GORE, THOMAS PRYOR

(1870), 2) Mi . Considerable interest has been attached to his personality on account of his being totally blind; at the age of eight he lost one eye by being struck with a stick by a playmate, and at the age of 11 he lost his other eye by an arrow from a cro bow. In 1892 he graduated from Cumber land University, in Tenne ee and began to practice law. He removed to Texas, in 1895, where, in 1898, he was a candidate for Congre on the Populist ticket, but was defeated. In 1901 he removed to Oklahoma, where he was elected to the U. 8S. Senate for the terms of 1909-15 and 1915-21, as a Democrat. small island, Fr. Senegal, W. Africa, E. of Dakar; chief town, Gorée; large harbor; formerly important commercial entrepdt. (1854-1920), American army surgeon; 6, Mobile, Ala. He graduated at the University of the South in 1875 and from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York University, in 1879. He was appointed surgeon in the U. S. Army in 1880 and became major surgeon in 1898. In the latter year he was appointed chief officer in charge of sanitary work at Havana, Cuba, and so succe fulty applied methods of combating yellow fever that he eliminated that disease, which had been the curse of Cuba. His brilliant work in that office caused him to be made surgeon general by a special act of Congre in 1903. In 1904 he was appointed chief sanitary officer of the Panama Canal Zone, and his work there in exterminating tropical diseases paralleled his achievements in Havana. He retired from active service in 1918 and became the director of yellow fever research in the Rockefeller Foundation. ‘Several South American countries availed themselves of his ability in fighting fevers with remarkable results. He was awarded medals and honors by many of the world’s greatest scientific societies. Italy decorated him in 1918 and France|: in 1919,