1864; resigned, January 9, 1866; served through the Civil War; major, Nov. 3, 1898; re- tired, 1904; lieutenant colonel, April 23, 1904. Address, Rochester, N. Y.
Journalist; born Flushing, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1849; 1875, literary editor of the N. Y. Herald, later dramatic and musical critic; 1891, editor of The Critic, founded by her- self and her brother, Joseph B. Gilder; has been correspondent for the London Academy and others; correspondent now for the Chicago Tribune; has published: Taken by Siege; Pen Portraits of Lit- erary Women (with Helen G. Cone) ; Es- says from the Critic (with J. B. Gilder) ; Representative Poems of Living Poets (1886); Authors at Home (1889), and The Autobiography of a Tomboy (1900). The Tomboy at Work (1904). Residence, 100 East 17th St .; office, The Critic, 27 West 23d St., N. Y. City.
GILDER, John Francis:
Pianist and composer; born Philadel- phia, April 3, 1837; son of Rev. William H. and Jane Nutt Gilder; has traveled throughout U. S. and Canada on concert tours; composer of about 75 pieces for piano and 12 vocal; member of Municipal Club. Address, 867 Broadway, N. Y. City. GILDER, Joseph B .:
Literary agent; born St. Thomas Hall (a woman's college conducted by his father, the late Rev. William H. Gilder, M. A.), Flushing, N. Y., June 29, 1858; entered U. S. Naval Academy, at Annap- olis, 1872; resigned, 1874; reporter on Newark, (N. J.) newspapers for two or three years; for six months wrote New York letters to the Boston Advertiser, Buffalo Courier, and other papers; remov- ed to New York and became connected with the Herald in 1877; resigned assis- tant city editorship in Dec., 1880; with his sister, Jeannette L. Gilder, started The Critic in Jan., 1881, and with her was its co-editor till Dec., 1901; was for many years president and treasurer of The Critic Co .; treasurer of the American Copyright League, 1886; edited: Orations and After-Dinner Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew (1894); James Russell Lowell's Impressions of Spain (1899), and Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth (1900) ; compiled The American Idea (1902); joint editor with J. L. Gilder of Essays from The Critic, and Authors at Home; has contributed prose and verse to The Critic and The Century, and verse to Harper's Monthly, Harper's Weekly, Lippincott's, The Independent, The Youth's Companion, St. Nicholas, and was one of the organ- izers (1891) and first secretary of the University Settlement Society of New York, which has established a "neigh-
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borhood house" on the plan of Toynbee June, 1865, he chose the law as his pro- hall, in the poorest and most crowded fession, and entered the Columbia Col- lege Law School; admitted to the Bar in 1866, and from that time until his eleva- tion to the bench, in 1875, practiced in N. Y. City; in 1870 he was unanimously chosen lieutenant-colonel of the Twelfth and for fourteen years sat upon the bench of that court, disposing of an im- mense number of criminal cases; justice of the Supreme Court, N. Y., 1894-05. Residence, 28 West 48th St .; office, County Court House, N. Y. City. quarter of the metropolis; literary adviser to The Century Co., 1895-02; severed his connection with The Critic Co. and The Century Co. Jan. 1, 1902, to associate him- self with Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co., publishers, in whose service he went to London in March of that year; a few weeks later was appointed U. S. Govern- ment despatch agent as successor of the late B. F. Stevens; resigned, March 15, 1904. Address, 126 East 19th St., N. Y. City
GILDER, Richard Watson:
Editor Century Magazine; born Borden- town, N. J., Feb. 8, 1844; 1865, on staff of Advertiser, Newark, N. J .; 1868, began, with Newton Crane, Newark Morning Register; 1869, editor of Hours at Home, Scribner, Armstrong & Co., subsequently associate editor of Scribner's Monthly, and later Century Magazine; 1881, editor- in-chief; honorary L.L. D. from Dickin- son and Wesleyan; A. M., Harvard; L. H. D., Princeton and Yale; first presi- dent of N. Y. Kindergarten Association; president of Public Art League of U. S .; member of National Civil Service Reform League, member of City, Players, Cen- tury, Authors and National Arts Clubs ; president Tenement House Commission, 1894; author: The New Day (1875); Ly- rics; The Celestial Passion; Two Worlds; The Great Remembrance, and In Pales- tine. Address, 33 East 17th St., N. Y. City.
GILDERSLEEVE, Henry Alger:
Jurist; born N. Y., Aug. 1, 1840; educat- ed at district and boarding schools; on the outbreak of the Civil War, recruited for the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regi- ment, N. Y. State Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered in as captain of Com- pany C on Oct. 11, 1862; served with his regiment under General Wool, and in the Army of the Potomac, in which he par- ticipated in the battle of Gettysburg and in the campaigns in Maryland and Vir- ginia; served in Sherman's army until the close of the war, making the famous march with Sherman to the sea; made provost-marshal of the First Division of the Twentieth Army Corps on the staff of General Williams, of Michigan; pro- moted to the rank of major of his regi- ment, and brevetted lieutenant-colonel, U. S. Volunteers, by President Lincoln "for gallant and meritorious service in the campaigns of Georgia and the Caro- linas"; when mustered out of service, in
GILFILLAN, W. Whitehead:
Physician and oculist; born Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 14, 1868; was graduated M. D. from N. Y. College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1890; member N. Y. Yacht Club, N. Y. Athletic Club; Fellow of the N. Y. Academy of Medicine, N. Y. County Med- ical Society, sons of the Revolution, So- ciety of Colonial Wars; associate mem- ber of the Alumni of the City Hospital; corresponding member of the Richmond County Medical Society; oculist to the French Hospital, the City Hospital. Blackwell's Island; the Sailors' Snug Har- bor, Staten Island; the House of Refuge, Randall's Island ; Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital; author of many professional articles and pamphlets. Address, 24 W.
GILL, Adam Capen:
Educator; born Chesterville, Me., Aug. 22, 1863; educated in public and high schools, Brockton, Mass .; was graduated from Amherst, 1884; Ph. D., Munich, 1893; since 1894 assistant professor of minerology and petrography Cornell Uni- versity; married, 1896, Ella E. Eaton, of Ware, Mass .; Fellow American Associa- tion for Advancement of Science; mem- ber Geological Society of America, Deut- sche Geological Gesellschaft; author: Tables for Determination of Common Minerals. Address, 5 Central Ave., Ithaca N. Y.
GILL, (Miss) Laura Drake:
Educator; born Chesterville, Me., Au 24, 1860; was graduated from Smith Cl lege, 1881 (A. M. in biology, 1885); stud- ied mathematics, University of Leipzig, 1890-92; Geneva, 1892; Sorbonne, Paris, 1892-93; dean of Barnard College, N. Y. City, from May 1, 1901, to date; instruc- tor in mathematics in Burnham School, Northampton, Mass., 1881-1898; in relief work in Spanish-American War and in Cuba, 1898-1901; president Smith Col- lege Club of N. Y .; general secretary of the National Association of Collegiate
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Alumnae. Address, 425 West End Ave., Georgia, Water Paint Co. of America, Dry N. Y. City.
GILL, Theodore Nicholas:
Naturalist; born N. Y. City, March 21, 1837; educated in his native city; for some time connected with J. Carson Bre- voort in arranging and describing ich- thyological collections; 1863, Librarian of Smithsonian, at Washington; became an authority on mammals and fishes; 1884, professor of zoology in Columbian Uni- versity, Washington; member of the Na- tional Academy of Sciences and various other scientific societies; has received the degrees of A. M., M. D., Ph. D., and LL. D. from Columbian. Author of numerous scientific papers, among them being: Ar- rangements of the Families of Mollusks; Arrangements of the Families of Mam- mals; Arrangements of the Families of Fishes; Catalogue of the Fishes of the East Coast of North America; Biblio- graphy of the Fishes of the Pacific Coast of the U. S. to the end of 1879, and second edition of Goode's American Fishes, (1903). Address, 321-323 John Marshall Place; also Smithsonian Insti- tution, or Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C. GILLAM, Manly M .:
Advertiser; president of the Bush En- gine Co., and the National Barrel and Package Co .; director and treasurer of the Gold Mountain Mining and Milling Co., and the North American Smelter & Furnace Co. Residence, 372 Broadway, Flushing; office, 5 Beekman St., N. Y. City.
GILLENDER, Augustus Theophilus:
Lawyer; born Hyde Park, N. Y., Oct. 30, 1843; educated at Peekskill Acad- emy, and Albany Law School, from which he was graduated in 1863; one of his present partners, Ezekiel Fixman, of the firm of Gillender, Fixman & Mumford, has been associated with Mr. Gillender for thirty years; his other partner is William W. Mumford, the son of George E. Mumford, formerly president of the Merchants' Bank of Rochester, N. Y .; married, Nov. 30, 1865, Sarah Willard Trotter; has been member of the Union Club, of N. Y. City, for twenty-five years; also member of the Tilden Club, and of the Knollwood Club, White Plains, N. Y. Address, 235 West 75th St., N. Y. City. GILLESPIE, George J .:
Lawyer; vice-president of Rosemary Creamery Co., Anderson Auction Co .; di- rector Casein Co. of America, National Milk Sugar Co., Southern Bank, State of
Milk Co., Casein Manufacturing Co. Resi- dence, 146 East 62nd St .; office, 56 Pine St., N. Y. City.
GILLESPIE, Thomas A .:
President of the T. A. Gillespie Co., and the St. Lawrence County Electric and Water Co .; vice-president of the Massena Terminal R. R. Co .; director of the St. Lawrence River Power Co., Bi- Products Paper Co., and the Liberty Na- tional Bank. Residence, W. Orange, N. J .; office, 71 Broadway, N. Y. City.
GILLESPIE, Thomas H .:
Treasurer of the T. A. Gillespie Co .; president and director of the Massena Electric Light and Water Co., Massena Electric Street Ry. Co., St. Lawrence Telephone Co., and the St. Lawrence Water Co. Residence, East Orange, N. J .; office, 71 Broadway, N. Y. City.
GILLET, Charles William:
Ex-member of Congress ; born Addison, N. Y., Nov. 26, 1840 ; was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., 1861 ; enlisted as a private in the Eighty-sixth Regiment N. Y. Volunteers, Aug., 1861; was made adjutant of the regiment, Nov., 1861, and served as adjutant until dis- charged from service for disabilities in 1863; was elected to the Fifty-third, Fif- ty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses, and re-elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress.
Address, Addison, N. Y.
GILLETTE, Cassius E .:
Major, U. S. Army; born Jasper, N. Y., Dec. 19, 1859; entered U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1880, from Pennsyl- vania; was graduated July 12, 1884; as- signed to corps of Engineers as second licutenant; 1884 to 1887, at Engineering School, Willets Point, N. Y .; 1887-91, in charge of locks and dams on Muskingum River, at Zanesville, O .; 1891-93, engineer officer Department of Lakes, at Chicago, Ill .; 1893-97, with California Debris Com- mission, San Francisco, Cal .; 1897 to 1903, fortifications and rivers and harbors in Georgia and Florida; at Savannah, Ga., unearthed the . Greene-Gaynor-Carter frauds; 1903, fortifications and rivers and harbors, at Newport, R. I. 1903, in com- mand of Company F, Second Battalion of Engineers; major April 23, 1904. 1905, Chief Engineer Officer Pacific Division. Address, San Francisco, Cal.
GILLETT, Charles Ripley :
Presbyterian clergyman; librarian of Union Theological Seminary, 700 Park
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Ave., N. Y. City; born N. Y. City, Nov. | U. S. Army at the front, as acting as- 29, 1855; son of Rev. Prof. Ezra Hall sistant surgeon; was for thirteen years surgeon of the New York Post Office De- partment, and for fifteen years adjunct professor in the medical department of the University of N. Y. He was appoint- ed on the medical staff of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of N. Y. in 1871; 1890, appointed general manager of the com- pany. In view of his professional ser- vices he is still retained as consulting physician at Bellevue, St. Francis, the Maternity and other Hospitals of New York; trustee of the Mutual Life Insur- ance Co., Guaranty Trust Co., and the International Banking Corporation. Resi- dence, 24 West 40th St .; office, 32 Liberty St., N. Y. City. Gillett, D. D., and Mary (Kendall) Gil- lett; educated at N. Y. University (A. B., 1874; A. M., C. E., B. S., 1876); Union Theological Seminary, 1877-80; Fellow of same; studying in University of Berlin, 1881-83; received honorary degrees, D. D., from N. Y. University, 1898, and L. H. D. from Beloit College, 1899; married Kate Van Kirk, Yonkers, N. Y., April 26, 1881; elected librarian Union Theological Sem- inary in 1883; appointed instructor in Theological Propaedeutic in 1893 and secretary of the Faculty and Registrar in 1898; since 1900 has served as tem- porary curator in the department of an- tiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Author or compiler of the follow- GILLETTE, William: ing: General Catalogue of the Union Theological Seminary, 1886 and 1898; Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (4 edi- tions) ; Catalogue of the Stone Sculptures in the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote An- tiquities (1904) ; Catalogue of the Pottery and Terracottas in the Cesnola Collection (in preparation, 1905) ; third volume of the Descriptive Atlas of the Cypriote An- tiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1903) Translator of G. Krüger's His- tory of Early Christian Literature, (Mac- GILLIES, Edwin J .: millan, 1897) A. Harnack's Monasticism, (1895) ; editor of literary department of Magazine of Christian Literature, N. Y., 1891-97 ; contributor to literary and criti- cal department of various periodicals. Address, Pelham Manor, N. Y.
GILLETTE, Halbert Powers:
Mining and civil engineer, editor; born Waverly, Iowa, Aug. 5, 1869; son
of Theodore W. and Laetitia S. Gillette; was graduated from Hammond Hall Acad- emy, Salt Lake City, 1886, and of School of Mines, Columbia University, M. E., 1892 ; married, 1897, Julia Washburn, Scranton; assistant N. Y. State Engineer, 1896-98; associate editor Engineering News; author: Economics of Road Con- struction ; Earthwork and Its Cost; and Rock Excavation. Residence,, 504 West 151st St .; office, 220 Broadway, N. Y. City.
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