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lington, West Jersej', America, in 1677, settled at Grubb's Landmg, Del., 1682, was a colonial jus- tice, 1693, member of the colonial assembly, 1693- 1700, and died in 1708. Ignatius removed with his parents to Wilmington in 1849, and there acquired a classical education. He was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1863, was clerk of the Delaware house of representatives, 1867; deputy attorneygeueral, 1869, and city solicitor of Wil- miugtou, 1871. He was secretarj' for the state of Delaware, 1875-79; Delaware member of the Democratic national committee, 1880-88, and as- sociate justice of the court of appeals of Dela- ware, 1886-97. He declined the office of chief justice of Delaware in 1893, and was made asso- ciate judge at large of the supreme court of Dela- ware, June 13, 1897. He was elected a director of the Historical societ3' of Delaware; deputy governor -general fx-om Delaware of the General society of Colonial wars, and a member of the council of the American bar association. He is the author of Colonial and State Judiciary of Dela- ware (1896).

QRUND, Francis Joseph, diplomatist, was born in Boliemia in 180.5. His education was ac- quired in Vienna, and in 1835 he went to South America, where he became a teacher of mathe- matics in the Rio de Janeiro military school. The following j'ear lie removed to the United States and settled in Philadelphia, where he engaged in journalism. He was U.S. consul at Antwerp, 1854-60, and in the latter year was appointed consul at Havre, and diplomatic agent to the South German States. He returned to the United States in 1863, and assumed the editorsliip of the Philadelphia Afje, a Democratic journal. He re- signed this position because of a change in his prilitical views. His published writings include: Exercises in Arithmetic (1833); Americans in Their Moral, Meli'jious and Social Eelations (1837); Aris- tiicracii in America (1839); Campaign Life of Gen. William Henry Harrison in German (1840); and a translation of Herschel's Astronomical Problems. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 39, 1863.

QRUNDY, Felix, senator, was born in Berkeley county, Va., Sept. 11, 1777; the seventh son of a n;itive of Euglaud, who immigrated to Virginia in his youtli, settled in Berkeley county, and re- moved in 1779 to Red Stone, Old Fort, Pa., and in 1780 to the state of Kentucky. The family suffered from Indian depredations and three of the sons were killed. Felix was encouraged by his motiier to gain an education, and he was sent to Bardstown academy, conducted by Dr. James Priestly, and became a lawyer in 1797. He was a delegate to the state constitutional conven- tion of 1799; a representative in the state legis- lature, 1799-1806, and there introduced the bill which determined the circuit court system

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adopted by the state which was passed over the governor's veto. He was judge of the supreme court of errors and appeals, 1806-07, and chief justice of the court, 1807. He resigned in the winter of 1807-08, to take up the practice of law in Nashville, Tenn. His record as a crim- inal lawyer is re- markable, in that he defentled 105 clients indicted for capital ■crime, and saved all but one from the gallows. He was elected as a War Democrata represent- ative in the 13th and 13th congresses,

1811-15. He resigned in 1814 in order to devote his entire time to the care of an

invalid wife. He was a representative in the Tennessee legislature, 1819-25, and in 1830 was a commissioner with William L. Brown to settle with Kentucky the boundary line dispute. When Senator John H. Eaton resigned his seat in the U.S. senate in 1829 to accept the portfolio of war in President Jackson's cabinet. Judge Grimdy was elected to the vacancy in the senate, and he was re-elected in 1833 after a bitter con- test. He was chairman of the committees on judiciary and post-offices and ably sustained the administration of President Jackson. When Martin Van Buren acceded to the presidency in 1837, he continued Benjamin F. Butler as attor- ney-general and on Butler's resignation in Jan- uary, 1838, he nominated Senator Grundy who thereupon resigned his seat in the senate. He resigned the attorney -generalship in December, 1839, to take his place again in the U.S. senate, having been elected for a full term, Nov. 19, 1839, as successor to Ephriam H. Foster. He took his seat in the 26th congress, December 3, but re- signed Dec. 14, 1839, the question of his eligibility having arisen, as he was a cabinet officer when elected, and he was promptly re-elected. In con- gress he advocated tariff for revenue only, favored the compromise bill of 1833, he liaving himself suggested it, and being a member of the com- mittee that revised it. He took part in the presi- dential canvass of 1840, in opposition to William H. Harrison, and as an orator and statesman ranked with Clay and Webster. He died in Nash- ville, Tenn.. Dec. 19, 1840.

QRVMES, Jolin Randolph, lawj'er, was born in Orange county. Va, in 1786; .son of John Ran- dolph Grymes (1746-1820), loyalist and member of " the rangers " 1777-78. His mother was a