Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . eacher, and also broughtinto his adopted country many useful was an indefatigable student of natural his-tory, and established at the university courses ofinstruction in botany and agricultural 1795 he united with some friends to establishthe Economical Society of Guatemala, underthe presidency of Jacobo de Villaurrutia, whichhas done much for the progress of Central wrote treatises on botany, agriculture,mendicancy and the means of suppressing it, all ofwhich were read in the Economical society, a vol-
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . eacher, and also broughtinto his adopted country many useful was an indefatigable student of natural his-tory, and established at the university courses ofinstruction in botany and agricultural 1795 he united with some friends to establishthe Economical Society of Guatemala, underthe presidency of Jacobo de Villaurrutia, whichhas done much for the progress of Central wrote treatises on botany, agriculture,mendicancy and the means of suppressing it, all ofwhich were read in the Economical society, a vol-ume of sermons, and an eloquent representation infavor of the Indians to King Charles IV. GOLDSBOROUGH, Charles, statesman, b. inMaryland in 1700; d. in Shoals, Md., 13 Dec, served in congress as a Federalist from 2 Dec,1805, to 3 March, 1817, and was governor of Mary-land in 1818-19.—His cousin, Charles Washing-ton, clerk of the navy department, b. in Cambridge,Md., 18 April, 1779; d. in Washington, D. C, 14 GOLDSBOROUGH G6MEZ 073. <^^lMJhC<l4JnKsi*^f£, Sept., 1843, was the first clerk of the bureau of pro-visions and clothing of the U. S. navy, and chiefclerk of the naval department from 1708 to 1812,under Sees. Benjamin Stoddart, Robert Smith,and Paul Hamilton. From 1841 until separatenaval bureaus were established he was secretary ofthe naval board. He is the author of The U. Chronicle (Washington, 1824), and an un-published History of the American Navy/ nowin manuscript and in the possession of the senioreditor of this work.—Charles Washingtons son,Louis Malesherbes, naval officer, b. in Washing-ton, D. C, 18 Feb., 1805; d. there, 20 Feb., 1877,entered the navy as midshipman at seven years of age. He was pro-moted lieutenantin January, 1825,and, after servinga short time inthe Mediterraneansquadron, went toParis and passedtwo years in 1827 he joinedthe North Caro-lina in the Med-iterranean, andwhile cruising inthe schooner Por-poise, in
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