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Grimes, Bryan
soldier, was born Nov. 2, 1828, in Pitt county, N. C. He entered the confederate army in 1861 as major of the fourth North Carolina regiment. He served throughout the war, and attained the rank of senior major-general.
He died Aug. 14, 1880, near Bear Creek, N. C.
Grimes, Edward B
poet. He is a successful journalist of Dayton, Ohio; and the author of a volume of Poems.
Grimes, Thomas Wingfield
soldier, legislator, congressman, was born in Georgia. He served as a private in the confederate army during the last eighteen months of the war. He was a member of the legislature in 1868-69, and re-elected in 1875-76. He served as state senator in 1878-79. In 1880 he was elected solicitorgeneral of the Chattahoochee circuit for a term of four years; and was re-elected without opposition in 1884. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat.
Grimke, Angelina Emily
reformer, author, was oorn Feb. 20, 1805, in Charleston, S. C. She has spent her life in educational and reformatory work; and is the author of a work entitled Letters to Catherine E. Beecher.
Grimke, Archibald Henry
lawyer, author, was born in South Carolina.
He is the author of Eulogy on Wendell Phillips; Charles Sumner, the Scholar in Politics; and William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist.
Grimke, Frederick
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Sept. 1, 1791, in Charleston, S. C. He was an Ohio jurist, and the author of Ancient and Modern Literature; and Nature and Tendencies of Free Institutions. He died March 8, 1863, in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Grimke, John Faucheraud
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Dec. 16, 1752, in South Carolina. He was a jurist of South Carolina, and the author of Revised Edition of Laws of South Carolina; Law of Executors of South Carolina; Public Law of South Carolina; Probate Directory; and Duty of Justices of the Peace. He died Aug. 9, 1819, in Long Branch, N. J.
Grimke, Sarah Moore
reformer, author, was born Nov. 6, 1792, in Charleston, S. C. She was a reformer who was very prominent in the anti-slavery movement, and the author of Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States; and Letters on the Condition of Women. She died Dec. 23, 1873, in Hyde Park, N. Y.
Grimke, Thomas Smith
reformer, author, was born Sept. 26, 1786, in Charleston, S. C. He was a reformer of Charleston, active in temperance and in the promotion of peace societies, who published Addresses on Science, Education, and Literature. He died Oct. 11, 1834, near Columbus, Ohio.
Grimshaw, Robert
civil engineer, lecturer, author, was born in 1850, in Pennsylvania. He is a civil engineer, lecturer on physics at the Franklin institute of Philadelphia, and the author of History, etc., of Saws; Saw Filing; Steam Engine Catechism; Pump Catechism; Steam Boiler Catechism; Record of Scientific Progress; Hints to Power Users; and Fifty Years Hence.
Grimshaw, William
author, was born in 1782, in Ireland. He was a Philadelphia writer who published a once popular series of school histories, and also Etymological Dictionary; Lexicon; Ladies' Lexicon; The American Gentlemen's Chesterfield; and Life of Napoleon. He died in 1852, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Gring, David
railroad president, was born June 8, 1857, in Denver, Pa. Since 1890 he has been president of the Newport and Sherman's Valley railroad at Newport, Pa.