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practicing in New York city till 1823, when he 

 settled in Brooklyn. In 1837 he was appoint- 

 ed a Judge in the Court of Common Pleas, and 

 afterward an examiner in Chancery and a Su- 

 preme Court commissioner. When the City 

 Court of Brooklyn was organized, in 1849, he 

 was elected the first judge, holding the office 

 for five years, when he declined a renomina- 

 tion and resumed his practice. He drew up 

 the original charter of the city, and was large- 

 ly instrumental in securing the appointment of 

 a commission to license ferries between New 

 York and Brooklyn. Judge Greenwood was 

 one of the founders and the first vice-president 

 of the Long Island Historical Society, a found- 

 er of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and an 

 incorporator of the Philharmonic Society 



Griffin, Samuel P., an American navigator, 

 born in Savannah, Ga., in 1826 ; died in As- 

 pinwall, Isthmus of Panama, July 4, 1887. He 

 was graduated at the United States Naval 

 Academy first in a class of sixty, and served 

 throughout the Mexican "War on the United 

 States frigate " Savannah," then attached to 

 the Pacific squadron, which took possession of 

 California and held it till the close of the war. 

 His skill as a navigator being recognized at an 

 early age, an extra hazardous duty was as- 

 signed to him in 1849, when he was appointed 

 to command the United States brig "Rescue," 

 which, with the "Advance," formed the first 

 United States Arctic expedition, fitted out at 

 the expense of the late Moses II. Grinnell, to 

 search for Sir John Franklin. This expedition 

 secured the first traces of the lost English ex- 

 plorer, and both Capt. Griffin and Lieut. De 

 Haven were personally decorated by Queen 

 Victoria for their services. During the civil 

 war he was detailed, at New Orleans, to col- 

 lect a fleet for Gen. Banks's Red River expedi- 

 tion, and rendered other efficient service to the 

 national military and naval commanders in 

 that section. He subsequently entered the 

 employ of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com- 

 pany, and commanded, as commodore, suc- 

 cessive steamers of their fleet till 1882, taking 

 the palatial steamer " City of Tokio " around 

 Cape Horn to San Francisco. During the last 

 four years of his life he was employed at As- 

 pinwall, superintending a large contract on the 

 Panama Canal. 



Gnerin, Thomas J., an American manufacturer, 

 born in Davenport, Devonshire, England, in 

 1799 ; died in New York city, Jan. 31, 1887. 

 lie came to the United States in 1822, and 

 soon afterward was engaged as a publisher in 

 New York city, reprinting, in the cheap form 

 of his "Republic of Letters," the works of 

 many of the noted novelists of Europe, in- 

 cluding those of Sir Walter Scott. This occu- 

 pation led him to become interested in type- 

 founding, and it was he who furnished the 

 elder Bennett the type used on the first "New 

 York Herald." His foundry, on Gold Street, 

 was sold to James Conner, and became the 

 nucleus of a large establishment. Mr. Guerin 



erected the first type-foundry in Canada, and 

 supplied the funds to establish one in the city 

 of Mexico, but his plans and capital were 

 stolen by the Mexican consul in New York, to 

 whom he had intrusted them. He was also 

 interested in several foundries in England. 



Hagne, William, clergyman, born in Pelham, 

 Westchester Co., N. Y., Jan. 4, 1808; died in 

 Boston, Mass., Aug. 1, 1887. He was gradu- 

 ated at Hamilton in 1826, and, after studying 

 at Princeton Theological Seminary for a year, 

 was graduated at Newton Theological Institu- 

 tion in 1829. On Oct. 20, 1827, he was or- 

 dained pastor of the Second Baptist Church in 

 Utica, N. Y., and in 1831 entered upon the 

 pastorate of the First Baptist Church in Bos- 

 ton. In 1837 he became pastor of the First 

 Baptist Church in Providence, R. I., but re- 

 turned to Boston in 1840 to the charge of the 

 Federal Street Church. He subsequently held 

 pastorates in Jamaica Plain, Mass. (1848-'50); 

 Newark, N. J. (1850-'53); Albany, N. Y. 

 (1853-'58) ; New York city (1858-'62), return- 

 ing thence to Boston, where he remained for 

 seven years. He was elected in 1869 Professor 

 of Homiletics in the Baptist Theological Semi- 

 nary, Chicago, occupying that chair about one 

 year, and then accepting a charge in Orange, 

 N. J. His last pastorate was on Wollaston 

 Heights, near Boston, where he was in 1876- 

 '87, making the aggregate duration of his sev- 

 eral charges in that city and its suburbs nearly 

 thirty-five years. He received the degree of 

 D. D. from Brown in 1849, and from Harvard 

 in 1863. Dr. Hague was a trustee of the for- 

 mer university from 1837 until his death, also 

 of Vassar College from its incorporation, and 

 of Columbian University in Washington, D. C. 

 Besides numerous occasional addresses and 

 orations, including discourses on the life and 

 character of John Quincy Adams (1848), Ado- 

 niram Judson (1851), and John Overton 

 Choules (1856), he published " Historical Dis- 

 course on the T\vo Hundredth Anniversary of 

 the First Baptist Church, Providence. R. I., 

 November 7, 1839 " (Boston, 1839) ; " Guide to 

 Conversation, on the Gospel of John " (Bos- 

 ton, 1840) ; " Eight Views of Baptism " (1841) ; 

 "The Baptist Church transplanted from the 

 Old World to the New " (New York, 1846) ; 

 " Conversational Commentaries on the Gospel 

 of Matthew " (1851) ; " Acts of the Apostles " 

 (1851); "Christianity and Statesmanship" 

 (1855), enlarged edition, Boston, 1865) ; 

 "Home Life" (1855); "The Self-sustaining 

 Character of the New-Testament Christianity " 

 (Philadelphia, 1871); and "Christian Great- 

 ness in the Minister " (Boston, 1880). His 

 latest work, completed a few days before his 

 death, was issued posthumously as " Life 

 Notes; or, Fifty Years' Outlook" (Boston, 

 1887), and is a volume of reminiscences. 



Harrington, Henry F., an American educator, 

 born in Roxbury, Mass., in 1813 ; died in 

 Keene, N. H., Sept. 19, 1887. He was gradu- 

 ated at Harvard in 1834, became a Unitarian 



