Edwin A. Grosvenor

Edwin A. Grosvenor
Born
Edwin Augustus Grosvenor

(1845-08-30)August 30, 1845
West Newbury, Massachusetts
DiedSeptember 15, 1936(1936-09-15) (aged 91)
Amherst, Massachusetts
EducationBrown High School
Alma materAmherst College
Spouse
Lilian Hovey Waters
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(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.

  1. ^ Woolley, Mary Emma and D.P. Kingsley (January 1926). "Women in Phi Beta Kappa". The Phi Beta Kappa Key. 6 (6): 375–383. JSTOR 42914699.
  2. ^ Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1902). Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. p. 3.