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 HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. to form a state constitution; and in 1857-59 he was a representative to the thirty-fifth congress. In 1870-77 he was the fourth governor of Oregon; and in 1877-83 he was United States senator from Oregon. Grover, Martin, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in New York. In 1845-47 he was a representative from New York to the twenty-ninth congress; was a judge of the supreme court of New York 1857-59; and was judge of the court of appeals in 1859 for a full term. He was elected an associate judge in 1870 for fourteen years. He died Aug. 23, 1875, in Angelica, N.Y. Grover, Oliver Dennett, painter, artist, was born in 1861 in Earlville, 111. He received the first Yerkes prize for the painting Thy Will Be Done; and has designed mural decorations in the memorial library at Branford, Conn. He is president of the society of western artists. Grow, Galusha Aaron, lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 31, 1823, in Eastford,

Conn.

In 1844 he graduated from Amherst college; and in 1847 was admitted to the county Susquehanna bar. In 1851-63 and 1893-1903 he was a representative

from

Pennsylvania

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to the thirty-second, thirtythirty-fourth, third, thirty-fifth, the thirtysixth and thirty-seventh, and to the fiftythird, fiftv-fourth,

fif-

ty-fifth, fifty-sixth

and

fifty-seventh congresses as a republican. He was elected speaker for the thirty -seventh congress; and for ten years, at the beginning of each congress, he introduced a free homestead bill, until it became a law in 1862. In 1871-76 he was president of the Interna-

tional and great northern railway company. died March 31, 1907, in Glenwood, Pa.

He

Growden, Joseph, lawyer, jurist. In 1690 he was an associate justice of the state supreme court of Pennsylvania. He died in Pennsylvania. In Growden, Lawrence, lawyer, jurist. 1750 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. Growden, Joseph, lawyer, jurist, was bom in England. In 1684 he was chosen to the assembly of Pennsylvania; was thereafter almost continuously chosen to this body unspeaker. til 1722; and for eleven years was In 1687-1703 he was a member of the provincial council; and in 1690 was commissioned one of the judges of the supreme court, and held this office for several years. In 1707-16 he was chief justice of the court. died Dec. 9, 1730, in Pennsylvania.

He

journalist, author, was York City. He is man"born in 1850 in aging editor of the Publishers' Weekly of
 * New York City. He is the author of The

GrowoU,

Adolf,

New

Booksellers' Library and How to Use It; The Profession of Bookselling; Handbook of Practical Hints for the Apprentice and Bookseller, in two volumes; and a Bibliography of American Books.

Edwin Atkins, journalist, publishwas born Sept. 12, 1859, in San Fran-

Grozier, er,

New England parentage. He at the high school of Provincetown, Mass.; attended the Chauncy hall school of Boston; studied in the Brown university of Providence, R.I.; and in 1881 graduated from Boston university. In 1881ba he was a reporter on the Boston Globe and Herald; and in 1883-84 was private secretary to the governor of Massachusetts. In 1884-91 he held various editorial and business positions on the New York World. Since 1891 he has been chief proprietor of the Boston Post, of which he is now editor and publisher. He is a member of various clubs, organizations and patriotic societies. cisco, Cal., of

was educated

Grubb, Edward Burd,

soldier,

manufactur-

diplomat, author, was born Nov. 13, 1841, in Burlington, N.J. He attained the rank of brigadier-general during the civil war. In the management of iron works and mines in Pennsylvania and Virginia he succeeded his father, and soon became one of the leading producers of pig iron in the north; and became president of the Lynchburg iron company. He is the author of What I Saw of the Suez Canal. Grubb, Ignatius C, lawyer, jurist, author, was born April 12, 1841, at Grubbs Landing, Del. Since 1897 he has been associate justice of the state supreme court of Delaware. He is the author of The Colonial and State Judiciary of Delaware. Grundie, James, builder. He built the first boat to cross the Atlantic by steam alone. This boat was named the Royal William, which in 1833 made the trip from Picton, Nova Scotia, to Gravesend, England. He died May 9, 1892, in Chicago, 111. er,

Grundy, Felix, lawyer, jurist, congressman. United States senator, was born Sept. 11, For six or 1770, in Berkeley county, Va. seven years he was a member of the Kentucky legislature; and in 1806 was one of the judges of the supreme of

court

and

in 1807

Kentucky was chief

In 1811-15 he representative to the twelfth and congresses thirteenth from Tennessee, and during several years justice.

was a

after

was a member

In 1829-40 he was United States senator; and in 183840 he was attorney-general of the United of the legislature of that state.

States.

Tenn.

He

died Dec. 19, 1840, in Nashville,