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=Griffith, Robert Eglesfield.= _Pa._, 1798-1850. A physician and
botanist who was from 1838 a medical professor in the University of
Virginia. Medical Botany; Universal Formulary.
=Griffiths, John Willis.= _N. Y._, 1809-1882. A naval architect of New
York city. Treatise on Marine and Naval Architecture, a work of great
value; The Ship Builders’ Manual; The Progressive Ship Builder.
=Grimke= [grim´ke], =Archibald Henry.= _S. C._, 1849- ----. A
Massachusetts lawyer of African descent. Eulogy on Wendell Phillips;
Charles Sumner, the Scholar in Politics; William Lloyd Garrison, the
Abolitionist. _Fu._
=Grimke, Frederick.= _S. C._, 1791-1863. Son of J. F. Grimke, _infra_.
An Ohio jurist. Ancient and Modern Literature; Nature and Tendencies of
Free Institutions. _Clke._
=Grimke, John Faucheraud.= _S. C._, 1752-1819. A jurist of South
Carolina. Revised Edition of Laws of South Carolina; Law of Executors
of South Carolina; Public Law of South Carolina; Probate Directory;
Duty of Justices of the Peace.
=Grimke, Sarah Moore.= _S. C._, 1792-1873. Daughter of J. F. Grimke,
_supra_. A reformer who was very prominent in the anti-slavery
movement. Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States; Letters on the
Condition of Women.
=Grimke, Thomas Smith.= _S. C._, 1786-1834. Son of J. F. Grimke,
_supra_. A reformer of Charleston, active in temperance and in the
promotion of peace societies, who published Addresses on Science,
Education, and Literature.
=Grimshaw, Robert.= _Pa._, 1850- ----. A civil engineer, lecturer on
physics at the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia. History, etc., of
Saws; Saw Filing; Steam Engine Catechism; Pump Catechism; Steam Boiler
Catechism; Record of Scientific Progress; Hints to Power Users; Fifty
Years Hence. _Bai. Cas. Wil._
=Grimshaw, William.= _I._, 1782-1852. A Philadelphia writer who
published a once popular series of school histories, and also
Etymological Dictionary; Gentlemen’s Lexicon; Ladies’ Lexicon; The
American Chesterfield; Life of Napoleon. _Lip._
=Grinnell= [grin´el], =George Bird.= _N. Y._, 1849- ----. An
ornithologist and the editor of “Forest and Stream” of New York city.
He has enjoyed a long and friendly acquaintance with the Indians of the
Great Plains. The Story of a Prairie People; The Story of the Indian;
Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk Tales. _Ap. Scr._
=Grinnell, Josiah Bushnell.= _Vt._, 1821-1891. A distinguished citizen
of Iowa; in early life a Presbyterian minister. He founded the Iowa
town of Grinnell in 1854, and was president of Iowa College, formerly
Grinnell University. It was to him that Horace Greeley is said to have
made the famous remark, “Go West, young man, go West.” Home of the
Badgers; Cattle Industries of the United States; Men and Events of
Forty Years. _Lo._
=Griscom, John.= _N. J._, 1774-1852. A once noted educator who was
professor of chemistry at Rutgers College, 1812-28. A Year in Europe;
Monitorial Instruction. _See Memoirs of, by his Son._
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