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Gregory, Eliot – Gridley, John Thomas

Gregory, Eliot

artist, was born Oct. 13, 1854, in New York city. His pictures include Soubrette; Coquetterie; Children, for which he received honorable mention in Paris; and portraits of General George W. Cullum; his uncle, Admiral Baldwin; Mrs. John Sherwood; and Ada Renan, are well known.

Gregory, Frank M

artist, was born Oct. 21, 1848, in Mansfield, Ohio. He also followed water-color painting, and acquired some note in etching and aesigning. Among his paintings are: The Truant; Waiting for Repairs; and First Snow of the Season.

Gregory, John M

governor, was born in Virginia. He was governor of Virginia in 1842 and 1843.

Gregory, John Milton

educator, clergyman, author, was born July 6, 1822, in Sandlake, N. Y. He is a baptist clergyman and educator of Michigan and Illinois; and the author of Handbook of History; New Political Economy; and The Seven Laws of Teaching.

Gregory, Samuel

educator, philanthropist, lecturer, author, was born April 19, 1813, in Guilford, Vt. In 1848 he founded in Boston the New England Female Medical college, said to have been the first institution in the world for the exclusive medical education of women. He died March 23, 1872, in Boston, Mass.

Greig, John

lawyer, banker, congressman, was born Aug. 6, 1779, in Scotland. He became president of the Ontario bank, which position he held until 1856. He was one of the founders and corporators of the Ontario Female seminary. He was elected a representative in congress for the term commencing in 1841; and resigned at the close of the first session. He died April 9, 1858, in Canandaigua.

Gress, George Valentine

manufacturer, was born April 25, 1847, in Sullivan county, N. ì. He established the Gress Lumber company, one of the largest concerns in the south. He is president of the Hart Lumber company, and of the United States Bond and Mortgage company, at Finn, Ga.

Grey, Benjamin E

state legislator, state senator, congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a member of the legislature of that state from Logan county in 1838 and 1839; was state senator from 1847 to 1851; and was speaker of the senate and acting lieutenant-governor in 1850. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1851 to 1855.

Grey, Samuel H

lawyer, was born April 6, 1836, in Camden, N. J. The West Jersey Title and Guaranty company was organized by him in 1888, and he has since been its president. He also organized in 1873 the Camden Safe Deposit and Trust company.

Grider, Henry

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born July 16, 1796, in Garrard county, Kentucky. In 1827 and 1831 he was elected to the legislature of Kentucky; and in 1833 to the state senate, where he served four years. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1843 to 1847; and was also elected to the thirty-seventh and thirty-ninth He died Sept. 14, 1866, in congresses.

Warren county, Ky.

Gridley, Charles V

naval officer, was born in Indiana. He was commander of Admiral Dewey's flagship, Olympia, in the great battle of Manila bay. He died in July, 1898.

Gridley, John Thomas

lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 2, 1868, in West Candor, N. Y. He received his education at the Cornell university, and in 1892 graduated from the Columbia college law school. He has attained success as an able lawyer and jurist of Candor, N. Y., where he has filled many positions of honor in his county and state.