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ORAVES, Abbott Fuller, painter, was born in Weymouth, Mass., April 15, 1859; son of James G. and Eliza Nichols (Fuller) Graves; grand- son of George and Mary (Osborn) Graves, and of Isiacca and Matilda (Nicholes) Fuller, and a direct descendant on the maternal side of Dr. Samuel Fuller, the first physician to the Ply- mouth colony who came in the Mayfioioer. He was graduate I at the Massachusetts institute of teclmology, school of design, took up flower paintmg and studied in Paris under Georges Jeannin in 1888. His works were represented at the Paris salon in 1888-89, and he received medals in 1887, in 1890 and in 1893. On his return to the United States in 1889 he opened a studio in Bos- ton, Mass., where he worked fi-om October to May of each year, spending the summer months at Kennebunkport, Maine. He was chairman of the exhibition committee of the Paint and Clay club ; a member of the Society of Boston water-color painters ; a member of the Boston art students' association and of the Boston art club. He exe- cuted some notable decorative work for Hotel Brighton, Paris, France, and Hotel Somerset, Boston, Mass. His well-known paintings include : Jtosc-Fields of Perigny ; Flowers of Venice ; Fash- ion's Fknoer ; The Chrysanthemum; The Country Store; Nearest of Kin; 3Iak:ing Things Shine; The Silent Partner ; The Reader ; The Other Side ; Ja- maica Sunset and among his portraits. The Dutch Maid.

GRAVES, Adelia Cleopatra, author, was born in Kingsville, Ohio, March 17, 1821 ; daughter of Dr. Daniel M. and Mariam Amanda Spencer; granddaughter of Caleb Spencer, a soldier in the Revolution ; and a niece of Piatt Rogers Spencer, the originator of the Spencerian system of pen- manship. She attended academies at Jefferson and Kingsville ; was graduated from the latter in 1841 ; and after graduation married Zuinglius Calvin Graves, the principal of the academy, and in the fall of the same year became teacher of Latin and English composition there, remaining in that position till 1847. With her liusband she removed to Winchester, Tenn., in 18.50, where he became president of the Marj^ Sharpe female college. Slie was matron and professor of rliet- oric there till 1881, and secretary and treasurer, 1881-95. She was editor of the Southern Child's Book, 1856-59, and wrote for the Baptist Sunday- school Union in 1869, under the pen-name of " Aunt Alice " a Life of Columbus, two volumes of Poems for Children and under her own nanie The New Testament Catechism of Qttestions and Answers in Phyme. She is also the author of Jephthali's Daughter (1867), a dramatic poem for the use of schools; Seclusaval, or the Arts of Po- manism (1869) ; and Woman in Sacred Song (1885). She died in Winchester, Tenn., Nov. 6, 1895.

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GRAVES, Anson Rogers, 1st missionary bishop of the Platte and the 153d in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Wells, Vt., April 13, 1842; son of Daniel Graves, a hatter and farmer, the inventor of a water wheel and a cook stove, and a fifer in a recruiting camp in the war of 1812. His first American ancestor, Thomas Graves, set- tled in Hartford, Conn., in 1640. In 1845 his father re- moved to a farm in northern Illinois, and the son attended the coimtry school. In 1860 he attended the Rutland, Vt., high school and was grad- uated at Hobart col- lege in 1866, receiving his master's degree in 1879, having

worked his own way through his preparatory and college course, aided by a sixty-dollar scholar- shij), and gained both the White and Cobb essay prizes in his junior year. He studied law dirring his senior year at college, which he continued while principal of the Urj' House school, Philadel- phia, Pa., 1866-67. He then engaged in busmess imtil 1868, when he entered the General theolog- ical seminary of the Protestant Episcopal church, where he was graduated in 1870. He was or- dained deacon in 1870 and priest in 1871 ; was assistant at Grace church, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1870- 71 ; travelled and studied in Europe, 1872 ; was reenter of St. Luke's church, Plattsmouth, Neb., 1873; assistant in the missions of Getlisemane church, Minneapolis, Minn., 1874-75; rector of All Saint's, Northfield, Minn., 1876; missionary at Littleton, Bethlehem and Whitefield, N.H., 1877-80 ; rector of St. Peter's chm-ch, Bennington, Vt., 1880-83; of Gethsemane chui'ch, Minneapolis, Minn., 1883-89, and on Jan. 1, 1890, he was conse- crated bishop of the missionary jurisdiction of tlie Platte, with Kearney, Neb., as the see city. In October, 1898, his jurisdiction was enlarged so as to include eastern Wyoming with western Nebraska and his title changed to the bisliop of Laranrie. He was married at Brattleboro. Vt., April 3, 1877, to Mary Totten Watrous. He re- ceived the honorary degree S.T.D. from Racine in 1890, and tliat of LL.D. from Hobart college in 1890.

GRAVES, Frank Pierrepont, educator, was born in Brooklyn. N.Y., July 23, 1869; son of Horace and Aiuiie (Hall) Graves; and grandson of Joseph and Abigail (Tucker) Graves, and of James H. and Mary (Cutter) Hall. He was pre-