Grafton, Edward C – Granger, Bradley F
Grafton, Edward C
naval officer, was born in Boston, Mass. He was commissioned lieutenant in 1855; lieutenantcommander in 1862; commander in 1866; and was retired in 1871. He died June 24, 1876, in New York city.
Grafton, Joseph
clergyman, was born June 9, 1757, in Newport, R. I. He accepted a call to Newton, Mass., and was ordained as pastor of the baptist church in that place in 1788. He died Sept. 16, 1836, in Newton, Mass.
Graham, Charles Kinnaird
civil engineer, was born June 3, 1824, in New York city. At the beginning of the civil war he volunteered in the national army, about four hundred men in his employ in the navy yard following his example. In 1862 he was commissioned brigadier-general. He died April 18, 1889, in New York city.
Graham, Christopher Brian
educator, journalist, clergyman, was born May 19, 1850, in Charleston, W. Va. He was a successful school teacher and a prosperous merchant; and in 1879 became a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church. For six years he was presiding elder of the Charleston district; and there published The Charleston Advocate. He has held important offices in his conference, and now fills a pastorate in Wheeling, W. Va.
Graham, Curtis
author, was born March 11, 1872, in Ormsby, Nev. He received his education in the San Francisco schools and the university of California.
He has filled several positions of trust, and is attaining success as a magazine writer and author.
Graham, David
lawyer, author, was born Feb. 8, 1808, in London, England.
He was a lawyer of New York city; and the author of Practice of the Supreme Court of New York State; New Trials; and Courts of Law and Equity in New York State. He died May 27, 1852, in Nice, France.
Graham, George
soldier, public official, was born about 1772 in Dumfries, Va. He was acting secretary of war during the last two years of President Madison's administration. He became president of the Washington branch of the United States bank; and in 1823 was appointed commissioner of the land office. He died in August, 1830, in Washington, D. C.
Graham, George Rex
lawyer, journalist, was born Jan. 18, 1813, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1846 he purchased the North American, and in 1847 the United States Gazette, which he incorporated with the North American.
Graham, Henry Hale
jurist, was born July 1, 1731, in London, England.
In 1789 Delaware county in Pennsylvania was created, and he was commissioned president judge of its court of common pleas. He died Jan. 24, 1790, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Graham, Isabella
philanthropist, was born July 29, 1742, in Scotland.
Among the more important of the institutions established by her are the Widows' and Orphans' Asylum societies, the society for the Promotion of Industry, and the first Sunday school for ignorant adults. She died July 27, 1814, in New York city.
Graham, James
lawyer, congressman, was born in January, 1793, in Lincoln county, N. C. He served four years in the state legislature; and was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1833 to 1843, and from 1845 to 1847.
He died Sept. 25, 1851.
Graham, James H
congressman.
He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-sixth congress.
Graham, James S
soldier, manufacturer, legislator, was born May 28, 1836, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He served as a soldier in the civil war, and was promoted to captain and brevetted major, and in 1896 was elected commander department of the New York Grand Army of the Republic. He served as a member of the New York legislature for three terms; and is a successful manufacturer of machinery in Rochester, N. Y.
Graham, Joanna
author. Of the Life and Letters of Mrs. Graham, more than 50,000 copies have been sold in America, and many editions issued in England and Scotland.
Graham, John
diplomat. He was a citizen of virginia. In 1819 he was appointed minister plenipotentiary to Portugal. He also went to Brazil on diplomatic business; and returned to the United States in 1820. He died July 31, 1820.
Graham, John
clergyman, was born in 1694 in Scotland. He was the author of A Ballad against the Church of England in Connecticut. He died in December, 1774, in Woodbury, Conn.
Graham, John Andrew
lawyer, author, was born June 10, 1764, in Southbury, Conn. He was a lawyer of Rutland, Vt.; and the author of Descriptive Sketch of Present State of Vermont; Speeches; and Memoirs of Horne Tooke.
He died Aug. 29, 1841, in New York city.
Graham, John Hodges
naval officer, was born March 9, 1794, in Vermont.
He entered the navy as midshipman in 1812; was promoted to be lieutenant in 1817; and captain in 1849. He died March 15, 1878, in Newbury, N. H.
Graham, John H
soldier, merchant, manufacturer, congressman, was born April 1, 1835, in Ireland. In the fall of 1861 he recruited company A, fifth regiment heavy artillery, New York volunteers, and served three years as its captain, and was commissioned as major and brevetted lieutenant-colonel. In 1889 he was selected by the hardware board of trade to represent their interests and was named as one of the incorporators of the proposed World's Columbian exposition to be held in New York. He was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Graham, John Lorimer
soldier, lawyer, was born March 20, 1797, in London, England. In 1834 he was appointed regent of the state university, and from 1840 till 1844 was postmaster of New York city. He died July 22, 1876, in Flushing, N. Y.
Graham, Loyal M
lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 20, 1860, in Butler county, Pa. He is a successful lawyer of Stockville, Neb.; has been county attorney of his county for two terms; and served with distinction as a senator in the Nebraska state legislature.
Graham, Mrs. Margaret Col- Lier
author, was born in 1850 in Iowa.
She is a California writer who has published Stories of the Foot-Hills.
Graham, Napoleon Bonaparte
soldier, journalist, was born June 14, 1846, in Benton, Tenn. He served as a soldier in the federal army; and was a candidate for the Tennessee legislature. He is the editor and owner of The Gazette of Ducktown, Tenn.
Graham, Neil F
physician, surgeon, was born Feb. 9, 1840, in Canada. He served as a surgeon in the army until the close of the war; and was elected professor of surgery at Howard university, Washington, D. C., in 1872.
Graham, Robert
clergyman, educator, college president, was born Aug. 14, 1822, in Liverpool, England. He was the president and founder of the Arkansas college; has been president of the Kentucky university; and until 1896 was president of College of the Bible of Lexington, Ky.
Graham, Robert D
agriculturist, lawyer, state legislator, was born Nov. 11, 1855, in Canada. He has attained success in the practice of law in Grand Rapids, Mich. He served with distinction as a member of the Michigan state legislature in 1897-98.
Graham, Sylvester
vegetarian, author, was born in 1794 in Suffield, Conn. He was a well-known vegetarian and lecturer upon temperance. He was the author of Lectures on the Science of Human Life; Bread and Breadmaking; and Philosophy of Sacred History. He died Sept. 11, 1851, in Northampton, Mass.
Graham, William
college president, was born Dec. 19, 1745, in Harrisburg, Pa.
He was first president of Liberty Hall academy, afterward Washington college and Washington and Lee university. He died June 8, 1799, in Richmond, Va.
Graham, William
congressman, was born in 1783. He was a member of the convention which framed the state constitution of Indiana; and served many years in both branches of the state legislature, and was speaker in 1820. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1837 to 1839. He died in 1857 near Valonia, Ind.
Graham, William A
lawyer, governor, United States senator, was born Sept. 5, 1804, in Lincoln county, N. C. He served in the state legislature from 1833 to 1836, and also in 1839 and 1840. He was a senator in confrom North gress Carolina from 1841 to 1843. In 1844 he was elected governor of the state, and reelected in 1846. He was secretary of the navy under President Filmore; and subsequently was nominated for the office of vice-president on the ticket with Winfield Scott. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia national union convention of 1866; and subsequently held the position of arbitrator between the states of Virginia and Maryland. He died Aug. 11, 1875, in Saratoga, N. Y.
Graham, William A
farmer, soldier, state senator, was born Dec. 26, 1839, in Hillsborough, N. C. He was a soldier in the civil war, and for two terms was a member of the North Carolina state senate.
Granbery, John Cowper
bishop, author, was born Dec. 5, 1829, in Norfolk, Va. He is a bishop of the methodist church south, who published a Bible Dictionary.
Granger, Amos Phelps
soldier, farmer, merchant, congressman, was born in June, 1789, in Suffield, Conn. He served as a captain of militia at Sackett's Harbor in 1812; and subsequently became a general of militia. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses.
He died Aug. 20, 1866, in Syracuse, N. Y.
Granger, Bradley F
lawyer, congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative from Michigan to the thirty-seventh congress.