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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. r876-1904 he served twenty-eight years as a member of the Pennsylvania state senate; was chairman of the judiciary, finance and other important committees; and in 1887-89 was president of the state senate. In 1907 he was appointed director of the new department of wharves, tugs and ferries; visited and inspected all the ports and harbor improvements in Europe in the interest of that department; and is now ready to build two new modern piers on the Delaware river fronts; reclaim the waste lands south of the city; and dredge the Schuylkill to make Philadelphia an up-to-date port.

Graetaer, Augustus L., clergyman, educator, author, was born July 10, 1849, in Saginaw county, Mich. He is a lutheran clergyman, professor of theology in the Concordia seminary of St. Louis since 1887. He is the author of Half a Century of Sound

Lutheranism

in

America; Composition and

Grammar;

Life of Luther; and History of the Lutheran Church in America.

Graeme, Thomas, physician, was bom Oct. 20, 1688, in Scotland. He was a noted physician of Philadelphia. In 1731 he was associate justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. He died Sept. 4, 1772, near Philadelphia, Pa. Graff, Frederick, civil engineer, was born Aug. 37, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1811 he recommended Fairmount as the proper place for the waterworks of Philadelphia, and was entrusted with their construction. For forty-two years he was in the service of the dty of Philadelphia; and a monu-

his memory was erected grounds at Fairmount waterworks. April 13, 1847, in Philadelphia, Pa.

ment

to

in

He

the died

Grafly, Charles, sculptor, artist, was born Dec. 3, 1862, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was educated in the public school of Philadelphia, Pa.; and in 187984 learned the art of reproducing figures in marble at Struther's

marble works. During that period he also attended art classes; and in 1884-88 studied modeling and painting at the Pennsylvania

academy

He then

of fine arts. for two years

studied sculpture and drawing in Paris. Since 1892 he has been an instructor of sculpture at the Pennsylvania academy of fine arts. He is a member of the society of American artists, the art club of Philadelphia and the He council of national sculpture society. received a gold medal at the Charleston exhibition; and was a member of the international jury of awards in the sculpture department at the St. Louis world's fair of

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904. He received a gold medal at the international exposition of Paris in 1900; and a gold medal at the Buffalo exposition of 1901.

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John Michael, clergyman, bishop, Sept. 28, 1714, in Germany. During the French and Indian war he displayed no little prudence in caring for the safety Graff,

was born

of his parishioners. In 1773 he was appointed a member of the southern governing board; and the same year consecrated to the Moravian episcopacy. He died Aug. 28, 1714, in Salem, N.C. Graff,

Joseph Verdi, lawyer, congressman,

was born July 1, 1854, in Terre Haute, Ind. He moved to Illinois; and was a delegate to the national republican convention at Minneapolis in 1892. He has engaged in the practice of law ever since his admission to the bar. In 1895-1911 he was a representative to the fifty-fourth, fifty-fifth, fiftysixth, fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a re-

publican. Grafton, Charles Chapman, clergyman, bishop, was bom April 12, 1830, in Boston, Mass. He introduced into America the Sisterhood of St. Margaret, East Grinstead, establishing the community in Boston. He also founded the Sisterhood of the holy nativity; and Grafton hall, a school for young ladies. He was consecrated protestant episcopal bishop of Fond du Lac in 1889. He is the author of Vocation, or the Call of the Divine Master to a Sister's Life; Plain Suggestions for a Reverent Celebration of the Holy Communion; and various essays, ser-

mons, and

tracts.

Grafton, Edward C, naval officer, was bom in Boston, Mass. He was commissioned lieutenant in 1855; lieutenant-commander in 1862; commander in 1866; and was retired in 1871. He died June 24, 1876, in

New York

City.

Grafton, Joseph, clergyman, was born •June 9, 1757, in Newport, R.I. In 1788 he was ordained as pastor of the baptist church of Newton, Mass. He died Sept. 16, 1836, in Newton, Mass.

Graham, Charles Kinnaird, civil engineer, was born June 3, 1824, in New York City. At the beginning of the civil war he volunteered in the national army about four hundred men in his employ in the navy yard following his example. In 1862 he commissioned brigadier-general. He chief engineer of the dock department

was was

1873-75; surveyor of the port of New in 1878-83; and naval officer until 1883. He died April 15, 1889, in New York

in

York City.

Graham, David, lawyer, author, was bom.

He was 8, 1808, in London, England. a lawyer of New York City; and in 1838 was appointed professor of the law of pleading and practice in the university of New Feb.