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GOULD, CHARLES GILBERT, of Wash ington, D. C., son of James and Judith White (Tenney) Gould, was born in Wind- ham, May 5, 1844.
. Hle attended the common schools in his native town until eighteen years of age, when he entered the volunteer army of the United States in the war for the suppression of the rebellion, his subsequent education having been received from private tutors and in the Columbian University at Wash- ington, D. C.
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He enlisted as a private in Company G, IIth Vt. Vols., August 13, 1862, was pro- moted corporal Dec. 27, 1863, sergeant- major Feb. 12, 1864, second lieutenant Co. E, I Ith Vt. Vols. June 30, 1864, captain Co. H, 5th Vet. Vols. Nov. 10, 1864, and major by brevet April 2, 1865. Was honorably discharged June 19, 1865. During his mil- itary service he participated in the battles of Spottsylvania, Va., May 15 to 18, 1864; Cold Harbor, June 1 to 12, 1864; Peters- burg (four), June 18, 1864; Weldon Rail- road, June 23, 1864 ; Fort Stevens, D. C., July 12, 1864 ; Winchester, Va., Sept. 19, 1864 ; Fisher's Hill, Sept. 21, and 22, 1864; Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864. He was severely wounded in the battle of Peters- burg, Va., April 2, 1865, receiving, after en- tering the enemy's works, a dangerous saber
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ent in the head, a bayonet wonnd in the face and a second bayonet wound in the back, besides being severely beaten with clubbed muskets. Was officially reported as the first one in the assaulting column to enter the enemy's works, and for distinguished gal- lantry in this battle was breveted major and also received a medal of honor from Congress.
Being disabled from pursuing the more active avocations of life when discharged from the army, he accepted a clerkship in the United States Pension Office at Washing- ton, D. C., in January, 1866, and after serv- ing in various grades and capacities in that office until October, 1871, he resigned there- from to accept the position of chief clerk in the office of the Water Registrar for the Dis- trict of Columbia, from which he resigned on account of ill-health in 1874.
In 1875 he was offered, but declined, the appointment as U. S. Consul at Odessa, Russia. In 1876 he accepted an appoint- ment in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, which he resigned during the same year to accept an appointment in the office of the Secretary of War. This appointment he resigned in February, 1877, to accept an appointment in the United States Patent Office, in which, after promotion through the various intermediate grades, he was ap- pointed a principal examiner July 1, 1884, which position he now occupies.
In politics he has always been a Republi- can, but has never been a candidate for any political office.
He is a member of West River Lodge, No. 57, F. & A. M., of Londonderry, and of Columbia R. A. Chapter, No. 3, and Washington Commandery, No. I, K. T., of Washington, D. C., and of the Commandery of the District of Columbia, in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, but has always declined office in any of these organizations. He was a member of the G. A. R. from October, 1866, until 1872, in which organization he held the offices of post adjutant, assistant adjutant general of the Department of the Potomac and aid-de-camp on the staff of the com- mander-in-chief.
He was married Oct. 1, 1871, to Ella Cobb, daughter of Hon. William and Mary D. (Cobb) Harris, of Windham. Two daughters, Myra Harris, and Ella, were born of this union, but neither wife nor daughters survive. He was again united in marriage Sept. 12, 1893, to Frances Lucy, daughter of Gen. George F. and Ada R. (Cobb) Davis, of Cavendish.
GOULD, WILL D., of Los Angeles, Cal., son of Daniel and Betsa (Smith) Gould, was born Sept. 17, 1845, at Cabot.
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Mr. Gould was educated at high schools and academies at St. Johnsbury and Barre, and the University of Michigan, where he graduated in 1871, and was principal of the graded schools at Passumpsic Village, Marsh- field, and Plainfield. At the March meeting next, after becoming of age, he was chosen superintendent of schools of his native town. He studied law in the office of Hon. Charles H. Heath, and was admitted to the bar at Montpelier. Removing to his present home in 1872, he has been actively engaged in a large practice, having the oldest law office in the county. He is a close student, proud of
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his profession and scrupulously faithful in the discharge of duty. Having been born and raised on a farm, agricultural and horticul- tural pursuits have always attracted his at- tention, and his thousand-acre farm in the valley and foot-hills of La Canada and Pasa- dena bears witness of his foresight and energy.
In public affairs, local, state, and national, he has taken an active interest. He is a Prohibitionist, and has been the party's can- didate for superior judge, attorney general, and member of Congress.
He is a member of several social, frater- nal, and commercial organizations, including temperance and Masonic, and Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Gould was married at Los Angeles, June 26, 1875, to Mary L., daughter of Dan- iel and Harriet T. Hait of Katonah, N. Y.
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GRAY, ANDREW JACKSON, of Hamp- ton, Iowa, son of Dr. Henry and Margaret (Carpenter) Gray, was born in Weston, Feb. 23, 1820. Descended from the Scotch on the paternal, and English on the mater- nal side, young Gray was well-equipped from his birth to cope with the world.
He was educated at the district schools and at Bennington and Chester academies, and settled on a farm in Weston at the age of twenty-one, where he followed the life of a farmer for twenty years, removing to Manchester in 1860, in order to better edu- cate his three sons. He was chosen a di- rector of the Battenkill Bank, of Manchester, in 1861, and elected vice-president in 1870, and president in 1880, and continued in this position until the close of the institu- tion in 1885, when he was appointed agent to close its affairs, which he successfully accomplished and paid one hundred and
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fifty cents on the dollar to the stockholders. Mr. Gray removed to Hampton, Iowa, in 1885, where he has since resided and carries on a successful real estate and loan business, besides being interested in many other enterprises.
Mr. Gray was united in marriage Nov. 25, 1845, to Mary, daughter of Aaron and Susan Burton of Chester. Their children are : L. B., J. B., and Henry.
When Mr. Gray was twenty-one years of age he was called to Woodstock to act as a juror in a land case. On repairing to the
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jury room he found that the eleven other jurors had opinions adverse to his, and after a thorough canvass of the case in his own mind to find wherein he was wrong, he was unable to change his opinion, and after being out twenty-four hours the jury return- ed a verdiet in accordance with his opinion.
Always a Democrat, Mr. Gray has been the recipient of many public positions. He was a grand juror, assessor and justice of the peace in Weston ; and a grand juror, assessor and justice of the peace in Manchester.
He has been prominent in Masonic cir- cles, and has been treasurer of Adoniram Lodge, No. 42.
A man of sterling integrity, he has always had the love and respect of all whose good fortune it was to be numbered among his circle of friends.
GRAY, EDGAR H., of Oakland, Cal., was born in Bridport, November, 1813. Of Scotch-Irish parentage on the paternal side, his father being Daniel Gray, a graduate of Middlebury College in 1805, and his mother being Amy Bosworth.
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While quite young he learned the printer's trade, and thereafter fitted for college, partly at select schools in Bridport, and partly in Brandon, and graduated from Waterville College (Maine) in 1838; studied for the ministry and was for a few years pastor of a Baptist church in Freeport, Me., having previously married Mary J. Rice of said state. Sometime between 1845 and 1850,
he was settled in Shelburne Falls, Mass., and labored there till 1860, when he became pastor of the E Street Baptist Church, Wash- ington, D. C. His pastorate at Shelburne Falls was a very successful one, and he was much loved and popular among his people. In 1852 he was called to the leading Baptist church in St. Louis, Mo., but his people so strongly opposed his leaving that he de- clined the call. In 1860, however, he ac- cepted a call to Washington, where he officiated till about 1878. He was chosen chaplain of the U. S. Senate, and held that position at the death of President Lincoln, and officiated at his funeral.
He had two sons and three daughters by his first wife, who died during his residence in Washington, and he subsequently married a Mrs. Carter, who had interests in Califor- nia, and he removed to San Francisco, and became first pastor of a Baptist church in that city ; afterwards he was employed to look after and superintend the Baptist churches in that state. He officiated also as pastor of a church in Oakland, where he now resides, and is acting as dean of a the- ological seminary in that city. In 1889 was the anniversary of his fifty years in the min- istry, and his church in Oakland celebrated the event as a jubilee occasion, in which other denominations joined. Many expres- sions from persons present and absent in commendation of his long, faithful, and use- ful services were presented. These services and labors had secured for him a large circle of admiring and affectionate friends. He had been honored with the degree of D. D., and was well equipped for the training of young men for the ministry, in which work (1893) he is now engaged at nearly eighty years of age.
Few men have had the good fortune to work in the Lord's vineyard as long and continuously as he, and yet his eye is not dim nor is his natural force abated.
GRAY, MELVIN L., of St. Louis, was born in Bridport, July, 1815, the son of Daniel Gray, of Scotch-Irish descent, and Amy Bosworth.
He was reared on a farm in his native town, and in the family of the Rev. Increase Graves, the first settled minister (Congrega- tional) of said town. He attended district and select schools in the winters and labored on the farm during the summers, and in that way fitted for college and mastered the studies of the freshman year at home, with- out a teacher, in the winter preceding his entry of the sophomore class in August, 1836, of Middlebury College, from which his father had graduated in 1805. He defrayed the expenses of his college course by teach- ing winters and graduated in August, 1839,
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in a class of thirty-eight, among whom were John G. Saxe, the poet, and the Hon. Will- iam A. Howard, at one time member of Con- gress from Michigan, and afterwards Gover- nor of Washington Territory.
He taught in Autauga county, Ala., two years and in Montgomery county of said state six months, and then located in St. Louis in September, 1842, and was admitted to the bar in that city in May, 1843, after a study of law for only seven months, supple- menting that short course by continued study, after admission. In February, 1844,
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he formed a partnership with Charles B. Lawrence, a native of Vermont, afterwards for many years on the Supreme Bench of the state of Illinois. As business came slowly, Mr. Lawrence removed to Illinois, and in 1848 Mr. Gray formed a partnership with Franklin Fisher, a native of Massa- chusetts, who came to St. Louis from Ala- bama where he had been in practice, and on his death, in 1849, Mr. Gray ever after practiced his profession alone.
He married in 1851 Miss Rith C. Bacon, of Warren, Mass., daughter of Rufus F. and Emeline (Cutler) Bacon, but no children were born to them, and his wife departed this life in July, 1893.
For several years prior to 1854 Mr. Gray had a large practice in steamboat cases, under the Missouri statute regulating steam- boats, but in that year Judge Robert W. Wells of the United States District Court for
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Missouri decided that the United States courts had exclusive jurisdiction of ad- miralty causes, as well on the navigable rivers as on the sea, and, the United States Supreme Court sustaining this view, the state statute became inoperative. The practice of the subject of this sketch was wholly in civil cases, and embraced the whole range of legal and equitable causes. It is believed that the first trade mark suits brought and tried in the state, were brought by him in the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern district of Missouri and of which cases he had a large number, one of which, McLean vs. Fleming, 96 United States Supreme Court reports, is a leading case in that branch of the law. He has also acted as executor, administrator and curator of num- erous estates, many of them quite large, and having labored over fifty years in the con- tinuous work of his profession, he has now withdrawn from the same, though yet vigor- ous, and devotes his time to his personal affairs and various financial enterprises.
He has never sought or held office, unless acting as trustee of Drury College of Spring- field, Mo., and other educational institutions may be considered such. He was originally a Whig, then a Republican, and during the civil war, was for the Union and his country, and was a member of the Home Guards, an organization of the elder citizens of St. Louis for its protection and defense.
GRAY, HENRY WILLIAM, of San Fran- cisco, Cal., son of Benjamin and Nancy Jane (Vance) Gray, was born in Hardwick, Jan. 18, 1837.
He received his education in the public schools of his native town, and the academy at Glover. When not attending school he worked on his father's farm until he had passed the years of his minority.
In 1860 he went to California, and soon after his arrival in San Francisco he pro- ceeded to the mines, where he was engaged in mining and milling until 1876, when he located at San Francisco, and engaged in the livery and boarding stable business, which he has followed ever since, being at present proprietor of the Santa Clara Stables. Mr. Gray was always very fond of horses, and on pleasant afternoons is frequently seen driv- ing a handsome team through Golden Gate Park.
He is president of the Gray Eagle Gravel Gold Mining Co., located at Forest Hill, Cal., and one of the proprietors of a large timber tract in Mendocino county : also a large shareholder in two irrigation com- panies, in San Joaquin county.
He is a Republican : a member of the Red Men ; A. O. U. W. and the Pacific Coast Association Native Sons of Vermont.
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Mr. Gay was married in San Francisco thirty years ago to Miss Catherine Sophia Gerry. Of this union is one son : Frank John Gray, aged twenty nine, who is justice of the peace in San Francisco, having been elected for the second term. Mrs. 11. W. Gray died in February, 1892.
GREENE, ROGER S., of Seattle, Wash., son of David and Mary Evarts Greene, was born at Roxbury, Mass., Dec. 14, 1840. Hc is a descendant of many of the distinguished families of the Atlantic states, and in his character can be detected some of the strongest virtues of his ancestry. On the maternal side he is the great-grandson of Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Con- stitution. His mother, Mary Evarts, was a daughter of Jeremiah Evarts, and a sister of
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William M. Evarts, recently United States Senator from New York. His father, David Greene, was for twenty years corresponding secretary of the American Board of Com- missioners for Foreign Missions. In his eighth year the family removed to Westbor- ough, Mass., and two years later to Windsor, Vt.
He received a most careful education, and after completing an academic course entered Dartmouth College, from which he was grad- uated in 1859. During his college life, being largely dependent upon his own exer- tions for support, he taught school in vaca-
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tions at Windsor in the winter of 1857-'58, and at Falmouth, Mass., in the winter of 1858-'59. Soon after his graduation he be- gan the study of law in the office of Evarts, Southmayd & Choate, in New York City, a firm composed of as brilliant men as ever adorned the bar of the metropolis of America, each of whom had at that time gained national renown. In this office as student, and after- ward as managing clerk, he had an excellent opportunity of gaining a valuable preliminary legal training. In May, 1862, in New York City, he was admitted to practice, but his loyalty to his country induced him to aban- don his professional career and to enter the Union army.
In September, 1 862, he enlisted under com- mission as 2d Lieut. of Co. 1, 3d Missouri Inft. ; in March following he was promoted to ist Lieut. of the same company, and still later, in 1863, was made captain of Co. C, 5Ist U. S. Colored Inft., serving as such until honorably discharged by acceptance of his resignation in November, 1865. He also served during this period as judge advo- cate of the District of Vicksburg at the close of 1864 and beginning of 1865, and judge advocate of the Western Division of Louis- jana from June, 1865, until retirement from service. He received a gun-shot wound through the right arm in the general assault on Vicksburg while in command of his com- pany, May 22, 1863. Just before his mili- tary service, Judge Greene was offered the position of Assistant United States District Attorney for the southern district of New York, but declined the office.
In January, 1866, he began the practice of his profession in Chicago, occupying the same office with Perkin Bass, then United States attorney, with whom he was associated in practice.
He remained in Chicago until his appoint- ment by President Grant, in July, 1870, as associate justice of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory, when he settled at. Olympia. He was twice re-appointed, hold- ing the office until January, 1879, when he- was commissioned chief justice, at which time he removed to Seattle, where he has since continued to reside. In 1883 he was re-appointed chief justice and served until the close of his term in March, 1887. Since that time he has been for the most part en- gaged in the practice of his profession. In March, 1887, he formed a professional co- partnership with Hon. Cornelius H. Hanford, now United States District Judge of the District of Washington, and Hon. John H. McGraw, now Governor of the state of Wash- ington, under the firm name of Greene,. Hanford & McGraw ; afterward, in August,. the firm was enlarged by the addition of another member, Joseph F. McNaught, Esq.,.
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under the firm name of Greene, McNaught, Hanford & McGraw. In July, 1888, the partnership was dissolved by mutual con- sent, all the partners retiring from practice, the senior partner on account of temporary ill-health, Messrs. McNaught and McGraw to enter other pursuits and Judge Hanford to become chief justice of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory. In 1889 Judge Greene resumed the practice of law, and in 1890 formed a partnership with L. Theodore Turner of Seattle, with whom, un- der the firm name of Greene & Turner, he has been in full practice ever since, hand- ling in course of his practice many of the most important interests in the state. In 1889 he was trustee and secretary of the Seattle Investment Co. From 1890 to the present time, he has been trustee and secre- tary of the Seattle Trust Co., $500,000 capi- tal. From 1890 to 1893 he was trustee and vice-president of the Rainier Power and Railway Co., capital $500,000. He has been successful in business.
Judge Greene is a member of the Seattle Stevens Post G. A. R., and has repeatedly been the selection of the Posts of Seattle to address them on Memorial Day.
Politically, he has always been identified with the Republican party until the year 1888, when he joined the Prohibition move- ment, to which he has ever since adhered. He was, in 1888, the candidate of the Pro- hibition party for delegate to Congress from Washington, and in 1892 was the Prohibi- tion candidate for Governor of the state.
Religiously, his parents being Congrega- tionalists, his first church connection was with the church of that denomination in Windsor, where his membership remained until after the war. Then he united with the New England Congregational Church of Chicago. Afterward he was a constituent and prominent member of the Lincoln Park Church. On removal to Olympia he joined the Baptist church, with which denomina- tion he has ever since been conspicuously and influentially identified.
Judge Greene was married August 17, 1866, at Whitewater, Wis., to Grace, daughter of Jesse and Rhoda (Brockett) Wooster of Naugatuck, Conn. They have four children : Agnes Margaret, born Oct. 18, 1868 ; Roger Sherman, born Sept. 29, 1870: Grace Evarts, born Jan. 15, 1875, and Mary Rhoda, born July 27, 1876.
GREENLEAF, HALBERT STEVENS, of Rochester, was born in Guilford, April 12, 1827. The descent of the Greenleaf family of New England is "undoubtedly to be traced," says the compiler of the Greenleaf genealogy, "from the Huguenots, who, when persecuted for their religion, fled from
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France about the middle of the sixteenth century." The name was originally Fuille- vert, anglicized Greenleaf, in which form it occurs in England toward the close of the sixteenth century. The common ancestor of the Greenleaf family of America was Ed- ward Greenleaf, a silk dyer by trade, who was born in the parish of Brixham, in the county of Devonshire, England, about the year 1600. He married Sarah Dole, by whom he had several children in England, and with his wife and family came to this country, settling first in Newbury and after- ward in Boston, Mass., where he died in 1671. A number of the family have distin- guished themselves in New England by their intellectual attainments, which have been of
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a high order. One of these, Jeremiah Green- leaf, the father of the subject of this sketch, was the author of what was known as Green- leaf's Grammar, and devoted a large part of his life to study, authorship, and instruction in this special branch of education. He was also the author of Greenleaf's Gazeteer, and Greenleaf's Atlas, both excellent works of their kind, and highly esteemed at the time they appeared. True to his instincts and patriotism as a "Green Mountain Boy," Jeremiah Greenleaf took an active part in the war of 1812, enlisting as a private and winning his commission as an officer. He married Miss Elvira E. Stevens, the daugh- ter of Simon Stevens, M. D., of Guilford, "a true and noble woman, of no small degree of culture."
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Thus the subject of this sketch combines in his nature, as in his name, the elements of two characteristic New England families of the old school. His career has been in many respects a most varied and remarkable one. The son of educated parents, it was quite natural that he should receive a good education, which was received in part, of course, at home, and in part at the common schools and academy of his native New England. His boyhood and youth were spent in farm life, but, from his nineteenth to his twenty-third year, he taught district and gram- mar schools in the winter months, and during one season-so as to add as much as possible to his funds, worked in a brickyard. At the age of twenty-three he made a six month's sea-voyage in the whaling vessel, Lewis Bruce, serving before the mast as a common sailor.
On the 24th of June, 1852, shortly after his return from sea, he married Miss Jeannie F. Brooks, the youngest daughter of John Brooks, M. D., of Bernardston, Mass., and, in the month of September following, removed to Shelburne Falls, Mass., where he obtained employment as a day laborer at the bench, in a large cutlery establishment. A few months later he found a position in the office of a neighboring manufactory, and in a short time became a member of the firm of Miller & Greenleaf. On the 11th of March, 1856, he was commissioned by the Governor of Massa- chusetts a justice of the peace. In 1857, a military company having been formed in Shelburne Falls, the young men composing it selected Mr. Greenleaf as their captain, and he continued in command from the 29th of August in that year, until the 3d of March, 1859, when he resigned his captain's com- mission. The same year he became a mem- ber of the firm of Linus Yale, Jr., & Co., in Philadelphia, and went to that city to live, remaining in business there until 1861, when he returned to Shelburne Falls, and organized the Yale & Greenleaf Lock Co., of which he became business manager.
Making the best disposition he could of his business, he enlisted as a private soldier in the Union army in August, 1862, enter- ing the fifty-second Massachusetts regiment, to the organizing and recruiting of which he devoted both his money and energy. He was commissioned captain of Company E, Sept. 12, 1862, and on the 13th of October was unanimously elected colonel of the reg- iment, which was soon afterwards ordered into service under General Banks in the de- partment of the Gulf. During Banks' first Red River expedition Colonel Greenleaf was commandant of the post at Barre's Landing, Louisiana, and for a brief period in com- mand of the second brigade of Grover's division. At the head of his regiment he participated in the battles of Indian Ridge,
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