Grisons

or Graubunden, a canton of Switzerland; the largest and the most thinly peopled; bounded by Tyrol and Lombardy; area, 2,773 square miles; capital, Chur.. Griswold, Alexander Viets, an American clergyman; born in Simbury, Conn., April 22, 1766; ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1795; made bishop over “The Eastern Diocese,” including all of the New England States except Connecticut in 1811. He died in Boston, Ma ., Feb. 15, 1843.