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Born | Edwin Augustus Grosvenor August 30, 1845 |
Died | September 15, 1936 | (aged 91)
Education | Brown High School |
Alma mater | Amherst College |
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Lilian Hovey Waters (m. 1873) |
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Edwin Augustus Grosvenor (August 30, 1845 – September 15, 1936) was a historian, author, chairman of the history department at Amherst College, and president of the national organization of Phi Beta Kappa societies from 1907 to 1919.[1] Grosvenor was called "one of the most cosmopolitan of Americans" by author and abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson.[2] His son, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, was the first employee and longtime editor of National Geographic Magazine.