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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
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n 1866, became major of the Seventhcavalry in that year, and until his death was sta-tioned at various Kansas forts. Gibbs, George, American mineralogist; b.Newport. R. 1., 8 Jan. 1782; d. Newtown, N.Y., 5 Aug 1833 Early becoming interested inthe study of mineralogy, he collected during histravels in Europe, chiefly by purchase, a veryextensive and valuable cabinet of minerals, themost extensive at the time that had been broughttogether in the United States. This collectionhe set up in the public rooms of Yale College,where it remained without charge from 181T-25.and in the latter year it was purchased for thecollege for $20,000. Gibbs, James Edward Allen, American in-ventor: b. I Aug. 1829; d. Rapliine, RockbridgeCounty, Va., 25 Nov. 1902. While a young manthe subject of the sewing-machine was calledto his attention, and presently he thought outthe idea of the revolving hook which is the mainfeature of the Willcox & Gibbs machine. In allhe took out 12 patents covering the sewing-
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HIS EMINENCE JAMES, CARDINAL GIBBONS,Arclibisliop of Baltimore GIBBS — GIBRALTAR machine. The village in which he resided wasnamed by him when he returned to it in middlelife. The name is from the Greek word whichmeans to sew. Gibbs, Josiah Willard, American philolo-gist : b. Salem, Mass., 30 April 1790; d. NewHaven, Conn., 25 March 1861. He was gradu-ated at Yale College in 1809, and in 1824 was ap-pointed professor of sacred literature in the theo-logical department of Yale College, which heheld till his death. He published a translationof Gesenius * Hebrew Lexicon of the OldTestament* (1824) ; Manual Hebrew and Eng-lish Lexicon, abridged from Gesenius (1828) ;•Philological Studies (1857) ; <Latin Analyst(1858), etc., and contributed to the periodicalworks of his time numerous important paperson topics of philology and criticism. Gibbs, Josiah Willard, American mathe-matician: b. New Haven, Conn., 11 Feb. 1839; d.there 28 April 1903. He was a son of the pre-ceding and was gra

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