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fill

a vacancy.

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Martin Ignatius Joseph, journalpublisher, author, was born Oct. 23, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1873-90 he was editor and publisher of Griffin's Journal of Philadelphia, Pa.; and since 1887 he has been editor and publisher of the American Catholic Historical Researches; and since 1907 has been editor of the Irish World. He is the author of History of ComGriffin,

ist,

modore John Barry; Bishop Bgan; Thomas Lloyd; Thomas Fitz Simmons; and other works.

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state legislature, two of which he served as speaker of the house. He died Jan. 14, 1902, in Keene, N.H. Griffin, Solomon Bulkley, journalist, author, was born Aug. 13, 1852, in Williamstown, Mass. Since 1878 he has been managing ediioj' of the Springfield Republican of Massachusetts. He has published Mexico

To-Day.

of

Thomas, congressman, was born In 1803-05 he was a representative from Virginia to the eighth congress. Griffin,

in Virginia.

He

died in Virginia.

Thomas Musgrove, civil engineer, inventor, was born April 23, 1823, in New York City. He assisted in the preliminary surveys of the Panama railroad; built the suspension bridge at Hamilton, Canada; and built the first bridge over the Mississippi river in 1854. Ho was a mechanical engineer under Admiral Francis H. Gregory during the civil war. He died in New York City. Griffis, William Elliot, educator, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 17, 1843, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was pastor in Schenectady in 1877-86; in Griffin,

Michael, soldier, lawyer, congressman, state senator, was born Sept. 9, 1842, in Ireland. He enlisted as a private in 1861, in company E, twelfth regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry, and served until the close of the war, being promoted to the grade of second and first lieutenant. In 188990 he was quartermaster-general of the state of Wisconsin, with rank of brigadier-general. He was state senator in 1880-81; and in 1893-99 he was a representative to the fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican. He died in 1900 in Griffin,

Wis. Samuel, congressman, was born in Virginia. In 1791-95 he was a representa-

Boston in 1886-92; and in 1893-1900 in

from Virginia to the second and third

authority upon Japan-

Eau

Claire,

Griffin,

tive

congresses. Griffin,

He

died in Virginia.

ese

Samuel Paine, navigator, was born

he practiced law in ConIn

lature.

cord;

1860

and at

dent

Lincoln's

Presifirst

troops he volunteered as a private and was chosen captain of company 15, second regiment New call for

Hampshire volunteer infantry. He commanded his company at the first battle of Bull Run; was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the sixth regiment New Hampshire volunteer infantry, and joined Burnside's expediHe was rapidly tion to North Carolina. promoted to colonel, brigadier-general and bievet major-general. After the war General Griffin settled in Keene, N.H.; and represented tljat town three terms in the

an

and the

Yokohama

Japan

was the author

New

topics,

is

author of The Mikado's Empire; Japanese Fairy World; Corea: the Hermit Nation; The Toio Guide; The Guide

He entered the in 1836 in Savannah, Ga. service of the Pacific mail steamship company, commanding, as their commodore, successive steamers of their fleet till 1882: and was an authority on ship -building. He of the code of international fog signals and of essays on ship-building. He died -July 4, 1887, in Panama. Tjriffin, Simon Goodell, soldier, lawyer, legislator, historian, was born Aug. 9, 1824, in Nelson, N.H. For many years he was engaged in educational work; and for two terms represented his town in the Hampshire state legis-

He

Ithaca, N.Y.

in History, Folk-

and Art; The Brave Little Holland She Taught Us; The Lily Among Lore,

Religions

of Japan;

and What Thorns; Life of Matthew Calbraith Perry; Sir William Johnson and the Six Nations; Townsend Harris, first American envoy in Japan; Honda the Samurai, a Story of Modern Japan; The Pilgrims in Their Three Homes; and The American in Holland. Griffith,

Elmer Cummings, educator, au-

thor, was born He Carroll, HI.

Aug.

19,

1869,

was prepared

in

Mount

for college Carroll high

at Mount school; and

in 1895 graduated from Beloit college.

He

studied

historj'

and

political

economy a t t h e university Chicago; of and received the degree of Ph.D. from that institution. In 1896-99 he was prinof the Warren

cipal

academy of in 1902- 05 he college of South

Illinois;

was

professor of Yankton Dakota; and since 1905 has occupied the chair of history and political science at the William