Gear'y, John

WHITE, soldier and statesman, born at Mount Pleasant, West more land co., Pa., Dec. 30, 1819; studied at Jefferson College, Canons burg; became a civil engineer; served in the Mexican War. In 1850he was elected the first mayor of San Francisco; was appointed, by President Pierce, governor of Kansas in 1856; entered the Civil War and was made brigadier general (1862); retired from the army at the close of the war, and was governor of Pennsylvania from 1867 to 1873. Died Feb. 9, 1873. Gear'y, in Kansas , an E. cen. co.; area , 407 sq. m.; intersected by the Kansas river. Surface , undulating, chiefly prairie; soil , fertile; building stone abundant. Cap . Junction City. Pop . (1895) 9,395. Gebhardt, von, OSKAR, born at Wesenberg, in Esthonia, June 22, 1844; studied theology; has been librarian at Strasburg, Leipzig, Halle, Göttingen and Berlin; edited, with Harnack and Lahn, Apostolicorum Opera; and with Harnack, Evangeliorum Codex Ro an ens is. Has also re-edited Tischendorf's text of the New Testament.