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35, and professor of pathological anatomy there, 1835-40; professor of surger3- iu the University of Kentucky, 1840-50; of surgery and relative anatomy in tlxe University of the city of New York, 1850-51; bj- urgent demand of his associ- ates returned to the University of Kentuckj- and continued as professor of surgery, 1851-50; and was professor of surgery in the Jefferson medical college. Philadelphia, Pa., 1856-82. lie was a founder and an early president of the Kentucky medical societj'; founded with Dr. T. G. Rich- arrlsou in 1856 the Louisville Medical Bevietc and in Philadelphia soon after the Xorth American Malico-Chirurgical Bevieio. He also founded with Dr. DaCosta the Philadelphia pathological soci- ety and was its first president. He was elected a member of the Royal medical society of Vienna in 1862; president of the American medical asso- ciation in 1867; a member of the Royal medico- chirurgical society of London in 1868; of the British medical society the same year; received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the Univer- sity of Oxford on its one thousandth commem- oration in 1872: the degree of LL. D. from the University of Cambridge the same year, and from the University of Pennsylvania in 1884, and was president of the International medical college which met in Pliiladelphia in September, 1876. He made notable original investigations and is the author of: Diseases and Injuries of the Bones and Joints (1830); Elements (if Pathological Anat- omy (1839-57); Wounds of the Intestines (1843); Beport on Kentucky Surgery (1851); Diseases, In- juries and Malformations of the Urinary Organs (1851, 1855, 1876); Besults of Surgical Operations in Malignant Diseases (1858); Foreign Bodies in the Air Passages (1854); Beport on the Causes ichich Betard the Progress of A nerican Medical Literature (18.56); System of Surgery (1859-83); Manual of Military Surgery (1861); John Hunter and his Pupils (1861); Histonj of American Medical Liter- ature (1875); in collaboration with other noted surgeons Century of American Medicine (1876), and he also edited American Medical Biography (1861). Hedied in Pliiladelphia, Pa.. May 6, 1848. GROSS, Samuel Weissell, surgeon, was born in Cincinnati. Ohio, Feb. 4, 1837; son of Dr. Samuel David and Louisa (Weissell) Gross. He was educated in arts at Shelby college, Ky., in medicine at the University of Louisville, and was graduated at Jefferson medical college, Phil- adelphia, Pa., in 1857. He was lecturer in Jeffer- son medical college and in the College of pliysicians, Philadelphia, 1857-61, brigade-surgeon with the rank of major of volunteers, 1861-65. and received the brevet of lieutenant:CoIonel at the close of the war for distinguished services in line of duty. He was surgeon to the Howard hospital, the Hospital of Philadelphia and the

hospital of the Jefferson medical college, 1865-82, and accepted the chair of the principles of sur- gery and clinical surgery at Jefferson medical college in 1882. He received the degree of LL.D. He is the author of a Practical Treatise on Tumors of the Mammary Gland ( 1880); Practical Treatise on Impotence, Sterility and Allied Disorders (1881- 87); and edited, in collaboration with his brother Albert Haller Gross, Autobiography of Samticl D. (n..«. M.D.

GROSS, William Hickley, R.C. archbishop, was bora in Baltimore, Md., June 12, 1837; son of Jacob and Rachel (Hazlett) Gross; grand- son of Louis Gross and of James Hazlett, and great-grandson of Anthony Gross, who came from Alsace and with his son, Louis Gross, took part in the defence of Baltimore in 1812. He received his classical education at St. Charles's college, EUicott City, Md., 1850-53. He entered the novitiate of the Order of Redemptiouist Fathers in 18.57, being admitted to the priesthood March 31, 1863, by Archbishop Kenrick. During the closing years of the civil war he was mis- sionary to soldiers in the hospitals about Annap- olis and to the negroes who were made free by the President's proclamation. After the close of the war he was attached to the missionary force of St. Alphonsus's church in New York citj-, and in 1870 was made superior of the community of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Boston, Mass. He was consecrated bishop of Savannah, April 37, 1873. by Archbisliop Bayley, assisted by Bishops Gibbons and Becker, and became successor to the Rt. Rev. Ignatius Persico, D.D., resigned. After laboring in Savannah and throughout the dio- cese embracing southern Georgia twelve years he was promoted by His Holiness Leo XIII. Feb. 1, 1885, from Savannah to the archiepiscopal see of Oregon as successor to the Most Rev. Charles John Seghers, resigned. The archdiocese of Oregon City was created in 1850 and included the entire state of Oregon. In 1898 it had a Catholic population of about 33,000 souls. His eloquence won for Bishop Gross the sobriquet "silver- tongued orator of the liierarcliy. " He died at Baltimore, Md., Nov. 12. 1898.

GROSSCUP, Peter Stenger, jurist, was born in Ashlanil. Ohio, Feb. 15, 1853; son of Benjamin and Susannah (Bowermaster) Grosscup; grand son of Paul and Rebecca (Shearer) Grosscup. and of Frederick and Catherine (Mohler) Bower- master, and a descendant of Paul Grosscup, who sat for Berks and Lebanon counties in the Penn- sylvania colonial assembly, and in the convention that framed the constitution, 1791. His paternal ancestors were Hollanders who immigrated to America before the formation of the Federal union, and his maternal ancestors were German. He was prepared for college in the schools of Ash-