Grosvenor, Charles Henry. Lawyer. Born in Pomfret, Windham County, CT, September 20, 1883. Went to Ohio in May, 1838. Attended country log schoolhouse. Taught school, studied law; admitted to bar, 1857. Engaged in practice. Served in Eighteenth Ohio Volunteers from 1861 to 1865 as major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brevet brigadier-general. Member of Ohio Legislature, 1874-78 (speaker, two years); presidential elector, 1872 and 1880. Trustee Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, 1880-88, and president for five years. Delegate at large to Republican National Convention, 1896 and 1900. Member of Congress, 1885-91, and again from 1893 to 1907, Eleventh Ohio district. Member Committee on Way and Means and chairman Committee on Mines and Mining, 55th; member Committee on Ways and Means, Committee of Rules, and chairman Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 56th, 57th, 58th, and 59th Congresses. Author: "William McKinley, His Life and Work." Died 1917.

---