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nomination of the Democratic party for the state legislature in 1850; engaged in farming and sur- veying; was a representative in the 33d congress as successor to David Wilmot, and was re-elected to the 33d, 34th, 35th, 36th and 3Tth congresses; to the first three as a Freesoil Democrat, and to the last three as a Republican. He was chairman of the committee on the ter- ritories in the 34th and 36th congresses; was the Republican \ candidate for speaker J of the 35th congress, ■ and was speaker of ^ the 37th congress from July 4, 1861, to March 4, 1863. He was defeated in 1862, in the election for representative in the 38th congress in the new district composed of Susquehanna and Luzerne ■counties. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1864, 1884 and 1893; was chairman of the Republican state committee, 1868; visited Europe in 1855, and California, Ore- gon and British Columbia in 1870; was president of the International & Great Northern railroad company, with residence at Houston, Texas, 1871- 76: declined the mission to Russia, tendered by President Hayes, and was elected Feb. 30, 1894, to succeed William Lilly, deceased, as representa-. tive-at-large for Pennsylvania in the 53d con- gress, and was re-elected to the 54t1i, 55tli, 56th and .57th congresses. His election to the 5.5th congre.ss ■was by a plurality of 397,446, and a majority ■over all candidates of 369,778 votes, the largest plurality and the largest majority ever given in any state of the union to any candidate for any office. In the 56tli and 57th congresses he was chairman of the committee on education. On the completion of his term in the 57th congress, fifty- two years had elapsed from his first entry into congress in 1851. He received the degree of LL.D. from Amherst in 1884.

GROWOLL, Adolf, editor, was born in New York city, June 19, 1850. He was educated in the schools of New York city; was a member of the editorial staff of the Army and Navy Journal, New York, 1870-78; and became managing editor of the Publisher's Weekly in 1881. He is the author of: The Bookseller's Library and How to Use It (1891); James Tlwmpson; a Biographical and Bib- liographical Sketch (1893); TTie Profession of Bookselling, a handbook of practical hints for the apprentice and bookseller (2 vols., 1893-1895); P^th- lishers' and Other Book Exhibits at the World's

Columbian Exposition (1893); American Book C'hibs, their Beginnings and History, and a Bibliog- raphy of their Publications (1897); Book-trade Bibliography in the United States in the XlXth Cen- tury ( 1898); Frederick Leypoldt, a Biographical Sketch (1899); Henry Harrisse, a Biographical Sketch (1899); and of several articles in Jolinson's Unirrrsitl Cydnj-iicdin.

QROZIER, Edwin Atkins, editor, was born in San Francisco. Cal., Sept. 13, 1859; son of Joshua Freeman and Mary Louise (Given) Gro- zier; grandson of Joshua Freeman Grozier, and a descendant of a French Protestant immigrant to Boston. He attended Cliaimcey Hall school, Bos- ton, and Brown university, 1878-79, and was graduated from Boston university in 1881. He was a reporter for the Boston Globe and Herald, 1881-83; private secretai-y to Governor Robinson of Massachusetts, 1884-85, and private secretary to Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World, 1885- 86. He was city editor of the New York World in 1887; editor of the Eoening World, in 1888, and of the Sunday World, 1889-91. He became owner, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Boston Pi,st in 1891.

QRUBB, Edward Burd, soldier, was born in Burlington, N.J., Nov. 13, 1.S41; son of Edward Burd and Euphemia (Parker) Grubb; grandson of Capt. Peter Grubb, and a descendant of John Grubb of Delaware. He was graduated from Burlington college in 1860, and in 1861 joined the Union army as private, and was soon promoted 3d lieutenant, then 1st lieutenant and captain. He participated in the battles of Bull Run, and all the battles of the army of the Potomac; was made an aide on the staff of General Taylor, and was promoted major and lieutenant-colonel in 1863, and colonel in 1863. In 1864 he was ap- pointed colonel of the 37th N.J. volunteers, and was brevetted brigadier -general, March 13, 1865. After the war he engaged in the iron business in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia. In 1888 lie was the Republican candidate for governor of New Jersey, and in 1889 was appointed by Presi- dent Harrison U.S. minister to Spain. He suc- ceeded in getting the reciprocity treaty between the United States and Spain for Cuba and Porto Rico ratified, and induced the Spanish govern- ment to remove its prohibition against the im- poi'tation of American pork and to agree to a treaty on copyright. After accomplishing his mission he returned to America and resigned before the completion of bis term.

QRUBB, Ignatius Cooper, jurist, was born at Grubb's Landing, Del., April 13, 1841; son of Wellington and Beulah Caroline (Allmand) Grubb; grandson of James and Sarah (Ford) Grubb, and a descendant of John Grubb, born in Cornwall, England, in 1653, emigrated to Bur-