nlU'lTAKIKS, AMERICAN. (URirriN HAIMM.) 



iii; i>l' tin' ci\il war, In- recruited a company 

 for th natii>riiil army ami was clcctt -.1 curtain. Tin; 

 compaliN became a part "I tln--lh Mi.-- ouri Volunteer-, 

 uiul was inu-i.Teil into s.T\iee in .him-. 1 Mil. He 

 took part ill tin- battle* of Fort Ilcnr\, Fort D.'ln-l.-oii, 

 un. I Shiluli, uiul tin- Mc^'e aiul capture "I Corinth. 

 <n Aug. -.'"', lsi;-_', I,,. WH.- ii,.li-ri-<l to n-j>rt i 

 Yates at sprinirticld, III., ami on arriving then In- 



iiiliii.-sioiied colonel n|' tin- TTtll Illinois In- 

 fant r\. which lie commanded till tin- surrender of 

 Vioksburg, Jul) -1, l s >;;;. During tin- siege of .lack 

 -n. Mi., aiul tlii-iii-i- till tin- ivturn tn Yiekshurg ' 10 

 u a.- in i-iiiiiiand of a brigade. Hi- also OOBUBSJldwl 

 tin- -_'d hrL'ade. -Itli division, loth Anns Corps, at 

 Franklin aiul Ni-w llu-riu, La., in November, IM'>:;. 

 In Aiiirii.st, I--' 1 . l.ln- was placed in command of all the 

 land foivo mi Dauphin Island, Ala., and alter this 

 capture ut' l-'iirt (laities In- commanded all the land 

 excepting two regiments, that took part in the 

 .Hid capture ot Fort Morgan. On March -Jii, 

 I".;;,, he was lircvcttcd brigadier-general. In Geii. 

 Canhy's t-xpcilition against Moliilc Gen. Crier com- 

 inand'edthc 1st brigade, 8d division, l:;th Army Corps, 

 and took j>art in the assault." on Spanish h'ort and 

 Hlakcly, and in the march up tin; Tomblgbee river 

 ut'tcr the capture of Mobile. On the return from that 

 march he commanded the :;d division of hi& corps till 

 mustered out on July 10, 1 >;. For his services in 

 tin- tieid he was promoted to the full runk of briga- 

 dier -general. Alter the war he returned to.the grain 

 Ims'iiics.-, and became a \ ice president and director of 

 the St. l.ouis Merchants' Kxehangc. 



Griffin, Gilderoy Wells, author, Lorn in Louisville, 

 K\.. .March i,, IMO; died there, Oct. 21, 1891. He 

 was educated at the University of Louisville, was ad- 

 mitted to the bar in 1861, and after practicing for 

 some years engaged in journalism. In 1871 he was 

 appointed Tinted States consul at Copenhagen; in 

 ls7H at the Sumoan Islands; in 1879 at Auckland, 

 New Zealand ; and in 1884 at Sydney, Australia. He 

 held the latter office at the time of his death, which 

 occurred while he was on leave of absence. He pub- 

 lished a biographical sketch of George D. Prentice 

 : an edition of " Prenticeana" ( Philadelphia, 

 1871); "Studies in Literature" (1871); Life of 

 Charles S. Todd" (1873); "Danish Days" (1874); 

 "A Visit to Stratford" (1875); and "New Zealand. 

 her Commerce and Resources" (Wellington, New 

 Zealand, L884). 



Griffin, Jnlia Ayeril, nurse, born in Hudson, N. Y., 

 April 30, 132; died in Niagara Falls, N. Y., Dec. 17, 

 1891. She volunteered for service at the front on the 

 first call for nurses in the civil war, and labored 

 with much devotedness till captured at the battle of 

 Manchester. After being paroled, she retired to 

 Niagara Falls, but in 1864 she again went to the front 

 and served till prostrated with asthma. She was 

 elected an honorary member of the Soldiers' and 

 Sailors' Memorial Association in 187(5, and was 

 granted a pension by special act of Congress in 1888. 

 For many \ears the Grand Armv posts dipped their 

 flags in salute to her while on tlieir Decoration Day 

 parades. 



Grinnell, Josiah Bushnell, capitalist, liorn in New 

 Haven, \'t.. Dec. L'L', ls-_'l;died in Marshalltown, 

 Iowa, March 31, 1891. lie took a preparatory course 

 in Middlebury Colleire, was irraduated at Auburn 



Theological Seminary ill 1^47. was ordained a 1'n-s 



byteriaii clcriryinan.' and held pastorates in Union 

 Village. N. Y., Washington,!). C., and in a Congre- 

 gational church in New York. After a brief ex- 

 perience as a clergyman he removed to Iowa, where 

 in- enquired ; n ,r,.neral larmiiur, and became the 

 largest wool-ijrowcr in the State. In 1854 he pur- 

 chased r,.ooo acres, laid out the town of Grinnell, and 

 deeded the site to trustees for the founding of an 

 educational institution. This became (iriniiell Uni- 

 versity, and a few years ago was consolidated with 



Iowa College. In i *>.>; he supported the presidential 



canvass of.lolm <'. Fremont, after havin-r written the 

 State address at the organization of the Republican 

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party in Iowa, and was elected to the Stata Senate OB 



-nal plattnrin of- ii, . . I. .-!.-,, nn ,.|u\. t 



linntutioii to Mhinky." He wr\i-d lour \..,i- in th. 



Senate, wa a deleyate to the Uepublictill N. 



* n wiitioii that nominated Abraham Lincoln in 

 |M,O, and wu* a]i|xiintcd a f]M-ciiil aui-nt of tin I 



i''..-t olliee lor the Northwest in 1^1,1. I: 

 and IsiiJ he wa> elect) .i u a Kelillblieuli, 



aiul he ser\iil mi tin- committccH on I'ot-t OmOtt and 

 Post-ItMds. mi Freedman, on Agriciiltun-. and .n 

 Postal Hailroad t .New York. Baoaaquanu) he wu 



appointed referee in the disputed title nf 



of land in <'ln-rokee and (raw ford Cmintii-H, Kan. 

 lie supported lloraei (in-eley for President ill 1*7-'. 

 and was appointed < 'ommissioner of the l.'nited Statei* 

 Bureau of Animal Industries in 1 "-.}. He was un in- 

 fluential member of tin- American Agricultural 

 elation, ['resident of the St. Louis and M. Paul Kail- 

 road, which, on completion, became a part of the 

 Iowa Central system, rresideiit of the .-tale Horticult- 

 ural Society. I'resident of the First National Bank of 

 Marshalltown, and an extensive breeder of vurioiut 

 kinds of live stock. He published many pamphlet* 

 on agricultural, industrial, and kindreu topics, in- 

 cluding "Home of the Badgers" (1S45), and "The 

 Cattle Industries of the United States" (IsMj. 



Gundry, Biohard, phvsician, born in Hampetead, 

 near London, England, in 182H; died in Baltimore, 

 Aid., April 23, 1891. lie n-eeived'a private-school 

 education ; removed with his parents to Simcoe, 

 Ontario, Canada, in 1845, and began studying medi- 

 cine there; was graduated in medicine at Harvard in 

 1851, and settled in Rochester, N. Y., to practice. He 

 remained there three years, then removed to Columbus, 

 Ohio, and was appointed assistant physician in the 

 Ohio State Lunatic Asylum in lsf>5. at the same time 

 taking the chair of Matcria Medica and Mental Dis- 

 eases in the Starling Medical Collet:e. In 1858 he 

 was transferred to the Southern Ohiolnsane Asylum, 

 at Dayton, as assistant physician ; in 1861 was ap- 

 pointed superintendent; and in 1872 was placed in 

 charge of the completion and organization of the 

 State Asylum, at Athens. He was elected Professor 

 t' .MatenaMediea and Mental Diseases in the College 

 of Physicians and Surgeons, in Baltimore, in 1882, 

 and also was appointed Superintendent of the Mary- 

 land Hospital for the Insane, at Spring Grove, hold- 

 ing both offices till his death. Dr. Gundry was a 

 conspicuous advocate of the system of non-restraint in 

 the management of the insane. He was President of 

 the Harvard Association and a manager of the State 

 Home for the Feeble-minded; and was author, 

 among many other publications, of " Puerperal In- 

 sanity," "Non-restraint in the Care of the Insane," 

 and " Some Problems of Mental Action." 



Haight, Charles, lawyer, born in Colt's Neck, N. J., 

 .Tan. 4., ljs3S; died in Freehold, N. . I.. Aug. 1, 1891. 

 lie was irradnated at Princeton in !>.".; : studied law, 

 was admitted to the bar, and became law partner of 

 Joel Parker. He was appointed brigadier-general of 

 militia in iM'd. In IStil-'W he was a member of the 

 Legislature, and in his second term Speaker of the 

 House. Throughout the civil war he rendered the 

 national cause important service in raisimr. equipping, 

 and dispatching State troops to the seat of war. In 

 18(57 and 1869 he was elected t Congress as a Demo- 

 crat from the 2d New Jereev district, and sin, 

 he had been prosecutor for Monmouth County. 



Haines, Alanaon Austin, clergyman, l>rn in Ham 

 bui-ir, N. .T., March L8j L8JO; died there Dee. 11. !>:!. 

 lie was a son of Daniel llaines. ex-(io\,rnor and ex- 

 Supreme Court, judge of New .Jersey; was graduated 

 at Princeton in Is.'i;, and at the Theological Seminary 

 in K.s; im ,l lu-1,1 pastorates in Berlin. Md.. and 

 Amairansett, L. 1., till ls<;2. He was then appointed 

 chaplain of the Kith New .lersev Volunteers, with 

 which In- served till the dose oftliewar, and partici- 

 pated in :;' battles. His life was in jn-ril many 

 times, and he frequently went into the thickest of a 

 litrht to care for the wounded and dying, "when ex- 

 perienced officers hesitated to detail men for that 



