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GAMALIEL (1807-18J9), American journalist, was born at Mount Holly, New Jersey, on the 3rd of December 1807 . He graduated at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1827 . After editing for a short time a religious journal, the Methodist Protestant, at Baltimore, he removed in 1831 to Cincinnati, Ohio, where at first he devoted himself almost exclusively to the practice of medicine . He was also a lecturer on physiology at the Lane Theological Seminary, and at the time of the Lane Seminary debates (February 1834) between the pro-slavery and the anti-slavery students, and the subsequent withdrawal of the latter, he became an ardent abolitionist . In 1836 he joined James G . Birney in the editorial control of the Philanthropist; in the following year he succeeded Birney as editor, and conducted the paper in spite of threats and acts of violence—the printing-office being thrice wrecked by a mob -until 1847 . From 1843 also he edited a daily paper, the Herald . In 1847 he assumed control of the new abolitional organ, the National Era, at Washington, D.C . Here also his paper was the object of attack by pro-slavery mobs, at one time in 1848 the editor and printers being besieged in their office for three days . This paper had a considerable circulation, and in it, in 1851-1852, Mrs . H . B .

Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was first published . Bailey died at sea in the course of a trip to Europe on the 5th of June 1859 .