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 GREENWOOD. GRIFFIS. 267 Mr. Greenough has been an intelligent writer, his addresses and reports being mostly in the line inspired by his duties as trustee of the public library. He deliv- ered the Fourth of July oration before the city authorities of Boston, 1S49. His con- tributions to various reviews and period- icals evince a mind gifted with original thought, and a style evidently polished by culture. GREENWOOD, MORRILL A., son of Lyman and Augusta Greenwood, was born in Hubbardston, Worcester county, Decem- ber 22, 1839. He received his early edu- cation in the common schools. In 1862, '63 and '64 he worked in a flour and grain store, and at the grocery busi- ness. In July, 1864, he enlisted in company G, 42d regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, and was discharged in November of the same year. He was clerk in a store in Hubbardston from December, 1864, to February 1, 187 1, when he went to Leo- minster, and opened a retail boot and shoe store, where he has remained to date. Mr. Greenwood was married in Hub- bardston, April 12, 1865, to Mary E., daugh- ter of Samuel G. and Augusta Nichols. Of this union are two children : Lizzie M. and Helen VV. Greenwood. He has served on the Republican town committee four years, represented the 14th Worcester district in the House of Repre- sentatives, 1887 and '88, serving on com- mittees on claims and towns. Mr. Greenwood is a member of Leomin- ster Lodge 86, I. O. O. F.; Post 53, G. A. R.; Lodge 23, A. O. U. VV., of which he is past master workman. GREGG, DAVID, son of David and Mary M. Gregg, was born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny county, Pa., March 25, 1846. He received his early educational train- ing at the public schools of Pittsburgh, and at the age of thirteen years attended Allegheny City College; at fifteen years he entered the freshman class of the Washington and Jefferson College, where he graduated in 1865. He also grad- uated from the Iron City Commercial Col- lege in Pittsburgh in r866. He received the degree of I). D. from the New York University in 1888. He was educated as a Scotch Covenan- ter, and at the age of twenty-three began preaching in the Scotch church on West Twenty-third Street, New York. He later accepted a call from the Park Street church in Boston, where he began on the first of February, 1887, the pastorate which he holds at the present time. 1 >r. Gregg was married in New York, on the 2d of March, 1871, to Kate, daughter of Robert and Catherine Etheridge. They have two sons, Robert E. and David, and two daughters, Mary M. and Katharine W. Gregg. Dr. Gregg's family trace their ancestry directly back to the Scotch Covenanters of 1638. His first public address was delivered in defense of Abraham Lincoln's emanci- pation proclamation. He claims to have been " a born Abolitionist." When Gen- eral Lee invaded Pennsylvania, he en- listed as an emergency man, and his com- pany took the place, in Camp Howe, of the men who marched to Gettysburg and who were the first to fall in the Union army. GRIFFIS, William Elliot, son of John Limeburner and Anna Maria (Hess) Griffis, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sep- tember 17, 1843. He was educated at the common and high schools of Philadelphia, and was graduated from Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., in 1869. For a year thereafter, he studied at the theological seminary at New Brunswick, N. J. In 1861 he entered the jewelry manu- factory of Carrow, Thibault & Co., Phila- delphia, where he learned the jewelry trade and worked as a journeyman while preparing for college. He traveled in Europe after leaving col- lege, and, having been -appointed by the government of Japan to organize schools there on the American principle, he arrived at Yokohama in 1870, and spent a year in Fukui and three years in the capital, Tokio, in the Imperial University; then, declining further offices from the Japanese government, he returned to the United States and completed his theological course at the Union Theological Seminary, in New York City, where he was graduated in 1877. For nine years he was pastor of the First Reformed church at Schenectady, N. Y., and from 1886 to the present time has been pastor of the Shawmut Congrega- tional church, Boston. He was married in Schenectady, N. Y., June 17, 1879, to Katharine Lyra, daugh- ter of the late Benjamin Stanton of Union College, and Catherine P. (Coffin) Stanton. Their children are : Lillian Eyre and Stanton Griffis. Luring General Lee's invasion of Penn- sylvania, Mr. Griffis served in the 44th