Gratitude to Mr. Grayson induced his constituents to nominate him for governor, and he was elected, serving from 1838 to 1841. On the expiration of his term of service he retired to private life.
GRAYSON, William John, statesman, b. in Beaufort, S. C., 10 Nov., 1788 ; d. in Newberry, 4 Oct., 1863, was graduated at the College of Charleston in 1809, and bred to the law. Entering upon its practice at Beaufort, he became a commissioner in equity of South Carolina, a member of the state legislature in 1813, and a senator in 1831. He opposed the tariff act in 1831, but was not disposed to push the collision to the extreme of civil war. He served in congress from 2 Dec, 1833, till 3 March, 1837, and in 1841 was appointed collector of customs at Charleston. In 1843 he retired to his plantation. During the secession agitation of 1850 he published a "Letter to Gov. Seabrook," deprecating disunion, and pointing out the evils that would follow it. He died of an illness following on a paralytic stroke. He was a frequent contributor to the " Southern Review," and also published "The Hireling and Slave," a poem (Charleston, S. C., 1854); "Chicora and Other Poems" (1856); "The Countrv," a poem (1858); a narrative poem entitled "Marion" (1860); and "The Life of James Lewis Petigru" (New York. 1866).
GREATHOUSE, Lucien, soldier, b. in Carlinsville, Ill., in 1843: d. near Atlanta, Ga., 21 June, 1864. He was graduated at the Illinois "Wesleyan
university, and studied law. At the beginning of the civil war he volunteered as a private, and, after passing through every intermediate grade, was
commissioned colonel of the 48th Illinois. His regiment bore a conspicuous part in the movements of the Army of the Tennessee.
GREATON, John, soldier, b. in Roxbury, Mass., 10 March, 1741 ; d. there, 16 Dec, 1783. Before the war he was an inn-keeper and officer of militia in Roxbury. On 12 July, 1775, he was appointed colonel of the 24th regiment, and in October following colonel of the 36th, and afterward colonel of the 3d Massachusetts, on the continental establishment. During the siege of Boston he led an expedition which destroyed the buildings on Long Island in Boston harbor. On 15 April, 1776, he was ordered to Canada, in December joined Washington in New Jersey, and was afterward transferred to Heath's division at West Point. Congress made him a brigadier-general, 7 Jan., 1783.
GREATOREX, Henry Wellington, musician, b. in Burton-on-Trent, England, in 1816; d. in Charleston, S. C., in September, 1858. He received a thorough musical education from his father, who was for many years organist of Westminster Abbey, and conductor of the London “concerts of ancient music.” He came to this country in 1839, settled in New York city as a teacher of music and organist of Calvary church, and frequently sang in
concerts and oratorios. For some years he was organist and conductor of the choir at St. Paul's chapel. Greatorex did much to advance the standard
of sacred music in the days when country singing-school teachers imposed their trivial melodies and the convivial measures of foreign composers on
the texts of our hymn-books. He published a “Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Chants, Anthems, and Sentences” (Boston, 1851).—His
wife, Eliza, artist, b. in Manor Hamilton, Ireland,
25 Dec., 1819, was the daughter of Rev. James
Calcott Pratt, and came to New York in 1840, where in
1849 she married Mr. Greatorex. Subsequently she
studied art with William H. Witherspoon and
James Hart in New York, with Emile Lambinet
in Paris, and also at the Pinakothek in Munich.
During 1879 she studied etching with C. Henri
Toussaint. In 1857 she visited England, and spent
1861-'2 in Paris. She was also abroad in 1870-'3,
visiting Nuremberg and Ober-Ammergau,
Germany, and various parts of Italy. In 1868 she was
elected an associate of the National academy,
being the first woman who received that recognition,
and she is also the only woman who is a
member of the Artists' fund society of New York. Mrs.
Greatorex has acquired reputation by her
pen-and-ink sketches, many of which have appeared in
book-form, notably “The Homes of Ober-Ammergau”
(Munich, 1872); “Summer Etchings in Colorado”
(New York, 1873); “Etchings in Nuremberg”
(1875); and “Old New York from the
Battery to the Bloomingdale” (1876), the text of
which was prepared by her sister, Mrs. Matilda
P. Despard. Eighteen of the sketches illustrative
of New York were exhibited at the Centennial
exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. Her large
pen-drawing of “Durer's House in Nuremberg”
is in the Vatican, Rome. Among her paintings are
“Bloomingdale” (1868); “Chateau of Madame
Oliffe” (1869); “Bloomingdale Church,” painted
on a panel taken from the North Dutch church,
Fulton street; “St. Paul's Church” and “The
North Dutch Church,” each painted on panels
taken from these churches (1876); “Normandy”
(1882); and “The Home of Louis Philippe in
Bloomingdale, N. Y.” (1884).—Their daughter,
Kathleen Honora, artist, b. in Hoboken, N. J., 10
Sept., 1851, has studied art in New York, Rome,
and Munich. She has devoted herself to decorative
work and book illustration, but latterly has
won success as a painter, obtaining honorable
mention for her work in the Paris salon of 1886. Many of her paintings have been flower-pieces, and she has exhibited “The Last Bit of Autumn” (1875); “Goethe's Fountain, Frankfort” (1876); panels with “Thistles” and “Corn” (1877); and “Hollyhocks” (1883).—Another daughter, Elizabeth Eleanor, artist, b. in New York, 26 May, 1854, has studied art in the National academy of design and at the Art students' league in New York, in Paris with Carolus Duran, in Munich, and in Italy. Like her sister, she has decorated china, and illustrated books, but now gives her chief attention to painting. She has exhibited at the National academy “The Bath” (1884), and “Color that Burns as if no Frost could Tame” (1885).
GREBLE, John Trout, soldier, b. in Philadelphia, 19 Jan., 1834; killed in the battle of Big Bethel, Va., 10 June, 1861. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1854, assigned to the 2d artillery, and stationed at Newport, R. I. In September of that year he was made 2d lieutenant and sent to Tampa, Fla., where he served in the Indian troubles for two years. He was compelled, in consequence of a severe fever, to return home on sick leave, but in the beginning of 1856 resumed his duties, acting part of the time as quartermaster and commissary till December, 1856, when he was appointed acting assistant professor of geography, history, and ethics in the military academy, where he remained till 24 Sept., 1860. He was promoted 1st lieutenant on 3 March, 1857, detailed for active duty at Fort Monroe in March, 1861, and rendered efficient service in preventing its seizure. On 26 May, 1861, he was sent to Newport News as master of ordnance, superintended the fortifications of that point, and trained the volunteers to artillery practice. When the disastrous expedition to Big Bethel was planned, he was unexpectedly detailed to accompany it with two
