president of the State Medical Association of Missouri, he was, in 1886, elected president of the American Medical Association. For well on to half a century he served as a professor of surgery and anatomy in the St. Louis Medical College, which was formerly the medical department of St. Louis University, and later the medical department of Washington University. Dr. Gregory, in private conversation, expressed his true sentiments when he said: "My greatest pride is that all the honors which I have held have been bestowed upon me by my profession." He was married on the 15th of April, 1845. to Miss Jael Smallwood, of a Maryland family, a native of Cooper County, Missouri. Gregory had good understanding, sterling character and withal a happy disposition, a helpmeet, indeed. Twelve children were born to Dr. and Mrs. Gregory, of whom the following are living: Margaret Gregory Ostermoor, Sophia Gregory Humes, Alexis Gregory, Cornelia Douglas Gregory, Elisha Hall Gregory, Jr., Maria Carter Gregory and Stella Gregory Lindsay. Charles Russell Gregory, Mary Byrd Gregory, Howard Gregory, Eliza Hall Gregory and Mary Alicia Gregory are dead.

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Grenner, Henry Clay, collector of internal revenue for the first district of Missouri, was born in 1852, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, son of John L. and Mary Grenner. After completing his education at New York College, of New York City, from which institution he was graduated, he engaged in the business of printing and publishing in New York, when he was nineteen years of age. In 1877 he left New York for the oil regions of Pennsylvania, and soon afterward became part owner of the "Titusville (Pennsylvania) Daily and Weekly Herald." The oil interests of this region were then at the flood tide of their prosperity, and during the year 1880 Mr. Grenner entered that business and developed many new oil fields. Keen foresight and good judgment enabled him to operate successfully in this field, and after opening a number of valuable wells, he engaged also, in 1882, in the business of refining petroleum. He mastered all the details of producing and refining oils and, having a thorough understanding of the business, he became an important factor in the early fight made against the Standard Oil Company in

Pennsylvania. He was one of the prime movers in organizing a company which built an independent pipe line from the Pennsylvania oil regions, and he also built the international oil works at Titusville, and was president of the company which operated that plant. This was one of the independent refineries and owned its own wells, piped and refined its own oil, and was owner also of the railway cars which carried its products to the market. In 1886 Mr. Grenner came to St. Louis for the purpose of developing the independent oil trade throughout the West and Southwest, and in pursuance of the plan which he had formulated, he built the International Oil Works in that city. He became president of the corporation owning this plant, and through his resistless energy and aggressiveness, the International Oil Works have been wonderfully successful, and are today a potent factor in controlling the oil trade of the west. He has always been a zealous Republican, and at different times has contributed much to the success of his party. In recognition, both of his party fidelity and his eminent fitness for an office which should be filled by the best type of business man, President McKinley appointed him United States collector of internal revenue for the first district of Missouri, and he entered upon the discharge of his duties in this connection in February of 1898. As a Federal official he has justified the expectations of his warmest friends, in looking after the interests of the government during a period in which the duties and responsibilities of collectors of revenue have been vastly increased as a result of the war revenue law of 1898. The delicate and difficult task of putting the machinery of the new law into operation in one of the largest revenue-producing districts of the United States has been performed by him in such a way as to reduce the friction incident thereto to the minimum, and his administration has received the unqualified com mendation of the general public. Mr. Grenner is one of the most prominent members of the Masonic order in Missouri, and he is also a member of the order of Odd Fellows and the order of Knights of Pythias. He married, in 1875, Miss Gussie L. Seabury, of New York City.

Grier, David Perkins, distinguished both as soldier and civilian, was born.

in Danville, Pennsylvania, December 26, 1836, and died in St. Louis April 21, 1891. He was educated in the schools of Pennsylvania, and, when fifteen years of age removed with his parents to Peoria, Illinois, where he became associated later with his father and brothers in the grain trade. At the beginning of the Civil War he was living at Elmwood, Illinois, and when the firing on Fort Sumter aroused Northern patriots to action, he quickly organized a company, composed of his neighbors and friends, and tendered its services to Governor Yates, of Illinois. The State of Illinois had, however, before this mustered its full quota of troops, and the services of Captain Grier's company were declined. Determined not to be balked in his endeavor to contribute something to the defense of the Union, he brought his company to St. Louis, and promptly tendered it to the provisional Union government of this State. Its services were accepted and in June, 1861, it was mustered into the Eighth Missouri Volunteer Infantry, as Company G of that regiment. As captain of this company General Grier participated in the campaigns against Forts Henry and Donelson, and the battles of Shiloh and Corinth. In August of 1862 Illinois reclaimed the gallant soldier, and calling him to Springfield, Governor Yates commissioned him Colonel of the Seventy-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry. As Colonel of this regiment he served faithfully, and with conspicuous gallantry throughout the entire Vicksburg campaign, during a portion of which he was acting commander of a brigade. In November of 1863 he was assigned to the command of the Second Brigade of the Fourth Division of the Thirteenth Army Corps, and in August of 1864, was placed in command of all the land forces on Dauphin Island, Alabama, under Major General Granger. After the capture of Fort Gaines all the troops on the island, excepting those of the Seventy-seventh Illinois Regiment, crossed over to the peninsula and laid siege to Fort Morgan, General Grier being detached from his regiment temporarily to take command of the expedition, and remaining in command of all the land forces until the end of the siege and the capture of the fort. In March of 1865 he was commissioned Brigadier General of Volunteers, and assigned to the command of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Thirteenth

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Army Corps, under General Canby, which he commanded in the campaign around and against Mobile. Subsequently he was signed to the command of the Third Division of the Thirteenth Army Corps, and retained that command until mustered out of the service, July 10, 1865. At the close of the war he returned to civil pursuits, becoming a member of the firm of Grier Brothers, which had grain depots in several cities. The firm established the Union Elevator in East St. Louis, and General Grier took charge of the business at that point in 1879. At a later date he established his home in St. Louis, and formed the Grier Commission Company, which was later succeeded by the D. P. Grier Grain Company.

Griffin, Frederick W., lawyer, was born February 2, 1855, in what is now a part of Boston, Massachusetts, near the site of the historic Bunker Hill monument. His father, J. Q. A. Griffin, was born in New Hampshire, but removed to Massachusetts in about 1820, locating in the suburbs of Boston. On his side of the family the ancestry is directly traced back to about the year 1700, the progenitors of the family having been of ScotchIrish origin. Concord, Massachusetts, has been the home of Mr. Griffin's mother's family since 1638, and it was Colonel James Barrett, her ancestor in direct line, who gave the order to fire

to the brave minute men under his command at the battle of Concord, and who thus started hostilities on the day of that memorable engagement. The first Griffin in this country settled at Londonderry, New Hampshire, that town having been named in honor of the locality in the old country from which he came. F. W. Griffin was educated at Boston and Concord, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard College and took the law course at Boston University, graduating in 1876. He immediately located in Boston for the practice of law and remained there ten years, being associated with Samuel T. Harris. In February, 1887, he removed to Kansas City, Missouri, and has since been an active and prominent member of the bar at that place. He was associated with F. M. Hayward until 1893, since which time he has been in the practice alone. He represents a number of large eastern corporations, including the Fidelity & Deposit Company, of

Maryland, in its affairs within the borders of Missouri and Kansas, and his practice is devoted for the most part to corporation law. The Wachusett Investment Company is also numbered among his clientage, which is substantial and dignified. Mr. Griffin is a member of the Kansas City Bar Association and stands high in the esteem of his fellow lawyers. He is a Republican politically, takes a somewhat active part in politics and was his party's candidate for prosecuting attorney of Jackson County, Missouri, in 1892. He was married in 1884 to Terese L. Lippman, daughter of Morris J. Lippman, an early resident of that city.

Grimsley, Thornton, pioneer merchant and manufacturer, was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, August 20, 1798, and died in St. Louis, December 22, 1861. When he was ten years old he was apprenticed to the saddler's trade, and in 1816, at the end of a long term of service, he was sent to St. Louis in charge of a stock of saddlery goods. In 1822 he opened a store of his own in that city and afterward became famous in the saddlery trade. He invented and patented the military or dragoon saddle, which was universally approved by the officers of the United States Army, and did more work for the government at his manufactory than was done at that time at any other factory in the country. Although he had only limited. educational advantages in his youth, he became a man of broad intelligence, and took a prominent part in public affairs in St. Louis. He was elected to the Missouri Legislature in 1828, and proved a useful member of that body, serving at different times in both branches. In 1839 he received the Whig nomination for Congress, but as his party was largely in the minority he was defeated. He was a prominent member of the Masonic order, and served as grand treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Missouri. For forty years he cultivated and promoted the military taste and spirit in St. Louis, and at different times he commanded various military organizations. In 1846 he recruited a regiment for service in the Mexican War, but as a sufficient number of troops had already been raised, his regiment was not mustered into the United States service. He married Miss Susan Stark, of Bourbon County, Kentucky, and at his death left two daughters, Mrs.

Henry T. Blow and Mrs. George Stansbury, and one son, John Grimsley.

Grissom, Daniel M., was born at Owensboro, Kentucky. His father was Alfred Grissom, a respectable tailor, and afterward farmer, with a family of ten children. He received a good education in a large school kept by George Scarborough, from Connecticut, and at Cumberland University, at Lebanon, Tenn., and, after teaching school for two years, came to St. Louis in 1853, and was employed as a writer on the "Evening News." He remained on that paper until 1863, when he became editor of the "Union," a morning paper, which was afterward changed into the "Dispatch," an evening paper. His connection with this paper continued until 1868, and in 1869 Mr. Grissom was offered a position on the editorial staff of the "Missouri Republican" by Colonel William Hyde, then its managing editor. He remained on the "Republican" in this position until 1888, when he retired from active newspaper writing.

Griswold, Joseph L., was born in Kentucky in the year 1843, the son of William D. Griswold. He was reared in Terre Haute, Indiana, and after attending the schools in that city was sent to Williston Seminary, of East Hampton, Massachusetts, from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1861. When he left college his father was president of the St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute Railroad Company, now a part of the "Big Four" system, and he became connected with the railway service as an employe of that company. He soon developed into a capable railroad man, and when his father became president of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad Company, the son was made paymaster for that company. He held that position until his merits earned promotion, and was then appointed superintendent of the western division of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, extending from Vincennes, Indiana, to East St. Louis. He filled this position so well and inaugurated so many reforms that he was elected by the board of directors general superintendent of the entire line, a position which he held for four years. When he took the superintendency of the road its gauge was six feet wide, and it was soon afterward determined to change this to