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■was appointed by the state legislature a state referee. He was married, Oct. 21, 1846, to Caro- line S., daughter of Samuel and Mary (Rood) Ferguson of Slieftield, Mass. He I'eceived the degree of LL.D. from Wesleyan university in 1883. He died in Canaan, Conn., Oct. 31, 1895.

QRANQER, Moses Moorhead, jurist, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, Oct. 22, 1831; son of James and Matilda V. (Moorhead) Granger; grandson of Oliver and Beulah (Hanchett) Granger, and of Moses Cliapline and Anna (Pat- terson) Moorhead of Suffield, Conn., and a de- scendant of Launcelot Granger, who was married Jan. 4, 1653, to Joanna, daughter of Robert Adams of Newbury, Mass. He was graduated at Kenyon college in I80O, was admitted to the bar, and practised in ZanesviUe, 1853-61. He was captain of the 18th U.S. infantry; was promoted major and then lieutenant-colonel of the 122d Ohio volunteer regiment and was brevetted colo- nel of volunteers, for " gallant and meritorious conduct in the present [1864] campaign before Richmond and in the Shenandoah Valley." At the close of the war he resumed his practice of the law at Zanesville. He was city solicitor, 1865; prosecuting attornej% 1866; judge of the court of common pleas, 1866-71, and chief-justice of the supreme court commission of Ohio, 1883- 85. He was married, Dec. 29. 1858, to Mary, daugliter of Gen. William J. and Mary E. (Sher- man) Reese. He is the author of Washington versus Jefferson: The Case Tried by Battle in 1861- 65 (1898).

QRANQER, Robert Seaman, soldier, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, May 24, 1816. His father was a cousin of the Hon. Gideon Granger, postmaster -general under Jefferson and Madison. He was graduated from the U.S. military academy in 1838, promoted 1st lieutenant in 1839, and saw his first active service in the Seminole war in Flor- ida, 1840-42. He was instructor at the militaiy academy, 1843-44; took part in the Mexican war, 1846-47; was promoted captain, Sept. 8, 1847, and afterward served on the Texas frontier. He was captured by Maj. Henry H. Siblej^, the Confeder- ate commander of the Texas coast, Ajwil 27, 1861, and paroled. He w^as exchanged, Aiigust, 18G2, in the meantime, wh.ile on parole, receiving pro- motion to the rank of major, Sept. 9, 1861, and organizing a brigade at Mansfield, Ohio, which he prepared for the field. On Sept. 1. 1862, he was commissioned brigadier-general of Kentucky volunteers. He was assigned to the command of the Kentucky state troops and was in active en- gagements with the Confederate forces at Shep- herdsville, Lebanon Junction and Lawrenceburg. For his action in the last named engagement he was brevetted colonel in the regular army. He ■was commissioned brigadier-general of U.S. vol-

unteers Oct. 20, 1862. He commanded a division in 1862, and the district of Nasliville and that of Middle Tennessee, successively, 1863. He pre- pared Nashville as a depot of supplies early in 18G4, and then commanded the district of North- ern Alabama and while there captured Gen. Philip D. Roddey "scamp, drove Gen Joseph Wheeler out of Middle Tennessee, and defended his district against the raid of General Forrest, and Decatur, Ala., against the army of General Hood. For these services lie was brevetted brigadier-general and for his services throughout the war was brevetted major-general in the U.S. army. He was pro- moted lieutenant -colonel in the regular estab- lishment June 12, 1865; and colonel, Aug. 16, 1871, and was placed on the retired list, Jan. 16, 1873. He died in Wasliington, D.C., April 25, 1894.

GRANT, Abraham, A.M.E. bishop, was born a slave at Lake City, Fla., Aug. 25, 1848. He was sold at Columbus, Ga., in 1864, for six tliousand dollars in Confederate money. At the close of the civil war he returned to Lake City, where he was a clerk in a store, and steward in a hotel. He removed to Jacksonville, Fla., was employed in a hotel and attended night soliool. He joined the A.M.E. church in Jacksonville, and in May, 1872, he was licensed to preach. He was or- dained deacon by Bishop T. M. D. Ward in December, 1873, and elder in 1875. He was pas- tor of the Duval county mission, 1872-75; in charge of Lavella circuit, 1874-76, and at Talla- hassee station. He was inspector of customs at Jacksonville, Fla., 1869-77, and county commis- sioner of Duval county by appointment of Gov- ernor Stevens. He was jiastor of the church at San Antonio, Texas, 1868-71; at Austin, Texas, 1871-75; was presiding elder of the Austin dis- trict, 1875-76, and returned to the church at San Antonio in 1876. He was elected bishop of the ninth episcopal district comprising Texas, Louisiana, Wasliington and Oregon, at the gen- eral conference held at Indiana m Maj', 1888. He was a trustee of Pavil Quinn college at Waco. Texas, for eight years, and vice-president and president of the board. At the Philadelphia gen- eral conference. May, 1892, he was assigned to Georgia and Alabama, comprising the sixth Epis- copal district, and in May, 1896, to the first Epis- copal district, which included the conferences of Philadelphia, New York, New Jersey, New Eng- land, Bermuda and Nova Scotia. He was elected chairman of the board of trustees of Morris Brown college, Atlanta, Ga.: of Allen imiver- sity, Columbia, S.C; of Payne university at; Selma, Ala., and was honorary vice-president of the U.S. national educational a.ssociation. Upon the death of Bishop J. C. Embry in June, 1897, he was also placed in charge of the state of South Carolina. He visited Europe in 1895, where he