Gallinger
JACOB HAROLD, United States senator from New Hampshire, born in Cornwall, Ontario, in 1837. He received an academic education and studied medicine at the Medical Institute of Cincinnati. He engaged in practice in Concord, N. H., in 1862. In 1872 he was elected to the State House of Representatives and to the State Senate for three years succeeding. He was chairman of the Republican State Committee from 1882 to 1890, and again from 1898 to 1907. He was elected United States senator in 1891 and was successively reelected until 1915. He was a member of many important committees, including those of Appropriation, Finance, etc. He was recognized as one of the leading members of the Senate. He died in 1918.
GALLINULINÆ (-li'nē), in ornithology, water hens. A sub-family of Rallidæ (rails). They have the base of the ridge of the bill dilated into a soft oblong plate, occupying part of the forehead. They are aquatic birds, swimming and diving well, feeding on insects, worms, mollusca, besides seeds of grasses and other plants.
GALLIPOLI rock in the Gulf of Taranto, connected with the mainland by a bridge, and 59 miles by rail S. of Brindisi. The harbor is protected by a mole and fortified. The town contains a handsome cathedral and is remarkable for its oil tanks, excavated in the solid rock, in which olive oil is deposited for exportation. Pop. about 12,000. the peninsula of the same name (the anthe peninsula of the same name (the ancient Thracian Chersonesus), at the N. E. extremity of the Dardanelles, 90 miles Constantinople. The ancient Kallipolis, of which some ruins remain, it was formerly the most important commercial town on the Hellespont, and still retains considerable trade. There are two harbors, extensive bazaars, and some manufactures. Gallipoli is the headquarters of the Turkish fleet and the seat of a Greek bishop, and contains numerous mosques and fountains. The town was taken by the Turks in 1356, and formed their earliest European possession; and here the allies disembarked during the Crimean War. Pop. about 30,000. The northern portion of the peninsula was the scene of intense fighting in 1915. See WORLD WAR; TURKEY. a