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Gross, John Daniel

educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1737, in Germany . He was a regent of the university of New York in 1784, and a trustee of Columbia in 1787. He published Natural Principles of Rectitude. He died May 25, 1812, in Canajoharie, N. Y.

Gross, Joseph B

clergyman, author, He was a lutheran clergyman, among whose writings are The Heathen Religion in Its Symbolical Development; Teachings of Providence; Truth in Religion; Belief in Immortality on Purely Logical Principles ; and Old Faith and New Thoughts. He died in 1891.

Gross, Samuel

congressman, was born in Montgomery county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1819 to 1823.

Gross, Samuel Weissel

educa- , educa- Feb. 4, 1837, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a surgeon of Philadelphia who succeeded his father as professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical college in 1882. He is the author of Tumors of the Mammary Gland; and Treatise on Impotence, Sterility, and Allied Disorders. He died April 16, 1889, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Gross, William Hickley

arcnbishop, was born June 12, 1837, in Baltimore, Md. He was consecrated bishop of Savannah in 1873, and in 1884 he became archbishop of Oregon.

Grosvenor, Charles W

soldier, state senator, was born May 11, 1839, in Pomfret, Conn. He served as sergeant of company D, eighteenth Connecticut volunteers, during the civil war. He nas twice represented his native town in the state legislature, and once in the senate; and in 1897 became state treasurer.

Grosvenor, Ebenezer O

merchant, banker, state senator, was born Jan. 26, 1820, in Stillwater, N. Y. In 1854 he established the Grosvenor Savings bank of Jonesville, Mich., of which he has always been president and manager.

He was a state senator in 1859 and in 1863-64.

Grosvenor, Thomas P

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1780, in Pomfret, Conn . He served a number of years in the legislature of New York; was elected a representative in congress from 1813 to 1817. He died April 25, 1817.

Grote, Augustus Radcliffe

scientist, author, poet. He is a scientist, formerly of Buffalo, but now living in Bremen, Germany. He is the author of Notes on the Bombycide of Cuba; Notes on the Sphingidæ of Cuba; Notes on the Zygænidæ of Cuba; Genesis; The New Infidelity; Notes of the Lepidoptera of America (with C. T. Robinson); and Rip Van Winkle, a Sun Myth, and Other Poems

Grout, Jonathan

soldier, lawyer;. congressman, was born July 23, 1737, in Lunenburg, Mass. He served for a short time in the revolutionary army. He was for some years a member of the general Massachusetts; and in 1789 was elected, a. court, or house of representatives of member of the first congress, in which he served from 1789 to 1791. He died Sept.. 8, 1807, in Dover, N. Η.

Grout, William W

soldier, lawyer; congressman, was born May 24, 1836, ın.

Canada, of American parents. He was state's attorney for Orleans county in 1865-66. He was a member of the Vermont house of representatives in 1868, 1869, 1870, and 1874, and of the senate in 1876. He was elected to the forty-seventh, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fiftysecond, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress in 1896.

Grove, Philetus Ammerman

artist, educator, clergyman, was born Jan. 6, 1867, in Pisgah, Mo. He received his education at the Clarksburg college and the Missouri Valley college, graduating from the latter institution in 1894 with the degree of B. L. He has attained success as an educator, and for three years was president of the Otterville college.

He is a successful clergyman of the presbyterian church; and has been successful as an instructor in art.