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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN". 



the latter part. He became city editor of the 

 Syracuse " Courier " in 1871, of the Syracuse 

 "Standard" in 1872, and of the Oswego 

 " Times " in 1875 ; and was managing editor 

 of the Syracuse u Herald" in 1877-'82, and of 

 the Syracuse "Sunday Times," in which he 

 held a half interest, from January, 1883, till 

 November, 1885. 



Gordon, George H., an American soldier, born 

 in Charlestown, Mass., in 1825; died in Fra- 

 mingham, Mass., Aug. 30, 1886. He was gradu- 

 ated at West Point in 1846, and went at once 

 with the army into Mexico, where he served 

 with distinction throughout the war and sus- 

 tained severe wounds. On returning home, 

 he studied law and was admitted to the bar. 

 He gave up a lucrative practice at the out- 

 break of the civil war, and went out with the 

 Second Massachusetts Volunteers in 1861. In 

 1862 he was made a brigadier-general, and in 

 1865 received the brevet of major-general of 

 volunteers for meritorious conduct on the field 

 of battle. The manner in which he covered 

 Gen. Banks's retreat in Virginia elicited the 

 commendation of high military authorities. 

 At the close of the war he declined an ap- 

 pointment to the permanent establishment of 

 the army, and resumed the practice of law, 

 intermitting it for a short time while holding 

 the place of Collector of Internal Revenue for 

 the Seventh Massachusetts District. Gen. Gor- 

 don published " A History of the Second Mas- 

 sachusetts Volunteers." 



Graham, William Moffitt, an American politi- 

 cian, born in 1819 ; died in Middletown, N. Y., 

 Nov. 13, 1886. He was educated at the acade- 

 mies in Montgomery and Ridgebury, and be- 

 came Teller of the Middletown Bank in 1841, 

 and in 1844 its cashier. After twenty years 

 of service in this institution, he was in 1866 

 chosen President of the Wallkill Bank. In 1857 

 he was elected Treasurer of Orange County, 

 and re-elected at the close of his term, serving 

 six years. In 1867 he was nominated by the 

 Democrats for State Senator,and re-elected in 

 1869, and made chairman of the Committees on 

 Banks and Public Expenditure. While he was 

 senator the last time, the bill establishing the 

 State Homoeopathic Asylum for the Insane in 

 Middletown was passed by the Legislature, and 

 he bad much to do with shaping and carrying 

 it through. He contributed toward the pur- 

 chase of the farm on which the asylum is built, 

 and for a time served as one of the trustees. 

 He continued in the presidency of the Wall- 

 kill Bank until its failure in 1872. Investiga- 

 tion showed that it had been wrecked by its 

 officers in Wall-Street speculations; $256^,000 

 of the capital and deposits, and over $100,000 

 of the securities left in its vaults for safe keep- 

 ing, were missing. The cashier fled, but Presi- 

 dent Graham expressed a willingness to under- 

 go punishment for his share in the transaction, 

 and accordingly was brought to trial for fraud 

 and embezzlement, convicted, and sentenced to 

 ten years in the Albany Penitentiary. When 



about half his term had expired, a petition nu- 

 merously signed by his friends secured his par- 

 don by President Hayes. He returned to Mid- 

 dletown, and soon afterward entered the serv- 

 ice of the Homoeopathic Asylum for the In- 

 sane. The last incident in his career was his 

 candidacy, on the Democratic ticket, for jus- 

 tice of the peace. He polled the party vote, 

 and was defeated by only a small majority. 



Graves, Robert, an American manufacturer, 

 born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1820; died in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 5, 1886. He was ap- 

 prenticed to a manufacturer of wall-paper in 

 his native city, and settled in Brooklyn in 1845, 

 where he established a factory, which in time 

 covered an entire block, and gave employment 

 to nearly 300 persons. He confined himself 

 wholly to his manufacturing interests, taking 

 no part in the political or social affairs of the 

 city. He was twice married, and had nine- 

 teen children. He was an enthusiastic collect- 

 or of paintings, and the possessor of a fortune 

 estimated at $2,000,000. 



Gray, John Perdne, an American physician, 

 born in Half Moon, Pa., in 1825 ; died in Utica, 

 N. Y., Nov. 29, 1886. He was educated in 

 Beflefonte Academy and Dickinson College, 

 Pa., was graduated in medicine at the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania in 1848, and was imme- 

 diately appointed resident physician at the 

 Philadelphia Hospital. From the beginning of 

 his medical studies he devoted particular atten- 

 tion to the brain and its usual disorders. His 

 researches and experiments in this field gave 

 him a wide fame, and his services were much 

 sought, both for the treatment of severe cases 

 of insanity and for expert testimony in legal 

 proceedings. In 1853 he was appointed Super- 

 intendent of the New York State Lunatic Asy- 

 lum, and he retained the place until his death. 

 In 1882 he was nearly killed by a pistol-shot 

 fired by one of his patients. He was a mem- 

 ber of the American Association of Medical 

 Editors, of the American Association of Medi- 

 cal Superintendents of Hospitals for the In- 

 sane, of the Judicial Council of the American 

 Medical Association, of the American Archaeo- 

 logical Society, an honorary member of the 

 British Psychological Association, of the Ital- 

 ian Freniatrical Society, and of the French 

 Psychological Society, and had been President 

 of the New York State and the Oneida County 

 Medical Societies. 



Greene, Charles Gordon, an American editor, 

 born in Boscawen, N. H., July 1, 1804 ; died 

 in Boston, Mass., Sept. 27, 1886. He was a 

 son of Nathaniel Greene, a lawyer, and a 

 nephew of Samuel Greene, Chief - Justice of 

 the Judicial Court of New Hampshire. At 

 the age of thirteen he began learning the 

 printer's trade, and after working some time 

 in the office of the Boston " Statesman," he 

 went to Taunton, and in 1823 became pro- 

 prietor of the " Weekly Free Press." A year 

 Inter he returned to Boston and established 

 the "Spectator," a purely literary paper, re* 



