Grennell, George – Griffin, Simon Goodell
Grennell, George
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1786, in Greenfield, Mass. He was prosecuting attorney for Franklin county from 1820 to 1828. He was a member of the state senate from 1824 to 1827; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1829 to 1839. He was, from 1838 to 1859, a member of the board of trustees of Amherst college; and from 1849 to 1853 was probate judge for his county. He died Nov. 20, 1877, in Greenfield, Mass.
Gresham, Walter Quinton
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born March 17, 1832, near Lanesville, Ind. He entered the union army in 1861 as lieutenantcolonel; and was brevetted a major-general. He was financial agent of Indiana at New York city from 1867 to 1869, when he was appointed United States district judge for the district of Indiana, in which capacity he served until 1883, when he was appointed postmaster-general in the cabinet of President Arthur. In 1884 he was appointed United States circuit judge for the seventh judicial circuit.
Gress, George Valentine
manufacturer, was born April 25, 1847, in Sullivan county, N. ì. He established the Gress Lumber company, one of the largest concerns in the south. He is president of the Hart Lumber company, and of the United States Bond and Mortgage company, at Finn, Ga.
Grey, Benjamin E
state legislator, state senator, congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a member of the legislature of that state from Logan county in 1838 and 1839; was state senator from 1847 to 1851; and was speaker of the senate and acting lieutenant-governor in 1850. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1851 to 1855.
Grey, Samuel H
lawyer, was born April 6, 1836, in Camden, N. J. The West Jersey Title and Guaranty company was organized by him in 1888, and he has since been its president. He also organized in 1873 the Camden Safe Deposit and Trust company.
Grider, Henry
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born July 16, 1796, in Garrard county, Kentucky. In 1827 and 1831 he was elected to the legislature of Kentucky; and in 1833 to the state senate, where he served four years. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1843 to 1847; and was also elected to the thirty-seventh and thirty-ninth He died Sept. 14, 1866, in congresses.
Warren county, Ky.
Gridley, Albert Leverett
soldier, clergyman, cosmologist, was born Oct. 17, 1839, in Caton, N. Y. He received his education at the academy of Oxford, New York; Oberlin college, and the Oberlin Theological seminary. He served for four years as a union soldier during the civil war. He has attained success as an educator and clergyman; and is now pastor of the congregational church of Kidder, Mo. In 1871 he discovered a law in cosmology, which is fully set forth in The American Mathematical Monthly of July, 1879. The contention is that if the solar system has grown from nebulæ, according to the nebular hypothesis, then the velocities of the interior planets in their orbits is the result of the velocity of the one nearest outside of it, with the velocity of contraction.
Gridley, Charles V
naval officer, was born in Indiana. He was commander of Admiral Dewey's flagship, Olympia, in the great battle of Manila bay. He died in July, 1898.
Gridley, John Thomas
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 2, 1868, in West Candor, N. Y. He received his education at the Cornell university, and in 1892 graduated from the Columbia college law school. He has attained success as an able lawyer and jurist of Candor, N. Y., where he has filled many positions of honor in his county and state.
Gridley, Richard
soldier, was born Jan. 3, 1711, in Boston, Mass. He entered the patriot army in 1775 and was made a major-general in command of the continental artillery. He died June 20, 1796, in Stoughton, Mass.
Grier, James Alexander
educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1846 in Pennsylvania. He is a united presbyterian clergyman of Pennsylvania, professor in Alleghany Theological seminary, and the author of Secret Societies; and Biography of Jeremiah Rankine Johnston.
Grier, Robert Cooper
lawyer, jurist, was born March 5, 1794, in Cumberland county, Pa. In 1846 he was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States. He moved to Philadelphia in 1848. He died Sept. 25, 1870, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Grierson, Benjamin Henry
soldier, merchant, was born July 8, 1826, in Pittsburg, Pa. In 1863 he made the celebrated raid through Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana; and attained the brevet of major-general in the United States army.
Griffin, Charles P
legislator, was born Sept. 3, 1842, in Henrietta, Ohio. In 1868 he moved to Toledo, Ohio, and was elected to the legislature in 1887, re-elected in 1889, and again in 1891.
Griffin, Cyrus
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1749, in Virginia. He was a member of the legislature; was a delegate to the continental congress from 1778 to 1781, and in 1787 and 1788, and was its president in 1788. He was president of the supreme court of admiralty; a commissioner in 1789 to the Creek nation; and judge of the United States district court for Virginia from 1789. He died Dec. 14, 1810, in Yorktown, Va.
Griffin, Frank
journalist, lawyer, was born March 8, 1848, in Wisconsin. He is the editor and owner of The Daily Review and Weekly Advocate of Maryville, Mo. He has waged an incessant warfare upon the saloons through his publications.
For his persistence in fighting for prohibition his presses have been broken, dynamite thrown into his office, and himself and family have been shot at a number of times. But through it all he has waged continual warfare, and is now one of the most prominent prohibitionists of Missouri.
Griffin, Frank M
journalist, was born Aug. 17, 1859, in Greenup Union, Ky.
He is the editor and owner of the Eastern Kentucky Democrat of Greenup, Ky. For three years he was postmaster at Enterprise, Ky., and is very prominent in fraternal orders.
Griffin, George
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 14, 1778, in East Haddam, Conn. He was a lawyer of New York city, and the author of Sufferings of Our Saviour; Evidences of Christianity; and The Gospel its Own Evidence. He died May 6, 1860, in New York city.
Griffin, Gilderoy Wells
journalist, author, was born March 6, 1840, in Louisville, Ky. He is a journalist who has been consul in Australia and elsewhere. He is the author of Studies in Literature; Danish Days; Visit to Stratford; New Zealand, her Commerce and Resources; and Life of George Prentice.
Griffin, Isaac
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1813 to 1817.
Griffin, John
lawyer, jurist. He was an early emigrant to Indiana; and in 1800 was appointed a judge of the United States court for that territory. In 1806 he was appointed to the same position for the territory of Michigan, where he remained for many years.
Griffin, John K
congressman. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1831 to 1841. He died Aug. 1, 1841, at Milton, S. C.
Griffin, Levi T
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born May 23, 1837, in Clinton, N. Y. He served in the United States army, and attained the rank of major. He was elected from the state of Michigan to the fifty-third congress to fill a vacancy.
Griffin, Michael
soldier, lawyer, congressman, state senator, was born Sept. 9, 1842, in Ireland. He enlisted as a private in 1861, in company E, twelfth regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry, and served until the close of the war, peing promoted to the grade of second and first lieutenant. He was state senator in 1880 and 1881; and was elected in 1894 to the fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.
Griffin, Samuel
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia, from 1789 to 1795.
Griffin, Samuel P
naval officer, navigator, was born in 1826, in Savannah, Ga. He entered the service of the Pacific Mail Steamship company, commanding, as their commodore, successive steamers of their fleet till 1882. He was an authority on ship-building, and the author of the code of international fog signals and of essays on ship-building. He died July 4, 1887, in Panama.
Griffin, Simon Goodell
soldier, lawyer, legislator, historian, was born Aug. 9, 1824, in Nelson, N. H. For many years he was engaged in educational work; and for two terms represented his town in the New Hampshire state legislature. In 1860 he practiced law in Concord; and at President Lincoln's first call for troops he volunteered as a private and was chosen captain of company B, second regiment New Hampshire volunteer infantry. He commanded his company at the first battle of Bull Run; was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the sixth regiment New Hampshire volunteer infantry, and joined Burnside's expedition to North Carolina. He was rapidly promoted to colonel, brigadiergeneral and brevet major-general. After the war General Griffin settled in Keene, N. H., and represented that town three terms in the state legislature, two of which he served as speaker of the house.
In 1887-88 he was commander of the Massachusetts commandery of the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. This eminent soldier and statesman is now engaged in historical literary work.