Josiah B. Grinnell

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Grinnell, J. B. (1891). Men and Events of Forty Years: Autobiographical Reminiscences of an active career from 1850 to 1890. Boston: D. Lothrop.
The home of J.B. Grinnell sat east of Central Park. This 1870 photo includes an arrow pointing to the room said to be where John Brown stayed when he came through town in 1859 with a dozen formerly enslaved persons making their way to freedom on via the Underground Railroad network. Home of J.B. Grinnell, circa 1870.jpg
The home of J.B. Grinnell sat east of Central Park. This 1870 photo includes an arrow pointing to the room said to be where John Brown stayed when he came through town in 1859 with a dozen formerly enslaved persons making their way to freedom on via the Underground Railroad network.

Articles on his life, abolitionist activities and his obituary are available from Drake Community Library in Grinnell, Iowa. Many additional materials are available in the archives and local history website at Drake Community Library.

See also

References

  1. "Josiah Bushnell Grinnell: Radical Abolitionist Through and Through" by Will Hamilton. Grinnell College Undergraduate Research Journal, Spring 2017 (pp. 72-82) https://grinnell.lib.ia.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/JB-Grinnell-Radical-Abolitionist.pdf
  2. Grinnell College in the Nineteenth Century: From Salvation to Service by Joseph Frazier Wall. Published 1997, pages 91-92./
  3. "Julia Ann Chapin". ancestors.familysearch.org. FamilySearch . Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  4. "Daring Death for an Idea: J.B. Grinnell and the Underground Railroad" by Nicole Etcheson. Grinnell Herald Register, Nov. 21, 1983.
  5. "Tidbits: Did You Know". American Profile. 2007-07-15.
  6. Iowa Congressional District Maps, 1847-2013 Archived 2008-06-30 at the Wayback Machine , accessed 2009-06-07.
  7. "The Congressional Nomination in the Fourth District," Davenport Daily Gazette, 1866-06-18, at p. 2.
  8. Grinnell, Josiah Bushnell; Henry W. Parker (1891). Men and Events of Forty Years. p. 456.
Josiah Bushnell Grinnell
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Member of the U.S.HouseofRepresentatives
from Iowa's 4th district
In office
March 4, 1863 March 3, 1867
U.S. House of Representatives
New constituency Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Iowa's 4th congressional district

1863–1867
Succeeded by