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Graham, William A – Grant, Charles S

Graham, William A

farmer, soldier, state senator, was born Dec. 26, 1839, in Hillsborough, N. C. He was a soldier in the civil war, and for two terms was a member of the North Carolina state senate.

Granbery, John Cowper

bishop, author, was born Dec. 5, 1829, in Norfolk, Va. He is a bishop of the methodist church south, who published a Bible Dictionary.

Granger, Amos Phelps

soldier, farmer, merchant, congressman, was born in June, 1789, in Suffield, Conn. He served as a captain of militia at Sackett's Harbor in 1812; and subsequently became a general of militia. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses.

He died Aug. 20, 1866, in Syracuse, N. Y.

Granger, Bradley F

lawyer, congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative from Michigan to the thirty-seventh congress.

Granger, Francis

congressman, was born Dec. 1, 1792, in Suffield, Conn.

He was for five years from 1826 a member of the New York general assembly. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1835 to 1837, and again from 1839 to 1841, when he resigned to accept from President Harrison the appointment of postmaster-general. He was a member of the peace convention of 1861.

He died Aug. 28, 1868, in Canandaigua, N. Y.

Granger, Gordon

soldier, was born in 1821 in New York. During the civil war he became a colonel, and was placed in command of the army of Kentucky.

He died Jan. 10, 1876, in Santa Fe, N. M.

Granger, Robert Seaman

soldier, was born May 24, 1816, in Zanesville, Ohio. He served in the Florida, Mexican and civil wars, and attained the brevet of major-general in the United States army.

Grant, Abraham

bishop, was born Aug. 25, 1848, in Lake City, Fla. In 1888 he was elected bishop of the African methodist episcopal church.

Grant, Abraham P

congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1839.

Grant, Amariah J

soldier, clergyman, was born May 23, 1841, in Hastings, N. Y. He was the inventor of the automatic bar locking device, which to-day may be found on nearly every desk manufactured. In 1863 he enlisted in the twenty-fourth regiment New York volunteer cavalry, and was promoted to sergeant. In 1876 he left his trade of cabinetmaker for the ministry; and has since been a successful clergyman of the methodist episcopal church in his native state.

Grant, Asahel

physician, author, was born Aug. 17, 1807, in Marshall, N. Y.

He was a physician who was a missionary in Persia; and the author of The Nestorians, or the Lost Tribes. He died April 25, 1844, in Turkey.

Grant, Charles S

physician, surgeon, was born Nov. 29, 1845, in Hobart, N. Y. He was one of the founders of the State Medical association; and in 1885 he erected at Saratoga Springs a sanitarium.