Grose, William – Grover, Cuvier
Grose, William
soldier, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Dec. 16, 1812, in Dayton, Ohio. He was chosen a judge of the court of common pleas in 1860, but resigned in 1861, and recruited the thirty-sixth Indiana infantry, of which he became colonel.
At Shiloh his regiment was the only part of Buell's army that joined in the first day's fight, and after the engagement he commanded a brigade; and subsequently was promoted to brigadier-general. He lives in New Castle, Ind.
Gross, Ezra C
lawyer, congressman, was born in Windsor county, Vt. He was surrogate of Essex county from 1815 to 1819; was a representative in congress from New York from 1819 to 1821; and was elected to the assembly of that state in 1828 and 1829. He died before the close of his second term.
Gross, John Daniel
educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1737, in Germany . He was a regent of the university of New York in 1784, and a trustee of Columbia in 1787. He published Natural Principles of Rectitude. He died May 25, 1812, in 1812, in Canajoharie, N. Y.
Gross, Joseph B
clergyman, author, He was a lutheran clergyman, among was a lutheran clergyman, among whose writings are The Heathen Religion in Its Symbolical Development; Teachings of Providence; Truth in Religion; Belief in Immortality on Purely Logical Principles ; and Old Faith and New Thoughts. He died in 1891.
Gross, Samuel
congressman, was born in Montgomery county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1819 to 1823.
Gross, Samuel David
educator, physician, surgeon, author, was born July 8, 1805, near Easton, Pa. He was a distinguished surgeon of Philadelphia who was professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical college in 1856-82, and a member of many medical associations in America and Europe. He is the author of A System of Surgery; Lives of Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons of the Nineteenth Century; Manual of Military Surgery; History of American Medical Literature; John Hunter and His Pupils; Pathological Anatomy; Wounds of the Intestines; and Diseases of the Urinary Organs. He also edited American Medical Biography. He died May 6, 1884, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Gross, Samuel Eberly
capitalist, founder. He determined upon the operations which have since made him famous as probably the greatest subdivider of real estate in the United States.
Among his many successful transactions may be noted the following: In 1880 he located the New City to the soutnwest. In 1882 he began on Chicago's northern boundary and laid out what eventuated in the flourishing village of Gross Park. In 1886 he founded the town of Brookdale on the Illinois Central railway; and opened Under-the-Linden, the villages of Calumet Heights and Dauphin Park; and in 1889 he founded Grossdale. tor, physician, surgeon, author, was born
Gross, Samuel Weissel
educa- , educa- Feb. 4, 1837, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a surgeon of Philadelphia who succeeded his father as professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical college in 1882. He is the author of Tumors of the Mammary Gland; and Treatise on Impotence, Sterility, and Allied Disorders. He died April 16, 1889, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Gross, William Hickley
arcnbishop, was born June 12, 1837, in Baltimore, Md. He was consecrated bishop of Savannah in 1873, and in 1884 he became archbishop of Oregon.
Grosvenor, Charles Henry
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 20, 1833 , in Pomfret, Conn. He enlisted in the union army in 1861, and served throughout the war as major, lieutenantcolonel and colonel, and was brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. He was solicitor of Athens in 1867-68; presidential elector in 1872 and 1880; and was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1873 and re-elected in 1875, serving as speaker in 1876 and 1877. He was appointed a member of the board of trustees of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home in 1880. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-ninth, fiftieth , fifty-first, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty -fifth congresses as a republican.
Grosvenor, Charles W
soldier, state senator, was born May 11, 1839, in Pomfret, Conn. He served as sergeant of company D, eighteenth Connecticut volunteers, during the civil war. He nas twice represented his native town in the state legislature, and once in the senate; and in 1897 became state treasurer.
Grosvenor, Ebenezer O
merchant, banker, state senator, was born , banker, state senator, was born Jan. 26, 1820, in Stillwater, N. Y. In 1854 he established the Grosvenor Savings bank of Jonesville, Mich., of which he has always been president and manager.
He was a state senator in 1859 and in 1863-64.
Grosvenor, Edwin Augustus
educator, author, was born in 1845, in Massachusetts. He was a professor of European history at Amherst college, and from college, Constantinople. He is the author 1873-90 professor of history at Roberts of Constantinople.
Grosvenor, Lemuel Conant
1833, in Paxton, Mass. He is an obstetriphysician, author, was born March 22 , cian of rare skill and ability, and has long held a front rank among physicians in general practice in Chicago. He is the author of Our Babies; Bedside Chats with Young Mothers; and The Sanitation and Technique of the Lying-in Room.
Grosvenor, Thomas P
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1780, in Pomfret, Conn . He served a number of years in the legislature of New York; was elected a representative in congress from 1813 to 1817. He died April 25, 1817.
Grote, Augustus Radcliffe
scientist, author, poet. He is a scientist, , author, poet. He is a scientist, formerly of Buffalo, but now living in Bremen, Germany. He is the author of Notes on the Bombycide of Cuba; Notes on the on the Sphingidæ of Cuba; Notes on the Zygænidæ of Cuba; Genesis; The New Infidelity; Notes of the Lepidoptera of America (with C. T. Robinson); and Rip Van Winkle, a Sun Myth, and Other Poems
Grout, Jonathan
soldier, lawyer;. congressman, was born July 23, 1737, in Lunenburg, Mass. He served for a short time in the revolutionary army. He was for some years a member of the general Massachusetts; and in 1789 was elected, a. court, or house of representatives of member of the first congress, in which he served from 1789 to 1791. He died Sept.. 8, 1807, in Dover, N. H.
Grout, William W
soldier, lawyer; congressman, was born May 24, 1836, in.
Canada, of American parents. He was state's attorney for Orleans county in 1865-66. He was a member of the Vermont house of representatives in 1868, 1869, 1870, and 1874, and of the senate in 1876. He was elected to the forty-seventh, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fiftysecond, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress in 1896.
Grove, John B
physician, was born Aug. 2, 1829, in Augusta county, Va. In 1872 he was elected a member of the city council of Columbus,.
Ind.; and was nominated as state senator for the counties, of Bartholomew and Brown, by the democrats of the district in 1874. In 1863 he became identified with the democratic organization, of which he has since been an earnest and consistent member, taking a deep interest in its welfare, and contributing largely to its successful management. As a physician he stands at the head of the profession.
Grove, Philetus Ammerman
artist, educator, clergyman, was born Jan. 6, 1867, in Pisgah, Mo. He received his education at the Clarksburg college and the Missouri Valley college, graduating from the latter institution in 1894 with the degree of B. L. He has attained success as an educator, and for three years was president of the Otterville college.
He is a successful clergyman of the presbyterian church; and has been successful as an instructor in art.
Grove, William B
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1791 to 1803.
Grover, Asa P
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1819, in Ontario county, N. Y. He was elected to the state senate in 1857; re-elected in 1861, holding the position eight years.
He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the fortieth congress as a democrat.
Grover, Cuvier
soldier, was born July 24, 1829, in Bethel, Maine. In 1850 he graduated from the United States Military academy, and was assigned to the first artillery; served on the frontier till 1853; and from 1853 to 1854 on the Northern Pacific railroad exploration, after which he served at various western stations. In 1862 he became brigadier-general of volunteers; was transferred to the army of the Potomac; and in 1875 was made colonel. He died June 6, 1885 , in Atlantic City, N. J.