1882, and was a Republican representative in the 48th, 49th and 50th congresses, 1883-89. He was the Republican candidate for governor of West Virginia in 1876 and again in 1888 but was defeated at both elections. In 1892 he was appointed by President Harrison judge of the U.S. circuit court for the 4th circuit comprising Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.

GOING, Jonathan, educator, was born in Reading, Vt., March 7, 1786; son of Jonathan and Sarah K. Going. He was graduated from Brown in 1809, and in May. 1811, was ordained pastor of the Baptist church in Cavendish, Vt., where he remained till 1815. In December, 1815, he removed to Worcester, Mass., where he was pastor of a Baptist church till 1832, and in 1816 was principal of a Latin grammar school. He was corresponding secretary of the American Baptist home mission society, and resided at Brooklyn, N.Y., 1832-37; and was second president of Granville (Ohio) literary and theological institution, 1837-44. He was a trustee of Brown, 1825-44; one of the founders of the Newton theological institution, Newton, Mass., and a member of the Ohio Baptist education society. He received the honorary degrees A.M. from the University of Vermont in 1812, and D. D. from Waterville college in 1832. He died in Granville, Ohio, Nov. 9, 1844.

GOLD, William Jason, educator, was born in Washington, D. C., June 17, 1845; the eldest son of Daniel and Mary Ann (Kendall) Gold and grandson of Abraham and Anna (Burr) Gold, and of the Hon. Amos Kendall of Kentucky. His first ancestor in America, Maj. Nathan Gold

of St. Edmundbury, England, settled in Fairfield, Conn., in 1643, was named in the charter of Charles II., and was a member of the council, 1657-94. His son, Nathan, was lieutenant-governor of Connecticut from 1708 to 1723, and chief justice of the supreme court of Connecticut from 1712; Nathan 2d's grandson Col. Abraham, was killed at the battle of Ridgefield, Conn., 1777. William Jason attended the preparatory school of Columbian college, Washington, D.C., and was graduated at Harvard in 1865. He attended the General theological seminary, New York city, 1865-67; was graduated at Seabury divinity school, Faribault, Minn., in 1868, and

was ordained deacon in 1868 and priest in 1869. He was in charge of Holy Cross church, Dundas, Minn., 1868-77; professor of New Testament exegesis and liturgics at the Seabury divinity school, 1873-76, instructor in Latin and Greek, Racine college, 1877-80; professor, 1880-85: professor of exegesis and liturgics at the Western theological seminary, Chicago, 1885-98, and was appointed warden of the seminary in 1898. He was elected deputy to the Triennial general convention from the diocese of Chicago, 1886, 1889, 1892, 1895 and 1898; was a member of the joint committee on the revision of the prayer book, 1886-89, and examining chaplain to the bishop of Chicago from 1885. He was married, Oct. 7, 1868, to Kate Doran Eaton of Cambridge, Mass., who died Sept. 18, 1888, leaving three daughters, Katherine Eaton, Mary Kendall and Louise Eaton. He became a member of the editorial staff of the Living Church, Chicago, Ill., in 1888, and received the degree of S.T.D. from Racine college in 1885. He died in Chicago, Ill., Jan. 11, 1903. .GOLDSBOROUGH, Charles, governor of Maryland, was born at Hunting Creek, Caroline county, Md., July 15, 1765; son of Charles and Anna Maria (Tilgham) Goldsborough. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1784, A. M., 1787; was a representative in the 9th-14th congresses, 1805-17, and governor of Maryland, 1818-19. He was married first to Elizabeth, daughter of Judge Robert Goldsborough of Myrtle Grove, Md., and secondly to Sarah Yerburg, daughter of Charles Goldsborough of Horn's Point, the eldest son of Charles Goldsborough of Cambridge, Md. He died at Shoal Creek, near Cambridge, Md., Dec. 13, 1834.

GOLDSBOROUGH, John Roberts, naval officer, was born in Washington, D.C., July 2, 1809; son of Charles Washington and Catharine (Roberts), and grandson of John and Caroline Goldsborough. His father was clerk of the naval department at Washington, and secretary of the naval board. John Roberts entered the United States navy as mid

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shipman in 1824, was promoted lieutenant, 1837; commander, 1855; captain, 1862, and commodore, 1867. He distinguished himself while midshipman by leaving the sloop Warren in a launch with nineteen men and capturing the Greek pirate schooner Helene of four guns, manned by fifty-eight men. He was on coast survey service, 1844-50, and was attached to the sloop Saratoga, 1851-54. He commanded the steamer Union on

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blockade duty and on the Potomac river, at Charleston, S.C., Savannah, Ga., and Cape Hatteras, N C. In 1861 he captured the Confederate schooner York and bombarded the batteries at Mathias Point, Va. He commanded the Florida in the South Atlantic squadron in 1862, and the Colorado in the West Gulf squadron in 1863. After the war he was in command of the Shenandoah in the East India squadron, 1866-68, and was placed on the retired list in 1870. He was married to Mary Pennington of Philadelphia, Pa. He died in Washington, D. C., June 22, 1877.

GOLDSBOROUGH, Louis Malesherbes, naval officer, was born in Washington, D.C., Feb. 18, 1805; son of Charles Washington and Catharine (Roberts) Goldsborough. His father was the author of "U.S. Naval Chronicle" (1824). Louis was admitted as midshipman in the U.S. navy in 1812, when seven years of age, and entered active service in 1816, serving under Bainbridge and Stewart in the Mediterranean and Pacific. He was promoted lieutenant in 1825, passed two years in study in Paris, France, and in 1827 joined the frigate North Carolina in the Mediterranean and was detailed with the schooner Porpoise to cruise in the Grecian archipelago and while commanding a night expedition with four boats and thirty-five men, rescued the English bark Comet which had been captured by Greek pirates. In the combat ninety of the pirates were killed. Lieutenant Goldsborough received the thanks of the English government for this exploit. He then obtained leave of absence, and was married Nov. 1, 1831, to Elizabeth G., daughter of William Wirt of Virginia, and settled in Florida where he established a colony of Germans on land belonging to his father-in-law. He took part in the Seminole war as captain of a company of Florida volunteers, and afterward as commander of an armed steamer. He was promoted commander in the U.S. navy in 1841 and served during the Mexican. war as executive officer of the frigate Ohio. In 1849 he was senior member of the joint commission of the army and navy appointed to explore California and Oregon. He was superintendent of the U.S. naval academy, 1853-57; was commissioned captain in 1855; commanded the Levant in the Mediterranean and the Congress in the Brazil squadron, 1858-60; was made flag officer

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of the North Atlantic squadron and commanded the Minnesota, 1861; directed the naval forces in the Burnside expedition to North Carolina in 1862, and gained possession of the entire sea coast except Wilmington. For his services he received the thanks of congress and promotion to the rank of rear-admiral, July, 1862. He commanded the European squadron, 1865-67, and was retired in 1873. He died in Washington, D.C., Feb. 20, 1877. GOLDSBOROUGH, Robert, delegate, was born at Horn's Point, Dorchester county, Md., Dec. 3, 1733; son of Charles and Elizabeth (Ennals) Goldsborough, and grandson of Robert and Elizabeth (Greenburg) Goldsborough. He was a physician by profession and was elected a delegate to the Continental congress, 1774-76, but was absent at home on a sick bed when the Declaration was signed. He was a member of the council of safety and of the convention of the province of Maryland, Aug. 14, 1776, to form a constitution. He was married in England, March 27, 1755, to Sarah, daughter of Richard Yerbury of Bassing Hall Street, London, and they had eight sons and four daughters. He died at Cambridge, Md., Dec. 20, 1788.

GOLDSBOROUGH, Robert, delegate, was born in Myrtle Grove, near Easton, Md., Nov. 8, 1740; son of Robert and Sarah (Nicols) Goldsborough, and grandson of Robert and Elizabeth (Greenburg) Goldsborough. He matriculated at the College of Pennsylvania Aug. 12, 1757, and was graduated in 1760. He was an outspoken patriot and was attorney-general of Maryland, 1768, and a delegate to the Continental congress, 1774-75. He was married Sept. 22, 1768, to Mary Emerson, daughter of Henry Trippe. He was elected in 1791 a member of the American philosophical society. He died at Myrtle Grove, near Easton, Md., Dec. 31, 1798.

GOLDSBOROUGH, Robert Henry, senator, was born at Myrtle Grove, near Easton, Md., Jan. 4, 1779; son of Robert and Mary Emerson (Trippe) Goldsborough. He was married Jan. 16, 1800, to Henrietta Maria, daughter of Col. Robert Lloyd Nicols, and of their sons Robert William (1800-1857) was a P.E. clergyman, and William (1802-1890) was a lawyer and clerk of the Bank of the United States. He was an antiJackson Democrat in politics and was U.S. senator, 1813-19, and again in 1835-36, as successor to Ezekiel F. Chambers, resigned, holding the seat at the time of his death, which occurred at his home in Myrtle Grove, Md., Oct. 5, 1836.

GOLDTHWAITE, George, senator, was born in Boston, Mass., Dec. 10, 1809; brother of Judge Henry Goldthwaite of the Alabama supreme court. He attended school in Boston and in 1822 entered the U.S. military academy. In 1824 he left the academy and two years later removed to

Montgomery, Ala., where he read law with his brother and was admitted to the bar in 1827. He was a circuit judge, 1843-52; was a judge of the supreme court of Alabama, 1852-56; and was then appointed chief justice of the state supreme court, resigning at the end of thirteen days' service. In 1861 he was made adjutant-general of Alabama, and in 1868 was again elected a circuit judge but was disqualified for service by an act of congress. He served as a U.S. senator, 1871

77, after which he retired from public life. He died at Montgomery, Ala., March 18, 1879.

GOOCH, Daniel Wheelwright, representative, was born in Wells, Maine, Jan. 8, 1820. He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1843, was admitted to the bar in 1846, and began practice in Boston, Mass. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1852; member of the state constitutional convention in 1853; a representative from the seventh Massachusetts district in the 34th congress to fill a vacancy, and was re-elected to the 35-38th, and also to the 43d congresses, serving, 1856-65 and 1873-75. During the four years of the joint congressional committee on the conduct of the war, he was chairman of the house members, and personally conducted the investigation of the Fort Pillow massacre. was naval officer at the port of Boston, Mass., in 1865, and U.S. pension agent there, 1876-86. He died in Melrose, Mass., Nov. 1, 1891.

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GOOCH, Frank Austin, chemist, was born in Watertown, Mass., May 2, 1852; son of Joshua Goodale and Sarah (Coolidge) Gooch; grandson of Samuel and Hannah (Goodale) Gooch, and of Josiah and Mary (Hastings) Coolidge, and a descendant of John Gooch, Robert Goodelle, John Coolidge and Thomas Hastings, all resident in New England previous to 1640. He was graduated from Harvard in 1872, was an assistant in the chemical department there, 1873-75; studied in Europe and at Harvard, 1875-77, and received the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard in 1877. After two years more of post-graduate study at Cambridge he was appointed in 1879 a special agent of the 10th census and engaged in the expert analysis of iron ores and coals. He was chief chemist of the northern transcontinental survey, 1881-84; a chemist of the U.S. geological survey in Washington, 1884-85; and the latter year was appointed to the chair of chemistry at Yale where he planned the Kent chemical laboratory. He devised various forms of chemical apparatus and contributed to the literature of chemical research. He was elected a member of the National academy of sciences in 1897; was a Fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences, and a member of other scientific societies. The honorary degree of M.A. was conferred upon him by Yale in 1887.

GOOD, James Isaac, educator, was born at York, Pa., Dec. 31, 1850; son of William A. and Susan B. (Eckert) Good; grandson of Philip Good, and a descendant of John Jacob Good, and of Capt. Conrad Eckert of the Revolutionary army. He was taken to Reading, Pa., at an early age. He was graduated from Lafayette college in 1872 and from Union theological seminary in 1875. He was ordained a minister in the (German) Reformed church, June 1875, and was pastor at York, Pa., 187577, and at the Heidelberg Reformed church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1877-90. In 1887 he declined the chair of dogmatics

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in the Theological seminary of Heidelberg college, Ohio, and in 1890 was elected professor of church history in Ursinus college, Pa., and in 1893 became professor of dogmatics in that institution. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Ursinus college in 1887. His published works include: Origin of the Reformed Church in Germany (1887); Rambles Around Reformed Lands (1889); History of the Reformed Church of Germany (1894); Historical Handbook of the Reformed Church (1897); Early Fathers of the Reformed Church (1897).

GOODALE, Dora Read, poet, was born in Mt. Washington, Mass., Oct. 29, 1866; daughter of Henry Sterling and Dora Hill (Read) Goodale, and granddaughter of Chester and Sophia (Bushnell) Goodale, and of Thaddeus Benedict and Eleanor (Lyon) Read. She was educated principally by her mother, and at an early age began to write for a paper which her sister Elaine edited, and which was read in the evening for the amusement of the family. Subsequently she devoted some time to the study of art in Northampton, Mass. The early poems of herself and her sister Elaine were published in Apple Blossoms (1878), and their later poems in In Berkshire with the Wild Flowers (1879), and All Round the Year (1880). She is the author of frequent contributions, both in prose and verse, to various papers and magazines.

GOODALE, Elaine, See Eastman, Elaine Goodale.

GOODALE, George Lincoln, educator, was born in Saco, Maine, Aug. 3, 1839; son of Stephen Lincoln and Prudence Aiken (Nourse) Goodale, and grandson of Enoch and Lucy (Lincoln)

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Goodale. He was graduated from Amherst in 1860 and received his medical degree from Bowdoin and Harvard in 1863. He began practice in Portland, Maine, and at the same time served as instructor in anatomy, materia medica and surgery in the Portland school for medical instruction. In 1868 he beprofessor of natural history in Bowdoin college and in 1872 became instructor in botany and lecturer at Harvard. In 1873 he was appointed assistant professor of vegetable physiology at Harvard, and in the same year resigned his chair at Bowdoin. He was professor of botany in Harvard, 1878-88, and in the latter year succeeded Asa Gray as Fisher professor of natural history. He was director of the botanic garden at Harvard from 1879, and a member of the faculty of the museum of comparative zoology at Harvard from 1881. He was associate editor of the American Journal of Science from 1888. He delivered several courses of lectures before the Lowell institute. Among the societies of which Dr. Goodale was elected a member are: the American society of physiologists; the American society of anatomists; the society of American naturalists, of which he was president; the New York academy of sciences; the American philosophical society, and the National academy of science. In 1872 he was made a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences. He joined the American association for the advancement of science in 1869, was advanced to fellow in 1875, was elected vice-president of the section on biology in 1888 and president of the association in 1890. He received the degree of A. M. from Amherst in 1866 and from Bowdoin in 1869, and that of LL.D. from Amherst in 1890, from Bowdoin in 1894, and from Princeton in 1897. His published works are devoted chiefly to physiological and economic botany.

GOODALE, Stephen Lincoln, agriculturist, was born in South Berwick, Maine, Aug. 14, 1815; son of Enoch and Lucy (Lincoln) Goodale. He attended Thornton academy, Saco, Maine, 182831, and prepared for college but did not enter, devoting his time chiefly to the study of pharmacy and scientific agriculture. He was married Sept. 23, 1838, to Prudence Aiken Nourse, and had five children, Prof George Lincoln Goodale of Cambridge, Caroline Goodale, Benjamin N.

Goodale and Dr. Walter T. Goodale of Saco, and Alfred M. Goodale of Waltham, Mass. Mr. Goodale was secretary of the state board of agriculture, 1856-73, and the author of numerous valuable treatises on scientific agriculture. He died in Saco, Maine, Nov. 5, 1897.

GOODE, Charles Thomas, soldier, was born in Thomaston, Ga., Oct. 26, 1835; son of Judge Thomas Whitfield and Amanda Virginia (Minor) Goode; grandson of John and Elizabeth (Whitfield) Goode; great-grandson of John and Frances (Hunter Goode) and grand-nephew of Governor James Whitfield of Mississippi. He was graduated from the University of Georgia in 1853, and practised law at Thomaston and Perry, Ga. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army as captain in the Houston volunteers and at the close of the war was colonel of the Tenth Confederate regiment. Three horses were killed beneath him and he received a serious wound at Chickamauga. He practised law in Americus, was a presidential elector in 1869 and a delegate to the Democratic national convention in 1872. He was a trustee of the University of Georgia, 1874-75. He died in Americus, Ga., Jan. 15, 1875.

GOODE, Flavillus Sidney, lawyer, was born in Perry county, Ala., Jan. 24, 1831; son of the Hon. Sydney Moore and Louisa (Scudday) Goode; grandson of William and Sarah (James) Goode;. great-grandson of Bennet and Martha (Jefferson) Goode; great grandson of John Goode, and great grandson of John and Anne (Bennet) Goode. He was educated at Oakland college and at the University of North Carolina; was admitted to the bar in 1852, and practised in Thibodaux, Terre Bonne parish, La., where he also carried on a sugar plantation. He was a member of the state senate, 1857-58. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army and was captain of the Grivot guards in the Peninsula campaign. He was attorney-general of Louisiana, 1862-65; served in the state senate, 1874-78, and was judge of the superior court, 1879-86. He died in Thibodaux, La. in 1886.

GOODE, George Brown, naturalist, was born in New Albany, Ind., Feb. 13, 1851; son of Francis Collier and Sarah Woodruff (Crane) Goode: grandson of Philip and Rebekah (Hayes) Goode, and of Israel Cooper Crane; great-grandson of Samuel and Mary (Collier) Goode; great grandson of Samuel and (Bunnell) Goode, and great3 grandson of Samuel and Martha (Jones) Goode. This Samuel was born in the Island of Barbadoes in 1655, and settled with his parents in Virginia about 1734. George Brown Goode's paternal grandfather had removed with four brothers from Virginia in 1804, and settled in the new state of Ohio; and his maternal grandfather came from New Jersey about the same time and

settled in New Albany, Ind. George was graduated at Wesleyan university (Conn.) in 1870, and after a brief post-graduate course in zoölogy at Harvard under Agassiz, organized a natural history museum for Wesleyan university and was its curator, 1871-77. He visited Bermuda to make zoölogical explorations, 1872; studied in the United States national museum, 1872-73, and then became associated with Professor Baird in the work in the Smithsonian institution and as a volunteer in the U.S. fish commission on its organization, where he had charge of the division of fisheries and statistics. He was occupied in zoological explorations from Nova Scotia to Florida and the Bermudas; was principal curator of the national museum, 1875-80; assistant director, 1881-87, and assistant secretary of the Smithsonian institution in charge of

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the national museum, 1887-96. He was married, Nov. 24, 1877, to Sarah

Ford, daughter of Orange Judd of New York city. Their son, Kenneth Francis was born Dec. 8, 1880. In 1887, as statistical expert for the Halifax fisheries convention, he prepared and published the first comprehensive statistics of the fisheries of the United States, and as special agent of the tenth census, he directed the fishery census of 1880, and subsequently supervised the publication the first seven volumes of "The Fishery Industries of the United States." In 1887 he was appointed United States commissioner of fish and fisheries to succeed Professor Baird and resigned the office at the end of six months in order to give his entire attention to the National museum. In 1876 he had charge of the exhibit of animal products and fisheries at the Philadelphia exposition; in 1880 he was commissioner to the International fishery exhibition at Berlin, and in 1883 U.S. commissioner in charge of the American exhibit at the International fisheries exhibition in London. He was also a member of the government boards for the New Orleans exposition in 1884 and the Ohio Valley centennial in Cincinnati in 1887; was commissioner to the Columbian historical exposition in Madrid, 1892, and in 1893 was a member of the government board for the World's Columbian exposition. In 1890 he prepared for the national commission of the Columbian exposition the plan upon which the official classification of the exhibition was subsequently based. He was one of the board of management of the American institute of civics and vice-president and registrar-general of the National society of the Sons of the American Revolution in the

organization of which he took part as well as in that of the Daughters of the American Revolution, whose badge was designed by him. He was a member of the National academy of sciences; fellow of the American association for the advancement of science, of the American philosophical society, and of the American academy of arts and sciences; a member of the American society of naturalists, of the American, Virginia and Columbian historical societies; also corresponding member of the Zoological society of London, the Société Zoölogique de France, the Society of natural history and anthropology of Moscow, the Société Naturale d'Aquiculture de France, the National Fisheries societies of Germany, Great Britain and Japan; and received from the Queen Regent of Spain the decoration of Commander in the Royal Order of Ysabel la Catolica. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Indiana university and that of LL.D. from Wesleyan university. Besides many papers in the proceedings of scientific societies he published: The Game Fishes of North America, with colored plates by Kilbourne; American Fishes; The Deginnings of American Science; The Origin of the Scientific and Educational Institutions of the United States; The Museums of the Future; Virginia Cousins (a genealogical work) and, with Tarleton H. Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, an illustrated treatise on the deep sea and pelagic fishes of the world. He died at Lanier Heights, near Washington, D.C., Sept. 6, 1896.

GOODE, John, representative, was born in Bedford county, Va., May 27, 1829; son of Lieut. John and Ann (Leftwich) Goode; grandson of Edmund and (Branch) Goode; great-grandson of William and Pheby (Goode) Goode, and great grandson of Samuel and Martha (Jones) Goode. He was graduated at Emory and Henry college in 1848 and began to practise law at Liberty, Va., in 1851. He was elected to the Virginia house of delegates in 1851 and for several succeeding terms, and was a presidential elector in 1852 and 1856. As a member of the convention of 1861 he signed the ordinance of secession. After a short service on General Early's staff with the rank of captain, he was elected a representative in the Confederate congress, and held his seat from February, 1862, until the fall of the government. He removed to Norfolk in 1865 and resumed the practice of law, serving also in the legislature, and from 1868 to 1880 was a member of the National Democratic committee. He was a representative from Norfolk, Va., in the 44th, 45th and 46th congresses, 1875-81, but failed of reelection to the 47th congress because of his firm stand in favor of full payment of the state debt. He was president of the electoral college of Virginia in 1884. In 1885 he was appointed by