Edwin A. Grosvenor
(1845-1906)
Author, professor of history
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Edwin Augustus Grosvenor (August 30, 1845 – September 15, 1906) 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. Grosvenor was called "one of the most cosmopolitan of Americans" by author and abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson. His son, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, was the first employee and longtime editor of National Geographic Magazine.
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30 August 1845 West Newbury, MA
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15 September 1906 (aged 61) Amherst, Massachusetts
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| Zodiac | Virgo |
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