History of Granville, (Hampden County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Isaac Chapman Bates, senator, was Born in Granville, Mass., May 14, 1780. He was graduated at Yale 1802; studied law and practiced at Northampton. He was of member of both branches of the state legislature and of the executive council. He was elected a representative in the 20th, 21st and 22d congresses as an anti-Jackson Democrat, serving 1827-'33; was a presidential elector in 1836 and 1840, and was elected to the U.S. senate in 1842 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Davis. He died in Washington, D.C., March 16, 1845.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

George Hurlburt Felton, educator, was born in Granville, Mass., Sept. 7, 1846; son of George D. and Louisa M. (Hurlburt) Felton; and grandson of Stephen Felton of New Salem, Mass., and of Arvey Hurlburt of Sandisfield, Mass. He was graduated from Brown, A.B., 1869, and from the University of the city of New York, M.D., 1878. He was a teacher at Suffield, Conn., 1869-70, and at Hampden, Conn., 1870-71; a student at the Rochester theological seminary, 1871-72, and .a teacher at North Scituate, R.I., 1872-74, at Foxboro, Mass., 1874-75, and at Hightstown, N.J., 1876-77. He engaged in the practice of medicine at Haverhill, Mass., 1878-80, at Lynn, Mass., 1881-82, and became city physician at Lynn in 1882. He removed to St. Paul, Minn., and practised medicine there, 1882-85, and at Granby, Mass., 1885-86. He was the normal principal at Leland university, New Orleans, La., in 1887, and professor of materia medica at New Orleans university, 1889-98.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Gamaliel Smith Olds, educator, was born in Granville, Mass., Feb. 11, 1777. He was graduated from Williams college, A.B., 1801, A.M., 1804; was a tutor there, 1801-05, and professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, 1805-08. He studied theology under Dr. Stephen West, Stockbridge, Mass., and was graduated with the first class at Andover Theological seminary in 1810. He was ordained pastor in Greenfield, Mass., Nov. 19, 1813, serving, 1813-16, and declined a professorship of chemistry at Middlebury college in 1816. He was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at the University of Vermont, 1819-21, and at Amherst college, 1821-25, and professor of natural philosophy at the University of Georgia, 1825-26. After residing for some years at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., he removed in 1841 to Circleville, Ohio, where his son, Edson B., was elected a representative in congress, serving 1849-55, and where his brother Joseph resided and served in the state legislature, 1824-26 and 1841-42, as a state senator, 1827-31, and as a Henry Clay elector, 1844. Gamaliel S. Olds is the author of: An Inaugural Oration (1806); The Substance of Several Sermons on Episcopacy and Presbyterian Parity (1818); Statement of Facts Relative to the Appointment to the Office of Professor of Chemistry in Middlebury College (1818). He died in Circleville, Ohio, June 13, 1848.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

David Benton Coe, secretary, was born in Granville, Mass., Aug. 16, 1814; son of Oliver and Ahinoam (Hayes) Coe, and descended on his father's side from Robert Coe, who came from Suffolk, England, to Boston, Mass., in 1634, and a descendant of Alexander Ph?nix, who came to New York from Holland in 1643. He attended school at Westfield and Monson and was graduated at Yale in 1837 and from the theological seminary in 1840, remaining at Yale as tutor, 1839-40. Ordained to the ministry, he preached at Milford, Conn., 1840-44, and in the Allen street Presbyterian church, New York city, 1844-49. He served as district secretary of the A.B.C.F.M., New York, 1849-51, and as corresponding secretary of the American home missionary society, 1851-82, and honorary secretary, 1882-95. He was a trustee of Robert college, Constantinople. He was married Jan. 6, 1841, to Rebecca, daughter of the Rev. Alexander and Elizabeth (Tappan) Phoenix of New Haven, Conn. Their son, Edward Benton Coe, became a celebrated clergyman in New York city. Middlebury college conferred upon Dr. Coe the honorary degree of D.D. in 1857. He published Record of the Coe Family (1856); Origin and Work of the A.H.M.S. (1881); Results of Home Missions (1887), and numerous official reports. He died in Bloomfield, N. J., Feb. 13, 1895.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor