Grcin, William M
United States senator, was born in 1805, in Tennessee.
In 1841 he was elected to congress from Mississippi; and was a member of the United States senate. He died in 1885, in New York.
GRONER, VIRGINIUS DESPAUEX, soldier, was born Sept. 14, 1836, in Norfolk, Va. He served in the confederacy during the civil war, and was brevetted general. brigadier He has been a candidate for governor of his native state, and on several occasions his name was placed in nomination for United States senator. He is president of the National Compress association; president of the steamship line run by that association between Norfolk and Liverand Liverpool, and is actively interested in many other business enterprises. He has con- He has contributed greatly to the advancement of the shipping interests of Norfolk, Va.; , Va.; and was appointed a commissioner from Virginia to the World's Columbian exposition.