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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 606 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRINNELL , a See also:

city in Poweshiek See also:county, See also:Iowa, U.S.A., 55 M. E. by N. of See also:Des Moines. Pop. (1go0) 3860, of whom 274 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1905) 4634; (1910) 5036. Grinnell is served by the See also:Chicago, See also:Rock See also:Island & Pacific, and the Iowa Central See also:rail-ways. It is the seat of Iowa See also:College (co-educational), founded in 1847 by the Iowa See also:Band (Congregationalists and graduates of New See also:England colleges and See also:Andover Theological See also:Seminary, who had devoted themselves to See also:home missionary educational See also:work in Iowa, and who came to Iowa in 1843), and by a few earlier pioneers from New England. The college opened in 1848 at See also:Davenport, and in 18J9 removed to Grinnell, where there was a school called Grinnell University, which it absorbed. Closelyaffiliated with the college are the Grinnell See also:Academy and the Grinnell School of See also:Music. In 1907-1908 the College had 463 students, the Academy had 129 students, and the School of Music had 141 students. Among the manufactures are carriages and gloves. The city was named in See also:honour of one of its founders, See also:Josiah See also:Bushnell Grinnell (1821-1891), a Congregational See also:clergy-See also:man, friend of and sympathizer with See also:John See also:Brown, and from 1863 to 1867 a member of the See also:National See also:House of Representatives. Grinnell was settled in 1854, was incorporated as a See also:town in 1865, and in 1882 was chartered as a city of the second class.

In 1882 it suffered severely from a See also:

cyclone.

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