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deavor departments iu that paper from 1894. He was elected correspomling secretary of the board of publication of the Reformed church in Amer- ica in 18U.5, president of the Reformed council of the Brotherhood of Andrew and Plulip, 1894-96 and 1898, and a member of the federal council of the brothertiood iu 1894.

GRACE, Thomas, R.C. bishop, was born in Wexford, Ireland, Aug. 2, 1841. He was educated at St. Peter's college, Wexford, and pursued his theological course at All Hallows college, Dublin, where he was graduated in 18G7 and ordained a priest Jime 24, 1867. He chose America as his held of labor and settled in Red Bluff, Shasta county, Cal., where he built the convent and academy of Sisters of JMercy and established missions at Horsetown and Shasta. He was pastor of St. Josepli's church, Marysville, 1874-81, and pro-rector of the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Sacramento, 1881-96. He was named by the Holy See as bishop of Sac- ramento to succeed the Rt. Rev. Patrick Ma- nogue, deceased, was preconized, Feb. 27, 1896, and consecrated June 16, 1896. by Archbishop Ri- ordan in the Cathedral of Sacramento. His dio- cese embraced the twenty five iiurtliuestern counties of California and the ei.ght northwestern counties of Nevada, covering a territory of 92,611 square miles.

GRACE, Thomas Langdon, R.C. bishop, was born in Charleston. S.C.. Xov. 16, 1814. Deter- mining to become a priest, he studied in Cincin- nati one year and then joined the Dominican Fathers at the Convent of St. Rose of the Order of Preachers, Springfield, Washington county, Ky., where he was professed June 13, 1^31. He was sent fiom this institution to Rome and studieil there in the College of the Minerva for seven years. He was ordained a priest \\ hile in Rome, Dec. 21, 1839. and returned to America in 1844, en- gaging in missionary ■w ork in the west. At Memphis he built St. Peter's church, St. Agnes's academy and St. Peter's Orphan asylum. In 18.59 he was elected bishop of St. Paul and was consecrated in St. Louis by Archbishop Kenrick, July 24, 1859. In 1875 he had his labors lessened by the setting off of the vicariate apostolic of North Minnesota, and further in 1879 by setting off the vicariate apostolic of Dakota. In 1875 the Rev. John Ireland \v;is :ii)pointed his coail-

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jutor. In 1884 his diocese contained one hun- dred fifty priests and over two hundred churches with liospitals, schools, etc. The members of his diocese celebrated with great pomp the silver jubilee of their bishop, July 24, 1884, and on July 31, 1884, he retired from the labors of the see, resigning in favor of his coadjutor, Bislioj) John Ireland. Bishop Grace was made titular bishop of Menith, and on Sept. 24, 1889, he was elevated to the titular see of Siuuia. He died at St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 22. 1897

GRACE, William Russell, merchant, was born in Queenstown, Cork, Ireland, May 10, 1832; son of James and Ellen JIary (Russell) Grace, and a descendant of Raymond Le Gros. His relatives were well to do and had much influence in the county where they had lived for many years. He was educated in the schools of his birthplace and when fourteen years of age ran away from Iiome and worked his way on a .sailing vessel bound for America, landing in New York in 1846. He worked in New York for two years and then went back to Ireland on a visit. In 1850 he set- tled in Callao, Peru, where he became a clerk, and in 1853 a partner in the firm of Bryce & Company, doing a ship chandlei'y business, which later became Bryce, Grace & Co., and afterward Grace Brothers & Co. He was married in 1859 to Lillius, daughter of George W. Gil- chrest, a shipbuilder of Thomaston, Maine. He returned to New York in 1865 and organized the firm of W. R. Grace & Co., which became prom- inent in the South and Central American trade. In 1880 his share in the contribution to the starv- ing people of Ireland amounted to §50,000, He was mayor of New York city, 1881-83, and 1885- 87, and jsresident of the Grant Monument associ- ation, 1888-90. He was the financial agent of the Peruvian government and in 1890, with his brotlier, M. P. Grace, arranged the refunding of its external debts. He acquired large commer- cial and shipping interests on the west coast of South America. He established the New York & Pacific steamship comjiany, limited, in 1891.

QRADV, Henry Woodfin, journalist, was born in Athens, Ga., April 24, 1850. His father, a colonel in the Confederate army, was killed in 1864 wiiile leading his regiment in a charge at Petei'sburg, 'Va., and his mother, Ann E. (Gartell) Grady, sent the boy to college. He was gradu- ated at the University of Georgia in 18G8 and pursued a two years' postgraduate course at the University of Virginia, returning to his mother's home in Athens in 1870. He became a contributor to the local press of Georgia and soon made his home in Rome. Ga., where he edited the Courier and shortly after became owner and editor of the Commercial. He was the youngest member of the Georgia press convention of 1870, and made