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GROSS
university, and was graduated at the University
of Rochester, A.B., 1876, A.M., 1880. He was
New York correspondent of the Chicago Tribune,
1877-80; a member of the editorial staff of the
New York Examiner, 1880-83; was ordained to the
Baptist ministry in 1883 and wasjsastorat Pough-
keepsie, N.Y., 1883-87, of the Fourth Avenue
church, Pittsburg, Pa., 1887-89; president of the
South Dakota university, 1889-92; assistant pro-
fessor of modern history, extension department;
registrar and recorder at the University of
Chicago, 1893-9.}, and in 1895 became associate
editor of The Watdiman, Boston, Mass. He was
married, Aug. 13, 1877, to Caroline Bristol. His
oldest son, Howard Bristol, born July 4, 1878,
a student in Brown university, 1899, served in
the 1st Massachusetts heavy artillery during the
Spanisli-American war. 1898. Mr. Grose is the
author of Memorial Life of John Boach, Ship-
bnildcr (1888). and of numerous magazine articles.
QROSE, William, soldier, was born in Day-
ton. Ohio, Dec. IG, 1813. His father was a soldier
in the war of 1813 and both his grandfathers saw
service in the Continental army during the war
for American independence. He was educated
in the public scliool, studied law and settled at
New Castle, Ind., where he was admitted to the
bar. He was a presidential elector for Indiana in
18.33 and voted for Franklin Pierce. In 18o3 he
was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for
representative in the 3d congress. In 18.^6 he
joined the Reijublican party and supported the
candidacy of John C. Fremont, being the same
year elected a representative in the state legisla-
ture. He was elected judge of the court of com-
mon pleas in 1860 and resigned in 1861 to serve
in the army. He recruited the 36th Indiana in-
fantry and was elected its colonel. His was the
only regiment of Buell's army that reached the
scene of action at Shiloh on the first day of
the fight. He was promoted to the command of a
brigade and served with the army of the Cum-
berland in all its campaigns, including Vieks-
burg, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Dalton,
and the battles in front of Atlanta, where he re-
ceived his commission as brigadier general while
under fire. He then served in the battles of
Franklin and Nashville and afterward presided
over courts -martial held in Nashville, 1865-66. He
was appointed by President Johnson collector of
internal revenue and served 1866- 7'i. and was an
imsucoessful candidate for representative in the
46th congress in 1878. In 1884 he was appointed
by Gov. A. G. Porter one of four commissioners
to superintend the building of three state hospi-
tals for the insane, and they were built at Evans-
ville, Richmond and Logansport, 1884-86. He was
a representative in the state legislature in 1887.
He died in Newcastle. Ind., Aug. 3. 1900.
GROSS, Albert Mailer, composer, was born in
Louisville, Ky., March 18, 1844; son of Dr. Sam-
uel David and Louisa (Weissell) Gross. He was
educated at the University of Virginia, entered
the junior class of the University of Pennsylva-
nia in 1863 and was graduated A.B. 1864, A.M.
1867. He studied law and was admitted to the
Philadelphia bar in 1867. President Johnson ap-
pointed him U.S. district attorney of New Mex-
ico in 1868 and after a short service he resigned
on account of ill health. He was a member of
the select council of Philadelphia, 1883, and de-
clined the U.S. consulship at Athens, Greece, in
1885. He was an advocate of cremation of the
dead as early as 1874. He published various
poems and vocal and instrumental compositions
in English, French and German, and with his
brother, Samuel Weiswell, he prepared an auto-
biography of his father.
GROSS, Charles, educator, was born in Troy, ' N.Y. , Feb. 10, 1857; son of Louis and Lottie (Wolf) Gross. He was graduated at Williams college, A.B., 1878, A.M., 1883; engaged in liter- ary work in England, 1884-88; was instructor in history at Harvard, 1888-92, and became assistant professor of history there in 1893. He was mar- ried, July 15, 1889, to Annie, daughter of William and Mary Anne (Malacrida) Smith of London, England. Gottingen conferred on him the degree of Ph.D. in 1883. He is the author of The Gild 3Irri-hant (1890); Select Cases from the Coroner's Bolls (1896); BihUoyrajihy of British Municipal His- tory (1897), and contributions to the leading magazines on historical subjects.
GROSS, John Daniel, clergyman, was born in Germany in 1737. He was pastor of a church near the New York frontier during the war of the Revolution and about 1784 removed to New York city. He was a regent of the University of the state of New Y'"ork, 1784-87; professor of German and of geography at Columbia college, 1784-95, and of moral philosophy, 1787-95; and a trustee of Columbia, 1787-93. He accumulated a fortune through buying the land-warrants of the Revolu- tionary soldiers, and after resigning from Colum- bia in 1795 he removed to a farm in Canajoharie, N.Y. Columbia conferred upon him the hono- rary degree of S.T.D. in 1789. He is the author of Matiiral Principles of Bectitude (1795). He died in Canajoharie, N.Y., May 25, 1813.
GROSS, Samuel David, surgeon, was born near Easton, Pa., July 8, 1805. He was graduated at Jefferson medical college in 1828, practised in Philadelphia, and occupied his leisure by trans- lating medical works from the French. He prac- tised medicine in Easton, Pa., 1839-34, meanwhile holding the chair of general chemistry at Lafay- ette, 1832-34. He was demonstrator of anatomy in the medical college of Ohio at Cincinnati, 1834-
