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=Gouley, John William Severin.= _La._, 1832- ----. A physician,
professor in the University of New York. External Perineal Urethrotomy;
Diseases of the Urinary Organs; Diseases of Man. _Ap._
=Graebner, August Lawrence.= _Mch._, 1849- ----. A Lutheran clergyman,
professor in the Theological Seminary at St. Louis from 1887. Half a
Century of Sound Lutheranism in America; Life of John Sebastian Bach.
=Grafton, Charles Chapman.= _Ms._, 1832- ----. The second Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Fond du Lac, and, prior to his consecration in
1889, rector of the Church of the Advent in Boston. Vocation, or the
Call of the Divine Master to a Sister’s Life.
=Graham, David.= _E._, 1808-1852. A lawyer of New York city. Practice
of the Supreme Court of New York State; New Trials; Courts of Law and
Equity in New York State.
=Graham, John Andrew.= _Ct._, 1764-1841. A lawyer of Rutland, Vermont.
Descriptive Sketch of Present State of Vermont (1797); Speeches;
Memoirs of Horne Tooke.
=Graham, Mrs. Margaret [Collier].= _Ia._, 1850- ----. A California
writer who has published Stories of the Foot-Hills. _Hou._
=Graham, Sylvester.= _Ct._, 1794-1851. A once well-known vegetarian and
lecturer upon temperance. He advocated the use of unbolted wheat, since
called Graham flour. Lectures on the Science of Human Life; Bread and
Breadmaking; Philosophy of Sacred History.
=Grahame, Nellie.= _See Dunning, Mrs._
=Granbery, John Cowper.= _Va._, 1829- ----. A bishop of the Methodist
Church South who published a Bible Dictionary.
=Grant, Asahel.= _N. Y._, 1807-1844. A physician who was a missionary
in Persia. The Nestorians, or the Lost Tribes. _See Memoir, 1847; Grant
and the Nestorians, 1853._
=Grant, Robert.= _Ms._, 1852- ----. A lawyer of Boston well known
as a littérateur; from 1893 a judge of probate and insolvency for
Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He has written several satirical works,
including The Little Tin Gods on Wheels; The Lambs; Yankee Doodle; and
the juvenile tales, Jack Hall; Jack in the Bush. In fiction he has
published Confessions of a Frivolous Girl; The Carletons; Mrs. Harold
Stagg; An Average Man; The Knave of Hearts; A Romantic Young Lady; Face
to Face; The Bachelor’s Christmas, and Other Stories; The Opinions of a
Philosopher; Reflections of a Married Man. Other works of his are, The
Art of Living; The Oldest School in America. _Hou. Scr._
=Grant, Ulysses Simpson.= _O._, 1822-1885. The eighteenth president of
the United States. He served in the Mexican War as lieutenant, and
in the Civil War as major-general, 1861-64, and subsequently became
lieutenant-general in command of the entire army. Report of the Armies
of the United States; Personal Memoirs. _See Military Life of, by A.
Badeau, supra; Life by J. G. Wilson; Appleton’s American Biography._
_Cent._
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