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nel, Sept. 17, 1862, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Antietam; colonel July 3, 1863, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Gettysburg; and brigadier-general, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious ser- vices in the field during the war. He was made colonel of the 2d Dis- trict of Colimibia vol- unteers, April 7, 1865, and m\istered out of the volunteer service, Sept. 12, 1865; was promoted major of the -Ith U.S. artillery, July 18, 1879; lieu- tenant-colonel of the 1st artillerj', Aug. 10, \ ' 1887; was transferred

to the 5th artillery May 1, 1890; was com- missioned colonel of ^^^ the 5th artillery, July 1, 1891, brigadier-general. May 26, 1897, and was retired from aciive service in the regular army Sept. 28, 1898, the sixty-fourth anniversary of his birth. At the beginning of the war with Spain in 1898, he was in command of the depart- ment of the Gulf, and on May 4, was ajipointed major-general of volunteers and was ordered to Falls Church, Va., to take charge of the organi- zation of the second armj' corps, U.S. volunteers, which was mobilized to a strength of 30,000, and in August was transferred by rail to Camp George Gordon Meade, near Middletown, Pa, and he was honorably discharged from the volimteer service, Nov. 30. 1898.

GRANBERY, John Cowper, ME. bishop, was born in Norfolk, Va., Dec. 5, 1829; son of Richard Allen and Ann (Leslie) Granbery; grandson of Isaiah and Mary E. (Cowper) Granbery, and a descendant of John Granberj-, who died in 1733. He joined the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in 1844, entered the Randolph-Macon college, and was gradvuited in 1848. He was a chaplain in the Confederate army, 1861-65, and a pastor, mission- ary, and itinerant preacher from the time he left college until 1875, when he became acting pro- fessor of mental and moral philosopliy. and pro- fessor of pi-actioal theology in the Biblical department of Vanderbilt university, Nashville, Tenn. In May 1882 Dr. Granbery was elected bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and he resigned the chairs in Vanderbilt and made his episcopal residence at Ashland, Va. He was made a member of the board of trust of Vanderbilt university in 1882. Randolph-Macon conferred upon him the degree of A.JI. in 1857. and that of D.D. in 1870. He is the author of BihU DklioHary (1882), and Sermons (1896).

QRANQER, Amos Phelps, representative, was horn in Suliifld. Conn., June 3, 1789. He was a nephew of the Hon. (Tideon Granger, post- master-general through Jefferson's and Madison's administrations. He settled in Manlius, Onon- daga county, in 1811, where he was the presi- dent of the corporation that settled the town. He was captain in the war of 1812, serving at Sacket harbor, and on the borders of Canada, and was afterward brigadier-general in the New- York state militia. He removed to Syracuse in 1820, where lie acquired a fortune. He was a Whig in politics and in 1842 was a delegate for New York to the Whig national convention that nominated Scott and Graham, and in 1844 in the state convention at Auburn, N.Y., lie presented the resolutions that led to the formation of the Repxiblican party. He represented his district in the 34th and 35th congresses, 1855-59. He died at Syracuse, N.Y., Aug. 20, 1866.

QRANQER, Francis, statesman, was born in Suffield, Conn., Dec. 1, 1792; son of Gideon and Mindwell P. Granger. He was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1811; was admitted to the bar in 1816, and practised law in Ontario county, N.Y. He was a member of the state assembly for five terms and was twice the un.successful Whig candidate for governor of the state, being defeated in 1830 by Enos T. Throop, and in 1832 by William L. Marcy. He l


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24th con gress, 183.5- 37, and in 1836 the Whig na- tional con- vention made him candidate for Vice-President on the ticket with William Henr}- Harrison for President and he received seventy-seven elec- toral votes, four more than the candidate for President. He again represented his district in the 26th congress, 1839-41. In March, 1841, he was selected by President Harrison as postmas- ter-general in his cabinet. On the death of Har- rison, President Tyler retained him, but on the disruption of Tyler's cabinet, Sept. 11, 1841, Granger, with Ewing, Bell, Badger and Critten- den, resigned, and he was succeeded by Charles A. Wicklitfe of Kentuck}-. He declined a foreign mission at the hands of President Tyler, and was elected a representative from his district in the 27th congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jonn Greig. He opposed the policy of Seward. Weed and Greeley, and hi? faction of the Whig jiarty became known as " Silver Greys " from the conspicuous silver hair