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ing secured an appropriation of four thousand dollars built a stone and wood church for the use of the natives, herself planning and superintending the erection of the building.

Graybill, William M., educator, college president, author, was born June 25, 1851, near Fincastle, Va. Since 1890 he has been president of the Eogersville synodioal colHe is the author of Charts of lege, Tenn.

History and Civil Government. Graydon, Alexander, author,

was born

April 10, 1752, in Bristol, Pa. He was the author of Memoirs of a Life Passed Chiefly in Pennsylvania within the last Sixty Years. He died May 2, 1818, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Graydon, James Weir,

soldier, civil engi-

neer, inventor, was bom Jan. 18, 1848. served in volunteer army in the civil

He war

under Grant and Sherman. He is the inventor of the Graydon dynamite gun; the

Graydon gigantic wheels; the Graydon aerial torpedo; the Graydon cable system of torpedoes; and the Graydon railway carriage heater.

Graydon, William, lawyer, author, was born Sept. 4, 1759, near Bristol, Pa. He was the author of Digest of the Laws of the United States; Justice and Constable's Assistant; and Forms of Conveyancing.

He

died Oct. 13, 1840, in Harrisburg, Pa. Grayson, Charles Prevost, physician, author, was born Oct. 15, 1859, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1895 he was appointed lecturer in laryngology; and in 1904 was appointed clinical professor in the medical department of the university of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Diseases of the

Nose, Throat and Ear. Grayson, Clifford Prevost, painter, artist, was born July 14, 1857, in Philadelphia, Pa. His first painting was shown at the Salon was A Brenton Idyl; among his paintings are Midday Dreams; The Fisherman's Family; and other works. Grayson, WiUiam, soldier, congressman, United States senator, was born in 1736, in He was apPrince William county, Va. pointed aide-de-camp to General Washington in 1776; colonel of a Virginia regiment in 1777; and was commissioner of the board In 1784-87 he was a of war in 1780-81. delegate from Virginia to the continental congress; member of the Virginia convention to consider the federal constitution in 1788; and in 1789-91 he was United States senator from Virginia. He died March 12,

1790, at Dumfries, Va.

Grayson, William, state legislator, goverwas bom in 1786 in Maryland. He was a planter; served in both branches of the state legislature; and took an active part in the successful struggle to obtain a nor,

1838. He was the twenty-second governor of Maryland in 1838-41. He died July 9, 1868, in Queen Anne county, Md.

new

state

constitution in

Grayson, WiUiam John, state legislator, congressman, author, was born on Nov. 10, 1788, in Beaufort, S.C. He was a commissioner in equity of South Carolina for many years; a member of the state legislature in 1813; and in 1833-37 he was a representative to the twenty-third and twenty-fourth congresses. He held the office of collector of the customs of Charleston until 1853. He was the author of The Hireling and the Slave; Chicqra, and Other Poems; and Life of J. L. Petigru. S.C.

He

died Oct. 4, 1863, in

Newberne,

Greathouse, Lucien, soldier, lawyer, was born in 1843 in C'arlinville, HI. At the beginning of the civil war he volunteered as a private; and was commissioned colonel of the forty-eighth Illinois. His regiment bore a conspicuous part in the movements of the

army

of the Tennessee. 1864, near Atlanta, Ga.

He

died June 2,

Greaton, John, soldier, was born

March

During ^he 1741, in Roxbury, Mass. siege of Boston he led an expedition which destroyed the buildings on Long Island in Boston harbor. Congress made him a brigHe died Dec. 16, adier-general in 1783. 1783, in Eoxbury, Mass. 10,

Greatorex, Eleanor Elizabeth, painter, artwas born May 26, 1854, in New York City. Her early work was decorating flower panels, decorating china and illustrating books. Her chief paintings are The Bath; and Color that Bums as if no Frost Could ist,

Tame. Greatorex, Mrs. Eliza, painter, born Dec. 25, 1820, in Ireland.

artist,

was

She stud-

New York

City; was one of of the artists' fund society; and an associate of the national academy of design. She was noted for her

ied painting in

the

first

members

superb drawings in pen and ink, which were included in Summer Etchings in Colorado; Nuremberg; Old New York; and other works. She died Feb. 9, 1897, in Paris, France.

Greatorex, Henry Wellington, musician, composer, was born in 1818 in England. For some years he was organist and conductor of the choir at St. Paul's chapel of New York City. He was €he author of a Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Chants, Anthems, and Sentences. He died in September, 1858, in Charleston, S.C. Greatorex, Kathleen Honora, artist, was born Sept. 10, 1851, in New York City. Many of her paintings have been flowerpieces, and she has exhibited The Last Bit of Autumn; panels with Thistles and Corn and Hollyhocks. She has received honorable mention in exhibitions in Paris exposition and other expositions.

Greatsinger, Jacob L., railroad president, 1859, in Elmira, N.Y. 1, Since 1892 he has been president of the

was born July