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762 in Washington. D. C., 28 May, 1805. He was educated in country schools and in the state university at Bloomington, Ind. He then studied law in Corydon, Ind., was admitted to the bar in 1853, and became a successful lawyer. He was elected to the legislature in 1860, but resigned in August, 1861, to become lieutenant-colonel of the 38th Indiana regiment. He was promoted to colonel of the 53d Indiana in December, and on 11 Aug., 1863, after the fall of Vicksburg. was made brigadier-general of volunteers. He commanded the 4th division of Blair's corps in the fighting before Atlanta, and received a severe wound that disabled him for a year, and prevented him from seeing further service. On 13 March, 1865, he was brevetted major-general of volunteers for his gallantry at Atlanta. After the war he resumed practice at New Albany, Ind. He was an unsuccessful Repub- lican candidate for congress in 1866, and in 1867-8 was financial agent of his state in New York. President Grant, who held him in great es- teem, made him U. S. judge for the district of Indiana in 1869, and in 1880 he was an un- successful candi- date for U. S. sen- ator. He resigned his judgeship in April, 1883, to ac- cept the place of postmaster-gen- eral in President Arthur's cabinet, and in July, 1884, on the death of Secretary Folger, was transferred to the treasury poi'tfolio. In Oc- tober of that year he was appointed U. S. judge for the 7th judicial circuit, which office he held until ]\Iareh, 1893, when he entered Mr. Cleveland's cabi- net, accepting the portfolio of tiie secj-etary of state. Gresham was never prominent in politics.

GREVYLE, Lord Charles Montague, governor of South Carolina, b. 29 May, 1741 ; d. in January, 1784. He was the second son of Robert, third Duke of Manchester. He was a knight of the shire of Huntingdon, and at one time governor of Jamaica. From 1766 till 1773 he held the office of governor of South Carolina. During his administration, in 1769, the circuit court law was passed, and courts of justice were established at Ninety-Six, Orangeburg, and Camden. Montague street, in Charleston, is named for him.

GREY, Charles, British soldier, b. in England, 23 Oct., 1729 ; d. 14 Nov., 1807. In 1757 he was aide-de-camp to the Duke of Brunswick, and took part in the battle of Minden, in which he was wounded. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel in 1761, and commanded the 98th regiment at the capture of Belle Isle in 1763. In 1772 he re- ceived the commission of colonel. He accompanied Howe to Boston in 1775, and was raised by him to the local rank of major-general. On the night of 21 Sept., 1777, he surprised Gen. Wayne near the Paoli Tavern on the Lancaster road, where the latter was encamped. Grey approached stealth- ily, and, ordering the flints to be taken from the guns, attacked the patriots with the bayonet, de- feating them with great slaughter. For this act he received the name of " No Flint Grey." He took an active part in the battle of Germantown, 4 Oct., 1777, and in the following year destroyed the shipping and stores in New Bedford and Mar- tha's Vineyard. On 7 Sept., 1778, he surprised Baylor's Virginia regiment, which lay at Tappan on the Hudson, and massacred the entire corps of dragoons. In 1793 he was employed in Flanders. At the beginning of hostilities between Great Brit- ain and France in the following year, he was ap- pointed to command the land forces that were sent, in conjunction with the naval armament under Lord Howe, to reduce the West Indies to submis- sion, and captured the islands of Martinique and St. Lucie. In 1795 he was made general. He was raised to the peerage in 1801, received the title of Earl Grey in 1807, and was the father of the cele- brated English statesman of that name.

GRIDLEY, Jeremiah, lawyer, b. in Boston, Mass., 10 March, 1702; d. in Brookline, Mass., 10 Sept., 1767. He was graduated at Harvard in 1725, was for several years an assistant in a grammar-school in Boston, studied theology, and occasionally preached. He then studied law, and was admitted to the bar. For a year he edited a weekly newspaper called "The Rehearsal," which was established in Boston in 1731. He soon acquired reputation, was elected a member of the general court from Brookline, and became an opponent of the measures of the British ministry. Notwithstanding this he was appointed attorney-general for the province of Massachusetts Bay. In 1761 while holding this office he defended the "writs of assistance " which the British custom-house officers had applied for to enable them to enter the dwellings of suspected individuals at their discretion, and encountered the powerful opposition of his former pupil, James Otis. In addition to his legal station he was colonel of militia, grand master of free-masons, and president of the Marine society. He contributed many articles of great merit to the "Rehearsal." — His brother, Richard, soldier, b. in Boston, Mass., 3 Jan., 1711 ; d. in Stoughton, Mass., 20 June, 1796, had great reputation as an artillerist. He served as engineer in the reduction of Louisburg in 1745, became in 1755 chief engineer and colonel of infantry in the British army, and in the following year took part in the expedition to Crown Point under Winslow, and constructed the fortifications on Lake George. He served under Amherst in 1758, and subsequently imder Wolfe on the plains of Abraham, being at the capture of Quebec. At the conclusion of the war, as a reward for his services, he received Magdalen island from the British government, with half pay for life. He espoused the patriot cause in 1775, and was appointed chief engineer and commander of artillery of the colonial army at Cambridge. He planned the works of Bunker Hill the night before the battle of 17 June, 1775. Although sixty-five years of age, he fought during the entire engagement, and was wounded, being exposed to the severest fire of the enemy. He was active in constructing the fortifications around Boston. On 20 Sept., 1775, he was commissioned major-general by the provincial congress, and had command of the Continental artillery until November.

GRIDLEY, Philo, jurist, b. in Paris, Oneida CO., N. Y., 16 Sept., 1796; d. in Utica, N. Y., 17 Aug., 1864. He was graduated at Hamilton college, Clinton, with its first class, in 1816. He then studied law at Onondaga and Waterville, and was admitted to the bar in 1820, beginning his practice in Waterville. A few years later he removed to