Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography

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Greaton, John

soldier, was born March 10, 1741, in Roxbury, Mass. During the siege of Boston he led an expedition which destroyed the buildings on Long Island in Boston harbor. Congress made him a brigadier-general in 1783. He died Dec. 16, 1783, in Roxbury, Mass.

GREATOREX, ELIZABETH ELEAN- OR, artist, was born May 26, 1854, in New York. She has decorated china, and illustrated books, but now gives her chief attention to painting. She has exhibited at the National academy The Bath; and Color that Burns as if no Frost could Tame.

GREATOREX, HENRY WELLINGTON, musician, composer, was born in 1816 in England. For some years he was organist and conductor of the choir at St. Paul's chapel of New York city. He published a Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Chants, Anthems, and Sentences.

He died in September, 1858, in Charleston, S. C.

GREATOREX, KATHLEEN HONORA, artist, was born Sept. 10, 1851, in Hoboken, N. J. Many of her paintings have been flower-pieces, and she has exhibited The Last Bit of Autumn; Goethe's Fountain, Frankfort; panels with Thistles and Corn and Hollyhocks.

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