OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (GRAHAM HART.) 



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by the Legislature in the session of 1852-'53. At the 

 end of the session he established himself as a general 

 stenographer in Detroit. For nearly two years he re- 

 ported Henry Ward Beecher's sermons, and subse- 

 quently many of the antislavery addresses of Wil- 

 liam Lloyd Garrison arid Wendell Phillips. In 1858 

 he published u Graham's Handbook of Standard or 

 American Phonography," based on the Pitman sys- 

 tem, with original modifications, abbreviations, and 

 contractions, and followed it with " Graham's Phono- 

 graphic Dictionary " and a large number of readers' 

 and students' aids. He was engaged in teaching, 

 publishing, and reporting in New York city for near- 

 ly forty years. 



" Graham, George Bex, journalist, born in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., Jan. 18, 1813; died in Orange, N. J., July 

 13, 1894. He received a good preparatory education, 

 began studying law, and on the death of his father 

 went to live with an uncle on a farm, and in 1832 ap- 

 prenticed himself to a cabinet maker. In 1836 he re- 

 sumed the study of law, and in 1839 was admitted to 

 the bar. While studying law he contributed a series 

 of articles to the Philadelphia press, which led to his 

 becoming the editor, and subsequently one of the pro- 

 prietors of the " Saturday Evening Post." He also, 

 with Charles J. Peterson, purchased a small literary 

 periodical called " Atkinson's Casket," and published 

 it till 1841, when he bought " The Gentleman's Mag- 

 azine " and united the two under the name of " Gra- 

 ham's Magazine." Subsequently Mr. Peterson with- 

 drew from the firm and established " Peterson's Mag- 

 azine." Mr. Graham's publication reached a large 

 circulation, and had among its contributors many of 

 the most brilliant American writers of the day. In 

 1846-'47 he purchased tk The Philadelphia North 

 American" and "The United States Gazette" and 

 merged them into another publication, " The North 

 American." He also associated with himself in the 

 proprietorship of this last periodical Morton McMi- 

 chael, to whom he afterward sold his interest. Up to 

 this time he had been remarkably successful, but mis- 

 fortune now overtook him. He entered into stock 

 operations, was inveigled into a spurious enterprise, 

 lost nearly all his fortune, and, removing to New 

 York city, saw his ruin completed in Wall Street. 

 For some time afterward he edited the " Journal " in 

 Newark, N. J., but cataracts on both eyes compelled 

 him to retire. The cataracts were removed, and Mr. 

 Graham, unable to do 'further literary work, was cared 

 for till his death through the generosity of his former 

 partner, Mr. Peterson, and of George W. Childs. 



Graham, John, lawyer, born in New York city in 

 1820 ; died there, April 9, 1894. He was a son of the 

 Rev. David Graham, D. D., a Scottish Cameronian 

 clergyman, who came to the United States in 1808 

 and afterward gained distinction at the bar of New 

 York, and a younger brother of David Graham, a 

 lawyer, a legal author, and Professor of the Law of 

 Pleading and Practice in the University of the City of 

 New York. John Graham was graduated at Colum- 

 bia College in 1836, studied law with his brother, 

 and was admitted to the bar before he was twenty- 

 one years old. He never held a public office, and was 

 a candidate for one but once. Mr. Graham was best 

 known for his management of the defense in a num- 

 ber of cases of more than ordinary interest. He se- 

 cured the acquittal of Daniel E. Sickles on his trial 

 for the murder of Philip Barton Kev in Washington, 

 D. C., in 1859, and of Daniel McFarland, charged 

 with the murder of Albert D. Richardson in New 

 York city in 1871, and was counsel or associate in the 

 defense of William M. Tweed, "Dan" Noble, the 

 bank thief, " Eph ".Simmons and other lottery mana- 

 gers, and of Henry W. Jaehne of " boodle-aldermen " 

 notoriety. He was eccentric in dress and manner, 

 irascible in temper, and most voluble in speech, but 

 displayed remarkable care of details in the prepara- 

 tion ot his cases. 



Granger, Eobert Seaman, military officer, born in 

 Zimesville, Ohio, May 24, 1816 ; died in Washington, 

 D. C., April 25, 1894. He was graduated at the 



United States Military Academy in 1838 and ap- 

 pointed a brevet 2d lieutenant, 1st United States In- 

 fantry. In the regular army lie was promoted 1st 

 lieutenant, March 14, 1839 ; captain, Sept. 8, 1847 ; 

 major, 5th Infantry, Sept. 9, 1861 : lieutenant colo- 

 nel, llth Infantry, June 12, 1865 ; transferred to 

 16th Infantry, March 15, 1869 ; colonel, 21st In- 

 fantry, Aug. 16, 1871 ; and was retired Dec. 10, 1873. 

 In the volunteer army he held the rank of brigadier 

 general from Oct. 20, 1862, till Aug. 24, 1865. During 

 the civil war he was brevetted colonel for gallant 

 services in the battle of Lawrenceburg, Ky., brigadier 

 general for services in the defense of Decatur, Ala., 

 and major general for meritorious services during 

 the war. Gen. Granger served in the Indian war in 

 Florida, as assistant instructor of tactics at the Mili- 

 tary Academy, and through the Mexican War; was 

 captured by the Confederates in Texas in 1861, com- 

 manded a division in the districts of Nashville and 

 Middle Tennessee in 1863, commanded the district ot 

 northern Alabama, and was engaged in the capture 

 of Gen. Roddy's camp, the expulsion of Gen. Wheeler 

 from Middle Tennessee, and the defense against Gen. 

 Forrest's raids in 1864, and was in command in Ala- 

 bama in 1865. 



Gulliver, John Putnam, educator, born in Boston, 

 Mass., May 12, 1819 ; died in Andover, Mass., Jan. 25, 

 1894. He was graduated at Yale College in 1840 and 

 at Andover Theological Seminary in 1845, in the 

 meantime serving two years as principal of Ean- 

 dolph Academy. From 1845 till 1865 he was pastor 

 of the Broadway Church in Norwich, Conn. ; from 

 1865 till 1868 of the New England Church in Chica- 

 go, 111. ; from 1868 till 1872 was President of Knox 

 College ; and from 1872 till 1878 was pastor of the 

 First Presbyterian Church in Binghamton, N. Y. In 

 1878 he was elected Professor of the Relations of 

 Christianity and Secular Science at Andover, and 

 he held the chair actively till 1891 and as prol'essor 

 emeritus till his death. He was a member of the 

 Corporation of Yale College, and through his efforts 

 Norwich Free Academy was founded and endowed. 

 He had received the degrees of D. D. and LL. D. 



Halsey, George Armstrong, manufacturer, born in 

 Springfield, N. J., Dec. 7, 1827 ; died in Newark, N. J., 

 April 1, 1894. He was for some time associated with 

 his father in the manufacture of leather in Newark. 

 In 1844 he established himself in the wholesale cloth- 

 ing business, in which he secured a large Southern 

 trade. The civil war broke up this business and left 

 him heavily in debt, but he subsequently paid all his 

 obligations. He became his father's partner in the 

 leather business in 1866, and continued active in that 

 industry till his death. He began his political career 

 in 1860 as a member of the State Legislature, where he 

 served two terms, and in 1862, on the organization of 

 United States Internal Revenue Bureau, he was ap- 

 pointed assessor of the 5th District of New Jersey, 

 one of the largest manufacturing districts in the coun- 

 try. At the close of the war he was appointed revenue 

 commissioner to instruct the newly appointed revenue 

 officers in the Southern States, but he declined the 

 office. In 1866 President Johnson made a fruitless 

 attempt to remove him from the office of assessor, and 

 the same year he was elected to Congress as a Kepub- 

 lican. He was re-elected in 1870, declined a renom- 

 ination in 1872, was defeated for Governor in 1874, 

 and made an unsuccessful contest against Gen. Sew- 

 ell for United States Senator in 1881. While in Con- 

 gress he was distinguished by his effective work in 

 committee, particularly as a member of the subcom- 

 mittee of the Joint Select Committee on Retrench- 

 ment appointed to examine the method of printing 

 and issuing bonds, notes, etc., the results of which 

 secured important reforms in the Treasury Depart- 

 ment. When George H. Boutwell became Secretary 

 of the Treasury he offered Mr. Halsey the office of 

 register, but it was declined. Mr. Halsey was con- 

 nected with many financial institutions of Newark. 



Hart, William, painter, born in Paisley, Scotland, 

 March 31, 1823 ; died in Mount Vernon, N. Y., June 



