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Griffin, Levi T – Grigg, John

Griffin, Levi T

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born May 23, 1837, in Clinton, N. Y. He served in the United States army, and attained the rank of major. He was elected from the state of Michigan to the fifty-third congress to fill a vacancy.

Griffin, Michael

soldier, lawyer, congressman, state senator, was born Sept. 9, 1842, in Ireland. He enlisted as a private in 1861, in company E, twelfth regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry, and served until the close of the war, peing promoted to the grade of second and first lieutenant. He was state senator in 1880 and 1881; and was elected in 1894 to the fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.

Griffin, Samuel

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia, from 1789 to 1795.

Griffin, Samuel P

naval officer, navigator, was born in 1826, in Savannah, Ga. He entered the service of the Pacific Mail Steamship company, commanding, as their commodore, successive steamers of their fleet till 1882. He was an authority on ship-building, and the author of the code of international fog signals and of essays on ship-building. He died July 4, 1887, in Panama.

Griffin, Solomon Bulkley

journalist, author, was born Aug. 13, 1852, in Williamstown, Mass. He is a journalist of Springfield, Mass., who has published Mexico of To-Day.

Griffith, David

clergyman, was born in 1742 in New York city. At the second Virginia convention of his church in May, 1786, Dr. Griffith was chosen bishop. He died Aug. 3, 1789, in Philadelphia, Pa.

GRIFFITH, GOLDSBOROUGH SAP- PINGTON, philanthropist, was born Nov. 4, 1814, in Havre-de-Grace, Md. In 1866 he was elected president of the Maryland union commission; and contributed largely to the erection of the Young Men's Christian association building in Baltimore.

Griffith, Harrison P

educator, was born Feb. 25, 1837, in Laurens county, S. C. In 1881 he was elected principal of Cooper-Limestone Female institute. He is an able educator, and has done much toward building up the fortunes of the south.

Griffith, Samuel

lawyer, gressman, was born Feb. 14, 1816, in Britain.

He was elected a representative to the forty-second congress from Pennsylvania.

Griffith, William

jurist. He was one of the earliest judges of the United States circuit court; and in 1801 was appointed by President Jefferson to the third circuit.

Griffiths, John Willis

naval architect, author, was born Oct. 6, 1809, in New York city. He was a naval architect of New York city, and the author of Treatise on Marine and Naval Architecture, a work of great value; The Ship Builders' Manual; and The Progressive Ship Builder. He died April 29, 1882, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Griffitts, Samuel Powell

physician, was born July 21, 1759, in Philadelphia, Pa. He founded the Philadelphia dispensary in 1786, and was its physician for seven years. He died May 12, 1826, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Grigg, John

publisher, banker, was born in 1792, in England. He entered a publishing house in Philadelphia in 1816 , and in 1823 began business on his own account, and was very successful. Heretired in 1850, with a large fortune , and afterward became a private banker.

He died Aug. 2, 1864, in Philadelphia.