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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



gust, was in command of the division that operated 

 before Covington, Ky., September 18-'_'S, and of a 

 division in western Virginia from September L'8 till 

 October 14, was then appointed to command the first 

 division of the Army of Kentucky, and subsequently 

 the division of Central Kentucky.' While holding this 

 command, he defeated the Confederates under Gen. 

 PcLfnim in the battle of Somerset, for which he was 

 brevetted colonel. After another sick-leave, he was 

 appointed commander of the Department of the South, 

 and, in July, 1SH3, of the Tenth Army Corps. He di- 

 rected the operations against Charleston, 8. C., capt- 

 ured Morris Island on July 10, for which he was 

 brevetted brigadier-general, bombarded Fort Sumter, 

 besieged and captured Fort Wagner and Battery 

 Gregg, and for planting and operating the famous 

 "Swamp Angel'' gun on Morris Island, seven miles 

 form Charleston, received this commendation from 

 Gen. Henry W. Hallcck : " He has overcome difficul- 

 ties almost unknown in modern sieges. Indeed, his 

 operations on Morris Island constitute a new era in 

 the science of engineering and gunnery." For his 

 services at Charleston he was promoted major-general 

 of volunteers. In 1864, at the head of the Tenth Corps, 

 he commanded on the James river, Va., captured the 

 line in front of Drewry's Bluff, covered Gen. B. F. 

 Butler's retreat at Bermuda Hundred, and joined in 

 the pursuit of the Confederates under Gen. Jubal 

 Early. He was assigned to the defense of Washing- 

 ton with two divisions of the Nineteenth Corps. He 

 commanded the Department of the South from Feb 9 

 till Nov. 17, 1865, resigned his volunteer commission 

 in December, and was "appointed engineer-in-ehicf ot 

 all the fortifications on the Atlantic coast south of 

 New York city. In the regular armv he was promoted 

 major in June, 1803, lieutenant-colonel in 1874, and 

 colonel on Feb. 20, 1874. As one of the judges of the 

 Centennial Exhibition in 1876, he made elaborate re- 

 ports on ''Brick-making Machinery, Brick -Kilns, 

 Perforated and Enameled Bricks and Pavements," 

 and on " Portland, Roman, and other Cements and 

 Artificial Stones." He also wrote " The Siege and 

 Reduction of Fort Pulaski " (New York, 1862); 

 "Limes, Hydraulic Cements, and Mortars" (1863); 

 " Engineering and Artillery Operations against 

 Charleston in 1863" (1865); '" Beton, Coignet, and 

 other Artificial Stones " (1871) ; " The Strength of 

 the Building Stones of the United States" (1874); 

 and " Roads, Streets, and Pavements" (18761. 



Goldsmith, Oliver B., educator, born in Cutchogue, 

 L. I., in 1815 ; died in New York city, April 28, 1888. 

 When fifteen years old he removed to New York city, 

 became a clerk in a dry-goods store, was established 

 in the same line of business, and in 1837 owned the 

 largest dry-goods store on the east side of the city, 

 and was the chief rival of Lord & Taylor. The 

 financial crisis of that year reduced him to poverty. 

 While seeking other means of employment he was 

 shown a specimen of artistic penmanship written by 

 Isaac F. Bragg, and immediately afterward took a 

 course of instruction in Mr. Bragg's school. Within 

 a year he took the first prize of the American Institute 

 for off-hand penmanship. In 1838 he opened a school 

 in Brooklyn, and subsequently one in New city, 

 which he conducted for forty years, and became 

 known as the best off-hand penman in the United 

 States. A few years ago he made a tour of the prin- 

 cipal cities with' his six-year old son, who had devel- 

 oped an extraordinary talent for Shakespearean reci- 

 tations. In 1877 he was accidentally shot in the 

 shoulder, and a few weeks afterward broke several 

 bones in a fall. These injuries resulted in paralysis, 

 from which he never recovered. 



Gray, David, journalist, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 

 Nov. 9, 1836; died in Binsrhamton, N. Y., March 

 18, 1888. He settled in Buffalo, N. Y., about 1857, 

 was successively a contributor, reporter, and editor of 

 the Buffalo " Courier," and became its editor-in-chief 

 in 1876. He held this office till 1882, and was then 

 obliged to resign it on account of feeble health. In 



1886 he was appointed secretary and treasurer of the 

 New York State Niagara Park Commission, and held 

 the offi ces till three months prior to his death, when 

 he became secretary of the Buffalo Park Commission. 

 He w*s on his way to Nassau, for his health, when Le 

 sustained injuries in a railroad accident at Vestal, 

 N. Y., which caused his death. Mr. Gray, aside from 

 his high reputation as a journalist, was known as a 

 man of line literary tastes and the author of a few ex- 

 quisite fugitive poems. His writings, including essays, 

 letters, and poems, with a sketch of his life, have been 

 published (2 vols., Buffalo, 1888). 



Greey, Edward, author, born in Sandwich, Kent, Eng- 

 land. Dec. 1, ls35; died in New York city, Oct. 1, 

 lie received a private and a military education, 

 accompanied the English naval expedition to China, 

 and as captain of a company of marines was among 

 the foremost in the storming of Pekin. After the 

 war he was appointed to an office in the British Lega- 

 tion in Japan, and during his residence in that coun- 

 try studied its language, literature, art, customs, and 

 form of government. In 1868 he removed to the 

 United States, pa>scd several years in commercial 

 pursuits in New York city, went to Manchester, Mass., 

 and during a season of disability began his series of 

 Japanese historical, discriptivc, and *tory books. On 

 his recovery he made several trips to Japan, and 

 opened a store for the sale of Japanese curios and 

 works of art in New York. His English translation 

 of the great historical work of Japan, " The Loyal 

 Ronins" (1880J, elicited the commendation of the 

 imperial authorities, and prompted a banquet to him 

 on his next visit to that country. lie was a member 

 of the Zoological and Anthropological Societies of 

 London, and of the Authors', Lotus, and other clubs 

 of New York. He published the plavs : " Vendome," 

 " Mirah," "The Third Estate," "The College Belles," 

 and "Uncle Abner," and the following works on 

 Japanese history, manners, and customs: "Blue 

 Jackets" (1871): "Young Americans in Japan" 

 (1881); "The Wonderful City of Tokio" (1882); 

 " The Golden Lotus " (1883) ; " Bear- Worshipers 

 of Yezo " (1884) ; and " A Captive of Love " (1885). 



Grefin, Henrietta Augusta, Baroness de, educator, born 

 in Paris, Franca, in 1819 ; died in Orange, N. J.. July 

 25, 1888. She married at an early age Baron Charles 

 de Grefin, a captain in the Chasseurs d'Afrique, ac- 

 companied her husband to the United States in 1855, 

 and lived in the South till the close of the civil war, 

 in which they lost all their property. Her husband 

 died soon after the peace, and the widow, who was an 

 accomplished musician and linguist, came north and 

 supported herself by teaching. For several years she 

 was Professor of Languages in Vassar College. 



Gunning, William D,, scientist, born in Blooming- 

 burg, Ohio, in 1830; died in Grceley, Col., March 8, 

 1888. He was graduated at Oberlin College, pur- 

 sued a course in comparative anatomy in Newlork 

 city, and in biology under Prof. Agassiz at Cambridge, 

 Mass., held lectureships in Hillsdale College, Mich., 

 and in Pittsburg, Pa., was a contributor to " The 

 Index " and " The Open Court," and published a 

 " Life History of our Planet." For some time previ- 

 ous to his death he was pastor of the Unitarian Society 

 in Grceley. 



Eager, Albert David, geologist, born in Chester, Vt., 

 Nov. 1, 1817 ; died in Chicago, 111., July 29, 1888. 

 He was educated in the public schools of his native 



and from 1862 till 1870 was curator of the State ^cabi- 

 net of natural history. He then became geologist of 

 Missouri, but in 1872 settled in Chicago, where, in 

 1877, he became librarian of the Historical Society, 

 which place he held until his death. In 1867 he was 

 appointed State commissioner from Vermont to the 

 World's Fair in Paris. He contributed to the " Re- 

 port on the Geology of Vermont" (2 vols., Clare- 

 mont, N. H., 1861); "Annual Reports of Vermont 



