Griggs, Nathan K – Grinnell, Moses Hicks
Griggs, Nathan K
lawyer, poet, He is one of the foremost lawyers of Nebraska; and attorney for several of the leading railroads of the west. He is the author of a number of meritorious poems, which have appeared in Poets of America and other standard collections.
He is also a hymn writer of national reputation; and collection of his hymns were published in 1892; and a his compositions constantly appear in standard musical publications.
Griggs, Samuel Chapman
publisher, was born July 20, 1819, in Tolland, , was born July 20, 1819, in Tolland, Conn.
He began business as a book seller in Hamilton, N. Y., but in 1848 moved to Chicago, where he continued in the same calling, and in a few years was at the head of the largest book selling business in the northwest.
Grigsby, Hugh Blair
historical scholar, was born Nov. 22, 1806, in Norfolk, Va . He represented Norfolk in the legislature when scarcely more than a boy; and in 1829-30 was a member of the state convention with Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and other noted men. ne was president of the Virginia Historical society, and became in 1871 chancellor of William and Mary college. He died April 28, 1881, in Charlotte county, Va.
Grigsby, Melvin
lawyer, banker, legislator, was born June 8, 1845, in Po- Wis. At the age of sixteen years he enlisted in company C, second regiment Wisconsin cavalry. He has written a work of his prison life and escape. He has been a member of the city council of Sioux Fals, and is a succesful bank president.
He has served with distinction as a member of the South Dakota state legislature, and has been attorney-general for the state of South Dakota.
Grim, William H
orator, clergyman, was born Oct. 19, 1830, in Coshocton county, Ohio. He received his education at the Asbury university, now called the De Pauw university; which institution subsequently conferred upon him the degree of D. D.
In 1855 he entered the Indiana conference of the methodist episcopal church; was presiding elder on the Rockport during 1880-84; and on the Evansville dis- Rockport district trict during 1887-93. He is recognized as one of the ablest pulpit orators of his conference; and now fills a pastorate in Sullivan, Ind.
Grimes, Bryan
soldier, was born Nov. 2, 1828, in Pitt county, N. C. He entered the confederate army in 1861 as major of the fourth North Carolina regiment. He served throughout the war, and attained the rank of senior major-general.
He died Aug. 14, 1880, near Bear Creek, N. C.
Grimes, Edward B
poet. He is a successful journalist of Dayton, Ohio; and the author of a volume of Poems.
Grimes, James Kingsley
educator, clergyman, was born July 4, 1852, in Belmont county, Ohio. In 1873 he graduated in the classical course from the Mount Union college; has received the degrees of A. M. and D. D.; and for several years was a teacher in the public schools. He has attained distinction as a successful clergyman of the methodist episcopal church; and he has filled a number of prominent pastorates in the East Ohio conference. During his pastorate at Alliance, Ohio, the beautiful new church known as the Union Avenue methodist church was erected at a cost of twenty-five thousand dollars.
Grimes, James Wilson
governor, United States senator, was born Oct. 20, 1816, in Deering, N. H. In 1838 he was elected to the general assembly of the territory of Iowa, to which he was frequently re-elected. He was governor of the state of Iowa from 1854 to 1858; and in 1859 was elected a senator in congress from that state for six years. He was a delegate to the peace congress of 1861; was re-elected to the senate for the term commencing in 1865, and ending in 1871.
He died Feb. 7, 1872, in Burlington, Iowa.
Grimes, Thomas Wingfield
soldier, legislator, congressman, was born in Georgia. He served as a private in the confederate army during the last eighteen months of the war. He was a member of the legislature in 1868-69, and re-elected in 1875-76. He served as state senator in 1878-79. In 1880 he was elected solicitorgeneral of the Chattahoochee circuit for a term of four years; and was re-elected without opposition in 1884. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat.
Grimke, Angelina Emily
reformer, author, was oorn Feb. 20, 1805, in Charleston, S. C. She has spent her life in educational and reformatory work; and is the author of a work entitled Letters to Catherine E. Beecher.
Grimke, Archibald Henry
lawyer, author, was born in South Carolina.
He is the author of Eulogy on Wendell Phillips; Charles Sumner, the Scholar in Politics; and William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist.
Grimke, Frederick
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Sept. 1, 1791, in Charleston, S. C. He was an Ohio jurist, and the author of Ancient and Modern Literature; and Nature and Tendencies of Free Institutions. He died March 8, 1863, in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Grimke, John Faucheraud
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Dec. 16, 1752, in South Carolina. He was a jurist of South Carolina, and the author of Revised Edition of Laws of South Carolina; Law of Executors of South Carolina; Public Law of South Carolina; Probate Directory; and Duty of Justices of the Peace. He died Aug. 9, 1819, in Long Branch, N. J.
Grimke, Sarah Moore
reformer, author, was born Nov. 6, 1792, in Charleston, S. C. She was a reformer who was very prominent in the anti-slavery movement, and the author of Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States; and Letters on the Condition of Women. She died Dec. 23, 1873, in Hyde Park, N. Y.
Grimke, Thomas Smith
reformer, author, was born Sept. 26, 1786, in Charleston, S. C. He was a reformer of Charleston, active in temperance and in the promotion of peace societies, who published Addresses on Science, Education, and Literature. He died Oct. 11, 1834, near Columbus, Ohio.
Grimshaw, Robert
civil engineer, lecturer, author, was born in 1850, in Pennsylvania. He is a civil engineer, lecturer on physics at the Franklin institute of Philadelphia, and the author of History, etc., of Saws; Saw Filing; Steam Engine Catechism; Pump Catechism; Steam Boiler Catechism; Record of Scientific Progress; Hints to Power Users; and Fifty Years Hence.
Grimshaw, William
author, was born in 1782, in Ireland. He was a Philadelphia writer who published a once popular series of school histories, and also Etymological Dictionary; Lexicon; Ladies' Lexicon; The American Gentlemen's Chesterfield; and Life of Napoleon. He died in 1852, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Gring, David
railroad president, was born June 8, 1857, in Denver, Pa. Since 1890 he has been president of the Newport and Sherman's Valley railroad at Newport, Pa.
Grinnell, George Bird
ornithologist, journalist, author, was born in 1849, in New York. He is an ornithologist, and the editor of Forest and Stream of New York city. He is the author of The Story of a Prairie People; The Story of the Indian; and Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk Tales.
Grinnell, Henry
merchant, explorer, was born Feb. 14, 1797, in New Bedford , Mass. He was the first president of the American Geographical society, and fitted out two expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin. Grinnell Land, in the Arctic seas, is named in his honor. He died June 30, 1874, in New York city.
Grinnell, Joseph
merchant, banker, congressman, was born Nov. 17, 1788, in New Bedford, Mass. In 1839, 1840, and 1841 he was a member of the governor's council of Massachusetts. He was elected a representative in congress in 1843, and was three times re-elected. He originated the idea of a reduction of postage and the establishment of life boats. He died Feb. 7, 1885, in New Bedford, Mass.
Grinnell, Josiah B
farmer, state senator, congressman, author, was born Dec. 22, 1821, in New Haven, Vt. He was a member of the Iowa state senate for four years; and a special agent for the general postoffice for two years. He was elected a representative from Iowa to the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth congresses.
He was the author of Go West, Young Man, Go West; Home of the Badgers; Industries of the United States; and Men and Events of Forty Years. a
Grinnell, Katherine Van Al- Len
educator, reformer, was born April 20, 1839, in Pillar Point, N. Y. She received her education at the Falley seminary of Fulton, N.
Y.; and has attained prominence as writer and teacher of the scientific principles of the social order. order. She advocates the social system based upon the scientific discoveries of Sivartha in his Book of Life. She has also contributed a number of meritorious poems to the periodical press.
Grinnell, Moses Hicks
merchant, congressman, was born March 3, 1803, in New Bedford, Mass. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1839 to 1841; and was a presidential elector in 1856. In 1869 he was appointed collector of the port of New York. He died Nov. 24, 1877, in New York city.