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Josiah Bushnel Grinnell

American clergyman and statesman

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founding of Grinnell, Iowa

  • Grinnell College
    In Grinnell

    It was founded by Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, a Congregational clergyman, abolitionist, congressman, and railway promoter from Vermont, to whom Horace Greeley, the American journalist, made his famous statement, “Go West, young man, go West, and grow up with the country!” Grinnell’s home served as a station on the Underground…

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