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Graves, James S

lawyer, public official, was born Aug. 3, 1860, in Columbia City, Ind. He is a successful lawyer of Kendallville, Ind.; has been city treasurer; and in 1894 was elected mayor for a term of four years.

Graves, John Temple

journalist, was born Nov. 9, 1856, in Willington, S. C.

For three years he was editor of The Rome Tribune; and in 1887 was chief editor of the Atlanta Journal.

Graves, Nathan Fitch

financier, was born Feb. 17, 1813, in Oneida county, N. Y. In 1852 he became the first president of the Burnet bank; and was one of the founders of the Buchtel college.

Graves, Thomas

naval officer, was born June 6, 1605, in Ratcliffs, England.

As a reward for his capture of a Dutch privateer in the English channel, during Cromwell's protectorate, he was appointed to command a ship-of-war and made a rear-admiral. He died July 31, 1653, in Charlestown, Mass.

Graves, Zwinglius Calvin

educator, college president, was born in 1816 in Chester, Vt. In 1850 he was called to take charge of the Mary Sharpe Female college of Winchester, Tenn.

Gray, Albert

manufacturer, banker, state senator, was born July 22, 1844, in Middletown Springs, Vt. He is a wellknown manufacturer of horse-power thrashing machines; and a successful banker in his native city. In 1876 he was elected a representative to the Vermont state legislature; and in 1886 served with distinction as a state senator.

Gray, Albert Zavriskie

educator, clergyman, author, was born March 2, 1840, in New York city. He was an episcopal clergyman and educator, and warden of Racine college, Wisconsin, in 1882- 88. He is the author of Racine and Her Labor of Love; The Land and the Life; Jesus Only, and Other Devotional Poems; and Mexico as It Is. He died Feb. 16, 1889, in Chicago, Ill.

Gray, Alfred G

naval officer, was born in 1818, in Norfolk, Va. In 1865 he entered the service of the Pacific Mail Steamship company, by whom he was made commodore in 1874. He died Nov. 10, 1876, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Gray, David

journalist, poet, was born Nov. 9, 1836, in Edinburg, Scotland.

He was a journalist of Buffalo, on the editorial staff of The Courier in 1856-82; and was the author of a volume of poems. He died March 18, 1888, in Binghamton, N. Y.

Gray, Edgar Harkness

clergyman, was born Nov. 28, 1815, in Bridgeport, Vt. After the beginning of the thirty-ninth congress he was elected chaplain of the United States senate, and continued in that office four years. He was one of the four clergymen who officiated at the funeral services of President Lincoln in Washington.

Gray, Edward

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1799 to 1813.

Gray, Elisha

electrician, inventor, author, was born Aug. 2, 1833, in Barnesville, Ohio. He is an electrician and inventor who has published Experimental Researches in Electric Harmonic Telegraphy.