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A little later she became a member of the Bos- 

 ton Museum Company, appearing chiefly in spec- 

 tacular and Shakespearian plays. After this she 

 traveled through New England, and then became 

 leading lady of a stock company in St. Louis, 

 Mo. While occupying this place she played in 

 support of Edwin Forrest, Edwin Booth, and 

 other noted actors. After a few seasons in the 

 St. Louis company she appeared in New Orleans, 

 starring in Lucrezia Borgia, and was very suc- 

 cessful. In 1855 Miss Gray obtained the play 

 called East Lynne, a dramatization of Mrs. Henry 

 Wood's once popular novel, and appeared in the 

 role of Lady Isabel, in which she scored a tre- 

 mendous success, and played it exclusively there- 

 after for twenty years. According to her own 

 reckoning, she acted this role, in the United 

 States and in England, about 5,000 times. In 



1872 Miss Gray married Charles A. Watkins, of 

 Albany, N. Y., and after his death, in 1891, she 

 married (1894) Charles F. Tingay, an English 

 actor belonging to Henry Irving's Lyceum The- 

 ater Company, of London, England. 



Gray, Horace, jurist, born in Boston, Mass., 

 March 24, 1828; died in Nahant, Mass., Sept. 15, 

 1902. He was graduated at Harvard University 

 in 1845, and at Harvard Law School in 1849, 

 was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1851, 

 and practised in that State till 1854, when he 

 was appointed reporter of the Supreme Court of 

 Massachusetts. In 1864 he was appointed an 

 associate justice of the Supreme Court of Massa- 

 chusetts, and in 1873 became chief justice. He 

 held the latter post till 1882, when he was ap- 

 pointed an associate justice of the Supreme Court 

 of the United States, from which post he retired 

 a few weeks before his death. 



Green, Francis Mathews, naval officer, born 

 in Boston, Mass., Feb. 23, 1835; died in Albany, 

 N. Y., Dec. 19, 1902. He was educated in Boston, 

 and after a short business life he became a sea- 

 man. In 1861 he was appointed acting master 

 in the volunteer navy. He was promoted to 

 acting volunteer lieutenant, April 21, 1864; 

 transferred to the regular navy and com- 

 missioned lieutenant-commander, Dec. 18, 1868, 

 and commander July 7, 1883; and was retired 

 Feb. 23, 1897. At the beginning of the civil war 

 he was attached tq the sloop Vincennes of the 

 Western Gulf blockading squadron ; later he 

 served in the North Atlantic and Gulf blockading 

 squadrons, at times in command of steamers on 

 special service. He commanded the steamer 

 Boxer at the capture of Fort Fisher, and also 

 took part in severe fighting elsewhere. From 



1873 to 1883 he was connected with five expedi- 

 tions for determining exact latitudes and longi- 

 tudes in various parts of the world; and from 

 that time till his retirement he served in navy- 

 yards, as commander of the Pennsylvania school- 

 ship Saratoga, and as inspector of lighthouses 

 along the coasts of Massachusetts. Commander 

 Green was author of The Navigator of the Carib- 

 bean Sea (1877) ; Telegraphic Determination of 

 Longitudes (1876, 1880, 1883); and List of Geo- 

 graphical Positions (1883). 



Griffin, Simon Goddell, military officer, born 

 in Nelson, N. H., Aug. 9, 1824; died in Keene, 

 N. H., Jan. 14, 1902. He was a teacher for several 

 years; was admitted to the bar in 1860, and began 

 practise in Concord. When the civil war broke 

 out he entered the National service as captain in 

 the 2d New Hampshire Regiment, with which he 

 took part in the first battle of Bull Run. He was 

 promoted lieutenant-colonel in October, 1861, and 



insferred to the 6th Regiment, of which he be- 

 ae colonel in April following. He took part in 

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the battles of Manassas, Antietam, and Freder- 

 icksburg; was placed in command of the 1st 

 Brigade, 2d Division of the 9th Army Corps, in 

 1863, and served under Gen. Grant in his opera- 

 tions against Vicksburg\ and under Gen. Sher- 

 man in his Mississippi campaign. Later he was 

 placed in command of the 2d Brigade, 2d Division, 

 and commanded it in the battles of the Wilder- 

 ness and Spottsylvania. In 1864, on Gen. Grant's 

 recommendation, he was promoted brigadier -gen- 

 eral, and in 1865 was brevetted major-general for 

 gallant conduct at the assault on Fort Stedman. 

 After the war he was offered a commission in 

 the regular army, which he declined. He set- 

 tled in Keene, N. H., and served five years in the 

 State Legislature, being for two years Speaker 

 of the House. 



Grissom, Eugene, alienist, born in Granville, 

 N. C. ; died in Washington, D. C., July 27, 1902. 

 He served in the Confederate army in the civil 

 war till he was wounded, and was afterward a 

 member of the North Carolina Legislature. For 

 twenty-one years he was superintendent of the* 

 North Carolina Insane Asylum. He gained a 

 wide reputation as an alienist and lecturer. His 

 lecture on The Borderland of Insanity, delivered 

 before the American Medical Society, attracted 

 considerable attention. Dr. Grissom was the first 

 vice-president of the American Medical Society, 

 several times presiding officer of the Association 

 of Superintendents of American Insane Asylums, 

 and author of True and False Experts. 



Guernsey, Alfred Hudson, editor, born in 

 Brandon, Vt., May 12, 1818; died in New York 

 city, Jan. 17, 1902. He was educated at Oneida 

 Institute, where he also learned typesetting, and 

 later at Union Theological Seminary. Subse- 

 quently he was employed by Messrs. Harper & 

 Brothers, first as corrector of the press, and 

 afterward as one of the literary advisers. When 

 Harper's Magazine was established, he was as- 

 signed to the editorial staff, where he remained 

 for twenty years, during which time he contrib- 

 uted numerous articles to the magazine and con- 

 ducted the department of Monthly Record of 

 Current Events. In 1883 he became an associate 

 editor of the American Cyclopaedia, to which he 

 contributed many historical and biographical ar- 

 ticles relating to the civil war, and later he 

 Avas editor of Alden's Cyclopaedia of Universal 

 Literature. With Henry M. Alden he compiled 

 Harper's Pictorial History of the Great Rebel- 

 lion (1863-'67). His writings in book form in- 

 clude The Spanish Armada; Thomas Carlyle: His 

 Theories and Opinions; Ralph Waldo Emerson, 

 Philosopher and Poet; and The World's Oppor- 

 tunities and How to Use Them. 



Ham, Charles Henry, lawyer, born in Can- 

 terbury, N. H., in January, 1831; died in Pater- 

 son, N. J., Oct. 16, 1902. * He was a clerk in a 

 store in Loudon, and later (1852-'56) in the 

 Concord Railroad office in Concord, N. H., and 

 while thus employed he studied law. In 1856 

 he removed to Chicago, where he entered the 

 banking-house of R. K. Swift & Co., and was 

 admitted to the bar in 1860. In 1871 President 

 Grant appointed him appraiser of the port of 

 Chicago, where he remained till 1886; and in 

 1889 President Harrison appointed him a member 

 of the Board of General Appraisers, which office 

 he held till June, 1901. He advocated the School 

 of Manual Training in Chicago, and labored 

 earnestly for many years as a speaker, lecturer, 

 and author for reform in public-school education. 

 He was a writer on the Chicago Tribune and the 

 Inter -Ocean and was author of Ten -Minute 

 Sketches and of books on manual training. 



