Gannon, Frank S., 251 West End Avenue, New York City; railroads.
Garrigan, Rt. Rev. Philip J., D. D., bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Sioux City, Iowa; Vice-President of the Society for Iowa.
Garrity, P. H., 221 Bank Street, Waterbury, Conn.
Garvan, Hon. Edward J., 36 Pearl Street, Hartford, Conn., Attorney-at-Law and Judge of the Hartford Police Court.
Garvan, Hon. Francis P., Assistant District Attorney, 23 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Garvan, Hon. Patrick, 236 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, Conn. (A life member of the Society and a member of the Executive Council.) He was born in Ireland March 8, 1836, and came to this country in May, 1851, and since 1852 has resided in Hartford. At the age of twenty-one Mr. Garvan began his business career as a contractor and builder and continued at the same for a period of twenty-one years. Many of the public buildings and churches east of the Connecticut River were built by him during this time. He was also a partner in a paper and paper stock business carried on in Hartford under the name of E. J. Carroll & Company. From 1877 to 1906, having purchased the interest of Mr. Carroll, he conducted under his own name a paper and paper stock business exclusively. In 1906 the business was incorporated under the name of P. Garvan, Inc., and is at the present time carried on under that name. It has grown to such proportion that at the present time it occupies four warehouses on State Street in Hartford, with offices at 205 and 207 State Street, and one large storage plant at Holyoke, Mass. Recently the firm has opened offices at 261 Broadway, New York City, and its interests are cared for by Thomas F. Garvan, who has been associated with his father for eighteen years. Mr. Garvan is also identified with several mills, being President of the Eastern Straw Board Company at Versailles, Conn., Hartford Board Company of Hartford, Conn., and the Newington Paper Company of Newington, Conn. Three of his sons, Thomas F., Edward J., and John S., are associated in business with him. Mr. Garvan has always been a staunch Republican. During his residence in East Hartford he held many positions of honor and trust, having been chairman of the School Board of that town for twelve years; was President of both Village Improvement and Street Lighting Associations; trustee and Treasurer of the Raymond Library, and for several years chairman of the Republican Town Committee. In 1884 he represented the town in the House of Representatives, and was re-elected as its first representative in 1885, serving as chairman of the School Fund Committee of that year, and as a member of the Finance Committee in 1884. In 1890 he was elected State Senator from the Second Senatorial District by the largest Republican majority given any candidate in this district up to that time. For some years previous to 1894 he was a member of the Republican State Central Committee from the Second District, but resigned that office upon his removal to Hartford. He was selected by the Connecticut Convention as a delegate to the Republican Convention at Chicago which nominated President Taft. When the Park Department of this city was reorganized, the Legislature provided for the appointment of a commission to have sole charge of this important work. Mr. Garvan was named as one of the commissioners for the term of ten years. The Board of Park Commissioners particularly entrusted to Commissioner Garvan the purchase of lands for and the development of Riverside Park. In 1898, as President of this board, he delivered the dedicatory address at the services attending the opening of Riverside Park to the public. This park has become one of the most useful pleasure grounds in this city, giving, as it does, a place of recreation and rest for the poorer classes and children of the East Side. Mr. Garvan has always taken a great interest in educational matters, three of his sons having graduated from Yale University and his daughters having finished their educations abroad. Two of his sons entered the profession of law, Frank P. Garvan, the present Assistant District Attorney of New York, and Edward J. Garvan, who was Judge of the Hartford Police Court for five years. The latter is now identified with his father’s business interests. Mr. Garvan enjoys the respect and esteem of a very wide circle of friends and acquaintances, not only throughout the State of Connecticut, but wherever his large business interests extend. He is a self-made, practical business man, cautious, conservative and strictly honorable in all his dealings, and through his native genius and his untiring energy he has been uniformly successful in all his business affairs. He is now a director of St. Francis Hospital, director of the State Bank and the Riverside Trust Company; is a trustee of the Society for Savings at Hartford and of the Cathedral parish, Hartford. In January, 1861, Mr. Garvan married Miss Mary A. Carroll of East Hartford, and ten children were born to them, eight of whom, four sons and four daughters, are living at the present time. His wife died in September, 1906.
Gelshenen, William H., 100 William Street, New York City.
Geoghegan, Charles A., 537–539 West Broadway, New York City.
Geoghegan, Joseph, Salt Lake City, Utah. (Life member of the Society and its Vice-President for Utah.) Vice-President of the board of education, Salt Lake City; director of the Utah National Bank; director of the Utah Loan and Building Association; director of the Butler Liberal Manufacturing Company, all three concerns of Salt Lake City; also, director in many other corporations. He is general agent in Utah for Swift & Company of Chicago; Borden’s Condensed Milk Company of New York; the American Can Company of New York, and the Pennsylvania Salt Mfg. Company of Philadelphia. He is broker for the following: The Western Sugar Refining Company of San Francisco, Cal.; the Utah Sugar Company of Lehi, Utah; the Amalgamated Sugar Company of Ogden, Utah; the Idaho Sugar Company of Idaho Falls, Idaho, and the Fremont County Sugar Company of Sugar City, Idaho.
Geoghegan, Joseph G., 20 East Seventy-third Street, New York City. (Life member of the Society.)