biography
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Grinnell, Josiah (Bushnell)
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| lived:
| (1821–91)
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| biography:
| Abolitionist and clergyman, born in New Haven, Vermont, USA. A self-described pioneer, farmer, and radical, he did much to build Iowa agriculturally and through introduction of the railroads, and was a leading abolitionist. After being forced from his Congregational pulpit in Washington, DC, for delivering anti-slavery sermons, he followed the advice of his friend Horace Greeley to ‘go West’. Moving to Iowa, he co-founded the town of Grinnell (1854) and planned the future Grinnell College. He fought forcefully for temperance and against slavery. Elected Congressman (Republican, Iowa, 1863–7), he vigorously supported Lincoln and suffrage and lost the Republican nomination for governor (1867). |
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