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Owatonna, Minn. public lecturer.

New Humanism;

Since 1899 he has been a is the author of The

Moral

Education;

head

and

the northwest.

other works.

He

braska

Pataula judicial circuit in 1888,

and

fifty-ninth,



He is the auNeb. thor of a number of

battles of Baton Rouge, Donaldsonsville,

Camp

Port

Hudson,

Bisland,

Cane

river crossing, Marksville plains, and various other battles and skirmishes. Since 1867 he has been engaged in the practice of law in Audubon county, Iowa.

John William, lawyer, state senawas born July 1849, in Newton, N.J. In 1879 he began

Griggs,

tor, governor, cabinet officer,

10,

the practice of law in Paterson, N.J. In 1875 he was elected to the state assembly; and was re-elected to a second term. In 1882 he was elected to the state senate; and was re-elected in 1884. In 1896-99 he was the twenty -ninth governor of New Jersey; and in 1898-1901 he was attorney-general. Griggs, Julian, railroad builder, was boon Sept. 15, 1848, in Chaplin, Conn. He was educated at the Williston seminary at East Hampton, Mass.; and at the Sheffield scientific school of Yale university. In 1868 he entered railway service; in 1870 became president engineer on construction. In 1879 he became rodman; and in 1880 was in charge of the location of the Columbus, Scioto and Hocking valley and Ohio river railroad. In 1881-90 he was chief engineer of the Scioto valley railroad; and since 1890 has been assistant engineer of the Scioto valley division of the Norfolk and western railroad, with headquarters in Columbus, 0.

Samuel Chapman, bookseller, pubwas born July 20, 1819, in Tolland,

Griggs, lisher,

Conn. Ho began business as a bookseller In 1848 he moved to in Hamilton, N.Y.

poems,

which have

appeared

of

America

other

standard

Poets

and

a democrat. lawyer, was born

sixty-first congresses as

regiment Indiana volunteer infantry, which was changed to the first Indiana heavy artillery. He was in the

meritorious in

sixtieth

Griggs, John M., soldier, July 25, 1837, near Indianapolis, Ind. He was educated in select schools; and attended Wabash college of Grawfordsville, Ind. In 1861-64 he served in the civil war in company K, twenty-first

111.

K., lawyer, author, poet. of the foremost lawyers of Neis attorney for several o£ the leading railroads of the west; and has a large practice in Lincoln,

In twice re-elected without opposition. 1897-1911 he was a representative from Georgia to the fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fiftyfifty-eighth,

died in Chicago,

He was one

and was reelected in 1892. He was appointed judge of the same circuit, and was

seventh,

few years was at the book selling business in

Nathan

Griggs,

James Mathews, journalist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was bom March He moved to 29, 1S61, in Lagrange, Ga. Dawson in 1885; was elected solicitor-genGriggs,

eral of the

and in a of the largest

Chicago;

He

collections.

He

is

also

hymn

writer of national reputation; and a collection of his hymns were published His compositions constantly apin 1S92. pear in standard musical publications and in various collections.

a

-

Grigsby,

Hugh

Blair,

scholar,

historical

22, 1806, in Norfolk, Va. He represented Norfolk in the legislature; and

was born Xov.

in 1829-30 was a member of the state convention with Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and other noted men. He was president of the Virginia historical society; and became in 1871 chancellor of William and Mary college. He died April 28, 1881, in Charlotte county, Va.

Grigsby, Melvin, soldier, lawyer, banker, author, was born June 8, 1845, Potosi, Wis. At the age of sixteen years

legislator,

m

he

enlisted

in

com-

pany C, second regiment Wisconsin cavalry.

He

has written s

work of his prison life and escape. He has been a member of

the city

council

Sioux Falls; and

is

of

a

successful bank president. He has served as a member of the

South Dakota legislature,

state

and was

attorney-general for the state of South Dakota for several years. He organized the idea of the formation of a cow-boys cavalry, which resulted in the rough riders of the Spanish-American war. He was colonel in the third regiment United States volunteer cavalry in the Spanish-American war, known as Grigsby's cowboys. He was the author of the act of congress which authorized the rough riders. He was given the name of Smoked Yank during the civil war; and is the author of The Smoked Yank, a, book that gives his experiences as a boy soldier and prisoner in Andersonville, and other prisons and escapes.