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AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS, 
[SECOND SERIES.] 
Art. I.—Charles Grafton Page. 
Prof. CHARLES GRAFTON PaGs, whose death at his residence 
in Washington, D. C., was announced in the last July number 
of this Journal, was born in Salem, Mass., on the 25th onl E 
January, 1812. He was prepared for College i in the Gramm 
School at Salem, and entered Harvard University in 1898, 
graduating in 1832, He studied medicine at the medical 
school in Boston, and in the year 1838, he removed with his 
ice '$ into Virginia, pursuing there the practice of his pee 
ession, About the year 1841, he was appointed one of the 
Principal Examiners in the United States Patent office. At 
that time there was but one other Principal Examiner, and 
the office was one of great sespevaitee since upon the Prin- 
cipal Examiner alone generally depended the decision of all ap- 
plications for patents in the classes of inventions under his 
nee 
1844, he was elected Professor of Chemistry, in the Med- 
war Sh of Columbian College, D.C., but in 1849, he 
resigned his professorship on account of the’ pressure of his 
duties in the Patent Office. In the year 1852, he retired from 
Am. Jour. Scr.—Szconp Series, Vou, XLVII, No. 142,—Juy, 1860, 
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