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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (GREENOUGH HALE.) 



Greenough, James Bradstreet, educator, 

 born in Portland, Me., May 4, 1833; died in 

 Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 11, 1901. He was gradu- 

 ated at Harvard in 1830, studied at the Harvard 

 Law School, and afterward went to Marshall, 

 Mich., where he practised his profession till 1865, 

 when he was appointed tutor in Latin in Harvard 

 University. Eight years later he was made assist- 

 ant professor, and in 1883 he became Professor of 

 Latin, and lie continued in that capacity till his 

 resignation in April. 1901, on account of failing 

 health. One of his greatest works was the estab- 

 lishing of the collegiate institution for women, 

 at first unofficially called the Harvard Annex, 

 now known as Radcliffe College. While the idea 

 was his alone, he was assisted in organizing the 

 movement by William W. Goodwin and Arthur 

 Goodwin. P*rof. Greenough was a member of its 

 governing board from its foundation, and he was 

 for many years its president. He was the first 

 person to give instruction in Sanskrit, and to 

 introduce it as a regular study in college courses. 

 He was the author of a Latin grammar and of 

 a series of classical text-books in collaboration 

 with Joseph N. Allen. He published Words and 

 their Ways in English Speech, in collaboration 

 with Prof. George L. Kittredge (1901), and was 

 the author of a Special Vocabulary to Virgil and 

 The Queen of Hearts, a Dramatic Fantasia. 



Gregory, Isaac M., humorist, born in Johns- 

 town, N. Y., about 1836; died in New York city, 

 March 5, 1901. He began his newspaper career 

 on the Fulton County Democrat, and later was 

 owner and editor of the Mohawk Valley Demo- 

 crat, in Fonda, N. Y. He was connected at dif- 

 ferent times with the Rochester Democrat and 

 Chronicle, the Troy Whig, and the New T York 

 Graphic. Mr. Gregory was editor of Judge from 

 its foundation till his death. He was one of the 

 old-time humorists, of whom Burdette, of the 

 Burlington Hawkeye, and Bailey, of the Danbury 

 News, were prominent examples. 



Gregory, William, Governor of Rhode Island, 

 born in Astoria, N. Y., Aug. 3, 1849; died in 

 Wickford, R. I., Dec. 16, 1901. While he was a 

 boy his parents removed to Westerly, R. I., where 

 the son received a high-school education. When 

 fifteen years old he entered a factory, and four 

 years later became superintendent of a woolen 

 mill at Auburn, R. I. He served in various mills 

 till 1880, when he became general manager and 

 agent for the A. T. Stewart Company in New 

 York. Subsequently he returned to Rhode Is- 

 land, and engaged in the manufacture of worsted 

 goods in Wickford, in which business he contin- 

 ued till his death. He was president of the Wick- 

 ford National Bank and chairman of the State 

 Board of Charities and Correction. He repre- 

 sented North Kingston in the Legislature from 

 1888 to 1892; was State Senator, 1894 to 1898; 

 was Lieutenant-Go vernor from 1898 till his' in- 

 auguration as Governor in May, 1900. He was 

 reelected in 1901 for the term beginning, by the 

 new law, in January, 1902. 



Griffiths, William N., actor, born in Brook- 

 lyn, in 1840; died in Washington, D. C., March 

 26, 1901. He removed to Baltimore in his youth, 

 and there began his stage career shortly before the 

 civil war. He played in old stock companies, in- 

 cluding the old Forepaugh company of Philadel- 

 phia. He supported Lizzie Evans for three sea- 

 sons, and later acted with Patti Rosa. In 1880 

 he played Sandy Liston, in Christie Johnstone, at 

 the Windsor Theater, in support of Frank S. 

 Chanfrau, and in the following year appeared 

 with him in Kit, the Arkansas Traveler. In 1882 

 he played James Downey in Chispa, and in 1884 



Dr. Valnois in Outcast. While playing with 

 Patti Rosa in Dolly Varden in 1892-'93, Grif- 

 fiths's acting attracted the attention of Richard 

 Mansfield, who at once engaged him, and with 

 whom he played almost without interruption till 

 his death. With Mr. Mansfield he appeared as 

 Montfleury in Cyrano, Mikola in Rodian the Stu- 

 dent, William Dudgeon in The Devil's Disciple, 

 Professor Sebastian in The First Violin, Pistol in 

 Henry V, and in many other parts. 



Grissom, Arthur (Colfax), author and edi- 

 tor, born in Pay son, Adams County, 111., Jan. 21,. 

 1869; died in New York city, Dec. 3, 1901. He 

 w r as a son of the Rev. William Grissom, a min- 

 ister of the Christian Church. He was graduated 

 at Woodland College, Independence, Mo., in 1886. 

 His first story was published when he was thir- 

 teen' years old. He continued to contribute stories 

 and poems to the Youth's Companion, Golden 

 Days, and the illustrated weeklies, making his 

 home, after his graduation, in Kansas City, 

 where he founded, in October, 1888, the success- 

 ful Western Authors' and Artists' Club. He re- 

 moved to New York in 1889, and for some years 

 w r as editorially connected with Town Topics, con- 

 tinuing his contributions to Life, Truth, Leslie's 

 Weekly, and the monthlies, and for a short time 

 editing the Marine Journal and a small period- 

 ical known as Spirit. In 1895 he founded the 

 Kansas City Independent, a weekly paper. He 

 returned to New York in 1900 to accept the 

 editorship of the new magazine, the Smart Set, 

 and he continued at its head till his death. Mr. 

 Grissom's poetry was singularly faultless in form, 

 and much of it was not lacking in true soul and 

 spirit. 



Guernsey, Mrs. Egbert, philanthropist, born 

 in Newtown, Long Island, N. Y., in 1819; died 

 in New York city, May 20, 1901. She was edu- 

 cated in private schools in New York city. In 

 December, 1850, she married Dr. Egbert Guern- 

 sey. Mrs. Guernsey was one of the founders of 

 the Hahnemann Hospital, and of the Guernsey 

 Maternity Hospital, which was afterward merged 

 with the Hahnemann. During the Spanish- 

 American War she led the movement for furnish- 

 ing aid to the widows and orphans of soldiers. 

 She established an Episcopal church in Mont- 

 clair, Fla., and another in Peekskill, N. Y., for 

 colored people. She wrote a text-book on Eng- 

 lish grammar that is in use in the schools of 

 several Western States. 



Hale, Horace Morrison, educator, born in 

 Hollis, N. H., March 6, 1833; died in Denver, 

 Col., Oct. 24, 1901. The family removed to Rome, 

 N. Y., in 1837, and four years later to North 

 Bloomfield, N. Y. The father was a manufacturer 

 of agricultural implements, and the son worked in 

 the shop during his youth for nine months of the 

 year. He was graduated at Union College in 

 1856, and after teaching for a year in West 

 Bloomfield, he went to Nashville, Tenn, and was 



S'incipal of the Howard School till June, 1861. 

 e then removed to Detroit, Mich., w.here he 

 studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1863. 

 The next five years he spent in Colorado in search 

 of health, returning to New York for his family 

 in 1865, and making the three trips across the 

 plains with a mule team. From 1868 till 1873 

 he was principal of the Central City* Col., public 

 schools, and in the meantime was elected super- 

 intendent of schools for Gilpin County. In 1873 

 Gov. Elbert appointed him Superintendent of Pub- 

 lic Instruction for Colorado. He was continued 

 in this office until the admission of Colorado as a 

 State in 1876. While superintendent for the Ter- 

 ritory he framed the revised school law that is 



