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GROSVENOR, Charles Henry, (uncle of Charles Grosvenor Bond),
a Representative from Ohio; born in Pomfret, Windham County, Conn.,
September 20, 1833; moved with his parents to Ohio in 1838; attended school in
Athens County; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and
practiced; during the Civil War served in the Eighteenth Regiment, Ohio
Volunteer Infantry and was promoted through the ranks to colonel; brevetted
colonel and brigadier general of Volunteers; held diverse township and village
offices; member of the State house of representatives 1874-1878 and served as
speaker two years; member of the board of trustees of the Ohio Soldiers and
Sailors Orphans Home in Xenia from April 1880 until 1888, and president of the
board for five years; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1896
and 1900; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first
Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1890; elected to the Fifty-third and to the six succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1907); chairman, Committee on Expenditures
in the Department of the Treasury (Fifty-fourth Congress), Committee on Mines
and Mining (Fifty-fifth Congress), Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
(Fifty-sixth through Fifty-ninth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1906; resumed the practice of law in Athens, Ohio; appointed
chairman of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission and served
from 1910 until his death in Athens, Ohio, October 30, 1917; interment in Union
Street Cemetery.
BibliographySchlup, Leonard. The Sage of Athens: Charles H. Grosvenor and
Presidential Politics in Ohio in 1908,
Ohio History 105 (1996): 145-56.
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