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GOBIN
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He was collector of internal revenue for the 3d
district of Missouri from No%'euiber, 186G, to
March, 1867, and was a representative in the 43d,
44th and 45th congresses, 1ST2-T9. He died in
Newark. Mo., Nov. 13, 1891.
GLUCK, James Fraser, lawyer, was born at Niagara Falls, N.Y., March 28, 18.53; son of Alva and Margaret (Fraser) Glttck; and grandson of Daniel and Susan (Hochstetter) Gliick, and of James and Janet (Sinclair) Fraser. He attended Upper Canada college, Toronto, and was grad- uated at Cornell in 1874. While in col- lege he produced an essay entitled "The Clown in Shakes- peare " for which he won the second prize in the first intercolle- giate contest. He also won the Woodford gold medal for ora- tf ' ^V ^ti -"'; tory. He was editor
i '"^ -•■ ' of the Niayara Falls
Eecjlster for one year; studied law in the of- fice of Laning & Wil- lett, BuffalcN.y.; was admitted to the bar in 1876, and formed a copartnership with A. P. Laning and Daniel H. McMillan in 1877. He was a mem- ber of the board of trustees of Cornell, 1883-88, and professor of the law of corporations of the Buffalo law school. He established a system of free scholarships at Cornell whereby students of proper ability received aid from the university to the amoimt of $250 a year for a term of four years. He was also prominent among the found- ers of the school of philosophy at Cornell. He was a member of the New York state bar associa- tion, 1880-97, vice-president of the association, 1887-89; was curator of the BulTalo library for many years and gave the Gluck autograph man- uscript collection to that institution and was president of the Grosvenor library. He was mar- ried June 15, 1880, to Effie Dunreith, daugliter of Prof. Charles M. Tyler of Cornell university. He published Beceivera of Corpomliuns (2d ed., 1896). He died in New York city, Dec. 15, 1897. QMEINER, John, priest and author, was born in Bavaria, Germany, Dec. 5, 1847; son of Sebas- tian and Caroline (Fritsch) Gmeiner. He v\as taken by his parents to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1849, attended the theological seminary near that city in 1859, and on June 10, 1870, was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic church. He presided over various churches: and edited the Cnhimbin, a Catholic weekly at Milwaukee, Wis., 1873-76. In 1883 he was called to the chair of ecclesiastical history and homiletics in the seminary of St.
Francis of Sales near Milwaukee, and subse-
quently became pastor of St. Augustine's church,
South St. Paul, Minn. He is the author of: Dift
Kntholische Kirclie in Din Vi-reiniylen ,SOiiiti-n
(1875): Sind wir dem Weltuude nahe? nSl'T); Mod-
ern Scientific Vieios and Christian Doctrines Com-
pared (1884); 7716 Spirits of Darkness, or Ancient
and Modern Spiritualism (\%^&); The Chnreh and
the Varioits Nationalities of the United States
(1887): Emmanuel, the Savior of the World (1888);
MediiKval and Modern Cosmolorjy (1891): The Church
and Foreiijnism (1891), and numerous contribu-
tions to Roman Catholic periodicals.
GOBBLE, Aaron Ezra, educator, was born nearMillheim, Centre county. Pa., Feb. 14, 1856; son of Samuel and Sarali (Willaman) Gobble. His ancestors on both sides were German, and came to America before the war of the Revolu- tion. The Willamans are descendants of the Huguenots, and his mother'.s maternal ancestry is a bi'anch of the numerous family of Killian Mark, a Swiss emigrant. In 1871-75 he taught school in winter and attended an academy in summer. In 1879 lie was graduated from Frank- lin and Marshall college, Lancaster, Pa.: the same year he received a license to preacli from the East Pennsylvania conference of the Evan- gelical association; was ordained deacon in 1883, and elder in 1885. He was professor of mathe- matics in Union seminary, New Berlin, Pa., 1879- 80; principal of the same, 1880-87; and in the latter year, when Union seminary became Cen- tral Pennsylvania college, he retained the presi- dency. He was also treasurer of the board of trustees of that institution, and jiresident of the board of education of the Educational aid society of Pennsylvania. On June 37, 1883, he was mar- ried to Kate, daughter of William Krauskop of Lancaster City, Pa. In 1893 he received the hon- orary degi'ee of D.D. from Lebanon Vallej' col- lege. Pa.
GOBIN, Hillary Asbury, educator, was born in Terre Haute, Ind., March 25, 1842. He served in the Union army, 1862-G5, and was graduated from Indiana Asbury imiversity in 1870. He entered the Northwest Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal churcli in 1869 anil preached in various places in Indiana until 1880, when he became the Robert Stoekwell professor of Greek language and literature in DePaiiw university, lie was made secretary- of the faculty in 1881 and liel.l that position until 1886, when he resigned liis chair to accept the presidency of Baker uni- versity. Baldwinville, Kan. In 1890 he returned to De Pauw university as professor of theology and dean of the theological school. He was elected vice-president of the institution in 1894 and president in 1896. He was married twice: first, Nov. 8, 1871, to Florence A. Orrill, who died
