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 268 GKUVER GUILD. regiment of Pennsylvania militia as color corporal, and was honorably discharged. During 1883 he was acting professor of mental science at Union College, Sche- nectady, at which time the college con- ferred upon him the degree of doctor of divinity. Among the literary productions of Dr. Griffis may be mentioned the following : "The Mikado's Empire," " Corea, the Hermit Nation," " Mathevv Calbraith Ter- ry, a Typical American Officer," "Japan- ese Fairy World," "The Tokio Guide," "Arendt Van Curler," and many contribu- tions to magazines and the daily press, some of which have been translated into Japanese. GRUVER, SAMUEL J., son of John and Sarah (Correll) Graver, was born in Lower Mt. Bethel, Northampton county, li., August 27, 1S46. lie passed through the district schools of his native town, and attended Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., after which he en- SAMUEL J. GRUVER. tereel the medical department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, and was graduated in the class of 1869. He commenced the practice of medicine and surgery in Portland, Pa., immediately after graduating, and soon developed a large and lucrative business. In 1881 he removed to Brockton, Mass., where he has met the same success. Dr. Gruver was married in Portland, Pa., November 28, 1X72, to Elizabeth S., daugh- ter of franklin and Martha K. (Thomp- son) Ames. Of this union were three chil- dren, but none are living. Dr. Gruver was member of the board of aldermen for the city of Brockton, 1S87 and '88. GUILD, CURTIS, son of Curtis and Charlotte Louisa (Hodges) Guild, was born in Boston, January 13, 1S27. His father was a graduate of Harvard College, class of 1822, and subsequently became a well- known merchant of Boston. His mother was the daughter of Ezra Hodges, of Maine, a soldier of revolutionary fame. Mr. Guild was disappointed in his ex- pectation of a matriculation at Harvard, on account of his father's business reverses, and received his early education in the grammar and English high schools ; but he was by nature a student, and by indus- try and perseverance he still studied as opportunity offered, until he became a scholar of culture and varied information. His training for his life work he received in che trying school of mercantile life. He started as clerk in the Boston mer- cantile house of Barnard, Adams & Co., on Commercial Wharf. Here he had ex- cellent practical instructions in the princi- ples, laws and details of commercial trans- actions in a large mercantile business. Having become fitted for a more profitable employment, he, in 1S47, became assistant book-keeper in the office of the " Boston Journal," and remained in this capacity nearly two years. The publishers of that paper soon discovered that he was a man of literary taste, an original, ready writer and especially adapted to the work of graphic reporting. His talents were there- lore utilized in that direction, and being successful in his new line, he also performed work on the regular staff of the " Journal " Mr. Guild, soon after, also became a frequent contributor to the " Knicker- bocker Magazine," then under the man- agement of Louis Gaylord Clarke, and other leading periodicals. He next ac- cepted a position as chief clerk in the office of the "Evening Traveller," and in 1S56 was admitted to partnership in the linn. Here his energies anil inventive genius found scope in ways and means employed to impart more push to the motor power controlling metropolitan journalism He introduced the display bulletin board, which .it that time gave a shock to some