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 HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. are included his opinioa upon application to close up the World's Columbian exposition on Sundays; and also the injunction issued

by him against Eugene V. Debs and other officers of the American railway union. Grossman, Louis, rabbi, author, was born Feb. 24, 1863, in Vienna, Austria. Since 1898 he has been rabbi of the congregation of B'nai Yeshurun of Cincinnati; and also professor of ethics, theology and pedagogics at the Hebrew union college. He is the author of .Judaism and the Science of Religion

and The .Jewish Pulpit. Grosvenor, Charles Henry, soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 20, 1833, in Pomfret, Conn. He enlisted in the union army in 1861; and he' served throughout the

war

as major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel, and was brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. He was solicitor of Athens in 1867-68 presidential

diplomatic subjects. He is the author of The Hippodrome of Constantinople; Constantinople, in two volumes; The Permanence of the Greek Type; Contemporary History; and other works. He has translated and revised Modem Times, from the French; Andronike, from the modern Greek; and General History, from the French.

Grosvenor, Ebenezer Oliver, merchant, solbanker, was bom Jan. 30, 1830, in Stillwater, N.Y. For over thirty years he was engaged in the mercantile business in Jonesville, Mich.; and in 1854 started the dier,

Exchange bank of Jonesville, of which he has since been president. In 1858 he was elected to the Michigan state senate. During the civil war he was commissioned coland became president of the military contract board. In 1865-67 he was lieutenant-governor of Michigan; in 1867-71 was state treasurer. In 1880-88 he was regent of the university of Michigan. He was one of the organizers of the Michigan mutual life insurance company of Detroit. onel;

Grosvenor, Lemuel Conant, physician, au-



elector

in

1872

and

1880; and was a representative in the Ohio state legislature in 1873-77, serving as speaker in 1876 and 1877. He was appointed a member of the board of trustees of the Soldiers' and sailors' orphans' home in 1880. In 1885-91 and 1893-1907 he was a representative from Ohio to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-third, fifty-fourth, fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, the fiftyeighth and fifty-ninth congresses as a republican. He has practiced law constantly since 1857. Grosvenor, Charles W., soldier, state senator, was bom May 11, 1839, in Pomfret, Conn. He served as sergeant of company D, eighteenth Connecticut volunteers, during the civil war. He has twice represented his native town in the state legislature; once in the senate; and in 1897 became state treasurer.

Grosvenor,

Edwin Augustus,

educator, au-

thor, was born Aug. 30, 1845, in Newburyport, Mass. In 1867 he graduated from Amherst college; in 1872

graduated from Andover theological sem-' inary; and has received the degrees of A.M. and LL.D. In 1873-90 he was professor of history at the Robert college of Constantinople. Since 1892 he has been professor of Eu-~

Amherst

college.

He

ropean history, modem government and law in international has traveled in Europe

and Asia; and has lecturpd on historical and

665

thor,

was born March

Mass.

In

1

32, 1833, in Paxton, 864 he graduated from Homeo-

pathic hospital and

college at Cleveland, Ohio. He is an obstetrician of rare skill and ability; and has long held a front rank among physicians in general practice in Chicago; and is instructor in obstetrics at the Lincoln Park training school for nurses. He is the author of Our Babies; Bedside Chats

with Young Mothers; The Sanitation and Technique of the Lying-in Room; How to Dress Our Babies; and other works. Grosvenor,

Thomas

P.,

lawyer, congress-

man, was born in 1780 in Pomfret, Conn. He served a number of years in the New York state legislature; and in 1811-17 he was a representative to the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth congresses. He died April 35, 1817.

Thomas W.,

soldier, was born In 1863 he became captain the twelfth regiment Illinois cavalry; and in 1865 attained the rank of brigadier-

Grosvenor,

New

in in

general 1871. Grote,

York.

of

volunteers.

He

died

Oct.

30,

Augustus Radcliffe, scientist, auwas born Feb. 7, 1841. He is a

thor, poet,

scientist, formerly of Buffalo, but now living in Germany. He is the author of Notes on the Bombycidae of Cuba; Notes on the Sphingidae of Cuba; Notes on the Zygaenidae of Cuba; Genesis; The New Infidelity; Notes of the Lepidoptera of America (with C. T. Robinson) ; Rip Van Winkle, a Sun Myth, and Other Poems; besides classified catalogues of insects.

Grout, Abel Joel, educator, botanist, au34, 1867, in Newfane, Since 1899 he has been a teacher of botany in the boys' high school of Brooklyn, N.Y. He has made a specialty of the study

thor,

Vt.

was born March