. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... ndterm. He was elected United States senatorin 1S83 and twice re-elected. OICHARD JORDAN G.\TLING, an 1 V Aujcrican inventor of much note, wasborn in Ilertford count\. North 12, 1818. At an early age hegave promise of an inventive genius. Thefirst emanation from his mind was the iliVoiiLion ui ci tjiuaU iur Ihd piUpulsiuU Ol water craft, but on application for apatent, found that he was forestalled buta short time by John Ericsson. Subse-quentl
. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... ndterm. He was elected United States senatorin 1S83 and twice re-elected. OICHARD JORDAN G.\TLING, an 1 V Aujcrican inventor of much note, wasborn in Ilertford count\. North 12, 1818. At an early age hegave promise of an inventive genius. Thefirst emanation from his mind was the iliVoiiLion ui ci tjiuaU iur Ihd piUpulsiuU Ol water craft, but on application for apatent, found that he was forestalled buta short time by John Ericsson. Subse-quently he invented a for sowingwheat in drills, which was used to a greatextent throughout the west. I-Ie then stud-ied medicine, and in 1847-S attendedlectures at the Indiana Medical Collegeat Laporte, and in 1848-9 at the OhioMedical College at Cincinnati. He laterdiscovered a method of transmitting powerthrough the medium of compressed air. A ?. ;i » 3 i A. I J,. :--ti ,r ? :.[ > --A . 1. / /C •-iC,. J. .??flV7 - .U,. .-j Ji- ..^iiyJ. i -• ?/i .^f ;rl m-Ht 1 \. :;;o:; <;u .ili 1 .u-: v. 1/. \ / v \ ^ \ -v^^:^.^ :;^.^^. COMPEND/C:.)/ ()/ JilO C. RA ///). no a national fame in politics, was 11, 1847, in ]£dgehcld Count}, SouthCarolina. He recei\-ed his education in theOliiheld scliool, where he acquired therudiments of Latin and Greek, in additionto a good English education. Ke left s
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