Gusset
in engineering, an angular piece of iron inserted in a boiler tank, etc., where it changes from a cylindrical to a square form, etc., as in the junction of the barrel and fire box of a locomotive.
GUSTAVUS I., commonly called "Gustavus Vasa," King of Sweden; born in Lindholm, May 12, 1496. He was the son of Eric Johansson, a Swedish noble, served under Svante Sture, the administrator of the kingdom, was treacherously carried off with other noble Swedes by the King of Denmark, and kept a prisoner in Jutland for more than a year, but at length escaped, reached, after many dangers, Dalecarlia, where he roused the peasants to resist Danish oppression, defeated the Danes, took Upsala and other towns, and in 1523 was elected king. In 1529 he procured the abolition of the Roman Catholic religion in Sweden, and established Protestantism. During his long reign Sweden made great progress in commerce and civilization. He died in Stockholm, Sept. 29, 1560.
GUSTAVUS II., GUSTAVUS ADOL- PHUS, King of Sweden, a grandson of Gustavus Vasa; born in Stockholm, Dec. 9, 1594; and received a careful education. He was trained to war under experienced generals, took his place in the state councils at the age of 16, and was in command of the army in his 17th year during the war with Denmark, which was concluded in 1613, and by GUSTAVUS IV. which Sweden recovered important possessions on the Baltic. He then turned his arms against the Russians, drove them from Ingria, Karelia, and a part of Livonia, which were secured to him by the peace of Stolbova in 1617. He was then engaged in a war with Poland, which lasted nine years, and was concluded on advantageous terms for Gustavus in September, 1629, he being allowed to retain important conquests in East Prussia. His attention was now diverted from N. wars by the affairs of Germany. He embarked for Germany in 1630 with about 20,000 men, landed near the mouth of the Oder, and in a short time had seized nearly all Pomerania. After taking many fortified towns. repeatedly defeating ing the imperial generals at Leipsic and Würzburg in 1631, Passage of the Lech in 1632, and conquering a great part of Germany, he was killed in the battle of Lützen, against Wallenstein, Nov. 16, 1632.
GUSTAVUS III., King of Sweden, born in Stockholm, Jan. 24, 1746; succeeded his father, Adolphus Frederick, in 1771. Finding the country weary of the misrule of the nobles, he gained the good-will of the army, surrounded the assembly of the states-general, and forced them to accept a new constitution which much restricted their privileges. In 1788 he took command of the army against Russia and Denmark, and stormed the defenses of Frederikshald, destroying a great number of vessels.
In 1789 he executed another coup d'état, arresting the opposition leaders, and passing a law extending the royal prerogative. On the outbreak of the French revolution he made strenuous exertions to form a coalition between Russia, Denmark, Sweden, and Spain, but while preparations were making a conspiracy of the nobles was formed against him, and he was shot at a masquerade by Ankarstroem, a disbanded officer, March 16, 1792. He died March 29, 1792.
GUSTAVUS IV., ADOLPHUS, King of Sweden, born in Stockholm, Nov. 1, 1778; and succeeded his father, March 29, 1792. On assuming power Gustavus showed that he had inherited his father's hatred of the principles of the French Revolution, which he carried to the extent of fanaticism. After the Peace of Tilsit he exposed himself to a war with Russia while he was at war with France by refusing to join the continental blockade and opening his ports to England; and in 1808 he quarreled with England, his only ally. Finland was lost to Sweden, and in 1809 a revolution took place. Gustavus was dethroned, and his GUSTAVUS V. ancle, the Duke of Sudermania, proclaimed king under the title of Charles XIII. Gustavus died in St. Gall, Feb. 7, 1837.
GUSTAVUS V. (GUSTAVUS ADOL- PHUS), King of Sweden; born in 1858.
He was the son of Oscar II. and Queen Sofia Wilhelmina. After completing his education , he entered the army in 1875 and in 1892 became lieutenant general.
GUTTENBERG versity of Edinburgh, and was licensed Church of Scotland in 1825. For some as a preacher in connection with the time he was employed in his father's banking office. In 1830 he was presented to the parish of Arbirlot, and he accepted a call to Greyfriars, Edinburgh, in 1837. In 1843 the Disruption place, and Guthrie took an active part tion took with Chalmers and Candlish in organiz- He married in 1881 Victoria, the daughing the Free Church. He himself beter of the Grand Duke of Baden. He acted as regent during his father's absence, in 1899 and 1900. In December, 1907, following the death of his father, he succeeded to the throne.
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE, a coeducational institution in St. Peter, Minn .; founded in 1862 under the auspices of the Lutheran Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 25; students, 361. a UTENBERG, JOHANNES, or HENNE (gö'ten-berg), German printer; born in Mainz, about 1400. In 1434 he was living in Strassburg, and seems to have been well known as a man of considerable mechanical skill, who taught stone cutting, mirror polishing, and similar arts. When and where he made his first attempts in the art of printing cannot with certainty be ascertained. Some time between 1444 and 1448 he returned to Mainz, where, in 1449 or 1450, he entered into partnership with Fust or Faust, a wealthy goldsmith, who furnished the money required to set up a printing press. This partnership was, however ship was, however, dissolved after the a few years, Fust bringing an action at law against Gutenberg to recover the sums he had advanced. In consequence of the legal verdict, Fust retained the printing concern, and carried ried it on in conjunction with Peter Gutenberg, with the assistance of a Dr. Homery, afterward set up another printing press. He is considered the inventor of movable type. He died in Mainz, Feb. 24, 1468.
GUTHRIE (guth'ri), a city, until 1911 State capital of Oklahoma, and countycapital of Oklahoma, and countyseat of Logan co .; on the Cottonwood river and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad . It contains St. Joseph's Academy, a high school, several schools, waterworks, electric lights tric lights, 2 National banks, cotton gins, ats, 2 National banks, cotton gins, flour and planing mills, furniture and carriage factories, etc. Pop. (1910) 11,- 654; (1920) 11,757. a