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4, 1885. congress created him a general on the retired list, thus restoring lum to his former rank with full pay. His last days spent at Mt. McGregor near Sai-atoga, N.Y., were anxious ones for the family gathered in the Drexel cottage, and for the nation watching with the family the news of his death, which came Thursday morning, July 23, 1885. His funeral was most imposing and was attended by 12,000 U.S. soldiere in uni- form; representatives from every state, and, in fact, from every nation; the chiefs of the depart- ments of the Federal government; the ranking oificers of the army and navy; 18,000 veterans of the civil war, north and south, mingled, and repre- sentatives from both houses of congress. The two ex -Presidents, Hayes and Arthur, were also present. His remains were committed to a tomb in Riverside Park on the banks of the Hudson river in >. 8w York city, and

I grateful public

I I irough a popular subscription erected on the spot an appro- priate monument, 1 1 le coraer stone of \\ hich was laid by President HaiTison,

•-^K April 25, 1892, and " the casket contain- IT" ing the dust of the great commander was deposited in its final resting place, April 29, 1897, when the com- pleted monument was dedicated. He received the hjnorary degree of LL.D.from Bowdoin and Union colleges in 1SG5 and from Harvard in 1872. (See Jl.'litnnj History of Ulysses S. Grant from April, J SGI, to April ISGo by Adam Badeau (3 vols., 1S07-0S); Life of Gen. U. S. Grant by Gen. James II. AVilson and Charles A. Dana (1868); Personal Memoirs of U. S. GraKJ written by himself (2 vols., (1885-86), and other later biographies.) Grant received a place in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. October, 1900. He died at Jlount McGret^or, near Saratoga, N.Y., July 23, 1885.

QRATACAP, Louis Pope, scientist, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y'., Nov. 1, 1850; son of John L. and Lucinda (Benton) Gratacap. He was grad- uated from the College of the city of New Y'ork in 1809, and from the school of mines of Colum- bia college in 1876, He was appointed assistant curator in paleontologj' and mineralogy in the American musemii of natural history, Central Park, New Y'ork city, in 1876, and when the new bui'.ding was opened in 1877 lie superintended the arrangement of the specimens. In 1879 he be- came chemist of the Metropolitan gaslight com-

pany. He contributed to the Popular Science Monthly, to the Scientific American, to the Ameri- can Antiquarian, and to the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical club of New Y'ork city. He is the author of: Philosophy of Bitualism, or Apolor/ia pro Ritu (1887); Analytics of a Belief in a Future Life (1888); Protection; Seasonable Doctrine; Polit- ical Mission of Tammany Hall; Political Mission of Meform; The Doctrine of Intention, and various scientilic papers.

GRATIOT, Charles, soldier, was born in Mis- soiu-i in 1788. He was graduated at the U.S. mil- itary academy in 1806; was made 2d lieutenant of engineers, promoted captain in 1808; and was chief engineer of the army under Gen. William H. Harrison. 1813-14. He was present at the de- fence of Fort Meigs and Fort Mackenzie, was biev- etted colonel, and in 1875 was appointed major of engineers and engaged in the construction of coast defences. He reached the rank of lieuten- ant-colonel in 1819 and colonel 1828, when he was made head of the engineer bureau. He was made brigadier-general by brevet. May 24, 1828, and was inspector at the U.S. military academy, 1828- 38. He was dismissed from the U.S. army in 1838 by President Van Buren for failure to pay over public moneys entrusted to him. and found employment in the land office at Washington, D.C., 1840-55. He was prominent in the early history of the west, and a fort on St. Clair river, Mich., and a village in Michigan and one in Wis- consin were named in his honor. He died in St. Louis, Mo., May 18, 1855.

QRAVATT, William Loyall, bishop-coadjutor of West Virginia and 194tli in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Port Royal, Va., Dec. 15, 1858; son of John James and Mary Eliza (Smith) Gravatt; grandson of Reuben and Lucy (Timberlake) Gravatt, and of Jolm Hill and Maiy Cary ( Ambler) Smith; and a descend- ant of Edward Jauquelene of Kent coiuity, Eng- land; and of Col. Miles Cary of Devonshire, England, who settled in Jamestown, Va., about 1618. William L. Gravatt was a student at Blacksburg military college and was graduated at the Virginia theological seminary in 1884. He was ordained deacon by Bishop Whittle in the seminary chapel, Alexandria, Va., June 27, 1884; and was ordained priest by Bishop Whittle in St. Paul's church, Richmond, Va., in May, 1885. He was assistant rector of St. Paul's church, 1885-87; rector of .St. Peter's chiu-ch, Norfolk, Va., 1887-93; and of Zion church, Charlestown, W.Va., 1893-99. He was a member of the standing com- mittee and examining chaplain of the diocese of West Virginia, and was elected bishop-coadjutor of that diocese July 26, 1899, and consecrated Nov. 10, 1899, at Zion church, by Bishops Whit- tle, Peterkin and Satterlee.