GRANDIN, Vital Justin, Canadian R. C. bishop, b. in St. Pierre-sur-Orne, France, 8 Feb., 1829. He was educated at Precigne, and in di- vinity at Marseilles, where he was ordained priest in 1854. He was sent to British America in the same year, and in 1859 was consecrated coadjutor bishop of St. Boniface. In 1871 he became the first bishop of St. Albert, Canada. Bishop Grandin, in the discharge of his official duties, has travelled widely for 30 years past over British North America.
GRANDMONT, Louis de, buccaneer, b. in Paris
in 1G45 ; d. at sea about 168(5. Pie belonged to a good
family. An officer having treated him as a child,
Grandmont forced him to accept a challenge,
wounded him mortally, and was arrested, but was
pardoned, and entered the navy, where he dis-
tinguished himself by his bi'avery and intelligence.
He obtained command of a privateer and sailed to
Martinique, where he captured a Dutch merchant-
man, valued at 400,000 francs, but, having spent the
entire sum in dissipation, he fled to Santo Domingo,
and joined the buccaneers. His fine appearance,
distinguished manners, and daring gained for him
the confidence of his new associates. Placing him-
self at the head of a certain number among them,
he captured in 1678 Maracaibo, and in 1679 Puerto
Cabello, participated in April, 1683, with Graaf
and Van Horn in the capture of Vera Cruz, and in
August of the same year succeeded in getting pos-
session of the town of Carapeaehy, where he gained a
large booty. In order to obtain the freedom of two
of his companions, who had been made prisoners by
the commander of Merida, he offered in exchange to
surrender the governor of Campeacliy, and to release
the captured garrison. The cnmniaiider refused to
consent, and even answered Grandmont's threat to
destrf)y the entire town and massacre all the in-
habitants by saying that he had money enough to
rebuild it and men enough to repeople it ; where-
upon the buccaneer cut off the heads of five Span-
iards, burned the city, blew up the fortifications,
and on the festival of St. Louis burned logwood
valued at 200,000 crowns in honor of Louis XIV.,
who, as a reward for his courage and military tal-
ent, had created him " lieutenant of the king," and
had desired to appoint him governor of the south-
ern part of Santo Domingo. But Grandmont,
with the object of rendering himself still more
worthy of the favors of his master, determined to
enter on a new campaign, and sailed from Santo
Domingo in October, 1686, with a single vessel and
a crew of 180 men. The vessel probably perished,
as nothing further was heard of it.
GRANGER, Daniel Tristram, lawyer, b. in
Saco, Me., 18 July, 1807; d. in Eastport, 27 Dec,
1854. He was graduated at Bowdoin in 1826, his
part in the commencement being an oration in
Fi'ench, then first introduced among the exercises.
He studied law in the office of Judge Ether Shep-
ley, was admitted to the bar in 1829, and began
practice in Newfield. In July, 1833, he moved to
Eastport, and became a partner of Frederic Hobbs,
and m 1837 he assumed the management of the
whole of the extensive business of the firm. In
1854 he was appointed a judge on the supreme
bench of Maine, but declined the appointment be-
cause of failing health. He was distinguislied
throughout the state for his profound legal learn-
ing, his sagacity as a counsellor, the extreme care
with which his cases were prepared, and the fluency
and earnestness with which they were presented.
GRANGER, Gideon, statesman, b. in Suffield,
Conn., 19 July, 1767; d. in Canandaigua, N. Y., 31
Dec, 1822. He was graduated at Yale in 1787,
became a lawyer, and served for several years in
the legislature of Connecticut, where he took a
leading part in the establishment of the school
fund, of which he has sometimes been called the
father. He became postmaster-general of the
United States in 1801, and held that office for
thirteen years, discharging its arduous duties dur-
ing the whole of
Mr. Jefferson'sand
during a large
part of Mr. Madi-
son's administra-
tion. On leaving
Washington, in
1814, he estab-
lished himself at
Canandaigua, ' N.
Y., and a few
years afterward
became a member
of the New York
senate. He was
conspicuous for
his advocacy of the
great system of
internal improve-
ments, with which
the name of his
illustrious friend,
DeWitt Clinton, is
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identified. In 1821 failing health compelled him to withdraw from public service. He delivered a 4th of July oration at Suffield in 1797, which is in print, and his " Political Essays," under the signature of Algernon Sidney and Epaminondas, were published in pamphlet-form. — His son, Francis, statesman, b. in Suffield, Conn., 1 Dec, 1792; d. in Canandaigua, N. Y., 28 Aug., 1868. He was graduated at Yafe in 1811, was educated as a lawyer, and, on his father's removal to Canandaigua in 1814, became a mem- ber of the Ontario bar. For many years he repre- sented Ontario county in the legislature of New York, and was twice an unsuccessful candidate of his party for governor, being defeated by a small Democratic majority. In 1836 he was the candidate of the National Republicans, or Whigs, for vice-president of the United States, on the ticket with William H. Harrison. Two years after- ward he was elected to congress. On the acces- sion of Gen. Harrison to the presidency in 1841, Mr. Granger was called to a place in the cabinet, and discharged the du- ties of postmaster-general with efficiency until the dissolution of the cabinet under President Tyler. He declined the offer of a foreign mission, and was once more elected a representative in congress, of which he had been a member for several previous terms.
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the 27th congress he declined re-election, and retired to private life. But he still occasionally attended meetings of his old Whig friends, and his silver-gray hair gave the name to a party that originated in a convention of which he was president. He was also, by appointment of the gov-