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his first public speech at its banquet. In 1871 he removed to Atlanta to become the Georgia correspondent of the New York Uerahl, and the same year purchased an interest in the Atlanta HrrahJ. In 1880 he purchased a fourth interest in the Atlanta Constitution. His first national speech was made Dec. 22, 1886, at the annual banquet of the New England so- ciety of New York city and was pub- lished in every large circulating newspa- per in the land, either verbatim or in part. He then spoke on " Prohibition " in Atlanta, Ga., in 1887; at the State Fair, Dallas. Texas, on ' ' The South and Her Problems," be- fore 3.5,000 people in October, 1888; "Against Centralization," before the University of Vir- ginia, June 24, 1889; and on " The Position of the South on the Race Problem " in December, 1889, before the Merchants' association of Boston, in which he discussed the question with such tact, eloquence and ability as to captivate the audience, and while he did not offensively glorify one sec- tion at the expense of the other, he harmonized discordant issues and presented the human side unsullied by taint of political prejudice. He was called the " national pacificator." He was a fore- most worker in the Southern Chautauqua scheme ; in the Atlanta expositions of 1887 and 188!); in the erection of the Y.M.C. A. building in Atlanta ; in founding the Confederate veterans' home; in securing the election of General Gordon as gov- ernor of Georgia, and in building up the Constitu- tion to a circulation extending into the hundreds of thousands. He was married in October, 1873, to Julia King of Athens, Ga., who with a son and a daughter survived him. The son Henry Wood- fin Grady adopted journalism as a profession and became an editor of the Constitution of which his father was part owner. The citizens of Atlanta erected a hospital as a memorial to the dead jour- nalist and the people of the South erected opposite the Custom House in Atlanta a monument to his memory, surmounted by a bronze statue. See his " Life and Speeches " by Joel Chandler Harris (18!10). He died in Atlanta, Ga.. Dec. 23, 1889.

QRAEBNER, August L., theologian, was born inSaginavvcounty, Mich.. July 10, 1849; son of the Rev. John Henry Philip and Jacobina (Den- ning'er) Graebner. He attended Albach's acad- emy, St. Louis, Mo., Concordia college, Ind..

1863-68, and Concordia seminary, 1869-72. He was professor of languages and history in North- western imiversity, Wis., 1875-78, professor of theology in the Theological seminary at Mil- waukee, Wis., 1878-87, and accepted the chair of theology in Concordia seminary at St. Louis, Mo. , in 1887. He published: English Composition and arammar (1878); Life of Lttther (IS8S) ; John A'e- hastian Bach (1885); Chemnitz' Enchiridion (1886); The Ten Commandments (1888) ; Tlie Lutheran Church in America (1892) ; On the Labor Question (1895); and Outlines of Doctrinal Theology (1898).

GRAEME, Thomas, physician, was born in Balgowan, Scotland, Oct. 20, 1688. He was edu- cated as a physician and emigi-ated to America in 1717 with Sir William Keith, lieutenant-governor of Pennsylvania and Delaware. He settled in Philadelphia for the practice of his profession and was prominent in the city government. He was naval officer at Philadelphia from 1727 till about 1761 ; served as a member of the provincial coun- cil, receiving his appointment in February, 1736 ; and was made a justice of the supreme court in 1731. He was one of the first members of the American philosophical society; and first presi- dent of the Society of St. Andrew in 1749. He was also one of the founders of the Pennsylvania liospital anil was physician to the same, 1751-53. He died at (iraeme Park, Pa., Sept. 4, 1773.

QRAESSEL, Dominic Lawrence, R.C. coad- jutor-bishop elect, was born in Ruhmansfelden, diocese of Ratisbon, Bavaria, Aug. 18, 1753. The place and date of his ordination are not onrecoi-d. Bishop Carroll of Baltimore petitioned to Rome for a coadjutor, Sept. 34, 1793, and on Dec. 8, 1793, the petition was granted and a brief, signed by Cardinal Braschi, secretary of Papal Briefs, forwarded to Bishop Carroll naming Father Graessel as coadjutor with titular see of Samo- sata. Meantime Father Graessel was laboring under Bishop Carroll's direction in the yello\*- fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793, and while so engaged he contracted the disease and died before the brief was received making him the first coadjutor bishop in the United States, and before he was consecrated. He died in Philadel- phia, Pa., in October, 1793.

GRAFF, Frederick, engineer, was born in Philadelpliia. Pa., Aug. 27, 1775. He was edu- cated as a carpenter and draughtsman, and was assistant to the engineer of the first water -work.s in Philadelphia. He was elected superintendent and engineer of the works in 1805 and in 1811 recommended and commenced the construction of the Fairmount water-works. He was the first to introduce the use of iron in the construction of water jiipes, and liis system was adopted in nearly forty cities in the United States including Boston and New York. He was connected -with the