Gordon (III)
GEORGE ANGIER, an American clergyman and writer; born in Scotland in 1853. He attended the common schools in Scotland and removed to the United States in 1871. He graduated from Bangor Theological Seminary in 1877 and from Harvard University in 1881. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1877, and was pastor of churches in Maine and in Greenwich, Conn., from 1881 to 1883. In the following year he was appointed pastor of the Old South Church, Boston. He was university preacher at Harvard from 1886 to 1890, and at Yale from 1888 to 1901. He was an overseer of Harvard University from 1897 to 1916. He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. His published writings include "The Christ of To-day" (1895); "The New Epoch for Faith" (1901); "Through Man to God" (1906); "Humanism in New England Theology' (1920). He was president of the Harvard Alumni Association in 1918.
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Gordon (IV)
JOHN BROWN, an American military officer; born in Upson co., Ga., Feb. 6, 1832; was graduated at the University of Georgia; admitted to the bar and began practice. When the Civil War broke out he was appointed a cap tain of infantry in the Confederate army; served with marked distinction throughout the war, during which he was wounded eight times; was promoted Brigadier-General in April, 1863, and later Major-General. In 1873 he was elected to the United States Senate and served in that body till 1880, when he resigned. In 1887-1900 he was governor of Georgia. On May 31, 1900, he was chosen commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans. General Gordon was widely known as an orator on events of the Civil War. He died in Florida, Jan. 9, 1904.
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Gordon Bennett
MOUNT (named from James Gordon Bennett), a mountain seen in Africa by Stanley in 1875. It lies S. of Albert Nyanza, a little N. of the equator and E. of lon. 30° E. It is a truncated cone, probably an extinct crater, and rises 14,000 or 15,000 feet in height. It is sometimes covered with snow.
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Gordon, Charles William
Charles William (1860-), a Canadian novelist, better known by his pen name of Ralph Connor. He was born at Glengarry, Ontario. He received his education at Toronto University and at Knox College. He became a Presbyterian minister and in 1890 went into the Rocky Mountains as a missionary among the miners and lumbermen. Four years later he became pastor of a church in Winnipeg, and there began writing his popular stories, The Sky Pilot , Black Rock, The Man from Glengarry, and Glengarry School Days.
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Gore
THOMAS PYROR, an American senator; born in Webster co., Miss., in 1870. Although deprived of the sight of both eyes by two accidents in his early youth, he completed his education at the Normal School at Walthall, Miss., in 1890, received the degree of B. L. from Cumberland University in 1892, and was admitted to the bar the same year. He removed to Texas in 1895 after active participation in local politics. After several years' connection with the People's party, he allied himself with the Democratic organization in 1899. He took an active part in the presidential campaigns of 1900 and 1904. Having removed to Oklahoma in 1901, he was a member of the Territorial Council 1902- 1905, and became Senator from Oklahoma in 1907. He was re-elected in 1909 and 1915, but was defeated in 1920. From 1912-1916 he was a member of the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee.
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Gorges
SIR FERDINANDO, styled "the father of colonization in America"; born in Ashton, Somersetshire, England, about 1565. He founded two Plymouth companies (1606-1620 and 1620-1635) for acquiring and planting lands in New England, and in 1639 received from the king a charter constituting him proprietor of Maine. He adhered to the king in the civil war, and died in 1647. His son neglected the province, which finally placed itself under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, to which colony Sir Ferdinando's grandson sold his rights in 1677 for £1,250.
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Gorgon
or Gorgo, in Greek mythology, a frightful monster with brazen claws, huge teeth, and hair entwined with snakes. Homer refers to a gorgon as one of the phantoms of Hades. Hesiod, however, mentions three gorgons. Two of them were immortal, but Medusa, the only one who figures prominently in ancient legends, was subject to death. Any mortal who looked upon a gorgon was turned immediately to stone. Medusa was slain by Perseus, and her head given to Minerva, who placed it in the center of her shield. The word gorgon is used frequently to designate anything which is unusually hideous. Hawthorne has retold the story of Medusa in The Gorgon's Head.
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Gorky, Maxim
Maxim (1868-), the pen name of a Russian social writer whose real name is hardly pronounceable by an English reader. He was born at Nijni-Novgorod. He was by turns a shoemaker's apprentice, a scullery boy, baker, ship's cook , porter, gardener, painter of ikons or sacred images, lawyer's clerk, and literary tramp. His writings set forth the thoughts and want of thoughts of the vagrant and working classes with which his life has made him familiar. His novels began to attract attention in 1892. Foma Gordyeeff is best known. Titles more easily remembered are The Orloff Couple, About the Devil, More About the Devil, The Reader, The Outcasts (1902), Three Men (1902). Gorky visited the United States in 1906, lecturing on social themes and advocating the extreme measures of the Russian radicals.
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Gormogons
A Jacobite Masonic Society, perhaps related to the Lodges of Harodim (q.v.) They employed pseudonyms like the latter, and had an ambassador at Rome . Their history is sketched in a pamphlet dated 1724, entitled "Two Letters to a Friend," and in the work of Prichard (1730). The Duke of Wharton and the Chevalier Ramsay who were well-known Jacobites, were members of the Order. They had a cipher and secret reception of their own, and used a jargon in which the names of places and individuals were hidden and transposed. A plate of Hogarth's is extant in which the Order is lampooned under the title of "The Mystery of Masonry brought to light by ye Gormogons."
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