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 GRIMES

GRIMKE

Grant. He returned to his pLantation and met his death at the luiuds uf an luikuown assassin c>u the public highwaj' between his home and the town uf WasliingtoH, N.C., Aug. 14, 1880.

GRIMES, James Wilson, governor of Iowa, was born in iJeeriug, X.H., Oct. 20, 1816. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1836, receiving his A.B. degree in 1S4.5, and practised law in the '■ Black Hawk Purchase," Wisconsin Territory, afterward the site of Burlington, Iowa, 1837-73. He was assistant to the territorial libra- rian, 1887-83; was a delegate to the assem- bly of Iowa Territorj-, 1838 and 1843, and a representative in the state legislature, 18.53. He was governor of Iowa, 1834-58, having been elected by the Whigs and Free- Soil Democrats; was a Republican United V ^y/, r,^i ^ states senator, 1859-

X '^ 69, and resigned in

1869 ; was a delegate to the peace convention of 1861; was a member of the committee on naval affairs in the senate, 1861-69, and chairman of the committee, 1864-69. He advocated the building of ironclads and of earthworks for coast defence rather than wooden vessels and stone forts ; op- posed the enlargement of the regular army in 1861 and later opposed a high protective tariff He voted against the Impeachment of President Johnson. In 1865 he gave to Iowa college 640 acres of land valued at S6400, which constitutes the Grimes foundation to be apjilied to the main- tenance of four scholarships without regard to the religious tenets or oj^inions of the beneficia- ries. He received the honorary degree of LL. D. from both Iowa and Dartmouth in 1865. He also foimded a free public library in Burlington. His life written by William Slater was publislied in 18T6. He died in Burlington, Iowa, Feb. 7, 1873. QRIMK^, Angelina Emily, reformer, was born in Ciiarleston, S. C, Feb. 20, 1805 ; daughter of Judge John Fauchereau and Mary(Sinith) Grimke. Her fatlier (born 1752, died 1819) was lieutenant- colonel of artillery in the American army during the Revolution ; judge of the superior court, 1783- 99 ; member and speaker of the state legislature, 1783-86 ; a member of the state convention that adopted the Federal constitution ; and a prominent Episcopalian. He received the degree of LL.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1789. His daughters, Angelina Emily and Sarah Moore, became members of the Society of Friends in 1828 after their removal to Philadelphia, and on

the death of their mother in 1836 emancipated tlie slaves they inherited. They lectiu'ed in New York and New England in private houses in the interest of the American anti-slavery society and iu behalf of woman's riglits, and attracted atten- tion on account of their enthusiasm in behalf of the then new doctrine of woman's rights, and by reason of their beauty, refinement and eloquence. Angelina was married. May 14, 1838, to Theodore Dwiglit Weld and aided him in his educational and reformatory works. She is the author of Letters to Catherine E. Seechcr (1837), and Appeal to the Women of the Snnth (1838). She died in Hyde Park, Mass, Oct. 26, 1879.

GRIMKE, Frederick, jurist, was born in Charleston, S.C, Sept. 1, 1791; son of Judge John Fauchereau and Mary (Smith) Grimke. He was a brother of Thomas, Angelina and Sarah Grimke, all noted reformers. He was giaduated at Yale in 1810, studied law, removed to Colum- bus, Ohio, in 1818, practised law there, was pre- siding judge of the Ohio court of common pleas, and afterward a judge of the supreme court of the state, 1836^3. His works, the result of care- ful philosophical study between 1843 and 1863, wei-e publislied in 1871. Judge Frederick GrimkS died in Chillicothe, Ohio, March 8, 1863.

GRIMKE, Sarah Moore, reformer, was born in Charleston, S.C, Nov. 6, 1793;. daughter of Judge John Fauchereau and Mary (Smith) Grimke. With her sister, she became a member of the Society of Friends, after liaving removed to Phila- delphia. She joined the Anti-slavery society in Philadelphia in 1821 and also advocated woman's rights, lecturing with her sister in New York and New England in private houses, as the}' were not permitted to speak in public halls. After 1840 she taught in Belvidere, N.J., and reside<l with her sister, Mrs. Weld, there and at Hyde Park, Mass. The appearance of the sisters as public lecturers gained for them the opposition of all the clergy- men except the most liberal, and the general association of Congregational ministers in West Brookfield included in their pastoral letter a warning against these ladies as enticing " women from their proper sphere and loosening the foundations of the family." Whittier replied to this in his poem, "The Pastoral Letter." Miss Grimkfi is author of: An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States (1827) ; Letters on the Con^ dition of Woman and the Equality of the Sexes (1888); and a translation of Lamartine's Biog- raphy of Joan of Arc (1867). She died at Hyde Park, Mass., Dec. 33, 1873.

GRIMKE, Thomas Smith, reformer, was born in Ciiarleston, S.C, Sept. 26, 1786; son of Judge John Fauchereau and Mary (Smith) Grunke, and brother of Frederick, Sarah and Angelina Grimkfi. He was graduated at Yale in 1807 and