Husband of 1 Mary E. White
Husband of 2 Annie Patton (dau of Gen. William Patton)
Sergeant Grier, William H., Company A
Posted Sun, 2009-03-22 by August Marchetti
WILLIAM HAYES GRIER, printer, editor and politician, was born in the village of McEwensville, Northumberland Co., Pa., in 1841. His grandfather, Rev. John Hayes Grier, was a native of Bucks county, and was born in 1788. He graduated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, in the same class with James Buchanan, who, in 1857, became the fifteenth president of the United States. Entering the ministry, soon after his graduation, Mr. Grier was placed in charge of the Great Island and Jersey Shore Churches, in the West Branch Valley of the Susquehanna. This was in 1814, and he remained there until 1854, when he retired, after having been actively engaged in the ministry for fifty-six years. He died at his home in Jersey Shore, in February, 1915, at the mature and mellow age of ninety-two years.
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Husband of 1 Mary E. White
Husband of 2 Annie Patton (dau of Gen. William Patton)
Sergeant Grier, William H., Company A
Posted Sun, 2009-03-22 by August Marchetti
WILLIAM HAYES GRIER, printer, editor and politician, was born in the village of McEwensville, Northumberland Co., Pa., in 1841. His grandfather, Rev. John Hayes Grier, was a native of Bucks county, and was born in 1788. He graduated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, in the same class with James Buchanan, who, in 1857, became the fifteenth president of the United States. Entering the ministry, soon after his graduation, Mr. Grier was placed in charge of the Great Island and Jersey Shore Churches, in the West Branch Valley of the Susquehanna. This was in 1814, and he remained there until 1854, when he retired, after having been actively engaged in the ministry for fifty-six years. He died at his home in Jersey Shore, in February, 1915, at the mature and mellow age of ninety-two years.
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