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Grant. William Harrison, civil engineer, 

 in Neversink. Sullivan County. X. Y.. .May 15. 1*1.">; 

 died in Sing Sing. N. V.. o'cl. 10. 1896. Hf wa- 

 led at the New Palt/ and Illiacji Academies; 

 was first employed as a surveyor mi the Erie Kail- 

 way: and for nine years was assistant engineer mi 

 the enlargement of the Krie Canal. Subsequently 

 he was an assistant engineer on the Hudson River 

 Railroad, and surveyed the route for a railroad 

 from Georgetown. I>. (_'.. to Ilagerstown. Md.. which 

 was afterward occupied in part by the Baltimore 

 and Ohio Hailroad. On the completion of the last 

 work he was appointed superintending engineer of 

 Central Park. New York city, with which lie was 

 connected till its completion, ami then became civil 

 and topographical engineer of the Department of 

 Public Works, his charge embracing the annexed 

 district. Afterward he was appointed constructing 

 engineer of the department. In 1*76 he entered 

 the employment of the Federal Government, and 

 was engaged in superintending the widening and 

 deepening of rivers and bays in Maryland and Vir- 

 ginia, and the erection of the new United States 

 Naval Observatory. He retired from the Govern- 

 ment service in 1*!'3. and had since had a connec- 

 tion with the Hudson River and West Shore Rail- 

 roads, and had designed and partly constructed the 

 waterworks plant at Yonkers. X. Y. 



Gray. John Burritt, military officer, born in 

 Sheridan. X. Y.. in 1*31: died iii Asheville. X. C.. 

 June 6. 1896. He removed to St. Louis. Mo., on 

 attaining his majority, and was in business there at 

 the outbreak of the civil war. He enlisted in the 

 National army early in 1861 : rendered important 

 service in organizing the loyal men of Missouri; 

 and in November of that year was appointed lieu- 

 tenant colonel and aid on the staff of Gen. Halleck. 

 In 1862 he was commissioned colonel of the 1st 

 Missouri Regiment and brigadier general of volun- 

 teers; commanded the 1st brigade. Davidson's di- 

 vision, district of Missouri : and was employed in 

 guarding and keeping open the St. Louis and Iron 

 Mountain Railroad. He served in the spring of 

 1863 as post commandant at St. Louis, and was 

 then adjutant general of the State till the close of 

 the war. After the war he obtained from Congress 

 sT.000,000 in settlement of the claim by the State 

 of Missouri for money expended in supporting 

 United States troops during the war. Since 1*^5 

 he had been Vice-President of the American Brake 

 Company of St. Louis, and since the merging of 

 that and the Westinghmise Air Brake Company in 

 1*-*. he had been the general Eastern agent of this 

 department of the Westinghouse Company. 



Green, Edward T.. jurist, born in" Trenton, 

 X. J.. in 1837; died there Oct. 10, 1896. He was 

 graduated at Princeton in 1854 : was admitted to the 

 bar in 1*58: was attorney of the Camden and Am- 

 boy Railroad Company for several years: and was 

 the general counsel of the Pennsylvania Railroad 

 Company for twenty years prior to October, 1889, 

 when he was appointed judge of the United States 

 Court for New Jersey. 



Greene. Albert S.. naval engineer, born in 

 Adams. Jefferson County. X. Y.. Aug. 3. 1838; died 

 in Washington, D. C.." March 8, 1896. He was 

 graduated as a civil engineer at the Rensselaer 

 Polytechnic Institute in 1859 : was appointed a 

 third assistant engineer in the United States navy, 

 Feb. 17. 1860: promoted second assistant. X'ov. 17, 

 1862: first assistant. March 1. 1864: and chief en- 

 gineer. March 5. 1871: and was retired Aug. 9, 

 1893. At the beginning of the civil war he was at- 

 tached to the " Susquehanna." cruising in the Gulf 

 of Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea. and was de- 

 tached and ordered to duty in the office of the en- 

 gineer in chief in July, 1861. He remained in this 



office and in the bureau of steam engineering till 

 December. 1*67. and was employed in de.-igning 

 machinery, superintending the trial of machinery 

 for war vessels, and conducting experiments jn 

 steam engineering at the Washington Xavy Yard. 

 In 1870 he accompanied the first Selfridge Darien 

 surveying expedition: in 1*7:! wa- on special duty 

 with the Government commission to investigate the 

 caiiM-s of steam-boiler explosions ; in 1889 wa< 

 wrecked ontli.- "Yandalia" at Apia. Samoa: and 

 in 1891-'92 was engineer in charge of the construc- 

 tion of the waterworks at the United States res- 

 ervation at Hot Springs. Ark. 



Greeiihalge, Frederick Thomas, lawyer, born 

 in Clitheroe. England. July 19. 1842; died" in Low- 

 ell. Mass.. March 5. 1*96. lie removed with his pa- 

 rents to Lowell in 1850; worked in the mills there: 

 and entered Harvard College in 1859, but was pre- 

 vented by lack of money from completing the 

 course. At the beginning of the civil war he tried 

 to enlist in the army, but the surgeons refused to 

 pass him. He secured an appointment in the com- 

 missary department at New Berne. X*. ('.. where he 

 served'from Nov. 1. 1863, till April. 1864. a part of 

 the time in command of a body of colored troops. 

 On returning home, he resumed his law studies. 

 and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1865. In 

 1868 and 1869 he was elected to the Common Coun- 

 cil of Lowell : in 1871 to the school committee : in 

 1880 and 1881 mayor of the city: in 1884 delegate 

 to the Republican National Convention: in 

 member of the Legislature ; in 1888 member of 

 Congress: and in 1893. 1*94. and 1895 Governor of 

 Massachusetts. He was an excellent speaker, and 

 was the representative of Massachusetts at the dedi- 

 cation of the Chickamanga and Chattanooga Na- 

 tional Park in September. 1895, and at the Atlanta 

 Exposition on Massachusetts Day. in November, 

 following. lie had delivered a political address be- 

 fore the Lincoln Club in New York city, and in 

 1894 made an address on John Winthrop before the 

 New England Society of Brooklyn. X'. Y. As Gov- 

 ernor, he used the veto prerogative freely, and sev- 

 eral measures were passed over his veto. 



Greusel. Nicholas, military officer, born in Ba- 

 varia. Germany. July 4. 1*17:' died in Aurora. 111., 

 April 25. 1896. At the beginning of the Mexican 

 War he recruited a company in Detroit, Mich., and 

 joined the army in Vera Cruz. Under President 

 Lincoln's first call for volunteers in 1861. he re- 

 cruited one of the first companies that were raised 

 in Illinois. Subsequently he was commissioned 

 colonel of the 36th Illinois Regiment, commanded 

 a brigade in Gen. Sheridan's division, and was pro- 

 moted brigadier general of volunteers. 



Gutmann. Kdnard, archaeologist, born in Halle, 

 Germany, in 1828: died in New York city. July 21. 

 1896. He was educated at Halle and at the Uni- 

 versity of Berlin: began practicing medicine in 

 Xew York city in 1*54: founded a Russian-bath 

 establishment, and conducted it till 1869: and 

 passed the remainder of his life traveling in Eu- 

 rope. Asia, and Africa, studying ancient and med- 

 iaeval art and collecting rare books, pictures, and 

 statuary. In Africa he made a special study of 

 Egyptian art. He spent several years in Rome, 

 and there gathered a valuable collection of books 

 on art. particularly representing the Renaissance 

 period. On his return to New York he published a 

 treatise on The Sarcophagus and the Grave Monu- 

 ments of Ancient Greece and Rome." a subscription 

 work of which the only copies sold in the United 

 States were to the Smithsonian Institution and the 

 Johns Hopkins Univvr>ity. 



Haarar. Daniel Barnard, educator, born in New- 

 ton. Mass.. April 22.1820: died in Sharon. Mass.. 

 Sept. 4, 1896. He was graduated at Union College 



