Hermione granger death
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Montgomery J. Granger is a three-time mobilized U.S. Army Reserve Major (Ret.), who was called into his Reserve Center in Uniondale (Long Island), New York, on 9/11, in response to the attacks on the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and Flight 93, which crashed at Shanksville, Pennsylvania. He answered his country’s call to duty next in January 2002 for a mission to help run the military detention facility at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He was called up again just six months after returning from duty at Gitmo, but this time remained stateside at the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center at Fort Dix, New Jersey. After nearly six months at Fort Dix, MAJ Granger returned to civilian life for about a year when he was involuntarily transferred to another Reserve Army unit that was deploying to Iraq in the fall of 2004. Major Granger served 14 months of active duty on his third deployment and served in Baghdad, Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca, and Ashraf, Iraq, as Medical Service officer for military detention facility operations. He is married and is the father of
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Granger, James
GRANGER, JAMES (1723–1776), print collector and biographer, son of William Granger, by Elizabeth Tutt, daughter of Tracy Tutt, was born of poor parents at Shaston, Dorsetshire, in 1723. On 26 April 1743 he was matriculated at Oxford, as a member of Christ Church, but he left the university without taking a degree (Foster, Alumni Oxon. ii. 549). Having entered into holy orders, he was presented to the vicarage of Shiplake, Oxfordshire, a living in the gift of the dean and chapter of Windsor. In the dedication of his ‘Biographical History of England’ to Horace Walpole, he states that his name and person were known to few at the time of its publication (1769), as he ‘had the good fortune to retire early to independence, obscurity, and content.’ He adds that ‘if he has an ambition for anything, it is to be an honest man and a good parish priest,’ and in both those characters he was highly esteemed. His liberal political views gave rise to Dr. Johnson's characteristic remark: ‘The dog is a whig. I do no
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Oliver Granger
American Mormon leader (1794–1841)
Oliver Granger (February 7, 1794 – August 27, 1841) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. He was the subject of one of the prophecies of movement founder Joseph Smith.
Early life
Granger was born in Phelps, New York, to Pierce Granger and Clarissa Trumble on February 7, 1794.[1] Before becoming a Latter Day Saint, Granger was a member of the Methodist Church and a licensed preacher.[2] On September 8, 1818, Granger married Lydia Dibble. They had three children together: two sons and a daughter.[1] During the 1820s, Granger was a sheriff in Ontario County, New York. In 1827, Granger lost most of his vision due to cold and exposure.[2]
Latter Day Saint member and missionary
Granger and his wife became converted to the Latter Day Saint religion after they both read the Book of Mormon in 1832. According to Granger's daughter, Granger had a vision in which the angel Moroni told him that the Book of Mormon was "a true record of great worth" and that he "
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