. Contemporary American biography . Colonies, for which he was threatened with arrest, which he only escaped by hastyflight from the country. This was in 1793. He came to America and settled in Philadelphia,and the directory of the city for the year 1796 shows his name among its merchants, associatedwith a Mr. Taylor and located in North Second Street. Subsequently he removed to Carlisle,and in 1802 he went to Pittsburgh, having received from President Madison an appointment asthe first Collector of the Port and also one from the Governor as Magistrate. He was twicemarried, his second wife bei
. Contemporary American biography . Colonies, for which he was threatened with arrest, which he only escaped by hastyflight from the country. This was in 1793. He came to America and settled in Philadelphia,and the directory of the city for the year 1796 shows his name among its merchants, associatedwith a Mr. Taylor and located in North Second Street. Subsequently he removed to Carlisle,and in 1802 he went to Pittsburgh, having received from President Madison an appointment asthe first Collector of the Port and also one from the Governor as Magistrate. He was twicemarried, his second wife being a Philadelphia lady, and his fourth son, father of our subject,was born in Pittsburgh in 1803. This was Edward Despard Gazzam, professionally a lawyer,and later a doctor of medicine, and by predilection a politician of much activity. His abilitiesand his devotion to principle made him prominent for many years in this walk of life and aforceful factor in the politics of the State. He was reared in the Democratic faith, but with-. CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 397 drew from his old confreres on the issue of the extension of slavery, and in 1848 was one of thefounders of the Free-Soil party, and was the candidate of the organization the same year forGovernor of the State, but was as a matter of course defeated. In 1855 he was the Free-Soilcandidate for State Senator from Pittsburgh, but was defeated, and the next year being nomi-nated by the Union Eepublican party he was elected by about one thousand majority over twoopponents, and was thus the first Republican State Senator from Allegheny County. From thattime onward he was one of the chiefs in the counsels of the party, and when the war broke outhe was one of the first men who took steps toward preventing the removal of the guns, ammu-nition, and other property from the Allegheny arsenal by Secretary of War Flood. In 1867 removed to Philadelphia, where he died in 1878. His wife (mother of our subject)was Elizabet
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