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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Grim, William H., orator, clergyman, was born Oct. 19, 1830, in Coshocton county,

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Grimes, Bryan, soldier, was born Nov. 3, He entered the confederate army in 1861 as major of the fourth ^North Carolina regiment; and attained the rank of senior major-general. He died Aug. 14, 1880, near Bear Creek, N.C. Grimes, Edward B., journalist, poet. He is a successful journalist of Dayton, Ohio; and the author of a volume of Poems. Grimes, James Wilson, governor. United States senator, was bom Oct. 20, 1816, in Decring, N.H. In 1838 he was elected to the general assembly of the territory of Iowa, to which he was frequently re-electHe was the third governor of Iowa ed. in 1854-58; and in 1859-71 he was United States senator. He was a delegate to the He died Feb. 7, peace congress of 1861. 1873, in Burlington, Iowa. Grimes, Thomas Wingfield, soldier, state senator, congressman, was born in Georgia. He served as a private in the confederate army during the last eighteen months of the war. He was a member of the legislature in 1868-69 and in 1875-76. He served as state senator in 1878-79. In 1880-88 he was solicitor-general of the Chattahoochee circuit. In 1887-91 he was a representative to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat. He died in 1905 in Columbus, Ga. Grimke, Angelina Emily, educator, reformer, author, was born Feb. 20, 1805, in Charleston, S.C. She was the author of a work entitled Letters to Catherine E. Beecher. She died in the South. Grimke, Archibald Henry, lawyer, diplomat, author, was born Aug. 17, 1849, in Charleston, S.C. In 1894-98 he was United States consul at Santo Domingo. He is the author pf Eulogy on Wendell Phillips; Charles Sumner, the Scholar in Politics and William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist. Grimke, Frederick, lawyer, jurist, author, 1828, in Pitt county, N.C.



was born

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1791, in Charleston, S.C.

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preme court of Ohio. He was the author of Ancient and Modern Literature; and Nature and Tendencies of Free Institutions. He died March 8, 1863, in Chillicothe, Ohio. Grimke, John Faucheraud, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Dec. 16, 1753, in South Carolina. In 1873 he was elected a judge of the superior court; and in 1799 chief justice. He was frequently a member of the South Carolina legislature, and speaker of He was the author the house in 1785-86. of Revised Edition of Laws of South Carolina; Law of Executors of South Carolina; Public Law of Soiith Carolina; Probate Directory; and Duty of Justice of the Peace. He died Aug. 9, 1819, in Long Branch, N.J. Grimke, Sarah Moore, reformer, author, was born Nov. 6, 1792, in Charleston, S.C. She was prominent in the anti-slavery movement. She was the author of Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States; and Letters on- the Condition of Women. She died Dec. 23, 1873, in Hyde Park, N.Y. Grimke, Thomas Smith, reformer, author, was born Sept. 26, 1786, in Charleston, S.C. He was active in temperance- and in the promotion of peace societies. He was the author of Addresses on Science, Education, and Literature. He died Oct. 11, 1834, near Columbus, Ohio. Grimm, Otto B., soldier. In 1901 became first lieutenant in the United States army. Grimmell, Julius C, clergyman, author, was born May 30, 1847, in Germany. He is president of the Cleveland baptist city mission society. He is the author of Bible Lands in Sunshine and Shadow; and a book of

hymns. Grimshaw, Robert,

was born

civil engineer, lecturer,

1850 in Pennsylvania. and a lecturer on physics at the Franklin institute of Philadelphia. He is the author of History, etc., of Saws; Saw Filing; Steam Engine Catechism Pump Catechism Steam Boiler Catechism; Record of Scientific Progress; Hints to Power Users; and Fifty Years Hence. Grimshaw, William, litterateur, author, was bom in 1782 in Ireland. He was the author of a series of school histories Etymological Dictionary; Gentlemen's Lexicon; Ladies' Lexicon; The American Chesterfield; and Life of Napoleon. He died in 1853 in Philadelphia, Pa. Grimsley, George Perry, geologist, author, was bom in February, 1868, in Granville, Ohio. Since 1895 he has been professor of geology and natural history at Washburn college of Topeka, Kan. He is the author of Studies of Granites of Cecil County, Md.; Gypsum Deposits of Kansas; Microscopical Study of Limestones of Ohio; Mineral Resources of Kansas; and Gypsum Deposits of Michigan. Grindlay, James Glass, soldier, was born In 1862 he became captain in New York. in the one hundred and forty-sixth regiauthor,

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