Biographical Sketch of Jonathan GAUSE (1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsyl- vania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Phila- delphia, PA, 1893, pp. 744-5. "JONATHAN GAUSE, who adorned and elevated the profession of teaching, in which he was successfully engaged for fifty-eight years, was the third son of William and Mary Gause, and was born October 23, 1786, in East Marl- borough township, Chester county, Pennsylvania. In boyhood he was acci- dentally crippled, and being thus disabled for active work, he sought to prepare himself for teaching. He received his education principally under the celebrated Enoch Lewis, and in 1807 entered upon his remarkable career of teaching. He was principal of some of the leading academies and board- ing schools of the county, and impressed a lasting influence for good upon hundreds of the most intelligent young men and women of Chester county. He married Eliza A. Bailey, daughter of Dr. Abraham Bailey, of West Brad- ford township, and died April 9, 1873, aged eighty-seven years. He was a born educator, and 'this county never had a teacher whose love and sym- pathy for his scholars was so great and perfect.'"