Granger, Francis – Grantland, Seaton
Granger, Francis
congressman, was born Dec. 1, 1792, in Suffield, Conn.
He was for five years from 1826 a member of the New York general assembly. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1835 to 1837, and again from 1839 to 1841, when he resigned to accept from President Harrison the appointment of postmaster-general. He was a member of the peace convention of 1861.
He died Aug. 28, 1868, in Canandaigua, N. Y.
Granger, Gideon
lawyer, state senator, was born July 19, 1767, in Suffield, Conn. In 1793 he was elected a member of the legislature, and continued in that body several years. In 1801 he was appointed postmaster-general of the United States, and continued in that office until 1814, when he removed to the state of New York. In 1819 he was elected to the state senate. He gave one thousand acres of land in aid of the canal. He died Dec. 21, 1822, in Canandaigua, N. Y.
Granger, Gordon
soldier, was born in 1821 in New York. During the civil war he became a colonel, and was placed in command of the army of Kentucky.
He died Jan. 10, 1876, in Santa Fe, N. M.
Granger, Miles Tobey
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 12, 1817, in New Marlborough, Mass. He was elected judge of the superior court of Connecticut; and in 1876 was elected judge of the supreme court, which he held till 1887, when he resigned. He was a member of the Connecticut house of representatives in 1857; and of the senate in 1866-67. He held the office of judge of the superior court nineteen and a half years consecutively, and was elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.
Granger, Robert Seaman
soldier, was born May 24, 1816, in Zanesville, Ohio. He served in the Florida, Mexican and civil wars, and attained the brevet of major-general in the United States army.
Grannis, George W
soldier, clergyman, reformer, was born Aug. 24, 1847, in Butler county, Pa. During the civil war he served in company E, one hundred and ninety-third regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry; and is now an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Since 1869 he has been a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church; has served as presiding elder; and is now filling a pastorate in Salem, Ore. He has always taken an active part in temperance and other reform movements, and contributes extensively to current literature.
Grant, Abraham
bishop, was born Aug. 25, 1848, in Lake City, Fla. In 1888 he was elected bishop of the African methodist episcopal church.
Grant, Abraham P
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1839.
Grant, Amariah J
soldier, clergyman, was born May 23, 1841, in Hastings, N. Y. He was the inventor of the automatic bar locking device, which to-day may be found on nearly every desk manufactured. In 1863 he enlisted in the twenty-fourth regiment New York volunteer cavalry, and was promoted to sergeant. In 1876 he left his trade of cabinetmaker for the ministry; and has since been a successful clergyman of the methodist episcopal church in his native state.
Grant, Asahel
physician, author, was born Aug. 17, 1807, in Marshall, N. Y.
He was a physician who was a missionary in Persia; and the author of The Nestorians, or the Lost Tribes. He died April 25, 1844, in Turkey.
Grant, Charles S
physician, surgeon, was born Nov. 29, 1845, in Hobart, N. Y. He was one of the founders of the State Medical association; and in 1885 he erected at Saratoga Springs a sanitarium.
Grant, Clement Rollins
artist, was born July 10, 1849, in Freeport, Maine.
His specialty is landscape and portrait painting. Among his pictures are Amy Wentworth, an illustration of Whittier's poem, Marguerita; and O for the Touch of a Vanished Hand.
Grant, Frederick Dent
soldier, was born May 30, 1850, in St. Louis, Mo.
He is the son of General Grant, and in 1873 was commissioned lieutenant-colonel, in which capacity he served eight years.
Grant, Frederick Elsworth
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 14, 1854, in College Hill, Ohio. He received his education in the schools of Rossville, Ill.; and has attained success as an able lawyer of Huron, S. D. Since 1890 he has been commissioner of the United States circuit court; and is the present county judge of Beadle county, at Huron, S. D.
Grant, James Benton
miner, governor, was born Jan. 2, 1848, in Russell county, Ala. He built the first large smelting works at Leadville in 1878, under the name of J. B. Grant and Co.; and when the fire in that mining camp destroyed the works, he constructed in Denver in 1882, a finer plant than the original one, consolidating his business with another company, under the name of the Omaha and Grant Smelting Co. In 1882 he was nominated for governor and was elected by an overwhelming majority.
Grant, John T
railroad builder, statę senator, was born Dec. 13, 1813, near Grantville, Ga. After graduating in 1833 from the state unistate university, he became a railroad builder in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. In 1856 he was elected state senator from Walton county; became colonel on the staff of Governor Howeli Cobb; and built the handsomest residence in Atlanta, Ga. He was a lover of art, music and literature; and was both a composer and performer on flute and violin. He died Jan. 18, 1887, in Atlanta, Ga. His only son, Captain W. D. Grant, succeeded his father in carrying on his various enterprises.
Grant, Julia Dent
wife of President Grant, was born Jan. 26, 1826, in St. Louis, Mo. When America called Grant to the presidential chair, she stood with dignity at his side, and commanded the respect of all who beheld her; and this respect has been enhanced by her continued dignity through the trials and sufferings of Grant's last days.
Grant, Lemuel Pratt
railroad president, was born Aug. 11, 1817, in Frankfort, Maine. In 1873 he became president of the Georgia Pacific railroad; and in 1883 was president of the Western railroad of Alabama.
Grant, Robert
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Jan. 24, 1852, in Boston, Mass. He is a lawyer of Boston well known as a littérateur; from 1893 a judge of probate and insolvency for Suffolk county, Mass. He has written several satirical works, including The Little Tin Gods on Wheels; The Lambs; Yankee Doodle ; and the juvenile tales, Jack Hall; Jack in the Bush. In fiction he has published Confessions of a Frivolous Girl; The Carletons; Mrs. Harold Stagg; An Average Man; The Knave of Hearts; A Romantic Young Lady; Face to Face; The Bachelor's Christmas, and Other Stories; The Opinions of a Philosopher; Reflections of a Married Man. Other works of his are The Art of Living; and The Oldest School in America.
Grant, Ulysses Simpson
eighteenth president of the United States, was born April 27, 1822, in Clermont county , Ohio. He graduated at the Military academy at West Point in 1843, and entered the United States regular army as a brevet second lieutenant.
He was afterward promoted to captain, and served in the Mexican war under Generals Scott and Taylor. He participated in the battles of Palo Alto, Monterey, Vera Cruz and Molino del Rey. At the close of the war Grant's company was sent to Oregon. In 1848 he married Miss Julia T. Dent. In 1854 he resigned his connection with the army, and settled near St. Louis. In 1859 he moved to Galena, Ill., and engaged in the leather trade until the breaking out of the rebellion. He then entered the union army as colonel, and distinguished himself at the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Richmond and others.
He was promoted from time to time, until February, 1864, when he received the commission of lieutenant-general from President Lincoln's own hand, and continued in the field until he received the sword which General Robert Edward Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865. The republican national convention met at Chicago May 21, 1868.
On the first ballot Grant was unanimously nominated for president, with Schuyler Colfax for vice-president. Being duly elected, they were inaugurated March 4, 1869. At the republican national convention held in Philadelphia June 5, 1872, President Grant was renominated by acclamation. Henry Wilson was nominated for vice-president. Being elected, they took the oath of office March 4, 1873.
He completed his term of eight years as president March 4, 1877. On May 17 he left Philadelphia for a tour around the world, and landed in San Francisco Sept. 20, 1879. In the republican national convention in 1880 his name was presented as a candidate for president, and he received from 302 to 313 votes during the thirty-six ballots taken. He removed to New York city in 1881. Just previous to his death he wrote his memoirs, which were published in two volumes, and brought a large fortune to his widow.
He completed this last work of his life but four days before his death, which occurred July 23, 1885, on Mount McGregor, near Saratoga, N. Y. He was the author of Report of the Armies of the United States; and Personal Memoirs.
Grant, William Daniel
capitalist, was born Aug. 16, 1837, in Athens, Ga. He is the largest owner of Atlanta real estate and one of the wealthiest men of Georgia.
Grantland, Seaton
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was elected a representative in congress from Georgia from 1835 to 1839; and was also a presidential elector.