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684 GRIFFIN, Samuel P., navigator, b. in Savan- nah, Ga., in 1826 ; d. in Aspinwall, Panama, 4 July, 1887. He was graduated at the U. S. naval acade- my in 1841, served throughout the Mexican war in Californian waters, and in 1849 was in the first IT. S. arctic expedition that was sent out to search for Sir John Franklin. He resigned from the navy in 1854, engaged in business in New Orleans, and dur- ing the civil war was detailed by Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks to collect a fleet for the Red river expedi- tion. He soon afterward entered the service of the Pacific mail steamship company, commanding, as their commodore, successive steamers of their fleet till 1882. Capt. Griffin was an authority on ship- building, and the author of the code of interna- tional fog-signals and of essays on ship-building.

GRISWOLD, Alphonso Miner, journalist, b. in Westmoreland, Oneida co., N. Y., 26 Jan., 1834. He was educated at Hamilton college and became a journalist in Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. His paragraphs and humorous essays under the pen-name of " The Fat Contributor " won him reputation, and he spent the years 1865-'78 in the lecture field, his topics being "' American An- tiquities," "Injun Meal,'' and " Queer Folks." In 1872-'83 he owned the Cincinnati " Saturday Night," a humorous literary journal, and since 1886 he has been an editor and one of the pro- prietors of •' Texas Siftings."

GUINEY, Louise Imogen (gui'-ny), poet, b. in Boston, Mass., 7 Jan., 1861. Her father, Patrick R. Guiney, served in the National army during the civil war, was brevetted brigadier-general of volun- teers in 1864, and died from the effects of a wound that he received in the battle of the Wilderness. Louise was graduated at Elmhurst academy, Provi- dence, R. I., in 1879, and early contributed verses to papers. Her publications are "Songs at the Start" (Boston, 1884); "Goose -Quill Papers" (1885) ; " The White Sail, and other Poems " (1887) ; and " Brownies and Bogles " (1888).

GUNN, Frederick William, educator, b. in Washington, Litchfield co., Conn., 4 Oct., 1816 ; d. there, 10 Aug., 1881. He was graduated at Yale in 1837, taught in New Preston, Conn., and subse- quently in Towanda. Pa., with Orville II. Piatt. In 1850 he established in Washington, Conn., the boys' boarding-school that is now known as the Gunnery. His unique methods and the homelike character of the school soon won it a wide repu- tation, and he continued in its charge till nis death. The school is described in Josiah G. Hol- land's novel entitled " Arthur Bonnicastle " as the " Bird's Nest," and also in William Hamilton Gib- son's "Snug Hamlet." See also "The Master of the Gunnery " (New York, 1884).

HADDOCK, George (ha lining, clergyman, b. in Watertown, N. Y., 23 Jan., 1832 ; d. in Sioux City. Iowa, 3 Aug., 1886. He was partially edu- cated at Black river institute in his native town, learned the printer's trade, and was connected with several Republican newspapers in Wisconsin. He was licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal church in 1859, and from 1860 until 1882 was ac- tively engaged in temperance work and in oppos- ing Spiritualism. He was transferred to the Iowa conference in 1882, and while endeavoring to en- force the prohibition laws of that state was assas- sinated in Sioux City. Besides pamphlets and tracts, he published several fugitive poems that be- came popular, including " Autumn Leaves," " The Skeleton Guest," and " The Cross of Gold." See his " Life " by his son (New York, 1887).

HALL, Anne, artist, b. in Pomfret, Conn., 26 May, 1792 ; d. in New York city, 11 Dec, 1863. She was the sister of Jonathan Prescott Hall (vol. iii., p. 42). She took some lessons in applying col- ors to ivory from Samuel King, who taught Wash- ington Allston, and received instruction in oil- painting from Alexander Robertson, in New York, and John Trumbull, but soon turned her entire attention to miniature painting, in which she be- came celebrated. She was elected a member of the National academy of design, where she occasionally exhibited. Her miniature portrait of Garafilia Mohalbi, the Greek girl, has been considered her masterpiece, and has been engraved repeatedly. Her beautiful picture of Dr. John W. Francis's son John has been long engraved under the name of " Oberon." Her miniatures are scattered widely over the country, but many of the best are in the possession of her relatives in New York; her nephew, Col. John Ward, owning those of Gara- filia. and Lieut. Col. Samuel Ward. HALL, Granville Stanley, psychologist, b. in Ashfield, Mass., 6 May, 1845. He was graduated at Williams in 1867, was professor of psychology at Antioch college, Ohio, in 1872-6, studied in Berlin, Bonn, Heidelberg, and Leipsic, and was lecturer on psychology at Harvard in 1876 and again in 1881-'2, becoming professor of that branch at Johns Hopkins in 1882. In 1888 he accepted the presidency of Clark university, Worcester, Mass. Harvard gave him the degree of Ph. D. in 1876. Prof. Hall has written extensively for peri- odicals on psychological and educational topics, and is editor of the " American Journal of Psy- chology," and the author of " Aspects of German Culture " (Boston, 1881); and, with John M. Mans- field, " Hints toward a Select and Descriptive Bib- liography of Education " (1886).

HALLOCK, Charles, journalist, b. in New York city, 13 March, 1834. He is the son of Ger- ard Hallock (vol. iii., p. 52). He studied at Yale in 1850-'l and at Amherst in 1851-2, receiving his degree from the latter in 1871, was associate editor and proprietor of the New York "Journal of Commerce " from 1855 till 1862, financial editor of " Harper's Weekly " from 1868, and founder and proprietor of " Forest and Stream " from 1873 till 1880. In 1877 he prepared a glossary of provincial and quaint words. In 1884-'5 he illustrated front- ier life on the Canadian border by an exhibit of life-size groups at the New Orleans exposition. Mr. Hallock was an incorporator and director of the Flushing and Queens county bank, New York, and a money broker and commission merchant in St. John and Halifax for several years. His busi- ness ventures have included sunflower culture for the oil product, the restoration of abandoned New England farms, sheep culture in the north- west on Indian model farms, a farm colony for sportsmen in Minnesota, the development of Alaska, the substitution of porous terra-cotta for adobe and titipati in Mexico, a crematory for burning garbage, a smoke-consumer and coal- saver, and many other economic schemes. He has published " The Fishing Tourist " (New York, 1873); "Life of Stonewall Jackson"; "The Hu- morist"; "Camp Life in Florida" (1875); "The Sportsman's Gazetteer" (1877); and "Our New Alaska" (1886).

HAND, Daniel, philanthropist, b. in Madison, Conn., in 1801. For many years he was a merchant in Augusta, Ga., and Charleston, S. C, where he accumulated a fortune. After the civil war he retired and returned to the north, where he became known as a philanthropist, his first gift being a