Gould, Herman D – Grafton, Charles Chapman
Gould, Herman D
congressman, was born in Connecticut. Having taken up his residence in New York he was elected a representative in congress from that state, from 1849 to 1851. He died in 1852 in Delhi, N. Y.
Gould, James
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 5, 1770, in Branford, Conn. He was a jurist of Connecticut who published The Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions. He died May 11, 1836, in Litchfield, Conn.
Gould, Jay
financier, was born May 27, 1836, in Roxbury, N. Y. He made surveys of Ulster, Albany and Delaware counties, and from these surveys he accumulated five thousand dollars. In 1856 he published a History of Delaware County. In 1857 he became the largest stockholder and a director in the Stroudsburg (Pa.) bank; bought the bonds of the Rutland and Washington railroad at ten cents on the dollar, and in 1859 established himself in New York city as a broker. He invested heavily in Erie railway stock, and subsequently controlled ten thousand miles of railroad. He accumulated over fifty millions of dollars. He died Dec. 2, 1892, in New York city.
Gould, John W
author, was born Nov. 5, 1814, in Litchfield, Conn. He was the author of Forecastle Yarns; and Private Journal of Voyage from New York to Rio Janeiro. He died Oct. 1, 1838, at sea.
Gould, Nathaniel Duren
musician, author, was born March 26, 1781, in Bedford, Mass. He was a musician and penman of Boston who published A History of Church Music. He died May 28, 1864, in Boston, Mass.
Gould, Ozro Barnes
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, jurist, was born April 17, 1840, in Canada. In 1861 he enlisted in the fifty-fifth Ohio infantry, served throughout the war, and attained the rank of captain. In 1867 he settled in Winona, Minn., in the practice of law. In 1881 he was a member of the Minnesota state house of representatives, and in 1895 was appointed judge of the third judicial district.
Gould, Thomas R
sculptor, was born in 1818 in Boston, Mass. Among the works that he produced were two colossal heads, Christ and Satan, both of which were exhibited at the Boston athenæum in 1863, but afterward removed to his studio in Florence. He died Nov. 26, 1881, in Florence, Italy.
Gould, Will Daniel
educator, lawyer, was born Sept. 17, 1845, in Cabot, Vt. He received the rudiments of his education at the public and high schools of his native city; the academies of St.
Johnsbury and Barre, Vt.; and in 1871 graduated from the university of Michigan. He became principal of the graded schools at Passumpsic, Marshfield and Plainfield, Vt.; and was superintendent of schools in his native town when twenty-one years of age. In 1872 he settled in Los Angeles, Cal., where he has since been successfully engaged in the active practice of law.
Goulding, Francis Robert
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 28, 1810, in Midway, Ga. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Georgia whose Young Marooners on the Florida Coast, a tale for boys, has long been popular. Other works of his include Marooner's Island; Frank Gordon; Fishing and Fishes; Woodruff Stories; Little Josephine; Cousin Aleck; Adventures Among the Indians; and Boy Life on the Water. He died Aug. 22, 1881, in Roswell, Ga.
Gouley, John William Severin
physician, author, was born March 11, 1832, in New Orleans, La. He is a physician, professor in the university of New York, and the author of External Perineal Urethrotomy; Diseases of the Urinary Organs; and Diseases of Man.
Gourdin, Theodore
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1813 to 1815. He died Jan. 17, 1826.
Govan, a. R
congressman, was born in Orangeburg, S. C. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1822 to 1827, having first been elected to fill a vacancy.
Gove, Samuel F
soldier, merchant, congressman, was born March 9, 1822, in Weymouth, Mass. He was a captain and assessor of taxes for Bibb county in the confederate service; and was elected a representative from Georgia to the fortieth congress as a republican.
Gove, William Hazeltine
orator, legislator, was born July 10, 1817, in Weare, N. H. He became well known as a stump speaker, and gained the title of the silver-tongued orator of New Hampshire.
He was elected a member of the legislature in 1851, 1852, and 1855. He died March 11, 1876, in Weare, N. H.
Gowan, Albert W
soldier, lawyer, state senator, was born May 16, 1846, in Rushford, N. Y. During the civil war he enlisted in battery M, first regiment United States artillery, and served three years. In 1871 he moved to Osborne county, Kan., and helped to organize that county, and in 1881 was its representative in the Kansas state legislature. In 1882 he moved to Oregon and in 1890 settled in Burns, where he is engaged in the practice of law. During 1893-96 he was captain of troop A of the Oregon National Guard.
Gowans, William
bookseller, antiquarian, author, was born March 29, 1803, in Scotland. From 1828 until his death he was identified with the book business of New York city. He died Nov. 27, 1870, in New York city.
Gower, Cornelius A
educator, manufacturer, was born in 1845 in Abbott, Maine. He was superintendent of public instruction during 1878-81; and the succeeding eleven years was superintendent of the State Reform school. He is president and general manager of the Building and Loan association of Lansing, Mich.
Grace, George Azariah
lawyer, was born Dec. 9, 1845, in Johnson county, Tenn. After receiving his education, he graduated from the Albany Law school, N. Y. He has been assistant United States attorney for the western district of Arkansas, and is one of the leading lawyers of that state, and practices his profession at Fort Smith.
Grace, Thomas L
bishop, was born Nov. 16, 1814, in Charleston, S. C. He attained eminence in the Roman catholic church, and for many years was a bishop of St. Paul, Minn.
Grace, William Russell
merchant, was born May 10, 1832, in Ireland.
In 1881 he established the New York and Pacific Steamship company.
Gracey, John Talbot
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 16, 1831, in Philadelphia, Pa. For eight years he was a missionary to India. He is a noted lecturer, the author of several works, and the editor of The Missionary Review of the World.
Grady, Benjamin F
soldier, educator, congressman, was born Oct. 10, 1831, in Dublin county, N. C. He was elected professor of mathematics and natural sciences in Austin college. He remained in Austin college till he enlisted in a Texas confederate regiment. He located in North Carolina at the close of the war. He was superintendent of public schools of Dublin county from 1881 to 1888, and justice of the peace from 1879 to 1890. He was one of the trustees of the North Carolina State university from 1873 to 1890; and was elected to the fifty-second and re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Grady, Henry Woodward
journalist, was born May 24, 1850, in Athens, Ga. In 1880 he bought an interest in the Atlanta Constitution, and remained a part owner and editor of that paper until his death. He died Dec. 23, 1889.
Grady, John C
lawyer, United States senator, was born Oct. 8, 1847, in Eastport, Maine. In 1876 he was elected to represent the seventh district of Pennsylvania in the state senate from Philadelphia, and in 1881 was elected United States senator.
Grady, John E
lawyer, state senator, was born in Franklin county, Fla. He has been collector of customs for the port of Key West, and served with distinction as a member of the Florida state senate.
Graebner, Augustus L
clergyman, author, was born in 1849, in Michigan. He is a lutheran clergyman, professor in the Theological seminary at St. Louis from 1887, and is the author of Half a Century of Sound Lutheranism in America.
Graff, Frederick
civil engineer, was born Aug. 27, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1811 he recommended Fairmount as the proper place for the waterworks of Philadelphia, and was entrusted with their construction. For forty-two years he was in the service of the city of Philadelphia, and a monument to his memory was erected in the grounds at Fairmount waterworks. He died April 13, 1847, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Graff, Joseph V
lawyer, congressman, was born July 1, 1854, in Terre Haute, Ind. He moved to Illinois; and was a delegate to the national republican convention at Minneapolis in 1892. He has engaged in the practice of law ever since his admission to the bar. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Graffenried, R. C. De
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1859 in Franklin, Tenn. He was elected county attorney of Longview, Texas; in 1888 was elector on the democratic ticket; made the race for congress in 1890; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Grafton, Charles Chapman
bishop of Fond du Lac, Wis., was born April 12, 1830, in Boston, Mass. He introduced into America the Sisterhood of St. Margaret, East Grinstead, establishing the community in Boston. He also founded the Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity. He was consecrated bishop of Fond du Lac in the cathedral at Fond du Lac on April 25, 1889. His writings comprise: Vocation, or the Call of the Divine Master to a Sister's Life; Plain Suggestions for a Reverent Celebration of the Holy Communion; and various essays, sermons, and tracts.