Charles Edward Grinnell
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- Harvard College, (1862)
- Yale and Harvard Divinity School, A.M. (1865)
- Harvard Law School, LL.B. (1876)
Charles Edward Grinnell | |
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| Born | May 7, 1841 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | February 1, 1916 (aged 74) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Burial place | Nemasket Hill Cemetery |
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| Occupations | Clergyman, lawyer, and writer |
| 4th Pastor of the Harvard Unitarian Church, Charlestown, Massachusetts | |
| In office November 10, 1869 – November 9, 1873 | |
| Preceded by | George Edward Ellis |
| Succeeded by | Pitt Dillingham |
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Charles Edward Grinnell (May 7, 1841 – February 1, 1916) was an American clergyman, lawyer, and writer.
Grinnell was born May 7, 1841, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the son of Charles Andrew Grinnell and Anna Almy Cobb. He entered the University of Maryland school of letters and sciences in 1854, then entered the boarding school of John Prentiss. He entered Harvard College in 1858 and graduated in 1862. At Harvard, Grinnell was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club, Alpha Delta Phi, and the A.D. Club. He then studied for three years at the Yale Divinity School and Harvard Divinity School, graduating in 1865. He then spent a year at the University of Göttingen studying theology.[1][2][3]
Grinnell joined the Associate Reformed Church at the age of 17, but became a Unitarian minister. He was invited to become pastor at the First Unitarian Church in Lowell, Massachusetts where he was ordained February 19, 1867.[4] On November 10, 1867, Grinnell became pastor at the Harvard Church of Charlestown, Massachusetts.[2]
On January 4, 1871, he preached the election sermon before the governor and newly elected officers of the Commonwealth at the Old South Church in Boston.[5] Grinnell was chaplain for the Fifth regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia from June 21, 1870, to May 8, 1872. He resigned from the Harvard Church in 1873, and retired from ministry altogether the following August.[3]
Grinnell then moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts and entered the Harvard Law School and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1876. Following graduation, he joined the office of Chandler, Ware, and Hudson. He was admitted to the Suffolk County bar in November 1876 and opened his own office in Boston shortly after, where he practiced until 1910. Grinnell moved to Boston in July 1878 with his family. He was editor of the American Law Review from 1880 until December 1882, and again from 1906 to 1909.[1]
Grinnell was elected a member of the Century Association April 3, 1915. Proposed by Ehrman Syme Nadal and Arthur G. Sedgwick.[6] He was also a member of the St. Botolph Club.[7]
