Gilbert De La Matyr [SEP] occupation
Gilbert De La Matyr
Gilbert De La Matyr (July 8, 1825 Pharsalia, New York – May 17, 1892 Akron, Ohio) was an American cleric and politician from New York and Indiana.
Life.
He graduated from a theological course of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1854, and became an itinerant elder. He served as member of the General Conference in 1868, and for one term was Presiding Elder.
During the American Civil War, he helped enlist the 8th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment in
Reverend Pearl P. Ingalls of Iowa said a brief prayer, and the convention was opened. Gilbert De La Matyr, a Methodist minister and Greenback congressman from Indiana, was unanimously chosen as temporary chairman. After De La Matyr gave a brief, fiery speech, they proceeded to call the roll, which included delegates from every state except Oregon. As the roll call finished, Matilda Joslyn Gage, a suffragist, mounted the stage, provoking cheers from some delegates and howls of outrage from others. She called for the new party