"The Grinnells & Howlands", presentation by James Grinnell

GRINNELL, HOWLAND, & HMS RESOLUTE
A New Bedford Whaling Museum Volunteer Project
Dedicated to Peter S. Grinnell, a founder of WHALE and NBWM benefactor (slide 678).

Gift of Helen Grinnell King NBWM #2011.3.21

Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell
Captain Cornelius Grinnell
1765-1837
1758-1850

The Arctic ship “RESOLUTE’’ 1857
Published by Royal Collection Trust / © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2012
Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert c. 1857
“The RESOLUTE became trapped in ice in 1852 and remained stuck until rescued by an American whaler in 1855. She
was towed back to New London, Connecticut, where she was refitted and eventually handed back to Britain as part
of a diplomatic gesture [advocated by Henry Grinnell]. Queen Victoria received the ship on 16 December 1856.”
Creator: Meade Brothers (Charles Richard Meade 1826-1858) and Henry WM Meade (1823-1865)
http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/2932765/the-arctic-ship-resolute-new-york
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Includes: Elisha Kent Kane, Capt. C. F. Hall, Queen Victoria, William Bradford, Albert Bierstadt,
Hetty Green, Henry Huttleston Rogers, the FLYING CLOUD, the CHARLES W. MORGAN, & the WANDERER
Table of Contents
Chapter I. Henry Grinnell & the HMS RESOLUTE – slide 4
Chapter II. William Bradford, Albert Bierstadt, & the Grinnells – slide 121
Chapter III. Tall Ships, Bradford’s Fairhaven, & Henry H. Rogers – slide 216

Chapter IV. Scrimshaw: Gifts from Weston Howland & Family – slide 304
Chapter V. Grinnell & Howland Old Dartmouth Roots – slide 404
Chapter VI. The FLYING CLOUD & the Yachtsmen – slide 504
Chapter VII. Homes of Old Dartmouth Relatives – slide 567
Chapter VIII. CHARLES W. MORGAN, Colonel Green, & Historic Preservation – slide 621
Chapter IX. Pacific Northwest Descendants & Addenda – slide 679

Acknowledgements
From the Whaling Museum, I thank: Trustee Chair John Garfield, President James Russell, Curators Michael
Lapides & Michael Dyer, Librarians Laura Pereira & Mark Procknik, Robert Rocha, Arthur Motta, Brian
Witkowski, Melanie Correia, Sarah Budlong, and Sarah Mink. For William Bradford Sailing Ships & Arctic Seas, I
thank Director Emeritus Richard C. Kugler; for The New Bedford Yacht Club, I thank Trustee Llewellyn Howland
III; and for Greetings From Dartmouth, Massachusetts, I thank Curator Judith Lund and Beverly Glennon. I also
thank Paul Cyr & Janice Hodson at the New Bedford Free Public Library, Debbie Charpentier & Carolyn
Longworth at the Millicent Library, and Jay Avila & Joseph Thomas at Spinner Publications. For their inspiration
and love of Old Dartmouth, I thank former Mayor John Bullard (1st WHALE Agent/Director), Prof. Toby Dills,
James Lopes, Esq., Seth Mendell, Don Cuddy, Rev. Robert Thayer, Peggi Medeiros, and many other people. For
the use of their books, I thank Dr. Stuart Frank for Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved: Scrimshaw in the
New Bedford Whaling Museum; Marsha McCabe & Joseph Thomas for Not Just Anywhere; Barbara Fortin for
Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green and the World he Created at Round Hill; J. Parkinson, Jr. for The
History of the New York Yacht Club; Russell A. Potter for Arctic Spectacles, Ken McGoogan for Lady Franklin’s
Revenge & Race to the Polar Sea; R. E. Train for The Bowdoin Family, H. Wahlberg for Reflections on a River; H.
L. Satterlee for J. Pierpont Morgan: An Intimate Portrait, J. K. Wright for Geography in the Making: The American
Geographical Society 1851-1951, the Grinnell Family Association and E.W. Grinnell for Matthew Grenelle’s
Descendants, William M. Emery, Zephaniah Pease, Daniel Ricketson, and many others. My objective has been to
share my love of Old Dartmouth and its artists, architecture, sailing ships, and Whaling Museum. The writer is a
retired educator and amateur history “buff” with no formal training or experience in research or genealogy; and this Ancestry of the Grinnell Family: Wm. Emery, 1931
(Note: French Ancestry is not accurate.)
digital history has been an independent, volunteer project which has not been professionally vetted or reviewed.
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Preface
This digital family history has its roots in the 2011 New Bedford
Whaling Museum’s Old Dartmouth Roots Symposium (below),
and it is limited primarily to descendants and close relatives of
Cornelius and Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell. At first, it may seem
odd to include some non-related famous people from Old
Dartmouth. However, some of these people were neighbors and
some were close relatives like Hetty Green, the only child of Abby
Howland (slide 206, etc.). Henry Huttleston Rogers’ best man and
brother-in-law was a Cornelius Grinnell, who is buried next to
William Bradford (slides 178 & 263). Bradford was a next door
neighbor to Capt. Joshua Grinnell in Fairhaven (slide 186), and
Bradford and Albert Bierstadt had adjoining studios in New York
(slide 190). Bierstadt grew up in New Bedford and had a mansion
next door to Moses Grinnell on the Hudson River (slide 209+),
and Henry Grinnell was world renowned in the mid 1800’s for his
Arctic Expeditions. The first chapter is devoted to Henry and his
contributions that were posthumously honored by Queen Victoria
with a desk make out of the remains of the H.M.S. RESOLUTE.
Much of the material in this family history has been included as
background for the Museum’s future Evolution of an American
Port City project, the July 2014 visit of the CHARLES W. MORGAN,
and the 2013 Arctic Visions exhibit. The Whaling Museum was
originally named the Old Dartmouth Historical Society.
http://www.whalingmuseum.org/explore/exhibitions/upcoming/arctic-visions
Curator: Michael Lapides

http://www.whalingmuseum.org/programs/past-programs/old-dartmouth-roots-2011 http://www.whalingmuseum.org/explore/exhibitions/upcoming/
Symposium sponsored by ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations) commerce-industry-evolution-american-port-city
a program administered by the U.S. Dept. of Education.

Concept, Text, Research, & Design
Copyright © 2013 by James B. Grinnell, Jr.
All Rights Given to the New Bedford Whaling Museum
FOR EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY 3

DARTMOUTH TOWNSHIP
Originally included Westport, Dartmouth, New Bedford, Fairhaven, & Acushnet. Tiverton & Little Compton, R.I. were include until 1746.

RHODE ISLAND MASSACHUSETTS
ACUSHNET
BRISTOL

NEW

MATTAPOISETT
BEDFORD
FAIRHAVEN

PORTSMOUTH

WESTPORT
DARTMOUTH
TIVERTON
Mass. & R.I.
JAMESTOWN

Wm. Bradford’s Home
MIDDLETOWN on New Bedford
Harbor
NEWPORT
Oak Grove
LITTLE
Cemetery
COMPTON
Mass. & R.I
Howland Homestead at Round Hill

Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell and four preceding generations of Howlands were born at Round Hill Farm, Dartmouth Bristol County Map (H.F. Walling & O.W. Gray, Boston, 1871)
(slides 405 & 567+). Capt. Cornelius, Sylvia, Joseph, Cornelia, Lawrence, Frederick, Russell, & 40+ other Grinnells are buried in Oak Grove Cemetery. 4

Chapter I. Henry Grinnell & the HMS RESOLUTE

Gift of Mrs. Peter S. Grinnell NBWM #1983.58.2 Gift of Mrs. Peter S. Grinnell NBWM #1983.58.1

Philanthropist Henry Grinnell QUEEN VICTORIA’S GIFT
Born in New Bedford February 18, 1799 NBWM’s Grinnell RESOLUTE Desk
“Author/Advocate/Sponsor”: Grinnell Arctic Expeditions 1850-55 Given by Queen Victoria to Sarah (Minturn) Grinnell in
“Principal Subscriber”: Isaac I. Hayes 1860 Expedition** gratitude for her husband Henry’s “…great exertions…in the
Advocate/Sponsor/Treasurer: Capt. C. F. Hall Arctic Expeditions (3) search to ascertain the fate of Captain Sir John Franklin.”
Founding President: American Geographical Society Henry “exerted” over $5 million & countless hours, 1850-1856.
**New York Times, Dec. 18, 1881 (slide 80). This desk represents his two decades of leadership in arctic exploration.
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Henry Grinnell: “FATHER OF AMERICAN ARCTIC DISCOVERY”*
1799-1874
Son of Capt. Cornelius & Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell

Henry Howland was a brother of
Pilgrim John Howland and Henry
Grinnell’s great, great, great, great
grandfather. Henry Howland came
over from England around 1622 and
settled in Duxbury. In 1656, the The Howland Heirs: William M. Emery, 1919, pg. 249
Pilgrims disenfranchised him for
holding Quaker meetings, and he
purchased land in Dartmouth.
Created at 182 Regent St., London NBWM #1983.58.3.6

Hetty Green was also a direct descendant of Henry Howland. Her mother, Abigail Howland was a first cousin of Henry’s
mother, Sylvia Howland. According to family mythology, Henry Grinnell and Hetty Green were named after Henry Howland.
Henry Howland plaque is in the Water St. entrance to the Wattles Family Gallery, NBWM
*Capt. C. F. Hall in Geography in the Making: The American Geographical Society 1851-1951: by John K. Wright, 1952, pg. 57 (slide 748)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Hall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Grinnell
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Presidents’ RESOLUTE Desk

ttp://www.ierehousemuseum.org/furnishings/resolute-desk.htm

“JFK, Jr. peeking out of FDR's panel
in the RESOLUTE desk in 1962”
Life - Stanley Tretick
Oval Office, circa 1996 7

PRESIDENTS’ DESK made from the RESOLUTE

Library of Congress - Frances Benjamin Johnston

“Secretary of State John Hay signs a peace treaty with Spain at the RESOLUTE desk in President McKinley's office, circa 1899.”

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Whaling Museum’s GRINNELL DESK made from the RESOLUTE
Badly tarnished Grinnell Desk plaque in process of restoration. Nearly identical inscriptions on the two RESOLUTE Desk plaques.

Grinnell RESOLUTE Desk

NBWM #1983.58.1_v1sm

American Geographical Society
President Henry Grinnell
“The Constitution of the newly formed American Geographical
Society was adopted at a public meeting held in John Disturnell's
Geographical and Statistical Library, 179 Broadway, New York,
on October 9, 1851. Henry Grinnell, eight officers, and an
Executive Committee of eight were duly elected.” (slides 745+)
The U. S. Grinnell Expedition: by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, U.S.N., 1854 (slide 28)
www.amergeog.org//1851.htm

“…in 1850, at his own expense [Henry] fitted out an expedition to search for Sir John Franklin…” (Howland Heirs, Emery). The U. S.
Grinnell Expedition of 1850-1851 was the first American arctic expedition (slide 28). The Second Grinnell Expedition was in 1853-1855
(slide 42), and Henry Grinnell assisted in the financing, promotion, and management of four other U.S arctic expeditions through 1870.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Grinnell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin's_lost_expedition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Franklin 9

Henry Grinnell’s fortune originated in New Bedford whaling and
his father’s rise to first mate, captain, ship owner, & bank director.

NBWM #Mss 2, S-g 3, Series A, Vol 1

William Rotch, Jr. to: “Capt. Cornelius Grinnell master of the Ship Bedford”
December 4, 1795
Henry was the third son of Cornelius Grinnell and Sylvia Howland. Capt. Cornelius was born in Little Compton on Feb. 11,
1758 and died in New Bedford on April 19, 1850 (slides 423 & 501+). He was a poor boy who came to New Bedford to serve
an apprenticeship as a hatter (slide 425). William Rotch, Jr. came from a prominent whaling family that had transferred their
whaling business from Nantucket and founded the New Bedford whaling industry. Cornelius was only a private during the
Revolution. The fact that he was not promoted beyond that rank, indicates that not only was he poor but he had no political or
social connections. By 1785, he had worked his way up to first mate of the most celebrated ship in New Bedford at that time,
the REBECCA. In the above letter, William Rotch, Jr. wrote: “I hope I shall find a conveyance for a few more casks of oil –
Capt. Cornelius Grinnell master of the Ship BEDFORD of this Port being bound to New York to seek a freight if he should not
succeed will probably want to load his Ship with lumber, in which case I have given him liberty to draw upon you for a few
thousand Dollars on my account, should he draw you will oblige me by paying his drafts & informing me thereof.” 10

Abolitionist William Rotch, Jr., c. 1845
Cameo: gift of Mrs. Peter S. Grinnell

In addition to being a prominent businessman, William Rotch, Jr.
was a well-known abolitionist (slide 428). His family were
Quakers who brought their whaling business from Nantucket to
New Bedford. During the 1820’s (?), he became a Unitarian like
many of New Bedford’s Quakers. As a businessman, he was a
banker and the owner of many ships including the BEDFORD, the
first ship to fly the Stars & Stripes in England after the
Revolutionary War. Capt. Cornelius was an owner of 16+ ships
with his sons and Howland relatives. They owned the ship
EUPHRATES from its launching in 1809 until it was sunk by the
nefarious Confederate Gunboat SHENANDOAH in 1865 (slides 517
& 513). William Rotch, Jr. & Capt. Cornelius were business
associates for decades. They died in the same week in 1850, were
both over 90 years old and shared an obituary in The New Bedford
Mercury (slide 501). They were buried near each other in the
“Unitarian section” of Oak Grove Cemetery (slides 501 & 502).
Capt. Cornelius was visited by former President John Quincy
Adams on Sept. 28, 1843 while he was visiting his eldest son,
Congressman Joseph Grinnell (slide 476). Thus, the poor army
private lived to be accepted at the top level of society. Moses
Grinnell, who became the president of the family shipping
company (Fish, Grinnell & Co. and Grinnell Minturn, & Co.)
worked in the Rotch Counting House before he went to New York
and developed the family business into an international company
of very high repute in the China Trade and in a strictly scheduled
packet service to London and Liverpool from New York.
NBWM #1984.21.3

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William R. Rotch & Co. to Fish & Grinnell, NY: Feb. 17, 1819

William R. Rotch & Co. Letter Book: 1818-1837 NBWM: Mss 2, s-g 7, Series 1, s-s 1, Folder 1

The fortune that Henry Grinnell spent on 20+ years of Arctic exploration was made in the firm of Fish, Grinnell & Co. (became Grinnell,
Minturn & Co.). Unfortunately, few records of these companies have survived. On Dec. 7, 1885, The New York Times ran a lengthy
article on Capt. Preserved Fish, Capt. Cornelius Grinnell’s long-time partner and friend. This article included the following about the
origin of Fish & Grinnell: “He [Capt. Fish] quit the sea in 1810, settled down in New-Bedford, formed a partnership with Cornelius
Grinnell and under the firm name of Fish & Grinnell carried on a money-making business as shipping merchants.” Other sources state
that Fish & Grinnell was founded in 1815 by Preserved Fish and Joseph Grinnell, son of Capt. Cornelius. In Jan. 1826, Henry and brother
Moses became partners along with older brother Joseph and the name was changed to Fish, Grinnell & Co. William R. Rotch was a son
of William Rotch, Jr. Hand-copying letters in books is how business records were saved before carbon paper was invented. In addition to
70+ ships registered in New Bedford, it has been estimated that the Grinnells owned/managed over 50 ships registered in New York
including the Donald McKay built packet ship CORNELIUS GRINNELL and famous clipper ship FLYING CLOUD (see chapter VI).
This letter book contains copies of letters that William R. Rotch & Co. wrote to Fish & Grinnell on the following dates: 2/27/1819, 4/16/1819, 5/3/1819, 6/25/1819,
7/3/1819, 8/4/1819, 8/30/1819, 9/21/1819, 11/1/1819, 1/26/1820, 2/24/1820, 3/13/1820, 3/18/1820, 4/11/1820, 6/28/1820, 8/7/1820, 8/16/1820, 8/27/1820, 9/18/1820,
9/27/1820, 11/4/1820, 2/14/1821, 2/26/1821, 4/14/1821, 5/22/1821, 6/18/1821, 8/25/1821, 9/22/1821, 10/2/1821 (2), 10/21821 (2), 2/4/1822, 2/23/1822, 3/4//1822,
6/18/1822, 7/8/1822, 10/4/1823, 10/11/1823, 10/21/1823, 11/23/1823, 11/28/1823, 12/13/1823, 4/17/1824, 5/11/1824, 5/28/1824, 6/1/1824, 10/16/1824, 10/20/1824 (2),
11/20/1824, 12/24/1824, 2/19/1825, 3/8/1825, 7/14/1825 (2), 7/25/1825, 8/26/1825, 10/25/1825 (3), 12/1/1825, 12/8/1825, 1/17/1826, 1/24/1826 (2), 1/28/1826,
2/15/1826, 3/15/1826, 3/18/1826, 3/23/1826, 4/10/1826, 4/13/1826, 4/15/1826 (2), 4/24/1826, 7/29/1826, 8/10/1826, 9/6/1826, 9/23/1826, 9/29/1826, 10/9/1826,
10/18/1826, 12/13/1826, 2/26/1827 (4), 4/18/1827, 4/20/1827, 4/23/1827, 5/11/1827, 5/22/1827, and 6/11/1827. As indicated, multiple letters were sent on some dates.
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William R. Rotch & Co. to Henry Grinnell: Sept. 22, 1821

NBWM: Mss 2, s-g 7, Series 1, s-s 1, Folder 1

The above letter marks the beginning of Henry’s career that lead to his partnership in Grinnell, Minturn & Co. Henry was
born on Feb. 18, 1799, he was just twenty-two years old and a “commission merchant” in New York shipping & selling
whale oil for one of the most famous whaling families of New Bedford. Henry’s brothers Cornelius, Jr. and Joseph had
preceded him into the New York shipping trade; and their father, Capt. Cornelius, had begun his career as a ship owner and
merchant in the late 1700’s. Grinnell, Minturn’s roots date back to the ships owned by the Grinnell & Howlands in the early
1800’s (slide 446+). Even though he retired from his partnership around the time the FLYING CLOUD was built, Henry
continued as an investor/member. He spent most of his fortune and the rest of his life promoting and funding Arctic
exploration. The Wm. T. Russell mentioned in the above letter was married to Henry’s sister Sylvia, and they lived at 66
Bedford St. (slide 606) about half a block from the County St. homes of Cornelius, Jr. and Joseph Grinnell (slides 458 &
460). On the following dates William R. Rotch & Co. wrote letters directly to Henry Grinnell: 9/22/1821, 12/4/1821,
3/4/1822, 1/29/1823, 10/27/1823, 11/6/23, 4/17/1824, 5/8/1824, 10/4/1824, 10/28/1824, 10/30/1824, 11/13/1824, 2/26/1825,
& 5/14/1825. In January 1826, Fish & Grinnell became Fish, Grinnell & Co. and William R. Rotch & Co. ceased sending
letters directly to Henry, and he and younger brother Moses became partners in Fish, Grinnell & Co. with brother Joseph.
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William R. Rotch & Co. to Fish & Grinnell, 1825
In the mid 1820’s Fish & Grinnell became Fish, Grinnell & Co. when Henry and younger brother Moses became partners.
Joseph and Capt. Preserved Fish retired and Robert Minturn, Henry’s brother-in-law, became a partner. The name was officially
changed to Grinnell, Minturn & Co. in 1833. During his “retirement”, Joseph was a congressman, president of the Marine Bank,
president of the New Bedford & Taunton Railroad, and president of Wamsutta Mills from 1847 to 1885 (slide 500, etc.).
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Right: first letter from
William R. Rotch & Co. to
Fish, Grinnell & Co.
January 17, 1826
(Henry & Moses added as partners.)

Fish & Grinnell
Incorporation and
Name Changes

Grinnell, Minturn & Co.

Right: first letter from
William R. Rotch & Co. to
Grinnell, Minturn & Co.
October 10, 1837
(Name changed in 1833.)

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Grinnell Brothers’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_H._Grinnell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Grinnell
ships registered in Connecticut
in addition to the 100+ ships in Massachusetts
& New York that they owned/managed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Grinnell

Mystic Seaport George W. Blunt Library
The next slide shows that Joseph Grinnell was also an
owner of the GEORGE WASHINGTON, which had been
built for him (& others) in New Bedford in 1832. As
will be shown, Joseph had been a founder of Grinnell,
Minturn (originally named Fish & Grinnell) along
with their father, Capt. Cornelius Grinnell and uncle,
Capt. Preserved Fish. Joseph’s brother, Cornelius, Jr.,
was also a founder. Cornelius, Jr. suffered a tragic
death in 1830 (slide 419). Younger brothers William
P. & James M. Grinnell also owned several ships.
HENRY GRINNELL: http://library.mysticseaport.org/initiative/CuPeople.cfm?PersonId=11431
MOSES GRINNELL: http://library.mysticseaport.org/initiative/CuPeople.cfm?PersonId=11430
JOSEPH GRINNELL: http://library.mysticseaport.org/initiative/CuPeople.cfm?PersonId=19461 16

Sample of Grinnell, Minturn & Co. ships registered in Connecticut

Ship GEORGE WASHINGTON: http://library.mysticseaport.org/initiative/CuVessel.cfm?VesselId=104200
Ship WILLIAM C. NYE: http://library.mysticseaport.org/initiative/CuVessel.cfm?VesselId=112098
Ship CLEMATIS: http://library.mysticseaport.org/initiative/CuVessel.cfm?VesselId=101673 17

Creator: Montardier, 1828 Given “In Memory of LLEWELLYN HOWLAND” by Llewellyn Howland, Jr. NBWM #1979.3.3

Ship EUPHRATES
Sunk by Confederate Steamer SHENANDOAH on June 23, 1865
Owned by Grinnells & Howlands 1809 to 1865
Owned by Cornelius Grinnell 1809-1850
Owned by Henry Grinnell 1842-1862 18

Ship EUPHRATES
Joseph Grinnell was the surveyor when this ship was
built in 1809. He was just 21, and his success at this
important position resulted in his uncle, Capt. John
Howland, taking him to New York in 1810 and making
him a junior partner in several ships. Through the
ownership and management of many ships like the
EUPHRATES, Joseph, his father, three of his brothers and
many of his relatives became very wealthy men. This
wealth enabled Henry to become a major contributor to
six Arctic expeditions, and most of the Howland
owners on the left were Henry’s uncles or cousins. In
fact, the EUPHRATES was owned by the extended
Grinnell-Howland family from the time it was built in
1809 until it was burned by the Confederate raider
SHENANDOAH on June 22, 1865. Even after the
nefarious Captain Waddell of the SHENANDOAH learned
on June 23, 1865 that the Civil War had ended, he
captured or sank twenty-one additional Union vessels
(slide 517). Capt. Cornelius Grinnell was an owner of
the EUPHRATES from 1809 until he died in 1850; and his
friend, in-law, and partner (Capt. Preserved Fish) was
an owner from 1809 to 1815.

In addition to many New York ships, Henry Grinnell
owned the following New Bedford ships: SARAH
(#2829), BRIGHTON (#330), CORNELIA (#664), GEORGE
WASHINGTON (#1226), & EUPHRATES (#979). Henry
Grinnell became an owner of the EUPHRATES in 1842
and remained an owner until it was sunk in 1865 (left).

The Grinnells & Howlands were owners of this ship
and many others in New Bedford and New York. The
EUPHRATES was one of the 59 New Bedford ships
owned by Capt. Cornelius Grinnell and his offspring.
One source states that they also owned or leased at least
55 ships in New York.
Ship Registers of New Bedford NBWM Research Library 19

ONEIDA
“Chinese School of Painting” NBWM #1994.53

Owned by Joseph Grinnell (Henry’s brother) & others. Sunk by Confederates on April 24, 1863.

New Bedford Ship Registers Error: ONEIDA was sunk by the FLORIDA, not by Capt. Sommes and the ALABAMA NBWM Batchelder File
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FLYING CLOUD
To Messrs Grinnell, Minturn & Co. This Print of their Splendid CLIPPER SHIP “FLYING CLOUD”.

Lithograph by: N. Currier

Henry Grinnell was a founding partner of Grinnell, Minturn & Co.; and he was a member until 1864.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Cloud_(clipper) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinnell,_Minturn_%26_Co
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NBWM #1983.58.3.5
NBWM #1983.58.3.11

Henry Grinnell was a partner in
Grinnell, Minturn & Co., owners of Sarah (Minturn) Grinnell, Henry’s
the China Clipper FLYING CLOUD. wife, was a sister of Robert Minturn,
(slides 21 & 504+). On his a partner in Grinnell, Minturn & Co.
mother’s side (Howland), Henry (slide 6). On their mother’s side
came from five generations of (Bowne), the Minturn’s came from
Massachusetts Quakers (Chapter V). generations of New York Quakers.

Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1940 22

New Bedford in China Trade
by Capt. William L. Hawes, 1940
Old Dartmouth Historical Society

Including the ONEIDA & the FLYING CLOUD

Henry
Grinnell 23

****

**
** *****

*

Henry Grinnell
Father of U.S. Arctic Exploration
*** *** 1850-1870
***
Henry was the sponsor, CEO, treasurer,
*** & principal contributor to below expeditions.
***
*** *U. S. Grinnell Expedition: 1850-1851

*** **Second Grinnell (Kane) Expedition: 1853-55
***
***Capt. C. F. Hall Expeditions: 1860-1869
****Hall Polaris Expedition: 1870-1871
Henry was an advocate/sponsor/contributor only.

*****William Bradford’s Art Expedition: 1869
SECOND ARCTIC EXPEDITION MADE BY CHARLES F. HALL by Prof. J. E. Nourse, 1879 (slides 95+) Henry’s advice & support were likely but
Expeditions marked in red were sponsored/backed by Henry Grinnell. have not been documented. 24

“Letter from Lady Franklin to Mr. Grinnell”
New York Times, Oct. 2, 1851

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/franklin-lady-jane-2065

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin's_lost_expedition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Franklin

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D05E6DD1431E13BBC4A53DFB667838A649FDE&scp=1&sq=grinnell+lady+franklin&st=p http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Franklin
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U. S. Grinnell
Expedition, 1851
New York Times
November 6, 1851
Part I

Henry’s obituary in the July 2, 1874
New York Times (slide 111) began as
follows: “By the death of Henry
Grinnell, geographical science loses
one of its warmest friends, and its
most enthusiastic advocate and
supporter. The first President of the
American geographical Society, the
originator of the first expedition in
search of Franklin, Henry Grinnell has
always placed his energies and his
purse at the service of the science to
which he may be said to have been to
‘the manner born’ – Arctic
navigation… Although avoiding as
much as possible any publicity, Mr.
Grinnell would spend any amount of
money, time, and trouble in advancing
the interests of those who were,
socially, his inferiors – especially
sailors…”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Kent_Kane


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin's_lost_expedition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Franklin

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E03E2DD153EE13AA15756C0A9679D946092D7CF 26

U. S. Grinnell
Expedition, 1851
New York Times
November 6, 1851
Part II

The following statement is also from
Henry’s obituary in The N.Y. Times
(slide 111): “From 1819 to 1849 Mr.
Grinnell remained in partnership
with his brothers. They [Fish &
Grinnell and Grinnell, Minturn &
Co.] were for many years the largest
shippers and consignees of whale
oil, their principal depots being at
New Bedford, New London, and
Sag Harbor.”


http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E03E2DD153EE13AA15756C0A9679D946092D7CF&scp=5&sq=grinnell+expedition&st=p 27

THE U. S. GRINNELL EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN: by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, U.S.N.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Grinnell_Expedition 28

Historical Society of Pennsylvania http://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/2137

USS ADVANCE
Owned by Henry Grinnell & loaned/given to the U. S. Navy 1850-1855 (Destroyed in the Arctic)
“The first USS ADVANCE was a brigantine in the United States Navy which participated in an arctic rescue expedition. Advance
was built in 1847 as Augusta and loaned to the Navy on 7 May 1850 by Mr. Grinnell to participate in the search for Sir John
Franklin's arctic expedition which had been stranded in the frozen north since 1847. After last-minute preparations, the ship,
under the command of Lieutenant Edwin J. DeHaven and in company with RESCUE, put to sea from New York on 23 May 1850.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Advance_(1847)
29

USS RESCUE
“The first USS RESCUE was a brig in service
with the U. S. Navy. The brigs RESCUE and
ADVANCE specially reinforced and fitted out for
Arctic service, were offered on loan to the
U.S. Government by Henry Grinnell in 1850
for use in a rescue mission tracing the ill-fated
expedition which, in May 1845, had sailed
from England under Sir John Franklin in
search of a northwest passage. Two years later
the Admiralty dispatched relief expeditions.
Since there was still no news of the expedition
by 1 May 1850, the U. S. Congress authorized
the president to accept Mr. Grinnell's offer. In
accordance with the wishes of both Congress
and Mr. Grinnell, both ships were manned by
volunteers from the U.S. Navy.”
(Destroyed in the Arctic)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Rescue_(1850)

Creator: James Hamilton Seneca Falls Historical Society

“The RESCUE in Her Arctic Dry Dock”
USS RESCUE: owned by Henry Grinnell & given to the U. S. Navy 1850-1851
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/hamilton_james.html
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=9888
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U. S. GRINNELL EXPEDITION, 1850-51: Edwin J. De Haven, Commander
Official U. S. Navy Expedition funded by Henry Grinnell, the “author/advocate/sponsor”.
HTTP://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/FIRST_GRINNELL_EXPEDITION HTTP://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/HENRY_GRINNELL

Dr. Kane’s “The ‘Rescue’ nipped in Melville Bay, August 1850”
“Drawn by J. Hamilton from a Sketch by Dr. E.K. Kane, U.S.N.”
THE U. S. GRINNELL EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN: by Elisha Kent Kane, M.D., U.S.N.
31


Dr. Kane’s “Grounded Berg near Cape York”
“Drawn by J. Hamilton from a Sketch by Dr. E.K. Kane, U.S.N.”
32


Dr. Kane’s “Entering Lancaster Sound”
The USS ADVANCE and the USS RESCUE
Drawn by J. Hamilton after a sketch by Dr. E .K. Kane, USN
33


James Hamilton from a sketch by Dr. Kane http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Kent_Kane

Dr. Kane’s “ICE-BERG IN MOTION, JULY 29, 1850: Melville Bay”
34



Dr. Kane’s “ARCTIC GLACIER, MELVILLE BAY”
The USS ADVANCE and the USS RESCUE
THE U. S. GRINNELL EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN: by Elisha Kent Kane, M.D., U.S.N. 35


James Hamilton from a sketch by Dr. Kane THE U. S. GRINNELL EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN: by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, U.S.N.

Dr. Kane’s “Beechy Island, Franklin’s first Winter Quarters”
http://www.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/gravesimage.html http://www.yachtfiona.com/northwestpassage2009/newsletter1.html
36



Dr. Kane’s “FISKENAES FROM THE GOVERNOR’S HOUSE”
SOUTH GREENLAND
37


Grinnell, Minturn & Co. ran ships from New York to Liverpool and London and had offices in those cities. Henry and his brothers frequently traveled to
England on business, and Henry’s son Cornelius lived there. Capt. Cornelius had spent his younger years in the merchant service on the North Atlantic
run and had visited England and France on business. This long association with England might be why Henry took such an interest in the Lost Franklin
Expedition and Arctic exploration. Since Henry was a very private person who avoided speaking to reporters and attending functions honoring him, his
interest does not seem to have been driven by personal aggrandizement. Regardless of his motivation, Henry Grinnell had the experience, knowledge,
connections, wealth, and generosity to be the leading sponsor/patron of U. S. Arctic Exploration for twenty years. The first Grinnell Expedition left the
Brooklyn Navy Yard on May 22, 1850. http://archive.org/details/usgrinnellexped00kanegoog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Grinnell_Expedition
38

THE U. S. GRINNELL EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN: by Elisha Kent Kane, M.D., U.S.N. Arctic Explorations, Vol. I
http://archive.org/details/usgrinnellexped00kanegoog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Grinnell_Expedition by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, 1856

Both Lieutenant De Haven, commander of the first Grinnell Expedition, and Dr. Kane, commander of the second Grinnell Expedition,
were officers in the U. S. Navy. The two Grinnell Expeditions were officially supported by Congress and included a contingent of U.
S. Navy personnel. Undoubtedly, this was the result of lobbying by Henry and his brothers Moses and Joseph, who were both U. S.
Congressmen. Moses was a New York Congressman from 1839-1841 and Joseph a New Bedford Congressman from 1843-1851.
39

USS DE HAVEN (DD727)
“Navy Photo 2128-47, broadside view of USS De Haven (DD 727) off Mare Island on 5 Nov 1947. She
was in overhaul at the yard from 10 Sep to 18 Nov 1947.” Image from the USS DeHaven Association.”

http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/0572726.jpg http://destroyerhistory.org/fletcherclass/ns_dehaven/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_De_Haven
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Edwin Jesse De Haven
Commander U. S. GRINNELL EXPEDITION
“Edwin Jesse DeHaven, born in 1819 in Pennsylvania was
appointed Acting Midshipman at the age of 10 and Passed
Midshipman 5 years later. He served in Vincennes, flagship of
the Wilkes Exploring Expedition in its historic cruise of 1838
to 1842 to the Antarctic and among the Pacific Islands. De
Haven served in the Mexican War, assisting in the capture of
the Mexican schooner Creole. In command of the Grinnell
Expedition in 1850, he led the search for Sir John Franklin
lost in the Arctic. Only traces of the party were found, but De
Haven discovered and named Grinnell Land, and was
commended for the valuable scientific data he collected
concerning the winds and currents of the ocean. He served in
the Coast Survey Service until placed on the retired list in
February 1862. He died at Philadelphia, Pa., 1 May 1865.

Nimitz Library
United States Naval Academy
http://www.usna.edu/Library/sca/findingaids/dehaven/index.html

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Arctic Explorations, Vol. I: by Elisha K. Kane, MD, 1856
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Grinnell_Expedition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Kent_Kane
42

Dr. Kane promoted to Commander SECOND GRINNELL EXPEDITION

Assist. Surgeon Elisha Kent Kane, USN
U. S. Grinnell Expedition, 1850-1852

Commander Elisha Kent Kane, M.D.
Second Grinnell Expedition, 1853-1855

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-k/ek-kane.htm

U.S. Naval Academy Museum Collection, Annapolis 43

SECOND GRINNELL EXPEDITION
“Kane expedition” funded by Henry Grinnell
1853-1855
Including the mythical
“Open Polar Sea”
and
Kane’s discovery of the
Great Humboldt Glacier

Humboldt Glacier

Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition, Vol. I by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane http://archive.org/details/arcticexplorati02kanegoog
44

SECOND GRINNELL EXPEDITION, 1852-1855
Commanded by Dr. Kane and funded by Henry Grinnell, “author/advocate/sponsor” & CEO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Grinnell_Expedition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Grinnell

Creator: James Hamilton from a sketch by Dr. Kane http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0308/PG0308_feature1.pdf

Commander Kane’s “CROSSING THE ICE BELT AT COFFEE GORGE”
Arctic Explorations, Vol. I by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, 1856, pg. 92+
45


http://ia600700.us.archive.org/27/items/arcticexploratio02kane/arcticexploratio02kane.pdf http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/catalogue/article/y57.8.3/

Expedition Commander Kane’s “The look-out from Cape George Russell”
Engraving proof courtesy of Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, England (slide 124).
46


James Hamilton from a sketch by Dr. Kane

Commander Kane’s “MIDNIGHT IN SEPTEMBER”
USS ADVANCE
USS ADVANCE owned by Henry Grinnell & loaned to the U. S. Navy 1850-1854.
Arctic Explorations, Vol. I by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, 1856, pg. 140+ 47


http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/catalogue/article/y57.8.4/ James Hamilton from a sketch by Dr. Kane

Commander Kane’s “THE PACK OFF SYLVIA HEADLANDS” (USS ADVANCE)
Henry Grinnell’s mother and daughter were named Sylvia.
Engraving proof courtesy of Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge (slide 124).


James Hamilton from a sketch by Dr. Kane http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/catalogue/article/y57.8.6/

Commander Kane’s “THE OPEN WATER FROM CAPE JEFFERSON”
[Open Polar Sea]


Commander Kane’s “BEAR HUNT”

50


Commander Kane’s “LIFE IN THE BRIG, SECOND WINTER”
http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0308/PG0308_feature1.pdf
51


Arctic Exploration, Vol. I by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, 1856 http://archive.org/details/arcticexplorati02kanegoog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Grinnell_Expedition

“The Great Glacier of Humboldt”
52

Photographer: Matthew Brady Library of Congress: LC-USZ62-110168 http://archive.org/details/arcticexplorati06kanegoog

Arctic Explorations, Vol. II: by Elisha K. Kane, U.S.N., 1856
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Grinnell_Expedition 53


Creator: James Hamilton from a sketch by Dr. Kane http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/catalogue/article/y57.8.7/

Commander Kane’s Kane’s “ICEBERGS NEAR KOSOAK”
Arctic Explorations, Vol. II by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, 1856, pg. 56
54


Creator: James Hamilton from a sketch by Dr. Kane http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0308/PG0308_feature1.pdf

(Elisha Kent Kane)

Commander Kane discovers the “Great Glacier of Humboldt”
Arctic Explorations, Vol. II by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, 1856, pg. 152+ 55

Arctic Explorations, Vol. II by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, 1856 http://archive.org/details/arcticexplorati06kanegoog 56


The NBWM has a copy of this volume with notes by William Bradford regarding Kane’s descriptions & illustrations (slide 125).

Arctic Explorations, Vol. II by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, 1856 http://archive.org/details/arcticexplorati06kanegoog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Grinnell_Expedition 57

from back of book

Prof. Agassiz offers a “scientific review” of Dr. Kane’s Arctic Explorations
To most scientists, the discovery of the Humboldt Glacier (Great Glacier) was far more significant than discovering the remains of the
Franklin Expedition. The Humboldt Glacier confirmed Agassiz’s theories of the ice age and glaciation. Dr. Kane studied geology and civil
engineering at the University of Virginia under William Barton Rodgers (1st president of MIT) before he graduated the University of
Pennsylvania medical school. Unfortunately, Kane was never given the credit he deserved for the Humboldt Glacier discovery.
Arctic Explorations, Vol. II by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, 1856 http://archive.org/details/arcticexplorati06kanegoog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Grinnell_Expedition
58


Left: Kane’s “TENNYSON’S MONUMENT”
Arctic Explorations, Vol. I, pg. 224

Proofs courtesy of Scott Polar Research Institute (slide 124).
http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/catalogue/article/y57.8.5/
Creator: James Hamilton from a sketch by Dr. Kane 59


Commander Kane’s “THE ESCAPE OFF WEARY MEN’S NEST”
Arctic Explorations, Vol. II by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, 1856

60


Commander Kane’s “The Broken Floes Nearing Pikantlik”
Arctic Explorations, Vol. II by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, 1856, pg. 236

61

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/pga.04114/

“Second Grinnell Expedition” at the Library of Congress
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-pga-04114 (digital file from original print) LC-USZ62-40359
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
62

Dr. Kane at the New York Historical Society

Artist: Peter Reniers, 1857 New York Historical Society Artist: Thomas Hicks, 1858 New York Historical Society

Elisha Kent Kane, M. D., U.S.N. (1820-1857)
“Dr. Kane, famous Arctic explorer, was born in Philadelphia to John Kintzing Kane and Jane Duval (Leiper) Kane. His world
travels began with his assignments to medical missions in China and in Africa. He served in the Mexican War in which he was
wounded and contracted typhus, but by 1850 he had returned to duty with an expedition sent to the Arctic to search for a missing
British explorer. The story of this journey is told in The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin (1853).”
http://www.nyhistory.org/node/44187 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin's_lost_expedition http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=3998
63

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D07E5D81438E334BC4153DFB1668388649FDE
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A04E0DF1238EE3BBC4051DFBF66838F649FDE 64

“Henry Grinnell… father of the Kane expedition.” Daniel Ricketson
“The Second Grinnell Expedition” in search of Franklin was popularly known as the Kane expedition.

The History of New Bedford, Daniel Ricketson, 1858, pg. 141

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The Lost Franklin Expedition

Library and Archives Canada

http://kenmcgoogan.blogspot.com/p/home.html
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN
Waterloo Place, London
http://www.martechpolar.com/Lost%20Expedition/Lost%20Expedition.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin's_lost_expedition 65

The Illustrated London News, December 27, 1856

Refitted HMS RESOLUTE Returns to England in 1856
In 1856, Henry Grinnell was instrumental in having the recently salvaged HMS RESOLUTE restored at the expense of the United States
government, and returned to Great Britain as a goodwill gesture.” [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Grinnell] This chapter is primarily about Henry
Grinnell and how he made a fortune in the his family’s shipping firm and attained a world-renowned reputation in Arctic exploration. 66

“a large silver vase which British Government presented to Mr. Henry Grinnell [in 1855-56]”
Given after the HMS RESOLUTE was returned to England.

NBWM Collection 67

Philanthropist Henry Grinnell

Lady Franklin’s Revenge, by Ken McGoogan, p. 349

Arctic scholar Ken McGoogan wrote that Henry Grinnell had
spent over $5 million searching for Franklin by 1856. After
being forced by financial reversals to curtail his expenditures
and stop donating ships, Henry was the treasurer for the Hayes
Expedition and sponsor/treasurer of the three Hall expeditions.
http://www.harpercollins.ca/author/sites/kenmcgoogan/rttps.html

Henry Grinnell
U. S Naval Lyceum Honorary Member
April 1, 1854 Henry

http://www.usna.edu/Museum/history.htm

This honorary Lyceum membership was a high
honor that the U. S. Navy bestowed on
civilians in 1854. Today, this Lyceum is
housed at the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. NBWM Research Library 68

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B01E4D71039E134BC4B53DFB766838C649FDE
69

Henry Grinnell
Founder & President American Geographical and Statistical Society

According to an article about his funeral in The New York Times (July 4, 1874), Henry “…had been for many years President,
Vice President, and member of the Executive Committee of the American Geographical Society.” As can be seen above, he
was a vice president in 1857; and his brother Moses and sons Cornelius & William were also members at that time. Moses was
also a contributor to several Arctic expeditions. Much more on American Geographical Society on slides 745+.
Michigan Historical Reprint Series, Univ. of Michigan
70

Additional Grinnell Expedition Art at the University of Cambridge, England

“…pencil sketches and one watercolour of Arctic
scenes. They may be by E. K. Kane during one of
the Grinnell Franklin Search expeditions.
Courtesy of Scott Polar Research Institute (slide 124)
http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/catalogue/article/y57.9.1//

“CAPE GRINNELL”

71

“THE DEATH OF DR. KANE”

Creator: Mathew Brady, National Archives and Records Administration http://www.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/kanedeath.html

Below: New York Times Articles on the Grinnell Expeditions
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9805E7D8153DE334BC4E52DFB667838E649FDE&scp=2&sq=grinnell+exedition&pst=p

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E03E2DD153EE13AA15756C0A9679D946092D7CF

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B01E4D71039E134BC4B53DFB766838C649FDE 72

Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition, Vol. II by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, pg. 299

“The death of ‘Dr. Kane of the Arctic Seas’ caused perhaps a greater public
outpouring of grief than that of any other figure between Washington and Lincoln.
After his death in Havana, where he had gone in a fruitless effort to recover his health,
Dr. Kane's remains were transported by boat to the mainland, where they progressed
by steam-train and boat throughout the heart of the United States, before arriving in
Philadelphia for the final obsequies. At every train station and dock where his casket
passed, it was met by crowds of civic dignitaries, wearing black as well as specially
made badges and armbands. Pictures of Dr. Kane, draped with black crepe, appeared
in every store-window, and flags flew at half-mast from town halls and statehouses.”
(quotation from Prof. Russell A. Potter)
http://www.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/kanedeath.html The Ice Finders, by Edmund B. Bolles, pages 210 & 211
http://ebbolles.com/IceFinders/Reviews.html
73

Creator” De Witt Clinton Baxter http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/hh/17/hh17g.htm http://www.librarycompany.org/laurelhill/image/10-16.jpg

“The Dead Watch” Remains of Dr. Kane Lying in State, Independence Hall, Philadelphia 74

USS Kane (Destroyer # 235), 1920-1946
“USS Kane was named in honor of Assistant Surgeon Elisha Kent Kane USN, (1820-1857), who gained fame as an Arctic explorer during the 1850s.”
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD -- U.S. NAVY SHIPS
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-k/dd235.htm http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-k/ek-kane.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kane_(DD-235) 75

USNS Elisha Kent Kane (T-AGS-27)
Genoa, Italy, 27 May 1987
“The second Kane (T-AGS-27) was launched 20 November 1965 by the Christy Corp., Sturgeon Bay, Wis.
assigned to MSTS; and placed in service 26 May 1967 for scientific operations under the Atlantic.”
http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/10/09102703.jpg

76

http://www.usstampgallery.com/view.php?id=8393e8e13cf2a84516f7146cc2f58dbc8f771a3b

Dr. Kane graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1842. On September 14, 1843, he became Assistant Surgeon in the
Navy. He served in the China Commercial Treaty mission under Caleb Cushing, in the Africa Squadron, and in the United States Marin Corps
during the Mexican American War. Kane was appointed senior medical officer of the U.S. Grinnell Expedition of 1850-1851 under the
command of Lieutenant Edwin de Haven, which searched unsuccessfully for the lost expedition of Sir John Frankin. The crew discovered
Franklin’s first winter camp [and returned to New York in 1851]. Kane then organized and headed the Second Grinnell Expedition which sailed
from New York on May 31, 1853… Dr. Kane received medals from Congress, the Royal Geographic Society, and the Societe de Geographie…”

77

Brothers Henry & Moses: Backers of 1860 Hayes Expedition
Henry was first president of The Geographical and Statistical Society and contributor to the Hayes Expedition.

Dr. Isaac Hayes
Photo: J. W. Black
NBWM #1985.24

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Israel_Hayes

Dr. Hayes began his Arctic career on the Second Grinnell Expedition. “Undeterred by the extreme hardships he had endured as ship's surgeon on Elisha
Kent Kane's Second Grinnell Expedition in 1853-55, Dr. Isaac Israel Hayes could not resist the lure of further Arctic exploration. He was a firm believer in
the Open Polar Sea. Following his return from the second Grinnell expedition, Hayes had raised money by lecturing and succeeded in finding a number of
volunteers for his proposed expedition to the Open Polar Sea. In 1860, he took his tiny schooner, the UNITED STATES, to the north… He wrote in his
journal ‘All the evidence showed that I stood upon the shores of the Open Polar Sea’. He convinced himself without definite proof that this was indeed the
case. Not only was Hayes subsequently proven wrong, but it was also learned that many of his measurements and calculations were erroneous. Some even
accused him of falsifying his data. His land trip had covered 1300 miles, but he had achieved essentially nothing.” by Dr. Ralph A. Meyerson.
http://www.ekkane.org/Biographies/BioHayes.htm Reference: http://www.amergeog.org/archives/1851.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/1860/03/23/news/new-arctic-expedition-dr-haryes-proposed-exploration-polar-sea-meeting.html?scp=70&sq=grinnell%20arctic&st=p&pagewante
78

Henry Grinnell: Hayes Expedition treasurer and principal subscriber.

79

Henry Grinnell
“principal subscriber”
1860 Hayes Expedition

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9403E2DE163DE533A2575BC1A9649D94609FD7CF

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Grinnell Brothers: Partners & Friends Moses Grinnell to Abraham Lincoln

http://www.nytimes.com/1860/03/20/news/a-new-york-merchant.htm

(Partial Article)

The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_H._Grinnell http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mal&fileName=mal1/309/3099700/malpage.db&recNum=0 81

Library of Congress, Abraham Lincoln, and Moses H. Grinnell

Lincoln at Moses Grinnell’s Home
“When President Lincoln came to Washington, he was invited
to, and did, breakfast with Moses at his house in New York.”
http://www.mrlincolnandnewyork.org/inside.asp?ID=46&subjectID=3

Moses, Henry, and Joseph Grinnell were Republicans and
strong supporters of Lincoln. The Library of Congress has 38
items regarding Moses, 72 regarding Joseph, and 95 regarding
Henry. It also has 6 items related to their niece, Cornelia
Grinnell Willis, who paid for the freedom of Abolitionist
Harriet Jacobs (slides 168-172, 483-493, & 671+).
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/scsmbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(scsm000609))
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November 5, 1864
http://www.nytimes.com/1864/11/05/news/mass-meeting-merchants
-bankers-monied-men-city-declare-for-lincoln-great.html

Congressman Moses H. Grinnell (NY) was the fifth son of Capt. Cornelius and
Sylvia Grinnell, and he was born in New Bedford on March 23, 1803 (slide
508). He was president of Grinnell, Minturn & Co. for most of his career and
developed it into a leading world-wide shipping firm. Even though he
permanently moved to New York in 1825, he owned a pew at the New Bedford
Unitarian Church and a home in New Bedford. One source states that Moses
helped fund the Grinnell Arctic Expeditions, and Joseph probably helped, too.
The Howland Heirs: Wm M. Emery, 1919, p. 250


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Article to Right

Capt. C. F. Hall to Henry Grinnell, 1860

(Partial Article)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F20D17FC3E54157493C3AA1789D95F4C8685F9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Hall
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“Donations to the Hall Franklin Expedition 1860”

Henry Grinnell
Treasurer/Sponsor Hall Expeditions
1860-1871

Henry Grinnell Letters 1860-1871
G. W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport

“The collection is limited to an 11 year period, primarily to the years
1860-1871 and the Charles F. Hall polar expedition. Included are
letters to Grinnell from C. F. Hall in New London, Connecticut, and
Washington, D.C., regarding Arctic exploration and Hall's work in
obtaining a Congressional appropriation for an expedition. Included
also is a list of donations to the Hall Franklin expedition of 1860.”

Other documents state that Moses Grinnell was a donor to Capt.
Hall, too. Third on the list, Cyrus Field, had a mansion in Irvington,
N.Y. along with Moses, Albert Bierstadt, Washington Irving, Jay
Gould, and other notables (slides 209+). Field was a financier and
one of the founders of the American Telegraph Co. (AT&T, today).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_West_Field

“Hall's motives for his first voyage—Arctic Study—Limited
resources— Reasons for believing that some of Franklin's men still
lived… Generous aid by Mr. Grinnell”
American Explorations in the Ice Zones. by Prof. J. E. Nourse, 1884, pg. 8
http://www.archive.org/details/americanexplorat00nouriala

http://library.mysticseaport.org/manuscripts/coll/coll008.cfm 85

Capt. Hall to Henry Grinnell on North Pole Expedition: Feb. 2, 1870
Re: Meeting with President Grant at White House

Henry Grinnell Letters 1860-1871: G. W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport
http://library.mysticseaport.org/manuscripts/CPageImage.cfm?PageNum=1&BibID=34256&Box=1&Folder=2http://

library.mysticseaport.org/manuscripts/CPageImage.cfm?PageNum=2&BibID=34256&Box=1&Folder=2

http://library.mysticseaport.org/manuscripts/CPageImage.cfm?PageNum=3&BibID=34256&Box=1&Folder=2 86

Capt. Hall to Henry Grinnell on North Pole Expedition: July 6, 1870

http://library.mysticseaport.org/manuscripts/CPageImage.cfm?PageNum=2&BibID=34256&Box=1&Folder=3

Capt. C. F. Hall to Henry Grinnell on North Pole Expedition: Nov. 9, 1870
Re: Meeting with President Grant at Executive Mansion
Dinner with Gen. J. H. Martindale & David Field in N.Y.

http://library.mysticseaport.org/manuscripts/CPageImage.cfm?PageNum=19&BibID=34256&Box=1&Folder=3

Capt. Charles F. Hall & Henry Grinnell
“Charles Francis Hall, apparently inspired by Kane's adventures, became
convinced that some of Franklin's men might still be alive. Even McClintock's
news, brought home in 1859, did not dissuade him. Remarkably, he too found a
friend in Henry Grinnell, and through him secured passage on a northbound
whaling ship in 1860.” by Prof. Russell Potter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Hall Arctic Researches and Life Among the Esquimaux by Capt. C. F. Hall, pg. xviii 89

Grinnell Glacier
Frobisher Bay, Canada
(Not Grinnell Glacier, Montana, which
was named after George Bird Grinnell.)

Arctic Researches and Life Among the Esquimaux by C. F. Hall, pg. 118 90

“Mr. Grinnell’s Memorial supported by Clay, Seward, and Pearce in the Senate”

“Grinnell and De Haven Expedition of C. F. Hall, 1860-1862
Generous Aid by Mr. Grinnell”

American Explorations in The Ice Zones by J. E. Nourse, p. 8
91

“Henry Grinnell’s Memorial”
(copy of Henry’s Memorial on slide 95)

American Explorations in The Ice Zones by Prof. J. E. Nourse, U.S.N. http://www.archive.org/details/americanexplorat00nouriala
92

Henry Clay presents Henry Grinnell’s Memorial to Congress

American Explorations in The Ice Zones by Prof. J. E. Nourse, U.S.N. http://www.archive.org/details/americanexplorat00nouriala

93

Memorial of Henry Grinnell, presented by Henry Clay, 1852

NBWM #B83-4, Folder 3
94

Second Arctic Expedition made by Capt. Charles F. Hall, 1864-1869
Henry Grinnell: Hall’s Patron, Advocate, & Treasurer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Hall

SECOND ARCTIC EXPEDITION MADE BY CHARLES F. HALL by Prof. J. E. Nourse, U.S.N., 1879 [Internet Archives] 95

Second Arctic Expedition Made by Capt. Charles F. Hall, 1864-1869
Henry Grinnell: Hall’s Patron, Advocate, & Treasurer

SECOND ARCTIC EXPEDITION MADE BY CHARLES F. HALL by Prof. J. E. Nourse, U.S.N., 1879 [Internet Archives] 96

Lady Franklin Letter to Henry Grinnell: Oct. 30, 1869

SECOND ARCTIC EXPEDITION MADE BY CHARLES F. HALL by Prof. J. E. Nourse, U.S.N., 1879 [Internet Archives] http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/franklin-lady-jane-2065 97

Lady Franklin Letter to Henry Grinnell: Oct. 30, 1869

SECOND ARCTIC EXPEDITION MADE BY CHARLES F. HALL by Prof. J. E. Nourse, U.S.N., 1879 [Internet Archives] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Franklin 98

Capt. C. F. Hall to Henry Grinnell: December 14, 1869

Benefits derived from Arctic Exploration
by Capt. S. Osborne to Royal Geographic Society

SECOND ARCTIC EXPEDITION MADE BY CHARLES F. HALL by Prof. J. E. Nourse, pg. xxxvi
99

Capt. Osborne to Royal Geographic Society (cont.) Henry Grinnell to American Geographical Society:
“…extension of commerce and trade
which have flowed from Arctic researches…”
including several new whale fisheries.

SECOND ARCTIC EXPEDITION MADE BY CHARLES F. HALL by Prof. J. E. Nourse, U.S.N., 1879

More on Henry & American Geographical Society @ slide 745+

100

Capt. C. F. Hall returns to New Bedford aboard the ANSELL GIBBS: September 26, 1869

SECOND ARCTIC EXPEDITION MADE BY CHARLES F. HALL by Prof. J. E. Nourse, U.S.N., 1879 [Internet Archives]
101

Capt. C. F. Hall telegraphs Henry Grinnell from New Bedford: September 26, 1869

Capt. Charles F. Hall

SECOND ARCTIC EXPEDITION MADE BY CHARLES F. HALL by Prof. J. E. Nourse, U.S.N., 1879 [Internet Archives] http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5018 102

pg. 25 http://archive.org/details/cu31924029881012

“Mr. Henry Grinnell,
the well-known philanthropist”

http://archive.org/details/cu31924029881012

pg. 627 http://archive.org/details/cu31924029881012
http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5018 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Hall 103

U.S.S. Polaris
Captain C. F. Hall, Commander
Henry Grinnell was Hall’s Patron & Treasurer
Narrative of the North Polar Expedition by Rear-Admiral C. H. Davis, U.S.N., 1876
104

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto http://images.rom.on.ca/public/index.php?function=image&action=detail&sid=&ccid=

“The POLARIS, Far North”
by William Bradford, 1882
Under command of Capt. C. F. Hall, “The USS POLARIS sailed from New York in 1871 in search of the North Pole. Stuck in ice in Smith
Sound in October 1872, 19 crew members and Inuit guides abandoned ship, the remaining 14 following suit later.” Bradford’s above
1882 rendition of the POLARIS is a copy of the engraving in Narrative of the North Polar Expedition by Rear-Admiral C. H. Davis, U.S.N.,
1876 (previous slide). Henry Grinnell was Capt. Hall’s patron/backer beginning in 1860, and Henry advocated for Hall to get this ship.
105

Mystic Seaport #1939.1244 http://www.mysticseaport.org/imagestorage/m113/m113229-r.jpg

Bark GEORGE HENRY of New London, Connecticut
Date: May 28, 1860 (date depicted). Description: Engraving of bark GEORGE HENRY (bu. 1841, Waldoboro, ME; lost in Hudson Bay
1863; Capt. James M. Buddington, 1855; Sidney O. Budington in 1860). Signed "OSBON". "THE BARK "GEORGE HENRY," CAPTAIN
SIDNEY O. BUDDINGTON[sic], OF NEW LONDON, WHICH STARTED FOR THE ARCTIC REGIONS ON TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1860.” 106

Capt. James M. Buddington of the whaler GEORGE HENRY found the HMS RESOLUTE
and Capt. Sydney O. Buddington took Capt. C. F. Hall to the Arctic in the GEORGE HENRY
Repository: G. W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport
Creator: Buddington family
Title: Buddington Family Collection
Dates: 1706-1986 (bulk 1830-1863) http://library.mysticseaport.org/manuscripts/coll/coll257.cfm#head38545944

107

“Farewell Demonstration to Capt. Hall and His Comrades by the Geographical Society”
“At the close of Capt. Hall’s remarks, Hon. Henry Grinnell presented him with a small American flag to take with him. Mr. Grinnell announced
that the flag was a noted one. It was first used by Wilkes in Arctic exploration in 1838, and in 1850 Lieut. Walker carried it with him on his trip
to the Antarctic Pole. It was also used by Lieut. DeHaven and by Dr. Kane in their searches for Sir John Franklin and afterward by Dr. Hayes.”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50B1EF93C5D117B93C5AB178DD85F458784F9 108

Commander George W. Delong & Henry Grinnell
Retirement of the “FATHER OF AMERICAN ARCTIC DISCOVERY”*

Voyage of the Jeannette edited by Emma DeLong, 1883 Voyage of the Jeannette edited by Emma DeLong, pg. 42 Voyage of the Jeannette edited by Emma DeLong, pg. 43

“From 1850 to 1870, Henry was a tireless advocate for Arctic exploration.” After retiring from Grinnell, Minturn & Co. in
the early 1850’s, he spent most of his fortune searching for the lost Franklin Expedition and advancing Arctic science.

*Capt. C. F. Hall in Geography in the Making: The American Geographical Society 1851-1951: by John K. Wright, 1952, pg. 57 (slide 753)
109

http://www.nunavutparks.com/english/parks-special-places/sylvia-grinnell-territorial-park/overview.aspx

“American explorer Charles Hall's 1861 journey with Inuit brought him in the vicinity of
the park. Hall was the first to record that Frobisher's Strait was actually a bay. Hall
named a number of features in the upper bay after his financial backers. Among the place
names attributed by Hall is the Sylvia Grinnell River. Sylvia Grinnell was the name of the
daughter of C.F. Hall's friend and benefactor, Henry Grinnell.” Sylvia moved to England
and was one of the signees of William Bradford’s signature book (slide 146).
110

Henry Grinnell
Obituary
The New York Times
July 2, 1874

Henry was a member of Fish & Grinnell and Grinnell,
Minturn & Co. from 1819 to 1850. In case the clipping
on the right is illegible, Henry’s obituary states:
“Throughout his whole career Henry Grinnell has never
lost sight of the sea – to use an Irish expression.
Indeed, his name is more intimately connected with
Arctic explorations than with his daily avocations as a
shipping merchant. That a large tract of the Arctic
regions is called ‘Grinnell Land’ is sufficient testimony
to his liberality and enterprise in this direction. On the
22nd May 1850 and again in 1854, Mr. Grinnell, with
the sanction of Congress, fitted out, at his own expense,
and dispatched the vessels ADVANCE and RESCUE in
search of Sir John Franklin. Dr. Kane accompanied the
expeditions. Though wanting in success in their
primary objects, the expeditions made several
geographical discoveries of great importance, especially
the open polar sea free from ice, and abounding in
animal life, lying in longitude 76 degrees west and
running as far north as 82 30’ latitude… Mr. Grinnell
was not only an intimate friend of Henry Clay, but also
of Daniel Webster…”

Henry was brother & partner of
Cornelius, Jr., Joseph, & Moses

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9504EFDB1139EF34BC4A53DFB166838F669FDE&scp=3&sq=henry+grinnell&st=p 111

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9400EEDB1139EF34BC4B53DFB166838F669FDE

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9400EEDB1139EF34BC4B53DFB166838F669FDE&scp=5&sq=grinnell+henry&st=p 112

Henry Grinnell 1799-1874

NBWM Research Library NBWM Archives

Moses to nephew Robert: May 29, 1874 Henry interred at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn 113

Henry’s son, Major Robert Minturn Grinnell, interred at Nice, France

The Howland Heirs: William M. Emery, 1919

Henry Grinnell and his brothers travelled extensively in Europe and had offices in London &
Liverpool. Four of Henry’s nine children moved to Europe. Sarah and Robert lived in France.
Sylvia and William lived in Britain. Major Robert Minturn Grinnell is buried in the British The Howland Heirs #346 and slide 146
http://www.whoislog.info/profile/henry-walton-grinnell.html
Cemetery in Nice, France. Documents from NBWM Research Library http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=1608 114

Henry Grinnell
“extreme aversion to publicity” “Royal Geographic Certificate awarded to Henry Grinnell, Esq.
of New York, making him a Foreign Honorary Member, 1852”
Gift of Mary M. Grinnell
NBWM #1987.10

Image Coming

Dictionary of American Biography: Vol. 8, pg. 2 (slide 763) http://ia700806.us.archive.org/11/items/dictionaryofamer08ilamer/dictionaryofamer08ilamer.pdf 115

Charles Dickens on Henry Grinnell

Lady Franklin’s Revenge by Ken McGoogan

No Survivors!
Franklin Expedition
Annihilated

Sir John Franklin Graves of the three sailors from the Franklin
Westminster Abbey Expedition, Beechey Is, Nunavut, Canada.
(Replica Graves)
http://www.martechpolar.com/Lost%20Expedition/Lost%20Expedition.htm http://www.yachtfiona.com/northwestpassage2009/newsletter1.html
116

Henry David Thoreau: “Does Mr. Grinnell know where he himself is?”

http://ia600400.us.archive.org/32/items/thoreauswalden00thor/thoreauswalden00thor.pdf 117

Henry Grinnell & Henry David Thoreau
by Prof. Russell A. Potter

Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875: by Russell A. Potter, 2007, pp. 118-119
http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/POTARC.html

Thoreau: “Does Mr. Grinnell know where he himself is?” 118

Henry Grinnell was posthumously honored by Queen Victoria for
his 20+ years of service in the Arctic with a desk made from the
HMS RESOLUTE.

RESOLUTE by Martin W. Sandler, 2006, pg. 218

Above: Henry Grinnell & Charles Dickens
From 1850 to 1870, Henry Grinnell sponsored
all the major American Expeditions. After
Henry’s death, Queen Victoria honored him for
his “twenty years of service” with this desk. If
he had been born a British subject like his
father, he would likely have been knighted after
Right: Henry Grinnell & the second U. S. Grinnell Expedition returned
in 1855. Capt. Cornelius was born in 1758,
Lords of the Admiralty
when America was still ruled by England.
The New York Times
Oct. 4, 1879
119

The Grinnell Desk

NBWM # 1983.58.1
Print given by Mary Grinnell
Henry Grinnell & The Grinnell Desk
Full title of: “England and America The Visit of Her Majesty Queen Victoria to the Arctic Ship Resolute”

The Bulletin from Johnny Cake Hill;New Bedford Whaling Museum, Winter/Spring 2009, pgs. 17& 18

Henry Grinnell was born in New Bedford on Feb. 18, 1799. Today, Henry has become a forgotten man in the city of his birth and was merely
referred to as “a wealthy business man with New Bedford ties” in the above article. This chapter has shown that he had an international reputation
in business and Arctic exploration in the mid 1800’s. It is hoped that this “digital initiative” will restore his rightful place in U.S history. 120

Chapter II. William Bradford, Albert Bierstadt, & the Grinnells

New Bedford Whaling Museum #B81-24.98 https://www.1000museums.com/enlarge/204364/

“Between the Iceberg and Field Ice” by William Bradford, 1869 121

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bradford_(painter)

Ref: “Bradford-Hayes Exploring Expedition” (slide 143)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00615FF395F137B93C3A91782D85F4D8684F9
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00C13FF385E1A7493C4AB178ED85F4D8684F9
122

Bradford, Kane, & Grinnell Expeditions

Arctic Regions by William Bradford, pg. vii

Even though they were of different generations, William Bradford & Henry Grinnell had several similarities aside from being
two of the most successful men to come out of Old Dartmouth. They were both bitten hard by the “Arctic Bug” of the 1800’s;
and they both lived in Manhattan, developed ties with British Royalty, and were honored by Queen Victoria. Henry was the
founding president of the American Geographical Society (slides 745+); and Wm. Bradford’s art expedition was affiliated with
that society. In fact, Wm. Bradford gave a lecture to the society that was published in their “1885 Bulletin No.2”.
123

Bradford in The New York Times and the “Scott Polar Research Institute Review 2008”

Published: May 26, 1869
Copyright © The New York Times
“A further acquisition is a group of letters, all addressed to William Bradford,
relating to nineteenth century Arctic Exploration. Correspondents include John
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=
Rae, Lady Franklin, Charles Hall and George Nares.” by Naomi Boneham, pg. 19
F00C13FF385E1A7493C4AB178ED85F4D8684F9

124

William Bradford and Elisha Kent Kane
The below note is in William Bradford’s copy of Kane’s Arctic Explorations, Vol. I: “good subject for rough
water with vessel, cliffs in shadow with ice foot running out with vessel in ice with sea breaking on edge of ice”

Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition, Vol. I by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, 1856, pg. 70+ NBWM Research Library

“PARTING HAWSERS OFF GODSEND LEDGE” by James Hamilton from a sketch by Dr. Kane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Grinnell_Expedition 125


Creator: James Hamilton from a sketch by Dr. Kane http://archive.org/details/arcticexplorati06kanegoog

Commander Kane’s “KASARSOAK, SANDERSON’S HOPE, UPERNAVIK”
Arctic Explorations, Vol. II by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, 1856, pg. 294+

126

Arctic Regions by William Bradford
Nearly identical to preceding slide from Kane’s Arctic Explorations
Plate Number: 68 “View of Upernavik, the most northern settlement on the globe.
The snow-clad summit of Kresarsoak seen in the distance.” (Dunmore and Critcherson, 1869)
http://whalingmuseum-arcticvisions.org/chasing-the-light-2/ 127

Creator: Bradford, William --Dunmore & Chritcherson NBWM #2000.100.1893.13

“Fronticepiece of Bradford’s ‘Arctic Regions”
128

New Bedford Whaling Museum Collection https://www.1000museums.com/enlarge/204363/

“Sermitsiaq Glacier with figure from Arctic Regions”

Ref: “Bradford-Hayes Exploring Expedition”
129

NBWM #B81-24.62

“Looking Down the Karsut Fjord”
“Consisting of 76 elephant folio-sized pages, Arctic Regions contains 141 albumen photographs, hand
tipped with the text. Under the patronage of Queen Victoria, this elaborately produced volume consists
of William Bradford's narrative account of his voyage on the PANTHER in 1869.” (NBWM records)
130

Creator: Bradford, William NBWM #00.127.25

PANTHER in Ice
Eight men with dead polar bears in foreground. Melville Bay, August 10, 1869.
Hunting by steam, the party killing/six polar bears in one day.
The stream of black soot & smoke in Bradford’s most famous works was the result of a coal-fed steam engine. As with
New Bedford factory smokestacks, this marked the beginning of man’s wholesale destruction of the environment. It
was the beginning of global warming and the end of the pristine, pure Arctic that Bradford captured in his paintings.
131

NBWM #00.127.17

“Photograph of William Bradford sitting on a rock… at Arsut Fiord, Greenland”
132

Creator: Bradford, William NBWM #B-20
“Auxiliary bark PANTHER in the ice under steam”
133


“PANTHER in ice”
134


“Vessels BEAR and THETIS” 135

Creator: Bradford, William --Dunmore & Chritcherson NBWM #B81-24.103_MSTR
“Farthest Point Reached”
“Number 103 from Bradford's Arctic Regions.”

136

“The steamer taking soundings… Capt. Bartlett finding water 500 feet.”
137


“Iviktut, with Kunak Mountain in the distance.”
“Number 50 from Bradford's Arctic Regions.” 138


Creator: James Hamilton from a sketch by Dr. Kane Arctic Explorations, Vol. I by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, 1856, pg. 76

Commander Kane’s “THE NIP OFF CAPE CORNELIUS GRINNELL, FORCE BAY”
Cape Cornelius Grinnell was named after Henry’s father, Captain Cornelius Grinnell who died on April 19,
1850 (slide 501) just before the first Grinnell Expedition left New York on May 22, 1850. Since Henry had
a brother and a son named Cornelius, it is possible that Cape Cornelius Grinnell was also named after them.
Engraving proof courtesy of Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, England (slide 124).
139

NBWM #2009.9.19 Taken from: Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition, Vol. II by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, 1856

Bradford’s colorized lantern slide of Kane’s “THE NIP OFF CAPE CORNELIUS GRINNELL…”
“Lantern slide owned and possibly taken by William Bradford”, NBWM records.
140


Bradford painting based on Kane’s “THE NIP OFF CAPE CORNELIUS GRINNELL…”
“Ship [USS ADVANCE ] in the ice in center middle ground, in front of a large iceberg…”
Much more on Capt. Cornelius & Cornelius Grinnell, Jr. (Henry’s father & brother) in Chapter V (slide 404).
141


2nd Bradford painting based on Kane’s “THE NIP OFF CAPE CORNELIUS GRINNELL…”
“Photo of a painting of two large vessels in ice…” Ship in distance is identical to Kane’s drawing (slide 139).

The below notes are also in Bradford’s copy of Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition, Vol. II by Dr. Kane.
Pg. 75. Shored Up (small drawing) – "another subject with vessel in the ice with rough water.”
Pg. 79. Tracking Along the Ice Belt (small drawing) – "picture subject for composition for tracking the vessel”.
142

“Bradford-Hayes Exploring Expedition”
The New York Times
Sept. 1, 1869

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=
F00615FF395F137B93C3A91782D85F4D8684F9

143

Newfoundland Fishing Schooners
Square Island Harbor
Labrador
Photo is not from Bradford-Hayes Expedition.
Before going to Greenland,Bradford spent five
summers drawing & painting up to Labrador.
Creators: Pierce, William H. --Bradford, William
NBWM #2000.100.26

144

Creator: Bradford, William NBWM #1989.50

“ship from port bow under full sail”
145

William Bradford’s Signature Book from England

Sylvia Grinnell
Henry’s Daughter
Granddaughter of Capt. Cornelius

NBWM Archives
Sylvia Grinnell Park, slide 110 146

William Bradford’s
Signature Book from England
NBWM Archives

Duke

Lord Dufferin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Hamilton-Temple-
Blackwood,_1st_Marquess_of_Dufferin_and_Ava

Explorer Frank L. McClintock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Leopold_McClintock

British Explorer John Rae, M.D.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rae_(explorer)
147

Signature Book
NBWM Archives

Lady Jane Franklin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Franklin

148

Signature Book
NBWM Archives

Explorer Isaac Israel Hayes, M.D.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Israel_Hayes

J. Carson Brevoort
American Geographic Society
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Carson_Brevoort

Richard Kimball
writer for Bradford

149

RICHARD C. KUGLER

“The Ice Dwellers Watching the Invaders” by William Bradford
Gift of William F. Havemeyer, 1910

William Bradford Sailing Ships & Arctic Seas by Director Emeritus Richard C. Kugler, © 2003 New Bedford Whaling Museum

http://www.whalingmuseumstore.org/william-bradford-sailing-ships-amp-artic-seas.html 150

New Bedford Whaling Museum #1972.33 Purchased with funds donated by Andrew G. Hobbs

“Sealers Crushed by Icebergs”
In William Bradford: Sailing Ships & Arctic Seas, NBWM Director Emeritus Richard Kluger wrote: “Returning from Labrador [fall, 1865],
Bradford resumed work on his large painting [Sealers]. Toward the end of January 1866, a journalist from Philadelphia called at the Tenth
Street Building and found the work ‘on the scaffold in a condition of forwardness.’... Then walking through the side door into Bierstadt’s
studio, he confronted Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mount Rosalie, ‘as big as the side of a house,’ also nearing completion…”
William Bradford Sailing Ships & Arctic Seas by Director Emeritus Richard C. Kugler, © 2003 New Bedford Whaling Museum, pg. 121 151

New Bedford Whaling Museum #2001.100.4449

“Caught in the Ice Floes”
“This is a scene of several sealing brigs caught in the ice off the Labrador coast. In the far background, left, a ship is being burned to
eliminate it as a future hazard to navigation. Crew members are seen dragging small boats over the pack ice to an open lead of water
in the foreground. The dismasted brig on the far right is being abandoned, with a makeshift tent set up on the ice.” (NBWM records)
152


“Caught Among the Icebergs After a Storm”
by William Bradford, c. 1880
153


“The PANTHER - Trapped in Ice in Melville Bay”

154

“The PANTHER in Melville Bay”
The Royal Collection © 2002. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
“The steamer Panther, specially built for Arctic navigation, was commanded by Captain John Bartlett. The expedition, solely for the purposes of art,
left St John’s, Newfoundland, on 3 July 1869 flying the U.S. flag, and returned on 3 October. Melville Bay is a coastline of nearly 250 miles from
Wilcox Point to Cape York on the north-west coast of Greenland. Bradford sketched the midnight sun and the amazing scenery along the coast. The
kinds of hazards the expedition faced are recorded in the painting. The artist noted that the picture depicted a moment ‘when the steamer came near to
being lost by being forced on the Icebergs by pressure of the field of ice…’ The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1875.”
http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/401327/the-panther-in-melville-bay
155

Artist: William Bradford NBWM #1957.6.1

Etching based on "The PANTHER in Melville Bay”
“This etching is based, somewhat loosely, on Bradford's painting of ‘The PANTHER in Melville Bay’, which he painted for Queen
Victoria, which is reproduced in fig. 21 in R.C. Kugler's essay in the 2003 Bradford Exhibition catalogue.” (NBWM records)

156

New Bedford Whaling Museum #1981.55
“View of the Sermitsialik Glacier”
“The steam bark PANTHER is at the far right. The glacier is coming to the water's edge under a dark and cloudy sky forming in the
background. The location is South Greenland. Painted for the Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria.” (NBWM records)
William Bradford Sailing Ships & Arctic Seas by Director Emeritus Richard C. Kugler, © 2003 New Bedford Whaling Museum, pg. 137
157

Artist: William Bradford NBWM #1991.4

“Icebound”
158

NBWM #00.127.10 Painting in Glenbow Museum , Calgary, Canada

Wm. Bradford’s photo of his “The POLARIS in Winter Quarters in Thank God Harbor”, 1875
"In 1875, William Bradford completed a 6 x 10-foot painting, now in the Glenbow Museum, depicting an ill-fated attempt to reach the hitherto unvisited North Pole.
By an act of Congress, fifty-thousand dollars was allocated for the purpose, along with a steam-powered vessel, the Polaris, made available by the U.S. Navy. A
group of scientists was also assembled to establish the exact location of the Pole. On September 31, 1871, the vessel sailed to northern Greenland and set up a base
for the scientific party at Thank God Harbor. From the start, the expedition was troubled as rival factions engaged, presumably over the conduct of the ship's
commander, Charles Francis Hall, who died from arsenic poison shortly after the base was established. With his death, the remainder of the crew and the scientific
party abandoned the purpose of the voyage and departed from the Arctic without completing its mission.” Quotation attributed to Richard Kugler by artfact.com. 159

William Bradford
&
USS POLARIS

William Bradford Sailing Ships & Arctic Seas by Richard C. Kugler, © 2003 New Bedford Whaling Museum
160

New Bedford Whaling Museum #1968.59 Purchased with funds donated by W. Myron Owen

“Seiners on the Coast of Labrador”

NBWM #2000.100.3425

“William Bradford's studio (Union Wharf, Fairhaven)”
“left to right: Mrs. DeLong, unidentified, William Bradford, Miss Mary E. Bradford,
Sylvie DeLong (seated on floor), Mrs. William Bradford, Edward Hacher of Lynn and his wife.” (NBWM records)

William Bradford made six “art expeditions” to Labrador and one to Greenland. He was born in Fairhaven
and grew up around New Bedford Harbor. Note the polar bear rugs in photo.
162

NBWM #1987.26.40

William Bradford’s Home
on New Bedford Harbor
16 Fort Street, Fairhaven
163

NBWM #2000.100.1746
William Bradford’s Fort St. House Interior
Note: Polar Bear Rugs 164

William Bradford’s Studio
Fairhaven

William Bradford Sailing Ships & Arctic Seas by R. C. Kugler, p. 7

165

Creator: James E. Reynolds NBWM #1979.52.3

Location of Wm. Bradford’s first studio, Fairhaven
166

Abraham Lincoln, William Bradford, Joseph Grinnell, & John Greenleaf Whittier

Grinnell

Lincoln


Whittier

William Bradford Sailing Ships & Arctic Seas by Richard C. Kugler, © 2003 New Bedford Whaling Museum
167

Congressman Joseph Grinnell
to Abraham Lincoln
Tuesday, October 25, 1864
Regarding: Mrs. William (Mary) Bradford

The Abraham Lincoln Papers
at the Library of Congress
It is believed that Congressmen Joseph & Moses wrote
letters to politicians in support of Henry’s Arctic
expeditions. Unfortunately, very few of the Grinnell
brothers’ letters have survived. Joseph was an older brother
of Henry & Moses. He is known to have had a significant
art collection (slides 477 & 485), and he undoubtedly knew
both William Bradford & Albert Bierstadt. Since Joseph had
retired from politics in 1851, 13 years before he wrote this
letter to Lincoln, he did not assist Mary Bradford as a
political duty or favor. In 1864, Joseph was 75 years old and
simultaneously functioning as president of the Wamsutta
Mills, president of the New Bedford & Taunton Railroad,
and president of the First National Bank (slide 500).

Joseph Grinnell
1788-1885
President: Fish, Grinnell & Co.
President: Marine Bank and First National Bank
President: New Bedford & Taunton Railroad
President: Wamsutta Mills, 1847-1885
Member: Grinnell, Minturn & Co.

Abraham Lincoln stayed at Joseph’s County St.
mansion on Sept. 14, 1848 (The Daily Mercury).
Joseph was the 2nd son of Capt. Cornelius & Sylvia.
http://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/Library/newsletter.asp?ID=54&CRLI=134
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mal&fileName=mal1/375/3759800/malpage.db&recNum=0
168

Poet-Abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier to William Bradford

New Bedford Whaling Museum Archives 169

John Greenleaf Whittier,
Joseph Grinnell, & William Bradford
The below quotations are from Old-Time Fairhaven by
Charles A. Harris, 1947, pgs. 225 & 172.
“In 1870, there was formed… an organization called the
Fairhaven Union Association for Christian Work, and at its
first meeting, Mr. Bradford gave stereopticon lecture gratis,
and soon became its president.”
“The first regular meeting of the Fairhaven Union
Above: New Bedford Republican Standard, July 7, 1870 Association for Christian Work was held last evening
(Thursday, July 7, 1870) in Phoenix Hall.”
It seems highly likely that Whittier was visiting Joseph
Grinnell on this date in order to see their mutual friend
Bradford’s stereopticon lecture. Much more on Joseph at
slides 473, etc. His mansion is at slides 460, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Greenleaf_Whittier
“John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September
7, 1892) was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent
advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States… In
1833, Whittier published the antislavery pamphlet Justice and
Expediency,[7] and from there dedicated the next twenty years
of his life to the abolitionist cause. The controversial pamphlet
destroyed all of his political hopes—as his demand for
immediate emancipation alienated both northern businessmen
and southern slaveholders—but it also sealed his commitment
to a cause that he deemed morally correct and socially
necessary. He was a founding member of the American Anti-
Slavery Society and signed the Anti-Slavery Declaration of
1833, which he often considered the most significant action of
his life… From 1838 to 1840, he was editor of The
Pennsylvania Freeman in Philadelphia, one of the leading
antislavery papers in the North… Whittier produced two
collections of antislavery poetry: Poems Written during the
Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States,
between 1830 and 1838 and Voices of Freedom (1846)…” 170

Harriet Jacobs

Abolitionists Harriet Jacobs and Cornelia Grinnell
Cornelia lost her parents and was adopted by her uncle Joseph Grinnell
Cornelia was born on March 19, 1825. Her father, Cornelius Grinnell, Jr., was a founding partner of Post, Grinnell, & Minturn in New York, a
Massachusetts State Representative, ship owner/agent, and light house builder. Her mother was the former Eliza Tallman Russell, and Cornelia
was the youngest of ten children. Nine of the children were living when their mother died on Jan. 9, 1827. On Oct. 9, 1828, Cornelius,
Jr. married his wife's sister, Mary Russell. On Dec. 11, 1830 Cornelius, Jr. took his own life; and Cornelia became an orphan when she was only
five years old. Shortly after Cornelius, Jr.’s tragic death, Cornelia's uncle Joseph and his wife took her on an tour of Europe while they built a
mansion next door to Cornelia's home (corner of County and Hawthorn Streets). Joseph adopted her after her stepmother died in 1838. In 1846,
Cornelia married the famous writer, N.P. Willis. Harriet Jacobs, a former slave, worked as a nanny for the Willis family; and she wrote her
famous work, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, while living with Cornelia. In 1852, Cornelia purchased Harriet’s freedom. Due to N.P.
Willis’s pro-slavery sympathies, Harriet was afraid to discuss her writing with Cornelia. For the rest of her life Harriet had a close relationship
with Cornelia and her children, and it has been reported that Cornelia and her daughter Edith lived in Harriet’s boarding house in Cambridge
after Uncle Joe died in 1885. The bond between Cornelia and Uncle Joe was so strong that Cornelia and Edith are buried next to him and his
wives in Oak Grove Cemetery (slide 502) instead of being buried with Cornelia’s husband, who was buried in Mt. Auburn Cemetery,
Cambridge. Harriet was also buried in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, which is one of the most famous cemeteries in the country.
The above photos are from: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs, edited by Jean Fagin Yellin. http://www.harrietjacobs.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Grinnell
171

Cornelia’s Letters in the Library of Congress
Cornelia's contribution to the Abolitionist Movement was described by J. F. Yellin: “In 1850, Congress
passed a Fugitive Slave Law ruling that all citizens, including those in northern states where slavery had
been abolished, were subject to punishment if they aided fugitives… [Harriet] met Nathaniel Parker
Willis’s new wife, Cornelia Grinnell Willis, and was employed to care for her newborn baby… To free her,
and reassure her about her children’s freedom, Mrs. Willis arranged for the American Colonization Society
to act as an intermediary and early in 1852 bought Jacob's freedom… This transaction, effected with the
aid of Rev. John B. Pinney of the New York Colonization Society, is explained in a letter from Cornelia
Grinnell Willis to Elizabeth Davis Bliss Bancroft [May 3, 1852], Bancroft-Bliss Family Papers, Library
Congress.” Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs, edited by J. F. Yellin, p. 291

Cornelia Grinnell Statue
by Horatio Greenough
“Mr. [Joseph] Grinnell was in Florence in the
spring of 1830 and there employed Horatio
Greenough, the sculptor, to make him a statue
of his niece, then a child of five years.”
(New-Bedford Mercury, slide 493)

“Horatio Greenough (September 6, 1805 –
December 18, 1852) was an American sculptor
best known for his United States government
commissions The Rescue (1837-1850) and
George Washington (1840). [He was the first
artist to receive a commission from Congress]
His sculptures reflected truth and reality, but
also ancient classical aesthetic ideals… Many
of Horatio’s works were done in Florence, Italy
where he spent most of his professional life...
Some of his other sculptures include: James
Fenimore Cooper (1831), Castor and Pollux
(1847, Marquis de Lafayette (1831-1832)…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Greenough

NBWM #1979.43 172

Horatio Greenough at the Smithsonian and the Boston Athenaeum
Boston Athenaeum

Smithsonian Institution Press

Horatio Greenough at the MFA (slide 489)
Eleven of Horatio’s sculptures are in the Museum of Fine Arts
http://www.mfa.org/search/collections?keyword=horatio+greenough&objecttype=77

Greenough’s Venus Victrix
http://www.smithsonianlegacies.si.edu/objectdescription.cfm?ID=66 http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/ 173

Collection of the Edgartown Yacht Club http://www.antiquesandfineart.com/articles/article.cfm?request=436

“New York Yacht Club Regatta off New Bedford”

174

“The New York Yacht Club Regatta”
Bradford & Grinnell Brothers

Above description is of preceding painting.

The New Bedford Yacht Club: by Llewellyn Howland III, 2002

175

“Stowing Sails off Fairhaven”
by William Bradford
(Schooner MOSES H. GRINNELL)

Above comments are about “New York Yacht Club Regatta off Clark’s Point”, 1856 (slide 174).

Author: Richard C. Kugler http://www.antiquesandfineart.com/articles/article.cfm?request=436
176

Schooner MOSES H. GRINNELL
Subject of Bradford’s “Stowing Sails off Fairhaven”

Schooner MOSES H. GRINNELL
Designed by George Steers, 1850
In 1856, Moses Grinnell purchased the schooner yacht HAZE, which had been designed by George Steers in 1853.
He sailed it to New Bedford that summer for the New York Yacht Club Annual Cruise (slides 516+).

The Search For Speed Under Sail 1700-1855: by Howard I. Chapelle
177

Cornelius Grinnell, Sr.

Cornelius
Grinnell

Glacial Boulder

Riverside Cemetery, Fairhaven

William Bradford Grave with Whittier Quotation
It is believed that the Cornelius Grinnell, Sr. buried to the right of Bradford was one of several Grinnells named after Capt.
Cornelius. He was born in Little Compton and was Henry’s cousin. They were both born in 1799. To further complicate
matters, this Cornelius had a son named Cornelius (slide 261), and Henry also had a brother & son named Cornelius. 178


Glacial Boulder
Gift of Admiral Robert Peary
Placed in the ground to the right of Bradford’s grave marker.

179

Congressman Joseph Grinnell, Abraham Lincoln, & John Quincy Adams

http://archive.org/details/historyofnewbedf01peas

Both Abraham Lincoln and President John Quincy Adams stayed at Joseph Grinnell’s home. 180

Joseph Grinnell, Abraham Lincoln, & John Quincy Adams

http://archive.org/details/historyofnewbedf01peas

More on Joseph Grinnell and John Quincy Adams at slide 476 (includes Capt. Cornelius). 181

Congressman Joseph Grinnell: Wamsutta Mills President 1847-1885

More on Joseph and Wamsutta Mills at slide 494. http://archive.org/details/historyofnewbedf01peas 182

Joseph Grinnell: President of the Marine Bank (First National Bank of N. B.)

More on Joseph and banking at slide 434+. http://archive.org/details/historyofnewbedf01peas
183

Photo: Millicent Library ML 0286 http://www.flickr.com/photos/spinnerpub/3308880267/

William Bradford Double House
Center Street, Fairhaven, c. 1890
The Bradford’s owned the far half of this double house. These houses were destroyed when the Town Hall was built in 1892, and
this photo was taken when William Bradford’s side of the house was being dismantled (?). Fairhaven was a part of New Bedford
until 1812, and Henry Huttleston Rogers tore down several homes to make way for the grand institutional buildings he donated. 184


Center St., Fairhaven, Bradford Double House
To the right is the double house that Wm. Bradford. To the far left was the home of Capt. Joshua
Grinnell. Dr. Atwood’s house in the middle was also destroyed to make way for the new town hall. 185

Capt. Joshua Bradford’s Home
Map of Fairhaven, 1871 Grinnell Home Demolished to make
Bradford’s Studio way for town hall.
Location of Brass Plaque F. W. Beers, New York Houses demolished
for Millicent Library

http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/7972/Rotate/Fair+Haven+Town/Bristol+County+1871/Massachusetts/ 186

Bradford & Bierstadt:
Grew up in Old Dartmouth &
became friends & colleagues.
Left: Bradford visited Beirstadt at Malkasten
Irvington on Hudson, where Moses Grinnell also lived.

William Bradford, 1878
Creator: Bradley & Rulofson, NBWM #00.127.27

William Bradford Sailing Ships & Arctic Seas by R. C. Kugler
187

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/archives/image/4084/image http://user.xmission.com/~emailbox/glenda/bierstadt/malkasten.html

Bierstadt’s Malkasten. Irvington on Hudson
“The base dimensions of the house were 100 feet by 75 feet. Within was a studio 30 feet wide by 30 feet high with 20-foot-tall sliding glass windows
outside and 20-foot-tall sliding doors inside that opened to a library/music room. When opened, the two rooms became one that was 70 feet long, a
good size space to view his canvases of up to fifteen feet by nine feet.” Moses Grinnell’s estate was between Malkasten and the Hudson River.
http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/rob/?p=606 188

Chas. Bierstadt, photographer http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/archives/set/70/bierstadt_collection_1863-1957.

Bierstadt’s Studio & Library at Malkasten, Irvington, NY
Moses was a neighbor of Albert Bierstadt; and Henry & Joseph must have often visited their brother, nieces, and nephew along the
Hudson River. Henry & Moses Grinnell, William Bradford, and Albert Bierstadt had common Old Dartmouth Roots; and Bierstadt and
Bradford had adjacent studios in Manhattan where Grinnell, Minturn offices and wharf were located (slides 507+). Thus, it is highly
likely that the Grinnell family knew Albert Bierstadt and William Bradford and visited the above studio when they were in Irvington.
189

Photo: New York Public Library. Taken long after the artists died.

Bradford & Bierstadt Tenth Street Studios
The artist-friends from Old Dartmouth had adjacent studios in this building, with a connecting door.
“Thomas Bailey Aldrich wrote in 1866: … on the ground floor are the studios of Whittredge, Bradford, Dana, Beard, Thompson the sculptor, Le Clear,
Guy, and Bierstadt. The second floor is occupied by Church, McEntee, Leutze, Hays, Hart, and Gignoux. Mr. Tuckerman, the author, has a pleasant study
and library on this floor. On the third story are Gifford, Hubbard, Suydam, Shattuck, Thorndike, Haseltine, de Haas, Brown, Casilear, and Martin.”
Text: http://helenadekaygilder.org/10th/index.htm
190

Tenth Street Studio of Albert Bierstadt & William Merritt Chase
Photo when occupied by Chase, c. 1880

“William Merritt Chase (who took over Bierstadt’s studio…” from Albert Bierstadt: Painter of the American West by Gordon Hendricks pg. 93.
“Richard Morris Hunt was the architect that designed the building. (He was William Morris Hunt's brother, the artist and teacher in Boston…
This studio building was the center of the art world in New York City for many years. Winslow Homer, John La Farge, William Merritt Chase,
Frederic Church [William Bradford, Albert Bierstadt, Mark Twain]… and over 150 other artists were tenants at one time or another.”
Photo: Archives of American Art Text: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/william-merritt-chases-10th-street-studio-new-york-ny-5392
191

"Reception at the Tenth Street Studios”
from "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper” 1869
http://helenadekaygilder.org/10th/index.htm 192

“Sailboats on the Hudson at Irvington” by Albert Bierstadt, 1889
Moses Grinnell owned 38 acres between Bierstadt’s Malkasten and the river, including the waterfront (slides 210-214). This view is near the
two Victorian mansions that Moses built. He purchased this property in 1850, which was the first year of the U. S. Grinnell Expedition,
Henry’s first expedition. 1850 was also the year that Capt. Cornelius died, and it seems likely that the will of this old sea captain, ship owner,
and banker provided some of the funds for these large expenditures. That his sons could finance arctic expeditions and purchase 38 acres on
the Hudson River was only part of patriot Cornelius Grinnell’s legacy to his family and country. Irving Grinnell, Moses’s son, had an estate on
the Hudson near Poughkeepsie called Netherwood (slide 548+). It was also destroyed, and the land is now part of Bowdoin Park.
Private Collection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bierstadt_Albert_Sailboats_on_the_Hudson_at_Irvington.jpg 193


“Bartholomew Gosnold at Cuttyhunk”
by Albert Bierstadt, 1858
Albert Bierstadt grew up in New Bedford, and most boats passing in and out of New Bedford Harbor sail by the little island of Cuttyhunk.
https://www.1000museums.com/enlarge/201742

194

“Sunset Light, Wind River Range of the Rocky Mountains”
by Albert Bierstadt, 1861 (39” X 60”)
New Bedford Free Public Library
195

“Rocky Mountains in the Selkirk Range, near
the Canadian Border, Mount Sir Donald”
by Albert Bierstadt
New Bedford Free Public Library
(83.5 × 57.5 in.)

Bierstadt Bros: NBWM #1986.34.2

Albert Bierstadt
196

“Sunset near the Platte River or Salt Lick at Sunset Glow”
by Albert Bierstadt: New Bedford Free Public Library (39 × 60 in.)
197

Photographer: Fred W. Palmer NBWM #2000.100.80.159
Bierstadt Family Home, New Bedford
Acushnet Avenue & Mill Street (DEMOLISHED) 198

NBWM #1986.34.3

NBWM #1986.34.1 NBWM #1986.34.4

“Sunlight and Shade”
Sketch by Albert Bierstadt, 1862
Gift of Miss Mary M. Grinnell 199

Albert Bierstadt’s New Bedford Studio

Portrait of Albert Bierstadt
NBWM #2000.100.2603

William Bradford Sailing Ships & Arctic Seas by Richard C. Kugler, © 2003 NBWM, p. 11

200

Albert Bierstadt
Charles Bierstadt

Photo: D. J. Pimentel

Albert Bierstadt Family, New Bedford Rural Cemetery
Front row: Charles Bierstadt; Henry & wife Christina; Eliza Bierstadt; Albert Bierstadt.
“Albert Bierstadt created grandiose, dramatic scenes of the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevadas that lured many people to visit those sites. Bierstadt was born in
Solingen, near Dusseldorf, Germany [1830], and sailed as a baby with his family who settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts… In 1853, he returned to Dusseldorf where
he studied at the Royal Academy with landscape painters Andreas Aschenbach and Karl Friedman Lessing… In 1857, he returned to the United States and painted the
White Mountains of New Hampshire, and in 1858, exhibited for the first time at the National Academy of Design in New York… In January 1859, he heard a lecture in
New Bedford on the American West by Bayard Taylor… and this exposure stirred an interest that played a large part in his future career. Meanwhile, he had settled into
New York City where he lived and occupied a studio in the Tenth Street Building, which had 25 studio spaces and became well known for its prestigious occupants…”
http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?searchtype=BIO&artist=6467
201

Grinnell Mansion
(Delmonico’s)
Fifth Avenue
In the late 1850’s, Moses retired from 30+
years as president of Fish, Grinnell & Co.
and Grinnell, Minturn & Co. He sold his
mansion on Fifth Ave. to Delmonico’s and
moved to his country estate in Irvington-on
-Hudson (slides 209+). The following is
from Delmonico’s web site:
East 14th Street - Six years after opening
the Chambers Street restaurant, Lorenzo
moved again further uptown to Union
Square. On April 9, 1862, Lorenzo opened
a converted mansion at Fifth Avenue and
East 14th Street into the most luxurious
restaurant that had ever existed in New
York. The entrance was No. 1 East 14th
Street, one block west of Union Square.
The reviews were outstanding. Wrote a
Tribune representative: "As New York
spreads herself, so must the House of
Delmonico dilate. Before Fifth Avenue was
built, there was the downtown Delmonico;
when it was achieved, there were the
Chambers Street and Broadway
Delmonico’s; and now that Central Park is
undertaken, precedent to a line of noble
mansions to its walls, Delmonico has
spread up to the corner of Fifth Avenue and
Fourteenth Street…
http://www.delmonicosny.com/about,
77,26,Delmonico's_History.html


202

Moses Grinnell Mansion, 14th St. & Fifth Ave., c. 1865
http://collections.mcny.org/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult_VPage&VBID=24UP1GULSGHJ&SMLS=1&RW=1824&RH=936
Museum of the City of New York 203

Moses Grinnell’s 5th Ave. mansion under the ownership of Delmonico’s.
“New York City : 12th annual dinner of the Dartmouth College Alumni Association of New York, at Delmonico's, Wednesday evening, January 19th.” [1876]
New York Public Library Digital Gallery: Image ID: 809549 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_H._Grinnell
204

Lady Franklin visited Henry Grinnell at his home on Bond Street, Manhattan.

Lady Franklin’s Revenge by Ken McGoogan, p. 397

The Grinnell brothers knew Abraham Lincoln & General Grant; and they all
made large contributions to the Union Cause. Henry was the more
conservative brother; but he was not a Southern sympathizer in any way, as
the above seems to state. Like most Brits, Lady Franklin was anti-slavery, Albert Gallatin’s Residence, Bond Street
too. (Treasury Secretary & NYU Founder)
Bond Street, 1830’s Henry’s home was similar.

“The architecture on Bond drew the attention of the 1833 guidebook New York as It Is, which claimed the mansions on Bond “may vie, for
beauty and taste, with European palaces.” Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) was a Swiss-American ethnologist, politician,
diplomat, congressman, and the longest-serving United States Secretary of the Treasury. In 1831, he founded... New York University.”
http://mediahistoryny.wordpress.com/bond-street/ & Wikipedia

According to Sturgis S. Dunham (below), Bond St. was far from a fashionable address when Lady Franklin visited Henry. Since Henry spent
most of his fortune on Arctic exploration, he could not afford to move to a 38-acre estate on the Hudson like his brother Moses (slides 209+).

http://thehistorybox.com/ny_city/nycity_historical_bond_st_pt_1__article00344.htm
205

Hetty Green was married at Henry’s home on July 11, 1867
Hetty Green was a great granddaughter of Henry’s grandfather, Gideon Howland (Sr.) of Round Hill.

Hetty
Married
at
Henry’s
N.Y. Home

The Witch of Wall Street by Sparkes & Moore
206

Hetty Green & Henry Grinnell

Henry’s
NY Home
&
Hetty
Green

The Witch of Wall Street by Sparkes & Moore
207

Hetty Green
The New York Times
July 4, 1916
Her [Hetty Green’s] father was a
successful merchant and ship owner in
the days when it meant more to own
ships hailing from New Bedford than it
does now… He became through
marriage a partner in the firm of I.
Howland, Jr., & Co. Coming to New
York in 1850 he became associated with
William T. Coleman & Co, shipping
merchants… When he died in 1865 he
left a fortune of $9,000,000, which Hetty
Green, his only child, inherited… She
had had frequent trips to New York, and
she came here finally to stay when she
was 29 years old, in 1863, joining her
father at his home here. She was
chaperoned by the Grinnell family, with
whom she was connected on her
mother’s side, a fact which meant much
in those days and gave her entry in
exclusive circles [including the top
echelons of Wall Street]…

(Partial Article)

Shortly after her father’s death, her aunt, Miss[Sylvia Ann] Howland, died.
This aunt left a fortune amounting to $4,000,000… In this second suit
Hetty Robinson alleged that her aunt, being on bad terms with her father,
and not wishing him to get any of the Howland money, requested her to
make a will excluding her father from any share in her estate, and agreed
to make a similar will which would leave the aunt’s fortune to the niece.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0DE4DD103DE333A25757C0A9619C946796D6CF&scp=20&sq=hetty+green&st=p 208

Moses Grinnell retired to Irvington, NY & was a neighbor of Albert Bierstadt & Washington Irving.

http://www.museumofwashingtonirving.com/ Creator: Frederick Langenheim, 1856 New York Public Library #1531122

Washington Irving’s Sunnyside Moses Grinnell’s Wolferts Dell, 1856
“Washington Irving designed Sunnyside and its grounds “One of the first merchants to build here around 1850 was Moses Hicks
himself, collaborating with his neighbor, the artist George Grinnell, a one-time United States representative, real estate developer,
Harvey. "It is a beautiful spot," Irving wrote, "capable of being merchant, and financier. His high society connections extended beyond
made a little paradise." Beginning in 1835, he expanded a small business; in 1836 Grinnell married Julia Irving, niece of the famous author
cottage in stages, combining his sentimental interests in the Washington Irving. It was immediately north of Irving's "Sunnyside" that
architecture of colonial New York and buildings he knew in Grinnell settled in the early 1850s. For himself, he built a mansion known
Scotland and Spain. The house became a three-dimensional as "Wolfert's Dell”; about the same time or shortly thereafter, he built a
autobiography. The grounds reflect Washington Irving's second mansion, similar in appearance to his own, on the northern portion
romantic view of art, nature, and history.” of his 38-acre estate. In the 1850s, Grinnell's niece, Mary Russell Grinnell,
resided in the northerly mansion with her husband Henry Holdredge.”
http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/yasinsac/spratt/spratt.html
209

Bierstadt built Malkasten adjacent to Moses Grinnell’s Wolferts Dell.

Albert Bierstadt
Malkasten Artist

Albert Beirstadt’s Estate
Built 1864, Destroyed 1882
(slides 187+) Moses H. Grinnell’s niece

Wolferts Dell M. H. Grinnell

Moses Grinnell’s Estate
(Built 1850, Destroyed)
M. H. Grinnell

Sunnyside
Washington Irving’s Estate Hudson River

(Open to Public) Washington Irving

Plate 26: Hastings upon Hudson - Dobbs Ferry – Irvington, 1868
Creator: Beers, F. W., New York Public Library ID: 1516818

1861 Map by F. W. Beers
“Malkasten’s architect was the English-born Jacob Wrey Mould… With Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, Mould designed some of Central Park’s
most-cherished features including Belevedere Castle and Bethesda Terrace. With Vaux, Mould also designed the original buildings of the American Museum
of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Also in connection with the Malkasten, or the neighborhood in which it was built, Mould was brought
to New York to design the All Souls Church [Unitarian] by a fellow named Moses Hicks Grinnell. Grinnell owned an estate near Malkasten…”
http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/rob/?p=606
Moses was a member of the All Souls Church, and his funeral was held there. He was a Commissioner of Central Park 1860-1869.
http://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/commissioners
After her parents died, Joseph adopted Cornelia Grinnell, youngest child of Cornelius Grinnell, Jr. She married N. P. Willis and they had an estate at Cornwall-
on-Hudson called Idlewild (slide 491). It was also designed by Calvert Vaux, and it was about 20 miles from Irvington.

http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/2593/Greenburgh+Town/New+York+and+its+Vicinity+1867/New+York/
210

Moses Grinnell’s 1850 Estate
Wolferts Dell, Irvington, N.Y.
Photo c. 1932
“The columned porch was likely added to the house by the
Hopkinses or the owners just before them. It was fashionable
at this time to remodel the older dark Victorian homes then
seen as out of taste. Large columned porches became a trendy
ideal on some of the old Hudson River homes in this area.”

1927 Ad: “22 Acres with 600 feet of Hudson River Shore Front”

http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/
ryr&CISOPTR=372&CISOBOX=1&REC=2
Robert Yarnall Richie photograph collection, Southern Methodist University

211

Moses Grinnell’s Estate, Irvington, N.Y. c. 1932
“The house [sans columns] was built around 1850 by Moses Grinnell for his niece, Mary Russell, and her husband…”
http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/ryr&CISOPTR=362&CISOBOX=1&REC=1 212

Verusselle on Moses Grinnell’s Estate c. 1920
The exterior walls of the original Victorian mansion built by Moses were
surrounded by neoclassical columns, and the result was named Verusselle.

It is of interest to note that the Library of Congress lists
the mansion that Moses originally built for his niece as
merely the Lyndhurst… Cottage; and the grounds are
now included in the Lyndhurst estate (slide 215).
Lyndhurst was designed in 1838 by Alexander Jackson
Davis; and in 1845 he designed a Gothic Cottage for
William J. Rotch in New Bedford (slides 617+). Mr.
Rotch lived about two blocks from Joseph Grinnell, and
it was his grandfather who employed Cornelius Grinnell
as a captain in the the 1790’s (slide 10). After being
abandoned for many years, Verusselle was used in the
TV series “Dark Shadows” in the 1960’s. Like
Beirstadt’s Malkasten, it burned to the ground (1969).
“The South End of Tarrytown, by virtue of its location
25 miles north of Manhattan, contained one of the
greatest concentrations of estates along the Hudson
River. Washington Irving, who penned The Legend of
1891 Map Sleepy Hollow and other famous tales, settled here in
Wolferts Dell was the original 1835… His neighborhood became quite crowded after
name of Moses Grinnell’s estate. Lyndhurst 1850, when the Hudson River Rail Road enabled
The vacant land is now included merchant millionaires to commute from home to New
in the Lyndhurst estate. York City in under an hour… by the 1880s many homes
fell into disuse owing to high maintenance costs or
Wolferts Dell because their owners chose newly fashionable locales
Moses Grinnell
Wolferts Dell Original Owner such as Newport, RI, for their summer retreats. ”
Moses Grinnell’s Estate
Hudson
(Moses died in 1877)
River

Sunnyside
Washington Irving’s Estate

http://lyndhurst.org/history/virtual-tour/
213

“…Lyndhurst, residence in Irvington, New York. Cottage entrance, view I." 1943 Oct. 9. Library of Congress,
Prints and Photographs Division, Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Reproduction Number LC-G612-T-44125 DLC

Verusselle on Moses Grinnell’s Estate, Irvington, NY
Even though the Victorian mansion built by Moses Grinnell was dramatically remodeled, it still illustrates the financial success that
Henry, Moses, and Joseph attained from the solid foundation they had been given in New Bedford by the extended Grinnell &
Howland family. Moses also maintained a second home in New Bedford, which he left to his nephew Lawrence. The business
acumen of the Grinnell-Howland family combined with the golden era of whaling produced three brothers/partners who worked and
played on the world stage along with European royalty, robber barons like Jay Gould & “Hell Hound” Rogers, and artists like Wm.
Bradford & Albert Bierstadt. Not exactly at the same level; but these Grinnell brothers were internationally known in their day.
214

Jay Gould’s Lyndhurst (open to public)
Next door to the estates of Albert Bierstadt & Moses Grinnell
In one generation, the sons of a common New Bedford sailor became associated with robber barons and European royalty.
Julia Grinnell, who was the only daughter of Moses & Julia Irving Grinnell, married George Bowdoin, who was a personal
friend and partner of J. P. Morgan. George was a neighbor and close friend of Julia’s brother, Irving (slides 548+).
http://lyndhurst.org/history/virtual-tour/
215

Chapter III. Tall Ships, Bradford’s Fairhaven, & Henry H. Rogers

NBWM #2001.100.4508

“Bark ORIOLE of Fairhaven”
by William Bradford 216


"Clark's Point Light, New Bedford”
by William Bradford, 1854 217


“New Bedford Harbor at Sunset”
“The full-rigged ship under sail at left is the ship OTHELLO (based on the New Bedford Evening Standard's account of 7/8/1858,
describing the Bierstadt-Hopkins New Bedford Art Exhibition of 1858) belonging to T. and A. R. Nye.” (NBWM records)
William Bradford Sailing Ships & Arctic Seas by Director Emeritus Richard C. Kugler, © 2003 New Bedford Whaling Museum, pg. 99
218

NBWM #1980.43

“Ship TWILIGHT”
“The framed painting shows the ship TWILIGHT from the port side, full rigged, under full sail, and flying the Phillips house and American
flags. The seas are rough and very blue with a puffy clouded sky. Dumpling Rock Lighthouse is at the right, and two men are in a small
two-masted boat in the left foreground. The water and the small boat likely are by Bradford's mentor, Albert Van Beest.” (NBWM records)

NBWM #1975.18

“The Port of New Bedford from Crow Island”
“Also known as ‘New Bedford Harbor from Fairhaven’… As his observation point, Bradford used Crow Island, a
short distance from the Fairhaven shore and just south of the New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge. To the left is Fairhaven
where at Union Wharf, a ship is hove down for a crew of shipwrights to replace her copper.” (NBWM records)

NBWM #1984.20

“Bark J. D. THOMPSON”
“This ship portrait is of the Bark J. D. THOMPSON at anchor in New Bedford Harbor…” (NBWM records)

NBWM #1946.20.1

“Whaleship NORTHERN LIGHT”
222

NBWM #1934.6.1

Bark VIGILANT
by William Bradford
“The bark VIGILANT is shown starboard view at anchor with sails furled.
Fort Phoenix is at the left horizon while sloops, a schooner, two large vessels, and Palmer's Island Light are on the right.” (NBWM records) 223

NBWM #1990.1.3
Whaleship SYREN QUEEN of Fairhaven by William Bradford
Gift of Elizabeth D. Belshaw and Barbara D. Clemons

NBWM #1998.43
JIREH SWIFT by William Bradford
Gift of Sally Swift in memory of Stephen Hathaway Swift
“This ship portrait of the whaler JIREH SWIFT shows her at anchor in New Bedford harbor in September of 1853…
Clark's Point Light is in the right background while Dumpling Rock is in the distance.” (NBWM records)

NBWM #2000.34
Ship YOUNG HECTOR
by William Bradford
“YOUNG HECTOR setting studding sails inbound off Dumpling Light with what is probably a pilot schooner astern.” (NBWM records) 226

NBWM #2005.20

“Hove to for a Pilot”
by William Bradford
“Homeward bound whale ship in Vineyard Sound with Gay Head lighthouse, Martha's Vineyard in the background.”
227

“Ship CHARLES W. MORGAN
at a New Bedford Wharf”
by Clifford Warren Ashley, 1925

The CHARLES W. MORGAN was owned by
Edward Mott Robinson, the husband of
Abby Howland and father of Hetty Green.

228

NBWM #1923.36
“WANDERER Breaking Out Oil”
by Clifford Warren Ashley
229

“Stripping the WANDERER”
by Clifford Warren Ashley, 1923

WANDERER
“Last whaling ship to sail from New Bedford. On
Wanderer's last voyage (1924), the vessel anchored
off Martha's Vineyard to wait out an approaching
storm. During the night the anchor let go and the
ship was ultimately destroyed on the rocks.”
http://www.mattapoisetthistoricalsociety.org/whalingships_history.htm

230

Artist: R. Swain Gifford, 1899 NBWM #2001.100.4656

“Port Clarence, Alaska”
R. Swain Gifford was another Fairhaven artist. He worked in NY with Albert VanBeest who collaborated on several paintings
with William Bradford. His daughter Rose married Russell Grinnell in 1900 (slide 540). Russell won the 1928 Bermuda Race
and became president of Grinnell Sprinkler in Providence, which was founded by his father, Frederick (slides 3 & 526+).
https://www.1000museums.com/enlarge/201740/ 231

Artist: Lemuel D. Eldred, 1900 NBWM #1981.50.2

“Oxford Point, Fairhaven”
“This view of Oxford Point at Fairhaven shows a low rocky beach in the right foreground. The smooth water leads to a
cluster of buildings on the point of land to the right. A two-story white tower which was C. H. Gifford's studio is seen above
the roof lines.” (NBWM records) Lemuel Eldred was a protégé of William Bradford and painted in his studio on Union
Wharf. Eldred purchased his master’s studio around the time of his death in 1892 and moved it to this part of Fairhaven.
https://www.1000museums.com/enlarge/201735/
232


“Off Fort Phoenix”
by William Bradford
Fairhaven was originally part of Dartmouth. It separated from New Bedford in 1812.

233

NBWM #1965.94.2

Fort Phoenix Beach
One block from Bradford’s harbor-side home on Fort Street
234


“Wilbur's Point, Sconticut Neck, Fairhaven”
by William Bradford
235

“Funeral of Mr. Bradford” (cont.)

Photographer: Joseph S. Martin NBWM #2000.100.85.364

Rogers School, Fairhaven
Given by H. H. Rogers, friend of William Bradford

“The floral tribute by Mr. Henry H. Rogers to the
memory of his friend William Bradford…”

Fairhaven Star from Millicent Library Archives
236

Fairhaven High School
Gift of Henry Huttleston Rogers, friend of William Bradford
Henry Huttleston Rogers donated several buildings to the Town of Fairhaven where he was born. He also donated the Commercial Bank
Building in New Bedford to the Old Dartmouth Historical Society (slide 249) and the Center School in Mattapoisett (slide 246). 237

NBWM #2000.100.47

Henry Huttleson Rogers
1840-1909
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Huttleston_Rogers

Photographer: Norman Fortier NBWM #2004.11.19541.1

Millicent Library, Fairhaven, gift of Henry Huttleston Rogers
Henry Rogers was a close friend of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), who visited him often in Fairhaven. Clemens spoke at
the dedication of the Town Hall across the street from the library on Feb. 22, 1894. This hand-written speech now hangs on
the library wall near Rogers’ desk from Standard Oil with the Mark Twain plaque and Bierstadt painting in the next slide.
238

Owned by Millicent Library http://www.millicentlibrary.org/msimon.htm

“Martha Simon” by Albert Bierstadt
“Martha Simon was the last of the Native Americans in Fairhaven. She was a Wampanoag…
This painting is by Albert Bierstadt—a departure for him from the panoramic landscapes of the
West for which he is best known. He presented the painting to Henry Huttleston Rogers…”

Mark Twain Plaque in Millicent Library
Henry Huttleston Rogers: Portrait of a “Capitalist” by Earl J. Dias, pg. 44
239

NBWM Research Library

Rogers’ Mansion across Fort St. from William Bradford’s Home
Rogers and Bradford originally had older homes in the town center, and this mansion was built shortly after Bradford died. Like Bierstadt’s
“Martha Simon”, at least one grand Bradford painting must have hung here or in Rogers’ New York mansion [research needed]. When he died on
May 19, 1909, Rogers’ New York Times obituary stated the following: “Henry Huttleston Rogers, one of the foremost of the country’s captains of
industry, and a notable figure for many years in financial and corporation development in this country, died suddenly at his home, 3 East Seventy-
eighth Street… As to his fortune, the estimates of Wall Street men varied yesterday from $50,000,000 to $75,000,000.” (slide 262) 240

Creator: Bloomingdale, Harry NBWM #1981.33.15

Philanthropist Henry H. Roger's Summer Mansion
“Roger's Mansion - built by Henry H. Rogers in 1895, featured 85 rooms and 18 bedrooms, it was torn down in 1915 at the
request of Henry's son Harry.” Rogers’ best man was a Cornelius Grinnell (1839-1922) of Fairhaven, who was also Rogers’
brother-in-law (slide 263). In addition to being his best man, this Cornelius Grinnell worked at Standard Oil, NY with Rogers. 241

Unitarian Memorial Church
Gift of Henry Huttleston Rogers

(continued from previous slide) “’Hell Hound’
Rogers was the son of Rowland and Mary Eldridge
(Huttleston) Rogers, both of early New England
ancestry… He was born at Mattapoisett, Mass., but
was brought up at Fairhaven, near by, where in
boyhood he carried newspapers and delivered
groceries. He later served for a time as a railroad
brakeman and baggage-man. He was twenty-one
when the newly discovered oil fields in Pennsylvania
drew fortune seekers to that region. Rogers and a
friend, Charles P. Ellis, went together to the Oil City
district, each having about $600 in savings. They
presently built a small refinery at a cost of $1,800,
borrowing the additional funds necessary.”
from the Dictionary of American Biography, 1935
http://www.millicentlibrary.org/hhr-dab.htm

Photographer: Joseph Tirrell
NBWM #2000.100.85.366
242

Fairhaven Town Hall
“On a visit to his home town in 1862, Rogers
was married to Abbie Palmer Gifford. In
Pennsylvania he met several men destined to
become leaders in the oil industry, among them
Charles Pratt who in 1866 asked Rogers to
become associated with him in his refinery
business in Brooklyn. There Rogers devised the
machinery by which naphtha was first
successfully separated from the crude oil-an
epochal invention for the industry (Current
Literature, July 1909). A patent (No.120,-539)
was granted on Oct. 31, 1871. When the
Rockefellers organized the Standard Oil
Company in 1874, they took over the Pratt
business and with it Rogers, now recognized as
both an expert oil man and an able executive
with a genius for organization. He was made
chairman of the manufacturing committee of the
new corporation, a little later a trustee, and
before 1890 he was vice-president. He conceived
the idea of long pipe lines for transporting oil,
and organized the National Transit Company, the
first corporation with such an object.”
from the Dictionary of American Biography, 1935
http://www.millicentlibrary.org/hhr-dab.htm

243

Fairhaven

Henry H. Rogers,
Mark Twain, &
Booker T. Washington
“Known but to a very few, through
Booker T. Washington, "Hell Hound
Rogers" was a secret philanthropist,
encouraging the Negro educator and
aiding in his educational efforts for
African Americans by deploying a new
concept which came to be known as
anonymous donor matching funds to
contribute very large amounts of money
in support of several teacher’s colleges
(now Hampton University and Tuskegee
University) and literally dozens of small
schools in the South over the 15 year
period of the Twain-Rogers friendship.
Dr. Washington only revealed this
situation in June 1909 just weeks after
Rogers' death as he made a pre-planned
tour along the Virginian Railway,
traveling in Rogers' private rail car…to
improve race relations and economic
conditions for African Americans along
the route of the new railway.”
The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol. 10, page 122,
U. of Illinois Press. http://en.wikipedia.org

244

Unitarian Memorial Church Harrop Center
http://www.danamorris.net/Church/memorialchurchindex.html
245

Center School, Mattapoisett
Rogers’ father was born in Mattapoisett, next to Fairhaven.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Huttleston_Rogers 246

Philanthropist Henry Huttleston Rogers & Helen Keller

Dedicated to Henry H. Rogers
by Helen Keller

Millicent Library Collection
247

Helen Keller’s Inscription to Mrs. Rogers
“In May 1896, at the home in New York City of editor- essayist Laurence Hutton, Rogers and Mark Twain first saw Helen Keller, then
sixteen years old. Although she had been made blind and mute by illness as a young child, she had been reached by her teacher-
companion, Anne Sullivan. When she was 20, Keller passed with distinction the entrance examination to Radcliffe College [Harvard].
Twain praised “this marvelous child” and hoped that Helen would not be forced to retire from her studies because of poverty. He urged
the Rogers to aid Keller and to solicit other Standard Oil chiefs to help her. The Rogers paid for her education at Radcliffe and
arranged a monthly stipend. Keller dedicated her book, The World I Live In, To Henry H. Rogers, my Dear Friend of Many Years. On
the fly leaf of Rogers' copy, she wrote, To Mrs. Rogers: The best world I live in is the kindness of friends like you and Mr. Rogers.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Huttleston_Rogers#Helen_Keller.27s_education
H. H. Rogers was by far the most successful industrialist and greatest philanthropist to come out of the Old Dartmouth area. 248

New Bedford Bank of Commerce
(First Building of the Whaling Museum)

Photographer: Charles S. Baylies NBWM #2000.100.48.5 (detail)

Given by H. H. Rogers to the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1906
The “Bedford Bank” was founded by Cornelius Grinnell, John Howland, Isaac Howland, Jr., etc. in 1803. Today, the
Wattles Family Gallery occupies the first floor. In the foyer are the above marble tablets to Henry Rogers and brass plaques
to Cornelius Grinnell, several Howlands, and others (slide 422). Upon entering the gallery, William Bradford’s famous
Sealers Crushed by Icebergs is facing the visitor (slide 152). Thus, the two most famous people to come out of Fairhaven,
the robber baron and the artist, became friends & neighbors and are honored in the same geographical location. As will be
related, Cornelius Grinnell was an almost forgotten Dartmouth patriot and founder of an international shipping dynasty.
249

Capt. Cornelius Grinnell
Revolutionary War Soldier, Ship Captain, and Banker
Cornelius was captured by the British and never promoted beyond private. After the war, he was captain of the ships REBECCA, BEDFORD,
MARY, and others (?). He was an owner of sixteen New Bedford registered ships and a founder of Fish & Grinnell and Grinnell, Minturn &
Co. The below plaque is in the bank building given by Henry Huttleston Rogers to the Old Dartmouth Historical Society (NBWM).

Cornelius was a director of the Bedford Bank when it
opened as the first bank in New Bedford in 1803. In Jan.
1804, he was a founding partner of Howland & Grinnell
with his brother-in-law, Capt. William Howland; and he
was a founding director of the Bedford Marine Insurance
Co. in 1805. After closing its doors during the War of
1812, the Bedford Bank was re-opened as the Bedford
Commercial bank in 1816; and Capt. Cornelius continued
as a director from 1816 to 1831. His brother-in-law Capt.
John H. Howland was also a director of the bank & the
insurance company, and James Howland was a director of
the Bedford Marine Ins. Co. Capt. Cornelius was an
incorporator of the New Bedford Institution for Savings
when it opened on Aug. 15, 1825. In Cuffee Muster Roll
about the famous black Capt. Paul Cuffee, Professor
Lamont Thomas stated: “The government of
Massachusetts was desperately in need of money and they
were taxing all the families in Dartmouth, Mass., a very
poor community.” (PBS History Detectives, 2004 #10) This visual
history should demonstrate how parts of Old Dartmouth
was transformed into a very affluent community by the
whaling industry during the lives of Cornelius and Sylvia
(Howland) Grinnell.

Plaque at Water St. entrance to Wattles Family Gallery, NBWM
250

Creator: Joseph S. Martin NBWM #2000.100.85.317

Rogers Building Exhibit, c. 1931
“The history of the National Bank of Commerce is of peculiar interest. In 1803 the town's business had increased sufficiently to warrant the establishment
of a bank and the Bedford Bank was incorporated with a capital of $60,000… In 1812 the old charter had expired and as the country was at war with
England, the state of the business was deemed too precarious for the institution to carry on its business transactions… Among the first directors were John
Howland, Cornelius Crinnell, William Rotch, Jr., and Thomas Nye. There was no bank in New Bedford for an internal for four years, but in 1816 the
Bedford Commercial Bank was established with a capital of $100,000… Ricketson was elected as cashier at an annual salary of $599, and John Avery
Parker, Cornelius, Grinnell, Gideon Howland, George Howland, Seth Russell Jr., were chosen directors, with George Howland their president.”
New Bedford, Massachusetts: Its History Industries, Institutions, and Attractions: by Pease, Hough, & Sawyer, 1889
251

NBWM #1988.6.401
Rogers Building, Whaling Artifact Gallery c. 1931
“The old bank building was a quaint affair with subterranean vaults to defy would be burglars. George Howland was president until his death in 1851, when, Edward
Mott Robinson was elected to the position. He served until 1860 when Thomas Nye, Jt. Succeeded him. Thomas S. Hathaway held the office from 1869 to 1878, and
Francis Hathaway held the office from 1878 on. The Bedford Commercial bank was organized as the National Bank of Commerce on December 19, 1864. By 1874 their
capital stock was one million dollars and they had a surplus of $200,000. Their imposing building was erected in 1883 and was constructed by brick and brownstone…”
New Bedford, Massachusetts: Its History Industries, Institutions, and Attractions: by Pease, Hough, & Sawyer, 1889 252

Creator: Allen, James W. NBWM #1987.26.75.a

William Bradford’s Home
16 Fort Street
This view looks the same today.

William Bradford Sailing Ships & Arctic Seas , R. C. Kugler, p. 42 253

Pearce Collection NBWM #2009.2.87

“Fairhaven, along the shore from the Fort”
This is the tower on the Italianate Victorian house next to the Bradford’s.
Fort Phoenix is out of the picture on the far right.
254

Rogers Bradford

Roger’s Mansion & Bradford’s Home
William’s wife lived here until she died in 1907, and his daughter lived here until she died in 1940. They were both named Mary.
255

Photo: Millicent Library
William Bradford’s Rogers’ Summer Estate, Fort Phoenix
Fort St. Home http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Huttleston_Rogers

1888-1892
millicentlibrary.org/hhrogers.htm http://henryhrogers.blogspot.com/
256

Future Site of Map of Fairhaven, 1895 Rogers’ Summer Estate

Town Hall Millicent Library Bradford’s Studio Mary Bradford’s Home Fort Phoenix
Location of Brass Plaque William died in 1892

http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/8009/Fair+Haven/Bristol+County+1895/Massachusetts/
257

Photographer: Unknown NBWM #1984.34.7

“Women in a Field with Fort Phoenix Beacon in Background”
This photo was taken near William Bradford’s home. Henry Huttleston Roger’s daughter Clara gave Ft. Phoenix to the town.
258

Photographer: John S. Johnston Library of Congress LC-D4-62119

“KANAWHA, Glencove, N.Y.Y.C”
Owned by H. H. Rogers: 200 ft., 471-ton
“Rogers was a developer of coal and railroad properties in West Virginia along the Kanawha River… Manned by a crew of 39 people,
Kanawha was often compared by the newspapers of the day to the North Star, the yacht of a member of the Vanderbilt family.”
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994019038/PP/ 259

Photographer: Tirrell, Joseph NBWM #2000.100.85.359

KANAWHA Passing Fort Phoenix
Clara Broughton, Henry Rogers’ daughter, donated Fort Phoenix to the town in 1926; and it is now a park.
260

On the Yacht KANAWHA
Rogers and Mark Twain
The black man in the photo was probably a pilot who had been
brought aboard in Jamaica. Rogers’ letters show that Booker T.
Washington went out on his yacht when he visited Fairhaven.
Unfortunately, very few photos of Rogers have survived; and most
of his personal records were destroyed.

“Henry H. Rogers purchased the Kanawha, then the fastest steam
yacht in American waters, from John P. Duncan in April 1901. White
and gleaming, it became a familiar sight in Fairhaven harbor – 227 feet
in length, with two engines, a high, sharp clipper bow, and a forward
Twain deck notable for its lavish dining quarters. Rogers used the yacht for
his frequent trips from New York to his 85-room Fairhaven mansion
and for many cruises along the New England coast and in the
Rogers Caribbean – with Mark Twain…[frequently a guest].”
A Pictorial History of Fairhaven, by Joseph D. Thomas & Marsha McCabe, Spinner Publications,
http://spinnerpub.com/Spinner_Photos.html
http://www.twainquotes.com/TwainRogersVA.html

Mark Twain to Rogers, March 4, 1894: “You have served me and my
family from ruin and humiliation. You have been to me the best friend
a man ever had, and yet you have never by any word made me feel the
weight of this deep obligation.”
Following by Prof. Earl J. Dias in Henry Huttleston Rogers, Portrait
of a Capitalist, 1974: “Unquestionably, the most famous friend in the
long list of Rogers’ boon companions was Samuel L. Clemens…
Rogers and Clemens enjoyed a companionship that extended over a
period of sixteen years – from 1893 to Rogers’ death in 1909. A mass
of correspondence between the two men is available in Mark Twains’s
Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, edited by Lewis Leary
and published in 1969 by the University of California Press.”

Photo: Millicent Library
MARK TWAIN Day by Day vol. III 1897-1904 261

Henry Huttleston Rogers’ NY Mansion
No. 3 East 78th Street

“Edmund Converse
commissioned mansion
architect C. P. H. Gilbert to
design his new home...
When construction was
completed in 1900,
Converse’s five-and-a-half
story residence looked
somewhat out of place on
the mostly-undeveloped
block. It would not be alone
for long. Within the next
few years the marble and
limestone mansions would
line the block, making it one
of the most prestigious
residential streets in the city.
The Converse family was
here only a few years before
Henry Huttleston Rogers
purchased the house.”

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?
http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/search?q=henry+huttleston+rogers res=9B02E3D8153EE733A25753C2A9639C946897D6CF
262

William
Bradford

Greenland
Boulder

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091105/PUB01/911050375

Rogers Mausoleum
Photo: New Bedford Standard-Times

Bradford, Grinnell, & Rogers

Left: H.H. Rogers & Cornelius Grinnell:
Brothers-in-Law
The above Cornelius Grinnell (1839-1922), buried to the right of
William Bradford’s boulder, was a son of Cornelius, Sr. (1799-) and
a grand nephew of Henry Grinnell. He married Sarah Gifford, who
was a sister of Abbie Gifford (wife of Henry Huttleston Rogers).
Henry Huttleston Rogers: Portrait of a “Capitalist” by Earl J. Dias, p. 52
263

Fort Phoenix


View from roof of Rogers’ Summer Mansion
William Bradford’s home is the next one to the right after the Victorian tower (barely visible).
Being an industrialist, Rogers thoroughly enjoyed his panoramic view of the mills and smokestacks.
264

Photo: Bierstadt Brothers NBWM #1940.21.3

“Fort Phoenix, Civil War Era” 265


“Shed left, open boat in foreground…”
266

NBWM #2006.36.58

“Kelly Marine, boatyard buildings, taken from street”
267

“Fishing schooner DELIA C. SMITH
in dry dock at Fairhaven”
NBWM #2008.31.17

268

Photographer: Willis, Henry P. NBWM #2000.100.440

“Schooners at Old South Wharf, Fairhaven”
These are the wharfs and ships that William Bradford observed and worked around his entire life.
269

Creator: Ashley, Clifford W. NBWM #1974.3.1.181
Fairhaven Waterfront - SUNBEAM 270


CHARLES W. MORGAN
Union Wharf, Fairhaven, where Bradford had his studio. New Bedford in background. 271


CHARLES W. MORGAN on Railway, Fairhaven
Near where William Bradford had his studio on Union Wharf. 272

CHARLES W. MORGAN on the Ways
Fairhaven
Creator: Ashley, Clifford W.
NBWM #1973.37.19.35

The CHARLES W. MORGAN was a Howland ship; and
one of the owners was Edward M. Robinson, the
husband of Abby Howland and father of Hetty Green.

http://archive.org/details/howlandheirsbein00emer 273


CHARLES W. MORGAN on Marine Railway, Fairhaven
274

Creator: O'Neil, John NBWM #2000.100.3795.2

“Steel schooner yacht hauled at Fairhaven”
[SEA FOX ?]
275

NBWM #1992.39.82

“Whaling bark WANDERER on the ways in Fairhaven”
276

NBWM #2006.36.58

Kelly Marine, boatyard buildings, Fairhaven
277

Creator: Allen, James W. NBWM #2000.100.1217

SACHEM
Gifford's Railway in Fairhaven

278

NBWM #1979.52.82
TAMERLANE
279

Creator: Church, Albert Cook NBWM #1979.52.15

JULDI MALLA II

280

Creator: Church, Albert Cook (attributed) NBWM #2008.31.17

“Sailboat on the ways at Pierce & Kilburn Boatyard, Fairhaven”
281

Creator: Topham, R. R NBWM #2009.2.54

“Peter Johnson's boat, Fairhaven Ferry Slip”
Railway terminal and train in background.

282

Schooner and Steamer ISLAND HOME off Fort Phoenix
283

Photographer: Henry P. Willis NBWM #2000.100.363.71

“Schooner Passing Through Draw”
New Bedford – Fairhaven bridge: July 4, 1888
284

Creator: Church, Albert Cook NBWM #2000.100.86.157
“CHARLES W. MORGAN, drying sail-Pier 3”
New Bedford – Fairhaven Bridge in background.
285


“CHARLES W. MORGAN, Rigger at work on bowsprit & jib boom”
New Bedford – Fairhaven Bridge in background. 286

NBWM #1988.6.145

“Acushnet River looking east from New Bedford towards Fairhaven”

287


CHARLES W. MORGAN and tug J. T. SHERMAN
288

CHARLES W. MORGAN
“Drying sails at West's Boathouse”
Creator: Church, Albert Cook
NBWM #2000.100.86.88

289

NBWM #2000.100.566
Bark CANTON
“Bark CANTON, oldest whaler afloat. Built at Baltimore, 1835. Baltimore Packet for 8 years; ran between Baltimore,
Maryland and Liverpool, England. Purchased by C.R. Tucker & Co. of New Bedford and fitted for whaling. Sailed as a
whale ship July 29, 1845. CANTON seen here in New Bedford wharf with Fairhaven skyline visible across the harbor.” 290

NBWM #2000.100.500

Bark ALICE KNOWLES
“Bark ALICE KNOWLES of New Bedford at foreground left… In background is the skyline of Fairhaven…”
291

Creator: Ashley, Edmund Davis NBWM #2000.100.3481
“Bark PLATINA just in”
Bradford’s Fairhaven in Background
292


“WANDERER - drying sail - Pier 3”
293

MORNING STAR
“Catboat ECLIPSE of Edgartown, Massachusetts sits in front of
bark MORNING STAR at left. Catboats WAIF and CORINNE at
right at wharf. Fairhaven center can be seen across the harbor.”
NBWM #1998.64.11

294

“WANDERER drying sail, stern view”
NBWM #1991.42.20

CHARLES W. MORGAN was a Howland ship;
and one of the owners was Edward M. Robinson,
the husband of Abby Howland and father of Hetty
Green. It will be visiting New Bedford in 2014
and is the subject of Chapter VIII, slide 621.

295

“WANDERER drying canvas”
NBWM #2000.100.86.713

296

NBWM #1983.42.73

CHARLES W. MORGAN dressed as WANDERER
“Down to the Sea in Ships” 297

Creator: Willis, Henry P. NBWM #2000.100.363.2

“View of New Bedford, foot of Middle Street” 298

Sailing Day
Creator: Clifford W. Ashley
NBWM #1974.3.1.15
Fairhaven in background.

299

Creator: Albert Cook Church NBWM #2000.100.86.158
“CHARLES W. MORGAN at anchor” 300

Creator: Albert Cook Church NBWM #2000.100.86.176

“WANDERER Passing Fort Phoenix”
A gable end & several chimneys of Henry Huttleston’s mansion are barely visible over the stern. Fort Phoenix is to left of tug.
301


CHARLES W. MORGAN
302

•  Capt. Alexander Winsor House
•  Captain of the FLYING CLOUD, 1854
•  10 William Street, Fairhaven, built 1835

Creator: J. E. Reed NBWM #1996.21.41

•  Alexander Winsor of Fairhaven
Grinnell, Minturn & Co. purchased the record-breaking FLYING
CLOUD while it was being built by Donald McKay in 1851
(Chapter VI, slide 504). Chapter V (slide 404) relates how Capt.
Cornelius Grinnell & Cornelius, Jr. founded the companies that
evolved into Fish, Grinnell & Co. and Grinnell, Minturn & Co.
Alexander Winsor became captain of the FLYING CLOUD in 1854.
Photos by Jay Grinnell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Cloud_(clipper)
303

Chapter IV. Scrimshaw: Gifts from Weston Howland & Family

NBWM #1948.30.23R

304

Weston Howland Collection, NBWM

NBWM #1948.30.52A

305

Scrimshaw Collection
Gift of Weston Howland
NBWM #1948.30.283

306


NBWM #1948.30.500 In below exhibit.

Senior Curator Stuart Frank, Ph.D.
307


“Gift of Weston Howland (1895-1959. A descendant
of whaling masters and namesake grandson of the
inventor of the original process for refining petroleum
oil, he was a textile industry executive who donated
hundreds of scrimshaw objects to several maritime
museums in the 1940s and 50s.” pg. xiii
Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved: Scrimshaw
in the New Bedford Whaling Museum by Dr. Stuart M.
Frank, 2012, pg. 256

http://www.whalingmuseumstore.org/ingenious-contrivances-
curiously-carved-scrimshaw-in-the-new-bedford.html

NBWM #1948.30.555 308

NBWM #1948.30.37

NBWM #1948.30.37

Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously
Carved: Scrimshaw in the New
Bedford Whaling Museum: Dr.
Stuart M. Frank, 2012, pg. 104

309

NBWM #1948.30.37

310

NBWM #1948.30.36V

311

NBWM #1948.30.36R

Frank, Stuart: Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved: Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2012, pg. 132, Fig: 8:3 312

NBWM #1948.30.37R

Frank, Stuart: Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved:
Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum, pg. 130

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NBWM #1948.30.14



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NBWM #1948.30.35

Frank, Stuart: Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved: Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum, pg. 80

http://www.whalingmuseumstore.org/ingenious-contrivances-curiously-carved-scrimshaw-in-the-new-bedford.html

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NBWM #1948.30.2

Frank, Stuart: Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved: Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum


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NBWM #1948.30.34A

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NBWM #1948.30.34

319

NBWM #1948.30.36R

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NBWM #1948.30.36V

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NBWM #1948.30.4R

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NBWM #1948.30.4V

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NBWM #1948.30.33

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NBWM #1948.30.33

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NBWM #1948.30.22 326

NBWM #1948.30.7R

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NBWM #1948.30.13R-1

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NBWM #1948.30.15V

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NBWM #1948.30.8

330


NBWM #1948.30.11R-1

331

NBWM #1948.30.19

332

NBWM #1948.30.3

333

NBWM #1948.30.246

334

Weston Howland Collection
NBWM #1948.30.17R

335

NBWM #1948.30.25R

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NBWM #1948.30.32V

337

NBWM #1948.30.11R-3

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NBWM #1948.30.32

339

NBWM #1948.30.16V

340

NBWM #1948.30.17V

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NBWM #1948.30.16V

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NBWM #1948.30.9



343

(600+ objects)

NBWM #1948.30.25V

344


NBWM #1962.4.1

345

NBWM #1948.30.10

346

NBWM #1948.30.5

347

NBWM #1948.30.32R

348


NBWM #1948.30.271

349

Weston Howland Scrimshaw Collection



NBWM #1948.30.558

350


Spire swift

NBWM #1948.30.272
351

NBWM #1948.30.489

Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Fig. 11:96

352


NBWM #1948.30.522

353


NBWM #1948.30.52A

354


NBWM #1948.30.554A

355


NBWM #1948.30.210

356


NBWM #1948.30.380A

357


NBWM #1948.30.377A

358

“Lattice-work pan bone work box”

NBWM #1948.30.286

Frank, Stuart: Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved: Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Fig. 11:20
359


NBWM #1948.30.289

360


NBWM #1948.30.373

361


NBWM #1948.30.370A

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NBWM #1948.30.374

363


NBWM #1948.30.371

364


NBWM #1948.30.59

“crimper / jagging wheel”
365


NBWM #1948.30.69

“crimper / jagging wheel”
366


NBWM #1948.30.71

367


NBWM #1948.30.66

368


Frank, Stuart: Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved: Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum


NBWM #1948.30.77

369



NBWM #1948.30.83

“Crimper with two stationary blades. At a mere 4 ½ “ (11.4 cm) this is an
outstanding piece, carved out of a single whale tooth.” Dr. Stuart Frank
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NBWM #1948.30.254

371


NBWM #1948.30.68
372


NBWM #1948.30.62

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NBWM #1948.30.70

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NBWM #1948.30.72

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NBWM #1948.30.78

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NBWM #1948.30.76

377


NBWM #1948.30.74

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NBWM #1948.30.81

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NBWM #1948.30.89

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NBWM #1948.30.204

According to Dr. Frank, the building on the left is the Providence Arcade, designed by Russell Warren (slides 461, 587, & 673) & James
Buckland and built in 1828. On the right is Manning Hall at Brown University that was designed by James Buckland and built in 1834.



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NBWM #1948.30.215 382
NBWM #1948.30.205


NBWM #1948.30.216 NBWM #1948.30.217 383


NBWM #1948.30.266
384


Frank, Stuart: Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved: Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum, pg.179


NBWM #1948.30.249A
385


NBWM #1948.30.246
386


NBWM #1948.30.252
387




NBWM #1948.30.265
388



NBWM #1948.30.267 389




NBWM #1948.30.182 390

(660+ Objects)

NBWM #1948.30.254

391


NBWM #1948.30.365

392

NBWM #1948.30.492

393

NBWM #1948.30.486X

394


NBWM #1948.30.361

395

Double-cage Swift
made by Capt. William Howland
NBWM #1945.39


The Capt. William Howland, who made this swift,
was a son of Capt. Gilbert Howland (1772 -1857).
Gilbert was a nephew of Sylvia (Howland)
Grinnell and first cousin of Henry, Moses, Joseph,
etc. (Emery, Wm.: The Howland Heirs, #593).

396

NBWM #1973.28
Arctic sledge/sled

Scrimshaw given by Waldo & Llewellyn Howland, Jr.

NBWM #1948.30.4R “Walrus ivory images of Arctic fauna carved by Inuits”
397

NBWM #1979.49

“Off Grand Manan”
Gift of Waldo & Llewellyn Howland, Jr.
Waldo & Llewellyn Howland, Jr. also gave the 1845-1848 logbook of the GEORGE & SUSAN and the1852-1855 logbook of the
JAVA. This was the name given to the first Concordia Yawl built/produced by Waldo & Llewellyn, Jr. (slide 544). These brothers
were great, great, grandsons of Capt. Cornelius Howland, who was a brother of Sylvia Grinnell (slides 420, 440, & 714).
398

NBWM #1979.3.2

“Summer Woods”
by William Allen Wall
Gift of Llewellyn Howland, Jr.
399

Gift of Llewellyn Howland, Jr. NBWM #1979.3.1

“Autumn Woods”
by William Allen Wall, c. 1865
Given in Memory of Hope Waldo Howland
Peter Grinnell and Llewellyn Howland were both descendants of Gideon Howland (1734-1823), and it
probably was not a coincidence that they gave their William A. Wall paintings to the Whaling Museum in the
same year (1979). The close relationship between the Grinnells & Howland will be examined in Chapter V.
400

NBWM #1979.53.2

“Woodland Pond”
by William A. Wall, c. 1870
Gift of Peter S. Grinnell
.
401

NBWM# 1979.53.1

“Nonquitt Beach”
Gift of Peter S. Grinnell
Peter & Mary Lou gave the GRINNELL RESOLUTE DESK
402

Gift of Peter S. Grinnell NBWM #1979.54

“View of New Bedford from Fairhaven”
This painting came from the collection of Peter & Mary Lou Grinnell; and it is now in storage near
Cornelius Grinnell’s brass plaque and the GRINNELL RESOLUTE DESK, which they also gave.
.
https://www.1000museums.com/search.php?af=william+allen+wall
403

Chapter IV. Grinnell & Howland Old Dartmouth Roots

Creator: Unknown

Sylvia Howland Captain Cornelius Grinnell
1765-1837 1758-1850
Quaker, 34 Grandchildren “Master Mariner and Merchant”
Gift of Helen Grinnell King, NBWM #2011.3.21 Gift of Helen Grinnell King, NBWM #2011.3.1

Cornelius was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and a ship captain, ship owner, and banker. He and Sylvia had nine children.
Among their many achievements, sons Joseph & Moses were U. S. Congressmen; and Cornelius, Jr. was a state representative.
404

Gift of Mrs. Abram Taber NBWM: #1904.87

“Howland House At Round Hill”
by William Allen Wall, 1870
Birthplace of Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell and four preceding generations of Howlands
405

Benjamin
Howland

Gideon
Howland

Gideon
Howland, Jr.

Cornelius
& Sylvia

Hetty
Cornelius, Jr. Joseph Henry Moses Green

Extended chart by James Grinnell, Jr. (slide 701)

This digital family history was inspired by two remarkable Old Dartmouth people, Capt. Cornelius Grinnell
(1758-1850) and Sylvia Howland (1767-1837) and the contributions their family made to New Bedford, New York, and
world-wide commerce and industry from the Revolutionary War to the 1880’s. Cornelius and Sylvia married in 1785,
and their family evolved into several very successful business partnerships and international fame and fortune for a few.
As can be seen in the above chart, Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell was a sister of Gideon Howland (Jr.). With Isaac
Howland, Jr., Gideon, Jr. founded a fortune that was passed down and multiplied by Hetty Green (far right).
406

Gift of Llewellyn Howland, Jr. NBWM #1979.3.3

Ship EUPHRATES, by Montardier, 1828
Built for and owned by Grinnells & Howlands from 1809 to1865.
Written on back: “Cornelius Grinnell to his Nephew Corn’l Howland 1848.” (slide 409)
In 1979 Peter Grinnell & Llewellyn Howland, Jr. gave five William A. Wall paintings (slides 399-403) to the Whaling
Museum. In 1979, Llewellyn, Jr. also gave the above painting of a ship owned by Grinnells & Howlands (next slide). 407

Ship EUPHRATES
Joseph Grinnell was the surveyor when this ship was
built in 1809. He was just 21, and his success at this
important position resulted in his uncle, Capt. John
Howland, taking him to New York in 1810 and making
him a junior partner in several ships. Through the
ownership and management of many ships like the
EUPHRATES, Joseph, his father, three of his brothers and
many of his relatives became very wealthy men. This
wealth enabled Henry to become a major contributor to
six Arctic expeditions, and most of the Howland
owners on the left were Henry’s uncles or cousins. In
fact, the EUPHRATES was owned by the extended
Grinnell-Howland family from the time it was built in
1809 until it was burned by the Confederate raider
SHENANDOAH on June 22, 1865. Even after the
nefarious Captain Waddell of the SHENANDOAH learned
on June 23, 1865 that the Civil War had ended, he
captured or sank twenty-one additional Union vessels
(slides 517 & 518). Capt. Cornelius Grinnell was an
owner of the EUPHRATES from 1809 until he died in
1850; and his friend, in-law, and partner (Capt.
Preserved Fish) was an owner from 1809 to 1815.

In addition to many New York ships, Henry Grinnell
owned the following New Bedford ships: SARAH
(#2829), BRIGHTON (#330), CORNELIA (#664), GEORGE
WASHINGTON (#1226), & EUPHRATES (#979). Henry
Grinnell became an owner of the EUPHRATES in 1842
and remained an owner until it was sunk in 1865 (left).

The Grinnells & Howlands were owners of this ship
and many others in New Bedford and New York. The
EUPHRATES was one of the 59 New Bedford ships
owned by Capt. Cornelius Grinnell and his offspring.
One source states that they also owned or leased at least
55 ships in New York.
Ship Registers of New Bedford NBWM Research Library 408

Photo: Michael Lapides NBWM #1979.3.3

“Cornelius Grinnell to his Nephew Corn’l Howland 1848”
(Written on back of EUPHRATES painting)
Capt. Cornelius died in 1850 (slide 501)

Map of Grinnell Homes
Cornelius Howland, Jr. lived at 382 County St. (slide 605)
across the street from Joseph Grinnell (No. 5).

The estates of Cornelius Grinnell, Jr. (No. 4) and Joseph (No.
5) originally included all the land encompassed by County,
Bedford, Orchard, and Hawthorn Streets.

Ancestry of the Grinnell Family was funded by
descendants of Frederick Grinnell (1836-1905), who
invented the Grinnell Automatic Sprinkler (slide 526). He
was a great grandson of Capt. Cornelius and Sylvia and
lived in the Joseph Grinnell Mansion from 1894-1905. He
also owned the schooner yacht QUICKSTEP (slide 528).

Ancestry of the Grinnell Family, by Wm. Emery, 1931

409

NBWM #1982.39.2 NBWM #1982.39.1

Patriotic Embroidery by Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell
Given by Mrs. Peter S. Grinnell

“She married in May, 1785, Captain Cornelius Grinnell, son of Daniel and Grace (Palmer) Grinnell, born in Little Compton
Feb. 11, 1758 and died in New Bedford April 19, 1850, aged ninety-two years. To her lovely character and steady discharge
of duty her [9] children were in no small degree indebted for the success and honors at which they arrived.” (The Howland
Heirs by Wm. Emery) Sylvia Howland was the sister of Capt. Cornelius Howland (1758-1835), who was captured by the
British with Cornelius Grinnell. After the Revolutionary War, Cornelius Grinnell was commissioned first mate on the
famous whaling ship REBECCA when it was launched in 1785. This was the same year that Cornelius Grinnell married
Cornelius Howland's sister, Sylvia. Note: the letters “i” and “y” were used interchangeably. Unfortunately, very little
women’s history of this time was recorded and saved; and they did not have the legal right of ownership.

410

Old Commons Burial Ground
Little Compton, Massachusetts & Rhode Island
Little Compton was part of Dartmouth until 1747.*

Joseph Church II, 1662-1715 Joseph Church, 1638-1711
Married: Grace Shaw Married: Mary Tucker, 1660
Cornelius’s Great Grandparents Cornelius’s Great, Great Grandparents

*“In 1682, the town was incorporated by the Plymouth Colony and renamed Little Compton… By 1747, Little Compton secured its
own royal decree and was annexed to Newport County as a part of Rhode Island along with Tiverton and Bristol. Because Little
Compton was once part of the Plymouth colony, all probate and land records prior to 1746 can be found in Taunton and New Bedford.”
http://www.little-compton.com/about.php
411

Old Commons Burial Ground
Little Compton

Richard & Patience (Emory) Grinnell
Parents of Daniel Grinnell
Grandparents of Captain Cornelius

Capt. John & Elizabeth (Church) Palmer
Parents of Grace Palmer, Daniel’s Wife
Maternal Grandparents of Captain Cornelius

412

Richard Grinnell
Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, G. W. Allen, p. 273
1675-1725
Grandfather of Cornelius Captain Moses Grinnell
Believed to be the oldest Grinnell/Grenelle gravestone in the New World.
Old Commons Burial Ground, Little Compton
1751-1797
Brother of Cornelius
Little is known of Capt. Moses Grinnell, older brother of
Cornelius, except what is written above and the following from
The Howland Heirs (p. 43) : “…commander of a privateer during
the Revolution, was owner of a house ‘shot up’ in the British raid
on New Bedford in 1778.” The date and place of their father
Daniel’s death is not known. Capt. Moses Grinnell was an uncle
of Moses H. Grinnell, who gained fame and fortune as a partner
and president of Grinnell, Minturn & Co. Including their seven
Howland uncles who were ship captains, Moses and his siblings
had a father and eight uncles who were all ship captains.
413

Cornelius & brother Moses
in Revolutionary War

http://ia700300.us.archive.org/15/items/massachusettssolfgypmass/massachusettssolfgypmass.pdf 414

Colonel George Claghorn & Private Cornelius Grinnell

Plaque is on a granite boulder at bottom of Union St. at harbor’s edge.

From: Daughters of the American Revolution

http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/default.cfm

After the Revolutionary War, Colonel Claghorn went on to build the REBECCA, on which Cornelius was first mate on its maiden
voyage to Europe in 1785. Even though he was never promoted beyond private, Cornelius must have favorably impressed Capt.
Claghorn and others to have been selected for this first officer position on the largest ship built in New Bedford up to that time.
Colonel Claghorn moved to Boston to superintend the building of the CONSTITUTION at Edmund Hartt's Shipyard 1794–1797.
http://www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org/collections-history/discover-constitutions-history/chronology
415


OLD IRONSIDES Entering the Port of New Bedford
July 31, 1931. Fairhaven in background. Fort Phoenix flag pole, far right. The CONSTITUTION was built in
Boston and not New Bedford, as many people mistakenly believe.
416

Cornelius Grinnell: Revolutionary War Private
Captain of the REBECCA, MARY, & BEDFORD

NBWM #1935.55

Cornelius Grinnell was first mate on the maiden
voyage of the REBECCA, and he was promoted to
captain for the second voyage. Cornelius Howland
became his brother-in-law (1885) and partner in
several ventures. Three of Capt. Grinnell’s children
married four of Gilbert Russell’s daughters (slide 586).

NBWM #2001.100.2376

After moving from Rhode Island to New Bedford to serve an apprenticeship, Cornelius went to sea on a privateer with Cornelius Howland
as the mate. In short order, the small American brig was captured by a 74-gun British warship; and he was sent to prison in Bermuda.
After he was exchanged and returned, he went into the army (slide 414). By 1785, Cornelius had worked his way up to be first mate on
the maiden voyage of the REBECCA. During this voyage, the captain fell ill; and Cornelius took command. Upon returning to New
Bedford, he was commissioned as captain. The fortune that Henry Grinnell spent on Arctic exploration originated in his father’s success
after the war as a captain, ship owner, banker, and founder of the company that became Grinnell, Minturn & Co. in 1833.
417

Capt. Cornelius Grinnell’s 1785 Bible
Given in Memory of Capt. Cornelius & Sylvia Grinnell

Gift of James B. Grinnell
Sylvia Howland married Cornelius Grinnell in 1785. She came from a
Quaker family that moved from Duxbury to Dartmouth in the 1650’s.
418

Capt. Grinnell’s 1785 Bible
Births of Cornelius, Sylvia
& their nine children
NBWM Archives

Birth of Cornelius, Jr.

Birth of Joseph

Henry’s Birth

Birth of Moses

Tragic Death of
Cornelius, Jr.

NBWM Archives 419

Record of Howland Births in
Cornelius Grinnell’s 1785 Bible
Including Gideon & Sarah Howland & their thirteen children

Silvia’s seven brothers were captains including: William,
Cornelius, Joseph, Gideon, Jr., Gilbert, John, and Pardon.
Most of these Howland men owned ships with Capt.
Cornelius Grinnell and his sons & grandsons.
Captain

Captain
Capt. Cornelius Howland was captured by the British
with Cornelius Grinnell, and they were imprisoned on
Bermuda. After Cornelius Grinnell married Sylvia, these
brothers-in-law were partners in ships and property. Captain

Capt. Gideon Howland (Jr.), Sylvia Grinnell’s brother,
was Hetty Green’s grandfather and an originator of the Captain
Howland fortune.
Captain

Captain

Captain

420

Howland Plaques in the Wattles Family Gallery, NBWM
Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell was a Direct Descendant of Henry, Zoeth, & Benjamin Howland

Henry Howland was a brother of
Pilgrim John Howland and Sylvia’s Benjamin was Zoeth Howland’s
great, great, great grandfather. son and Sylvia’s great grandfather.
Henry Howland came over from It is believed that Benjamin built the
England around 1622 and settled in simple gambrel-roofed cottage that
Duxbury. In 1656, he was became the Howland family
disenfranchised for being a Quaker, homestead until it was abandoned
which resulted in him purchasing after Col. Green inherited the old
land in Dartmouth. family homestead and built his
grand mansion there (slide 635).

Zoeth was a son of Henry Howland. Edward was a son of Capt.
He was born in Duxbury and died in Cornelius Howland and one of
Tiverton during King Phillip’s War. Sylvia’s many nephews. Edward
He was Sylvia’s great, great worked with his brother Cornelius
grandfather. Howland, Jr. and his cousin
Joseph Grinnell for most of his
career. He owned several ships
and took over the presidency of
the First National Bank when
Joseph retired. Along with Capt.
Cornelius Grinnell, he was a
trustee of the New Bedford
Institution for Saving.

421

http://archive.org/details/howlandheirsbei00emergoog

The relationships established in this book were
used by Massachusetts Probate Court to
determine the living descendants of the senior
Gideon Howland (1734-1823). Sylvia (Howland)
Grinnell was a daughter of Gideon Howland, and
all her living descendants benefitted under this
will. The highly successful Gideon, Jr. was her
brother, and she was an aunt of philanthropist
Sylvia Ann Howland (slides 623+).
The Howland Heirs: William M. Emery, 1919, pg. i
422

“Descendants of Sylvia Grinnell”
The Howland Heirs by William M. Emery, 1919

(Refers to Capt. Isaac Howland 1728-1811)
The Howland Heirs: William M. Emery, 1919, p. 43 & 44

Note: French Ancestry is no longer accurate.

423

Photographer & date unknown. NBWM #2000.100.3562

Home of Capt. Cornelius & Sylvia 1791-1798
South Water St., between Madison & Walnut. Purchased from Capt. Preserved Fish in 1791.
Built by Edward Hudson c. 1769 (slide 668). (DEMOLISHED) 424

Left: contrary to this caption,
Cornelius was not on the
REBECCA for its famous
voyage to the Pacific. The
following newspaper reports
(next slide) prove that he was
captain of the MARY on its way
to Europe on the historic date
that the REBECCA returned
from the Pacific. Cornelius
was first mate on the REBECCA
on its maiden voyage in 1785,
which was to Europe, not the
Pacific. For several years after
its launch, the REBECCA was a
merchant ship; and there is no
record of Capt. Cornelius
working on a whaling ship.

New Bedford: A Pictorial History, by Judith Boss & Joseph Thomas: 1983, p. 26.

Left: Capt. Cornelius and others
learned the hatter’s trade. Since
According to Palmer & Worth (below), the Grinnell’s did
this involved the use of toxic
not purchase the above house until 1791. If this is correct,
mercury (“mad hatter”), he was
they were not living there when Joseph was born in 1788. very fortunate to have decided
to go to sea.

Old Dartmouth Historical Sketches
Jan. 12, 1909, No. 23, p. 25
425

Cornelius Grinnell & the REBECCA’S Famous First Pacific Whaling Voyage

New Bedford Mercury, Jan. 26, 1793 New Bedford Mercury, March 2, 1793

The above report proves that Capt. Cornelius Proof that the ship REBECCA returned from the Pacific
departed from New Bedford on Jan. 19, 1793 on Feb. 23, 1793, five weeks after Capt. Cornelius had
with the brig MARY bound for France. left for France. Thus, he could not have been on the
REBECCA’S famous “first” Pacific whaling voyage.
426

Capt. Cornelius Grinnell & Sons

Brig Russell & Joseph Russell Constitution & George Claghorn Russell and Cornelius Grinnell, Daniel Joseph Grinnell & Howlands on
Dartmouth & Francis Rotch Rebecca & Cornelius Grinnell Ricketson,Sr. & building committees for Unitarian
Boston Tea Party Napoleon & Grinnell, Minturn Weston Howland, Sr. Church & library
http://archive.org/details/newbedfordpast00rickgoog 427

Abolition Society, 1797
The abolitionists, who signed this April
24, 1797 letter, included William Rotch,
Jr., John Howland, & Thomas Hazard, Jr.
NBWM #Mss 2, S-g 3, Series A, Vol 1

428

Captain
Cornelius

Captain
Cornelius

Cornelius Grinnell: a founder of the BEDFORD BANK in 1803
Signed by: William Rotch, Jr., John Howland, Cornelius Grinnell, Thomas Hazard, Jr., and others.
(The Bedford Bank was the first bank in New Bedford.)
NBWM: Mss 56, Series N, S-s 2, Vol. 1 429

Capt. Cornelius Grinnell and The History of New Bedford, Daniel Ricketson, 1858

Not mentioned in Daniel Ricketson’s seminal history are the details of ship ownership involving the Grinnells & Howlands. On Nov.
6, 1800, Capt. Cornelius Grinnell & Capt. Preserved Fish became partners in the ship JOHN with James Howland and Allen Shepherd
(Ship Registers of New Bedford #1650). On June 22, 1809, they were partners in the ship EUPHRATES along with William and James
Howland and others (S.R.N.B. #970). On June 5, 1820, Captains Grinnell and Fish once again joined in partnership with William and
James Howland. This time the ship was the CORTES (S.R.N.B. #671) and Joseph Grinnell & Isaac Howland, Jr. were also partners.
http://archive.org/details/historynewbedfo00rickgoog
430

Capt. Cornelius Grinnell & Capt. John H. Howland become bankers, 1803
Brothers-in-Law (?) are Founding Directors of the BEDFORD BANK & the BEDFORD MARINE INSURANCE CO.

The History of New Bedford by Daniel Ricketson, 1858
http://archive.org/details/historynewbedfo00rickgoog
431

Capt. Cornelius Grinnell & Sons
Moses & Henry: the philanthropic merchants of New York

When the New Bedford Institution for
Savings opened its doors on August
15, 1825, Capt. Cornelius Grinnell
was one of the incorporators and
trustees. Other trustees included his
son, William P. Grinnell, and three
Howland relatives, John Howland, Jr.,
James Howland, 2nd, and Gideon
Howland, Jr. William Rotch, Jr. was
the president. Capt. Grinnell’s two
oldest sons, Cornelius, Jr. and Joseph,
became so successful with their
businesses in New York and New
Bedford that they built their own
lavish estates next to each other in the
most fashionable neighborhood in the
city (slide 471). Their father’s
business associate since the 1790’s,
William Rotch, Jr., built his mansion
across the street from Joseph during
the same years (1832-1834).

The History of New Bedford by Daniel Ricketson, 1858 http://archive.org/details/historynewbedfo00rickgoog
432

Capt. Cornelius Grinnell in
The History of New Bedford
by Daniel Ricketson, 1858

http://archive.org/details/historynewbedfo00rickgoog 433

Spinner Publications http://www.flickr.com/photos/spinnerpub/3972402654/

First National Bank: Joseph Grinnell, President 1832-1885
“The First National Bank, on the Southeast corner of Union and Second Streets in 1871. Formerly, the Marine Bank.”
Joseph was a congressman, president of Wamsutta Mills, and president of the N. B. & Taunton Railroad (slide 500, etc.). 434

First National Bank (Marine Bank): Joseph Grinnell, President 1832-1878

http://archive.org/details/newbedfordmassa00sayegoog

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Grinnell 435

National Bank of Commerce: Cornelius Grinnell, Director 1816-1831

http://archive.org/details/newbedfordmassa00sayegoog 436

New Bedford Institution for Savings: Cornelius Grinnell, Founding Trustee, 1825

http://archive.org/details/newbedfordmassa00sayegoog 437

NEW BEDFORD
INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS
(National Park Visitors Center)
designed by Russell Warren, 1853

Founding Trustee: Capt. Cornelius Grinnell
Founding President: William Rotch, Jr.

With the New Bedford Institution for Savings in
1825, the ship owner and his captain from the
1790’s were in business together again (slide 10).
Since Cornelius & William died in the same
week in 1850 (slide 501), they never saw this
beautiful building that was built in 1853.

NBWM #2000.100.441.48
438

Capt. John H. Howland
Founder of the Bedford Bank with Cornelius Grinnell, etc.
Mentor of Joseph Gri5nell

According to the Ship Registers of New Bedford, John
Howland and Cornelius Grinnell registered the sloop
FRANKLIN on Feb. 22, 1799 (slide 449). This seems to
have been the first of many vessels that were jointly owned
by the Grinnells & Howlands. Capt. Cornelius Grinnell and
Capt. John H. Howland were also founding directors of the
Bedford Bank and the Bedford Marine Insurance Co. John
H. Howland moved to New York around 1810, and he was
extensively involved in ship ownership in both New Bedford
and New York City. Joseph Grinnell followed his brother
Cornelius, Jr. to New York and went to work with his Uncle
John in 1810. On April 17, 1810, Cornelius Grinnell, John
H. Howland, Joseph Grinnell, William Howland, and others,
registered the ship PARNESSO (S.R.N.B. #2445). On Oct.
22, 1810, the ship ALGERNON was registered by Cornelius
Grinnell, John H. Howland, and Joseph Grinnell (S.R.N.B.
#68). The ship GANGES was registered by Cornelius
Grinnell, William Howland, Charles Grinnell, Francis
Howland, John H. Howland, Joseph Grinnell, and others on
Nov. 11, 1811 (S.R.N.B. #1167). The last New Bedford
registered ship owned by Joseph Grinnell and his Uncle John
appears to have been the DEBBY AND ELIZA that was
registered on Dec. 5, 1811 (S.R.N.B. #710). Whether these
two relatives were partners in any New York registered
vessels is not known. Much more on Grinnell & Howland
ship ownership can be seen in the Addendums.

Right: The Howland Heirs: William M. Emery, 1919, p. 395

439

Cornelius Howland & Cornelius Grinnell
captured by the British c. 1777

The Howland Heirs: Wm. M. Emery, p. 182

During the Revolutionary War (c. 1778), Cornelius Grinnell and Cornelius
Howland were captured by the British together and imprisoned in Bermuda.
Cornelius Grinnell was eventually exchanged and returned to Boston; and http://archive.org/details/howlandheirsbei00emergoog
Cornelius Howland escaped from prison in Scotland. This relationship between
these two shipmates and P.O.W.’s evolved into Cornelius & Sylvia’s marriage Cornelius Howland’s birth is recorded in the Capt.
and many family and business alliances between the Grinnells & Howlands. Grinnell’s 1785 bible (slide 420).
440

Cornelius Grinnell & Cornelius Howland
captured by the British and imprisoned at Bermuda
Plus: their Clark’s Cove lot in 1803.

Note: pages 185-189 have been omitted.

The Columbia Courier

1891 documents about this
Clark’s Cove lot at slide 682+.

The Howland Heirs: Wm. M. Emery. Pages 185-189 can be found at: http://archive.org/details/howlandheirsbei00emergoog

Capt. Cornelius Howland (Sr.) was Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell’s brother. 441

Cornelius Grinnell & Cornelius Howland
captured by the British and imprisoned at Bermuda
(2nd Account)

442

Captains William Howland and Cornelius Grinnell
founded Howland & Grinnell in 1804

The Columbia Courier

The Howland Heirs: Wm. M. Emery, p. 168 & 169

Sylvia’s seven brothers became sea captains. Several books give the impression that Howland & Grinnell was founded by
Joseph Grinnell and his uncle Capt. John H. Howland in 1810. Although these two relatives were partners in several ships, the
above ad proves that a Howland & Grinnell Company was founded six years earlier, when Joseph was only sixteen years old.
Capt. William was an owner of fifteen New Bedford ships, and Capt. Cornelius Howland was an owner of four (slide 714).
William’s birth is recorded in the Capt. Grinnell’s 1785 bible (slide 420).
443

Ship Registers of New Bedford

Cornelius Grinnell, Jr. and Post, Grinnell & Minturn
The following quotation is from The Old Merchants of New York City, by Walter Barrett: “In 1808,… Mr. Grinnell became a
partner… under the firm of Post & Grinnell. In 1809, his brother-in-law, Minturn, became a partner, and the firm was changed to
Post, Grinnell & Minturn… This store was 69 South Street, corner of Pine, and they did a heavy business. They received cotton by
200 and 500 bales. They had vessels for sale and for freighting. In 1812, Mr. Grinnell left the house, and it became Post & Minturn.”
Many records were lost during the War of 1812, and this highly-regarded book from 1866 does not state which “Mr. Grinnell” is
being referred to. However, the above Ship Registers states that the ship ARAB (#167) was registered on Feb. 1, 1811 (370 tons, 106
ft.) by owners Cornelius Grinnell, Jr., Henry Post, and Nathaniel G. Minturn. Therefore, it seems clear that the “Grinnell” in Post,
Grinnell & Minturn was Cornelius, Jr. and not Capt. Cornelius, as has been assumed. Capt. Cornelius was owner of seventeen vessels
registered in New Bedford, and Cornelius, Jr. was an owner of sixteen New Bedford vessels. When he moved home to New Bedford,
Cornelius, Jr. became a state representative and a builder of lighthouses with William W. Swain, his brother-in-law & neighbor.
444

Cousins Gilbert Russell & Cornelius Howland
Gilbert and Cornelius were both grandsons of Barnabas Howland. The store on the
left (24 Water St.) was built by Gilbert in 1794 and the store on the right (18 Water
St.) by Cornelius in 1810. Cornelius Howland was Sylvia Grinnell’s brother, and four
of Gilbert’s children married children of Sylvia & Cornelius Grinnell. These stores
are directly behind NBWM. Gilbert’s house is at 61 S. 6th St. (slide 585).
The Howland Heirs: Wm M. Emery, 1919 445

“Howland and Grinnell, New York, to Richard Blow, Norfolk, 6 January 1813”
“Discusses trouble with British confiscation of vessels at sea. From Mss. 65 B625, folder 4, box 35, Richard Blow Papers,
Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary” Unfortunately, the records of Howland &
Grinnell are almost nonexistent. Exactly who the partners were and which ships this company owned are unknown at this time.

https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/17345
446

Grinnell & Howland Ownership of Schooner MORGIANA, 1814, #1

447

Grinnell & Howland Ownership of Schooner MORGIANA, 1814, #2

NBWM Archives 448

Additional Vessels Owned by Grinnell & Howlands

In addition to over 50 New York ships, Henry Grinnell owned shares in
the following New Bedford ships: SARAH (2829), BRIGHTON (#330),
CORNELIA (#664), GEORGE WASHINGTON (#1226), & EUPHRATES (#979). Data from: Ship Registers of New Bedford Researched by J. Grinnell 449

Additional Ships Owned by Grinnell & Howlands

Data from: Ship Registers of New Bedford Researched by J. Grinnell 450

State Representative Cornelius Grinnell, Jr.

Cornelius, Jr. was elected state 1824 Adams Electors
representative in 1919. Cornelius Grinnell, Esq.
New-Bedford Mercury, Courtesy of NBFPL New-Bedford Mercury, Courtesy of NBFPL

Cornelius, Jr. had nine living children
when he died in 1830.
The Howland Heirs by W.M. Emery, p. 247
451

Gideon Howland Gravestone

NBWM #2000.100.85.35

Apponagansett Meeting House, South Dartmouth
Gideon Howland (1734-1823), Sylvia’s father, was buried here. According to George Berish
in Quaker Meeting House at Apponaganset, Gideon has the “earliest readable gravestone”.
452

Captain Joseph Howland
Sylvia Grinnell’s Brother
Listed in the Capt. Grinnell’s 1785 bible (slide 420)

Artist: Frederick Mayhew NBWM #00.78.12 Artist: FrederickMayhew NBWM #00.78.1

Capt. Joseph Howland was an owner of eight New Bedford ships (slide 714).

The Howland Heirs: Wm M. Emery, 1919, p. 231 453

Captains Gilbert & Pardon Howland
Brothers of Sylvia Grinnell
Listed in the Capt. Grinnell’s 1785 bible (slide 420)

The Howland Heirs: Wm M. Emery, 1919, p. 371 The Howland Heirs: Wm M. Emery, 1919, p. 404

Capt. Gilbert Howland was an owner of eight New Bedford ships, and
Capt. Pardon owned shares in four ships (slide 714).

454

“Portrait of Brother and Sister”
Gift of Mrs. Peter S. Grinnell

Creator: Taber, Deborah Smith NBWM #1982.39.3 455

Cornelius Grinnell, Jr.
Founding Partner: Post, Grinnell & Minturn

Ancestry of the Grinnell Family, by Wm. Emery, 1931 Ancestry of the Grinnell Family, by Wm. Emery, 1931

Sylvia Grinnell Cornelius Grinnell, Jr. Eliza Grinnell
Mother of Cornelius, Jr., Joseph, Father of Lawrence, Cornelia, & Joseph G. & six other children. Mother of Cornelia, Lawrence,
Moses, Henry, & five other children. Owner/Agent: MINERVA & EUPHRATES Joseph G., & seven other children.

456

NBWM #2000.100.85.71
Cornelius Grinnell, Jr.’s Home on County Street
It is believed that the white horse belonged to Morgan Rotch, who married Josephine Grinnell (slide 618).
457

Home of Rep. Cornelius Grinnell, Jr.
385 County St. Built c. 1828. Home of Cornelia Grinnell: 1829-1838.
458

Photo: Fred W. Palmer NBWM #2000.100.80.318

Home of William W. & Lydia (Russell) Swain
“In 1827 Gilbert Russell presented to his children house lots… The lot on the northwest corner of County and Hawthorn streets he conveyed to his son-
in-law, William W. Swain…” Thus, Swain was Cornelius Grinnell, Jr.’s brother-in-law. Their grand homes were almost identical and were across
Hawthorn St. from each other. Through the Swain’s generosity, this house became the original Swain Free School before it was DESTROYED by fire.
459

Saved by WHALE
Photographer: Unknown

Home of Congressman Joseph Grinnell
379 County St., built 1832-1834. After working for his father, Joseph was a partner in several ships with his uncle, Capt. John
H. Howland. By 1815, Joseph was a partner in Fish & Grinnell with another uncle, Preserved Fish of New Bedford & New
York. In the 1820’s, brothers Henry & Moses joined the firm. After Capt. Fish and Joseph retired, Fish & Grinnell became
Grinnell, Minturn & Co. in 1833 with Moses Grinnell as president. WHALE is the Waterfront Historic Area LeaguE.
http://www.historic-structures.com/ma/new_bedford/grinnell_mansion.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Grinnell 460

Joseph R. Anthony Mansion
Joseph R. Anthony was a brother-in-law of William T. Russell and Cornelius & Moses
Grinnell. “In connection with Gilbert Russell and his son, William T. Russell, Anthony
conducted oil works on the southeast corner of Acushnet avenue and Cannon street, where in
recent years has been the carriage factory of George L. Brownell.” (Palmer & Worth, p. 269).
Page from: Life in New Bedford One Hundred Years Ago, Zephaniah Pease, editor, 1922

Drawing from Internet Archives: http://ia700302.us.archive.org/34/items/
lifeinnewbedford00antha/lifeinnewbedford00antha.pdf
Text: Russell Warren, by Prof. Thomas W. Puryea, 1982, p. 10.
How this house was “changed radically”can be seen in slide 593. 461

Cornelius, Jr., Moses, Joseph Anthony, & William Swain
married daughters of Gilbert Russell.
Sylvia Grinnell, Jr. married William T. Russell, son of Gilbert.

Paintings of Moses, Cornelius, Jr., and Joseph
Anthony from collection of Mrs. Morgan
Life in New Bedford One Hundred Years Ago, Zephaniah Pease, editor, 1922 Rotch (former Josephine Grinnell: slide 618). 462

Internet Archives: http://ia700302.us.archive.org/34/items/lifeinnewbedford00antha/lifeinnewbedford00antha.pdf

Joseph Anthony’s estate was adjacent to Cornelius, Jr. & Joseph Grinnell and diagonally across Hawthorn street from William Swain (slide 471). 463

464

Internet Archives: http://ia700302.us.archive.org/34/items/lifeinnewbedford00antha/lifeinnewbedford00antha.pdf 465

Internet Archives: http://ia700302.us.archive.org/34/items/lifeinnewbedford00antha/lifeinnewbedford00antha.pdf Cornelius Grinnell, Sr. was always referred to as “Captain”.
466

Mrs. Morgan Rotch was the
former Josephine Grinnell.
467

Joseph R. Anthony’s Diary: 1823-1824

This diary is primarily a record of business and social news for Moses Grinnell to read
upon his return to New Bedford after traveling to South America and Europe, and
numerous references are made to ships and whale oil. Joseph Anthony gives a very
illuminating account of Moses’ international business trip that was made almost 190 years
ago. On Jan. 21, 1824, Joseph A. wrote the following: “Rec’d accounts by the papers of
Moses’ arrival at Rio, the 20th of November.” Moses H. Grinnell was born on March
23,1803, and he was just twenty years old when he embarked on this international
business trip. At the time these diaries were written, Cornelius Grinnell, Jr. (1786-1830)
was a ship owner/agent, state representative, and owned a sheep farm at Potomska. In
addition to being Joseph Anthony’s brother-in-law, they were good friends; and Joseph
gives numerous accounts of having tea or dinner with Cornelius, Jr. On April 12, 1823
Joseph wrote: “Cornelius, William T. [Russell], & Nathaniel dined with me today on
roast mutton. We all went to Corn’s in the evening to tea Mary Newell [minister] and
about twenty others were there.” The April 23 entry begins as follows: “Sunday – a
pleasant day. The PERSIA commenced discharging her cargo, which made some stir
being the first day in the week. Many considered it wicked.” On April 24, 1823, Joseph
Anthony recorded: “Dined at Corn’s, being too stormy to come home. Corn’s found he
should be complained of for a breach of the Sabbath yesterday – got Warren to enter a
complaint against him & by that means saved half the expense.” On August 28th, Joseph
Anthony recorded the following: “Monthly meeting day. Corn’s handed the clerk his
resignation to his right of membership, and made a few observations & left the meeting.”
NBWM #1969.30.3 Due to Cornelius, Jr. hanging himself and becoming the forgotten man of New Bedford,
many people assume today that the 73 references to “Cornelius” and “Corn” are all
references to Capt. Cornelius. However, William Emery wrote: “Mr. Anthony’s closest
friend was Moses Grinnell, and he was also intimate with Cornelius Grinnell, Jr. Mention
of these and of the Russell girls is frequent in Mr. Anthony’s dairy for 1823 and 1824…”
In the May 6, 1824 entry, Joseph Anthony wrote: “In the evening the EXPERIMENT
arrived from New York. Capt. Grinnell and Uncle Abraham came passengers.” Clearly,
this proves that all Mr. Anthony’s 71 other references to “Cornelius” and “Corn” are to
Cornelius, Jr. and not to Capt. Cornelius Grinnell.

468

William P. Grinnell
Son of Cornelius & Sylvia
Owner of 14 New Bedford Ships
Both William P. & Henry had daughters
named “Sylvia Howland Grinnell”. Their
Grandmother Sylvia did not use the
middle name of Howland. These are
reasons why she is referred to as Sylvia
(Howland) Grinnell in this presentation.

The Howland Heirs: Wm. M. Emery, p. 249 http://archive.org/details/howlandheirsbei00emergoog The Howland Heirs: Wm. M. Emery, p. 255

469

Grinnells, Russells, Swains, & Joseph R. Anthony

Ancestry of the Grinnell Family, by Wm. Emery, 1931 Ancestry of the Grinnell Family, by Wm. Emery, 1931

470

James
Howland

Wm. H. Gideon
Allen Allen
(grandsons of
Gideon Howland)

Peleg C.
William J. Rotch Gothic Cottage
Howland
Morgan & Josephine (Grinnell) Rotch John &
George
Howland, Jr. Sarah
Howland,
Jr.

Joseph G.
Grinnell William
Matthew Rotch, Jr.
Howland

Edmund
Grinnell
William W. Swain
m. Lydia Russell

William D. Rodman-Howland
Howland Mansion
Joseph R. Anthony m. Eliza & Mary Russell Cornelius
m. Catherine Russell
Howland, Jr.

Gilbert & Lydia Russell
Lawrence
Grinnell

Joseph Grinnell
m. Sarah R. Russell William T. Russell
m. Sylvia Grinnell, Jr.

Henry Grinnell m. Sarah Minturn. They lived at “…
17 Bond Street, then a fashionable address in the
Map of New Bedford Moses Grinnell m. Susan Russell. They “…lived on Fifth
Avenue, N.Y. on land that was later occupied by the
metropolis [NY].” Geo. H. Walker & Co., 1881 famous Delmonico’s Restaurant.” 471

Ship JOHN HOWLAND and Cornelius Grinnell, Jr.

NBWM Archives

Francis Marion Shaw, attributed NBWM #1972.17 New Bedford Mercury, Vol. XXIV, Dec. 3, 1830

Ship JOHN HOWLAND at Taloo Harbour
According to the documents on the right, the JOHN HOWLAND was originally named the KING PHILLIP and Cornelius
Grinnell, Jr. was one of the owners when it was launched at the end of Nov. 1830. This was less than two weeks
before Cornelius, Jr. died which might be why the name was immediately changed to the JOHN HOWLAND. Perhaps,
naming the ship KING PHILLIP was an acknowledgement of the white atrocities that caused King Phillip’s War. 472

Cornelius, Jr. to brother Joseph
Dec. 1, 1830. Despite the seeming normality of this letter,
Cornelius, Jr. killed himself ten days later, on Dec. 11, 1830. This
“great grief to his friends” was recorded in the 1785 family bible
(slide 419). Exactly why this tragedy occurred is not known.
473

A List of Shipping Belonging to the District of New Bedford, 1832

Published by David Silvester, Jan. 1, 1832. NBWM Archives A List of Shipping (detail)

The above images state that Cornelius, Jr. was the owner/agent of the
MINERVA and the EUPHRATES at the time of his death in Nov. 1830.

474

Cornelius, Jr. in Partnership with John & James Howland

New Bedford Mercury, June 28, 1833: NBFPL

Howland & Grinnell Candle Works
The partners were John & James Howland and
Cornelius Grinnell, Jr. (see ad to right)

New Bedford Mercury, May 10, 1833: NBFPL

Above: Cornelius, Jr.’s brother Joseph & William
Swain were guardians for his children. Cornelius,
Jr. and William Swain were brothers-in-law and
lived across Hawthorn St. from each other. The
above ad also mentions property that was owned
jointly by Cornelius and John & James Howland.

Left: in addition to the brig MINERVA and a
candle works, Cornelius, Jr. and John & James
Howland owned the following vessels together:
Brig TRITON, ship MANDARIN, ship
EUPHRATES, schooner MORGIANNA, schooner
RUSSELL, sloop EMILY, brig COMMODORE
DECATUR, ship BALAENA, and ship LYRA.
Ship Registers of New Bedford, NBWM
475


Ancestry of the Grinnell Family: Wm. Emery, 1931, p. 17

Congressman Joseph Grinnell John Quincy Adams visits Joseph in 1843
1788-1885
In his latter years, Joseph was known as “Honorable
President: Fish, Grinnell & Co.
Joe” and “The Deacon”. He had no children of his
President: Marine Bank & First National Bank own, and his siblings had 34 children. After her parents
President: New Bedford & Taunton Railroad died, Joseph adopted his niece, Cornelia. This portrait
President: Wamsutta Mills, 1847-1885 appears to be identical to a much larger painting in the
Member: Grinnell, Minturn & Co. New Bedford Free Public Library by Benoni Irwin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Grinnell 476
.

Joseph Grinnell Mansion: “Red Cross Volunteers”
“These women are making surgical dressings at the Grinnell house, circa 1918… The New Bedford headquarters was located in the
old Grinnell Mansion… Photograph from New Bedford American Chapter of the Red Cross, October 1914 to May 1919.”
New Bedford: A Pictorial History: Judith A. Boss & Joseph D. Thomas, 1983, pg. 172 477

NBWM Research Library NBWM Research Library
Unitarian Church Pews of Cornelius, Jr. and Joseph G. Grinnell
Cornelius, Jr. purchased a pew in 1828. His widow and his sons, Lawrence and Joseph G. along with his brothers Joseph and
Moses purchased pews in the new Unitarian Church when it was built in 1838. “The congregation financed construction by selling
pews at auction. The final accounting showed a surplus: pew sales generated $40,125 income, construction cost only $39,997.”
478

NBWM Archives

Original Pew Plan, Unitarian Church of New Bedford
Several pew holders were related to Cornelius and Sylvia, and many were prominent merchants & abolitionists like Charles W. Morgan,
who sat across the aisle from Joseph Grinnell. These two titans of New Bedford were buried just 68 ft. from each other (slide 503) in the
“Unitarian Section” of Oak Grove Cemetery. Joseph had pew No. 44 and Moses owned the pew directly behind him. Lawrence &
Joseph G. were sons of Cornelius, Jr. and nephews of Joseph & Moses. In addition to their own businesses, these brothers were in the
insurance business together; and they built similar grand houses within two blocks of their Uncle Joe in the 1840’s (slides 607 & 610).
479

Grinnell/Howland Pews
Cornelius & Sylvia’s relatives:
No. 44: Joseph, son
No. 45: Moses, son
No. 70: J. G. Grinnell, grandson Joseph
No. 74: W. H. Allen, Sylvia’s nephew Grinnell
No. 48: Gideon Allen, Sylvia’s nephew
No. 32: W. W. Swain, in-law Moses
No. 85: J. R. Anthony, in-law Grinnell
No. 72: James Howland
480

Author: Rev. Dan Harper, 2008 (Partial Article)
481

Church Bell donated by Congressman Moses H. Grinnell

Photo by J. Grinnell The New Bedford Mercury, March 23, 1838 482

“Mr. Grinnell’s Position on Slavery”
The Mercury, Feb. 17-20, 1849 (Partial Article)

Congressman Joseph Grinnell’s anti-slavery voting record detail:

House Roll #458: Jan 6, 1851
TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND INTRODUCE A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR THE REPEAL OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW
PASSED AT THE LAST SESSION OF CONGRESS. (P.177-1,2)
Hon. Joseph Grinnell’s vote: Aye 68-119, 42 not voting

House Roll #108: Mar 11, 1850
TO CONSIDER THE NEW YORK RESOLUTIONS TO DISCONTINUE SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, IN
TERRITORY ACQUIRED FROM MEXICO, TEXAS, THE ADMISSION OF CALIFORNIA AS A STATE OF THE UNION, TO
OPPOSE ATTEMPTS TO EFFECT A DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION. (P.492-1)

House Roll #174: May 27, 1850
TO SUSPEND RULES TO INTRODUCE A BILL TO ABOLISH THE SLAVE TRADE IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. (P.1071-2)

House Roll #345: Sep 5, 1850
TO AMEND THE AMENDMENT OF MR. WENTWORTH, WHICH PROPOSES TO COMMIT S. 307 TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE
WHOLE ON THE STATE OF THE UNION WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO AMEND SAME BY EXCLUDING SLAVERY IN THE
TERRITORY ACQUIRED FROM MEXICO, (P.1753-3, 1755-3)
Hon. Joseph Grinnell’s vote: Nay 72-128, 27 not voting

House Roll #410: Sep 24, 1850
TO SUSPEND THE RULES IN ORDER TO INTRODUCE AN ACT TO ABOLISH SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. (P.
1954-1)

TO SUSPEND RULES IN ORDER TO INTRODUCE A RESOLUTION INSTRUCTING THE COMM. ON THE JUDICIARY TO
REPORT A BILL PROVIDING FOR APPREHENSION AND DELIVERY OF FUGITIVE SLAVES.
Hon. Joseph Grinnell’s vote: Nay 79-100, 50 not voting

TO DISPENSE WITH FURTHER PROCEEDINGS IN THE CALL, DURING CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION INSTRUCTING
THE COMM. OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TO REPORT A BILL PROHIBITING SLAVERY IN SAID DISTRICT.

(partial article & partial list) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Grinnell
483

Harriet Jacobs

Abolitionist Harriet Jacobs and Cornelia Grinnell

Cornelia was born on March 19, 1825. Her father, Cornelius Grinnell, Jr., was a founding partner of Post, Grinnell, & Minturn in New York, a
Massachusetts State Representative, ship owner/agent, and light house builder. Her mother was the former Eliza Tallman Russell, and Cornelia
was the youngest of ten children. Nine of the children were living when their mother died on Jan. 9, 1827. On Oct. 9, 1828, Cornelius,
Jr. married his wife's sister, Mary Russell. On Dec. 11, 1830 Cornelius, Jr. took his own life; and Cornelia became an orphan when she was only
five years old. Shortly after Cornelius, Jr.’s tragic death, Cornelia's uncle Joseph and his wife took her on an tour of Europe while they built a
mansion next door to Cornelia's home (corner of County and Hawthorn Streets). Joseph adopted her after her stepmother died in 1838. In 1846,
Cornelia married the famous writer, N.P. Willis. Harriet Jacobs, a former slave, worked as a nanny for the Willis family; and she wrote her
famous work, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, while living with Cornelia. In 1852, Cornelia purchased Harriet’s freedom. Due to N.P.
Willis’s pro-slavery sympathies, Harriet was afraid to discuss her writing with Cornelia. For the rest of her life Harriet had a close relationship
with Cornelia and her children, and it has been reported that Cornelia and her daughter Edith lived in Harriet’s boarding house in Cambridge
after Uncle Joe died in 1885. The bond between Cornelia and Uncle Joe was so strong that Cornelia and Edith are buried next to him and his
wives in Oak Grove Cemetery (slide 502) instead of being buried with Cornelia’s husband, who was buried in Mt. Auburn Cemetery,
Cambridge. Harriet was also buried in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, which is one of the most famous cemeteries in the country.
The above photos are from: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs, edited by Jean Fagin Yellin. http://www.harrietjacobs.org/
484

Abolition, Cornelia, and her letters in the Library of Congress
Cornelia's contribution to the Abolitionist Movement was described by J. F. Yellin: “In 1850, Congress passed a Fugitive Slave Law ruling
that all citizens, including those in northern states where slavery had been abolished, were subject to punishment if they aided fugitives…
[Harriet] met Nathaniel Parker Willis’s new wife, Cornelia Grinnell Willis, and was employed to care for her newborn baby… To free
her, and reassure her about her children’s freedom, Mrs. Willis arranged for the American Colonization Society to act as an intermediary
and early in 1852 bought Jacob's freedom… This transaction, effected with the aid of Rev. John B. Pinney of the New York Colonization
Society, is explained in a letter from Cornelia Grinnell Willis to Elizabeth Davis Bliss Bancroft [May 3, 1852], Bancroft-Bliss Family
Papers, Library of Congress.” Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs, edited by J. F. Yellin, p. 291

Right: Cornelia Grinnell Statue
“Mr. [Joseph] Grinnell was in Florence in the NBWM #1979.43

spring of 1830 and there employed Horatio
Greenough, the sculptor, to make him a statue
of his niece, then a child of five years.” Wright, Nathalia: Horatio Greenough, the First American Sculptor
The Howland Heirs: Wm M. Emery, 1919, p. 253 (New-Bedford Mercury, slide 493)
485

Horatio Greenough, Pre-eminent Sculptor

Gift of : Mrs. William A. Burnham NBWM Archives Phototographer: Russell, Andrew J. Library of Congress LC-DIG ppmsca-07301

Receipt to Joseph Grinnell, 1830 Statue of Washington in front of Capitol, July 11, 1863

Above left is Horatio Greenough’s receipt to Joseph Grinnell. Horatio was the first artist to receive a commission from
Congress, and he became the pre-eminent sculptor of his time. Seventeen of his works are in the Museum of Fine Arts, three at
the Smithsonian, three at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, seven at Harvard, three at Yale, three at the Boston Public Library,
and many more in other great collections documented in the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS).
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=greenough%20horatio

486

George Washington
Original location in Capitol Rotunda
Owned by Smithsonian
“Horatio Greenough (September 6, 1805 – December 18,
1852) was an American sculptor best known for his United
States government commissions The Rescue (1837-1850) and
George Washington (1840). [He was the first artist to receive
a commission from Congress] His sculptures reflected truth
and reality, but also ancient classical aesthetic ideals… Many
of Horatio’s works were done in Florence, Italy where he
spent most of his professional life... Some of his other
sculptures include: James Fenimore Cooper (1831), Castor
and Pollux (1847, Marquis de Lafayette (1831-1832)…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Greenough

Samuel Appleton
Harvard University Portrait Collection New York Public Library Digital ID: 11879 487

“The Rescue, a statue group by Horatio Greenough,
The Rescue
1853. It was later removed from the U.S. Capital steps… by Horatio Greenough
His father did not hinder his family’s artistic bent but Original Location on Capitol Steps
insisted on sending Horatio to Harvard, where he
graduated in 1825 and where he met the famed American
painter Washington Allston. Since childhood he had
loved to shape things. While in college he submitted an
obelisk model in a design contest for the Bunker Hill
Monument. At his friends’ urging, after graduation he
sailed to Rome to experience art first hand. He became
America’s first sculptor. For the rest of his life, he would
spend only three years here… On returning to Italy in
mid-1828 the Yankee stonecutter (as he called himself)
settled in Florence with its better climate and artistic
colony… Through his connections, Greenough was able
to get Lafayette to sit for him in Paris, whence came the
bust of the Revolution’s youngest general in the State
House. In 1832 he was commissioned to produce a full-
length statue of Washington for the Capitol’s rotunda.
This made him greatly sought after in Florence…
In 1836, after Washington had been cast in plaster,
Greenough visited America briefly to get a commission
for a statuary group called ‘The Rescue’ for the eastern
facade of the Capitol… In 1851, Florence became a hot
point in the fight for Italian independence. Greenough
and his family returned to America, making a home in
Newport, Rhode Island. Characteristically, the artist
plunged into events and urged statues of Cooper the
novelist and Washington for Newport. He wrote essays
and delivered lectures on art. His activity overcame his
nervous system, and he was taken to McLean Mental
Hospital in metropolitan Boston, where, after a few days,
he died on December 18, 1852.”
//www.jphs.org/people/2005/4/14/horatio-greenough-americas-first-sculptor.html Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005689033/

488

Horatio Greenough in the MFA Permanent Collection

http://www.mfa.org/search/collections?keyword=horatio+greenough&objecttype=77 489

Gift of Mrs. Wm. Burnham NBWM #1979.43.2.1 New York Historical Society

N. P. Willis, by Horatio Greenough, 1833 N. P. Willis by William A. Wall, 1833

Nathaniel Parker Willis married Cornelia Grinnell, daughter of Cornelius & Eliza Grinnell, Jr., in 1846. N.P. Willis was a wealthy
writer and publisher who penned the following famous lines: “Luxurious as the town is now, and few and far between as are the lead-
colored bonnets and drab cutaway coats, there is a strong tincture of Quaker precision and simplicity in the manners of the wealthier
class in New Bedford, and among the nautical class it mixes up very curiously with the tarpaulin carelessness and ease.”

490

Published in 1855 Architect: Calvert Vaux

Idlewild, Cornwall-on-Hudson
Home of Cornelia Grinnell & N. P. Willis
This estate is less than 25 miles from Cornelia’s Uncle Moses in Irvington. “In 1846, Willis settled near the banks of Canterbury Creek near the
Hudson River… and named his new home Idlewild… Willis worked closely with the architect, Calvert Vaux, to carefully plan each gable and piazza to
fully take advantage of the dramatic view of the river and mountains.” (Wikipedia) Calvert Vaux also designed Albert Bierstadt’s Malkasten.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9904E3D6143FE433A2575AC0A9679D946097D6CF
http://archive.org/stream/villasandcottag00vauxgoog#page/n116/mode/2up

Photo: Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views, Photography Collection, Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints & Photographs, The New York Public Library 491

N. P. Willis, Harriet Jacobs, & the Grinnells

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Parker_Willis#cite_note-Beers355-121 http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9904E3D6143FE433A2575AC0A9679D946097D6CF
492

Joseph, Cornelia, and N. P. Willis

August 7, 1907, p. 40

(Partial Article)
493

Wamsutta of New Bedford by Henry Beetle Hough, 1946. pp. 1 & 2

Hon. Joseph Grinnell, First President of Wamsutta Mills: 1848-1885
494

Hon. Joseph Grinnell, Director of Wamsutta Mills: 1847-1885
Despite their political rivalry, Joseph & Mayor Abraham Howland lived across the street from each other in granite mansions designed by Russell
Warren. Joseph’s was at 379 County St. (slide 588) and Abraham at 388 County St. (slides 602 & 604). Please see 1881 map at slide 466.
Frederick was Joseph’s nephew and the inventor of the Grinnell Automatic Sprinkler (slides 526+) 495

Wamsutta of New Bedford by Henry Beetle Hough, 1946. pp. 12-14 Wamsutta of New Bedford by Henry Beetle Hough, 1946. p. 15

496

*

Wamsutta of New Bedford by Henry Beetle Hough, 1946. pp. 17-19
*“Uncle Gid” was Gideon (Jr.), Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell’s brother (slides 624-627). 497

Wamsutta Mill
William T. Russell
to Henry Grinnell
(brother-in-law)
Oct. 22, 1845
Right top letter: about Thomas Bennett, Jr.
and the cotton industry. William T. Russell
married Henry’s sister Sylvia. He lived on
Russell Street half a block from the Joseph
Grinnell Mansion (slide 606). When
Joseph founded the Wamsutta Mills,
Grinnell, Minturn & Co. was an investor.
From the remark about slaves in this letter
and other documents, it is safe to assume
that William and Henry were both anti-
slavery. One source states that Moses was
an abolitionist and could “always be
counted on” by the conductor at Albany.

William T. Russell
to Thomas Bennett, Jr.
Nov. 5, 1845
Bottom right letter: regarding the cotton
industry. Joseph Grinnell became the first
chairman of Wamsutta Mills, and Henry
became an investor along with their
brother Moses (previous slide).

498

NBWM #1971.7

Wamsutta Mill by William A. Wall, c. 1850
At the time his father died in 1850, Joseph Grinnell was the founding president of Wamsutta Mills and founding president of the New Bedford and
Taunton Railroad Corporation (red train in painting, lower center). In 1850, Joseph was also a U.S. congressman (1843-1851) and the founding president
of the Marine Bank. Since few people would want this painting of a factory in their home, it is possible that Joseph commissioned this for his office.
Print: https://www.1000museums.com/enlarge/201731/ 499

Grinnell Brothers’ Peak of Commercial Success in Mid 1800’s

Honorable Joseph Grinnell in 1849:
Marine Bank President, N. B. & T. Rail Road President,
and President of Wamsutta Mills (1848-1885)

Joseph was a U. S. Congressman 1843-1851, and he held the above top
positions concurrently. In 1850, The U. S. Grinnell Expedition was
“launched” by Henry; and also in 1850 Donald McKay launched the flash
packet ship CORNELIUS GRINNELL. In 1851, Grinnell, Minturn & Co.
purchased the FLYING CLOUD (slide 504+); and Grinnell, Minturn & Co.
also invested in Wamsutta Mills. It can be said that the Grinnell brothers’
Quaker heritage through the Howland family enabled them to work and
live together and attain a high level of commercial and political success.

500

Capt. Cornelius Grinnell &
William Rotch, Jr. Obituary Grinnell Polar Expedition
April 26, 1850 April 26, 1850
.

These two momentous
events in the Grinnell family
were printed in the same
column of the New-Bedford
Mercury, on April 26, 1850.

On April 19, 1850, Capt. Grinnell died at age 92 in the same week as William Rotch, Jr. Cornelius worked as a ship captain for
William Rotch, Jr., and they were co-directors of the Bedford Bank when it opened in 1803. When the New Bedford Institution
for Savings opened in 1825, both men were incorporators and William Rotch, Jr. became president. William had been born into
a wealthy Nantucket whaling family in 1759 one year after Capt. Cornelius, who started out as a poor apprentice hatter. The
Rotch family plot is one plot over from the Grinnell plot, and Cornelius Grinnell and William Rotch, Jr. are buried about 150 ft.
apart. Grandson Frederick, inventor of the Grinnell Automatic Sprinkler (slides 526+), has the most ornate grave marker in the
Grinnell family plot. In all, there are forty-nine grave markers with the family name of Grinnell in Oak Grove Cemetery.
501

Cornelia
Joseph Grinnell
Grinnell
Willis

Cornelius Grinnell

Sylvia Grinnell

Photos by J. Grinnell

Oak Grove Cemetery, July 4, 2010
Foreground from left: Capt. Cornelius, Sylvia, and Sylvia’s sister, Desire. Of the five identical headstones in the
background, Joseph is second from the left, with stepdaughter Cornelia second from the right (detail). There are many
other Grinnells and Howlands buried here including Sylvia’s brother Gideon Howland (Jr.) and his daughters (slide 624).
Sons Moses and Henry were buried in New York where they moved c. 1825. Cornelius, Jr.’s burying place in not known. 502

The Grinnells & Charles W. Morgan
L

Cornelius & Sylvia

Photos by J. Grinnell

Above: the graves of Cornelius, Sylvia, and her sister Desire are visible
next to the flag on the far right. In left foreground is the headstone of
ship owner/agent, Charles W. Morgan. “Morgan left the Quaker faith to
become a Unitarian and was recognized as an abolitionist…”
http://www.mysticseaport.org

Charles Morgan is buried 54 ft. from Cornelius Grinnell and 83 ft. from
Joseph Grinnell. The wealthy abolitionist William Rotch, Jr. is buried
120 ft. to the right of Cornelius & Sylvia. Morgan Rotch was Charles W.
Morgan’s grandson and great grandson of William Rotch, Jr. On Dec. 4,
1879, Morgan Rotch married Josephine Grinnell (slide 618). Josephine
was a great granddaughter of Capt. Cornelius & Sylvia. Morgan Rotch
was in the insurance business, and he was a mayor of New Bedford
(1885-1888) and a state senator. Morgan & Josephine are buried in the
Grinnell Family Plot.
Left: Unitarian Church records in NBWM Research Library.
503

Chapter V. The FLYING CLOUD & the Yachtsmen

Image courtesy Bancroft Library University of California Berkeley

The Flying Cloud by James Butterworth, 1852
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Cloud_(clipper) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinnell,_Minturn_%26_Co 504

Clipper Ship FLYING CLOUD
Owner: Grinnell, Minturn & Co.

Some Famous Sailing Ships and Their Builder: Donald McKay
by Richard C. McKay, 1931, pg. 142

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinnell,_Minturn_%26_Co

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Cloud_(clipper)

505

Packet Ship CORNELIUS GRINNELL
Built by Donald McKay

Some Famous Sailing Ships and Their Builder: Donald McKay by R. C. McKay The New-Bedford Mercury, June 21, 1850

Cornelius, Jr. was the first of the Grinnell brothers to enter the New York shipping business when he
became a partner in Post & Grinnell in 1809 (Post, Grinnell & Minturn in 1810: slide 445). Ship registers
prove that Cornelius, Jr. owned 16 ships with his relatives and with Fish & Grinnell until he died in 1830.

506

Some Famous Sailing Ships and Their Builder: Donald McKay by Richard C. McKay, 1931, pg. 50


507


Moses H. (1803-1807) was the fifth son of Capt.
Cornelius and Sylvia Grinnell. He was president of
Grinnell, Minturn & Co. for most of his career and
Gift of Mrs. Peter S. Grinnell NBWM #1984.31.1
developed it into a leading world-wide shipping firm.
Even though he permanently moved to New York in
Congressman Moses H. Grinnell 1825, he maintained a pew at the New Bedford
1803-1877 Unitarian Church and a home in New Bedford. His
President: Grinnell, Minturn & Co. funeral was held at the Unitarian Church of All
Owner: FLYING CLOUD Souls, New York City. One source states that Moses
Contributor: Grinnell & Hayes Arctic Expeditions helped to fund the Grinnell Arctic Expeditions, and it
President: Merchants Savings Bank, N.Y. is believed that Joseph was also involved.
President: New York State Chamber of Commerce
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_H._Grinnell 508

Susan Russell was the first wife of Moses Grinnell and the
sister of Eliza Russell, the first wife of Cornelius Grinnell,
Jr. Soon after their 1824 marriage, Moses & Susan moved
to New York, and Moses became a partner at Fish &
Grinnell which evolved into Grinnell, Minturn & Co.
Moses became the renowned “head of the house” and was
the president when it was described as follows: “In the
1840’s and around mid-century, Grinnell, Minturn &
Company, of New York, was the foremost sailing packet
ship owner and operator and one of the leading general
shipping houses in New York. The firm was of outstanding
prominence during the brief clipper shipbuilding era, and…
it was conspicuous as the owner of the FLYING CLOUD.”
Moses built a mansion “on Fifth Avenue, N.Y. on land that
was later occupied by the famous Delmonico’s
Restaurant.” (slide 202+) When the New York Yacht
Squadron visited New Bedford on August 16, 1860, The
New York Times reported that Moses attended with his
schooner RESTLESS, Henry was on the Regatta Committee,
and the club was entertained at Joseph’s mansion (slide
514+). “The Union Club had its palmy social days in the
Astor residence… The first president of the club was Chief
Justice Samuel Jones. He was succeeded by John A. King,
at whose death Moses H. Grinnell took the presidency…”
The Union Club was/is the premier club in the country.
The Memorial History of New York: 1893, edited by James Watson.

Gift of Mrs. Peter S. Grinnell NBWM #1984.31.2

Susan (Russell) Grinnell
1800-1832

The paintings of Moses & Susan came from the collection of Peter & Mary Lou Grinnell who donated
the GRINNELL RESOLUTE Desk, three William A. Wall paintings, and many other family treasures.
Peter was a founder of WHALE and a great, great grandson of Cornelius & Eliza Grinnell, Jr.
509
.

Clipper Ship Flying Cloud

“Ship Flying Cloud of New York Alx’r Winsor Com’r Going into Hong Kong.”
This painting hangs over one of the fireplaces in the Millicent Library (slide 238).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Cloud_(clipper)

510

Subject: newport

August 22, 1855 Copyright © The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/1860/08/18/news/new-york-yacht-squadron-regatta-new-bedford-julia-wins-
champion-prize-reunion.html?scp=24&sq=moses+grinnell&st=p
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_H._Grinnell 511

Moses H. Grinnell, the New York Yacht Club, and the America’s Cup

512

Creator: James Butterworth for Currier & Ives Library of Congress LC-DIG-pga-00979

The Yacht “HAZE” 87 TONS
Designed by George Steers, 1853
Owned by Moses H. Grinnell, 1856
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=yacht%20haze 513

1857

1856

The History of the New York Yacht Club by John Parkinson, Jr., p. 36

1858

The History of the New York Yacht Club by John Parkinson, Jr., p. 34 The History of the New York Yacht Club by John Parkinson, Jr., p. 37

514

The New York Yacht Club by John Parkinson, Jr.
1859

The History of the New York Yacht Club by John Parkinson, Jr., p. 40

1860

The History of the New York Yacht Club by John Parkinson, Jr., p. 43 515

The New York Yacht Club
by John Parkinson, Jr.

1889

516

Painting by: Benjamin Russell NBWM #1968.52

“Destruction of Whaleships off Cape Thaddeus, Arctic Ocean, June 23, 1865,
by Confederate Steamer SHENANDOAH”
“The Brig SUSAN ABIGAIL is on fire, and the Ship EUPHRATES is also in smoke & flames.”
The EUPHRATES was owned by the Grinnell & Howland families from 1809 to 1865 (slides 408+).
517

Creator: Bradley & Rulofson NBWM #00.203.42

“Portrait of five whaling captains whose ships were seized and burned by the rebel
ships still loyal to the Southern Confederacy in the months following Appomattox.”
These ships included the EUPHRATES, Capt. Hathaway (2nd from right), which was owned by Grinnells & Howlands from the time it
was built in 1809 until it was sunk by the SHENANDOAH on June 23, 1865. Henry Grinnell was an owner from 1842-1866 (slide 408).
518

sippicanhistoricalsociety.org Photos: minkstudios

Abraham Lincoln & Lawrence Grinnell
“Passport for Bark MILWOOD of New Bedford 1865.”
The MILLWOOD passport is countersigned by Lawrence Grinnell, collector for the
port of New Bedford. Lawrence (1811-1893) was a son of Cornelius, Jr. and Eliza. As
a young man, he went to N.Y. to work for his uncles in the counting room of Fish &
Grinnell. When his father died, he returned to New Bedford to take over his business
as the owner/agent of the MINERVA and EUPHRATES (slide 474). He was also in the
insurance business with his brother Joseph G., and his offices were on the second floor
of the Double Bank Building (slide 591). In the 1840’s, these two brothers built grand
houses within two blocks of each other and their Uncle Joe (slides 607 & 610).

519

Congressman Moses H. Grinnell (NY)
President: Union Club 1866-1873

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_H._Grinnell Notable Members: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Club_of_the_City_of_New_York
520

Hon. Moses H. Grinnell: President, New York Chamber of Commerce

http://books.google.com/books?id=GR0bAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q&f=false
521

Hon. Moses H. Grinnell
Right: The New York Times
November 25, 1877

Moses in Paris, 1867
Creator: Langerock NBWM #93.44.2-R&V

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?
res=9B04E3DD173EE73BBC4D51DFB767838C669FDE
&scp=4&sq=moses+grinnell&st=p


522

Moses Grinnell &Unitarian Church of All Souls, New York City
Jacob Wrey Mould had been in the United States only a year in 1853 when he was consulted by
Moses H. Grinnell regarding plans for a new Unitarian Church of All Souls. The church, under
the strong guidance of Rev. Dr. Henry Whitney Bellows, had been searching for an adequate
design. When architect C. F. Anderson presented his plans, Grinnell, the president of the
trustees, was less than impressed. Although the trustees had approved Anderson’s design, they
were vetoed by Grinnell… Mould had been hard at work designing decorative elements for the
Crystal Palace Exhibition in Bryant Park. Three months later when, on July 8, 1853, his plans
were exhibited to the board of trustees Grinnell convinced a wary Bellows to accept them.
Bellows would remark that Grinnell was “bewitched by the architect.”

Built on the southeast corner of Fourth Avenue and 20th Street it was completed in 1855.
Although contemporary critics termed the style “Byzantine,” it was actually Italian
Romanesque… With his design, Mould had indeed stepped out of the box. By using alternating
courses of deep red Philadelphia brick and beige-yellow Italian Caen stone he created a
striped overall effect which, according to the “Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and
Landscaping,” “introduced structural polychromy to the USA.”

All Souls Church c.1869 - NYPL Collection
Architect: Jacob Wrey Mould Critics, however, were quick to react. It was called by one, “the most unfortunate ecclesiastical
edifice ever to be erected not only in New York, but anywhere else in the world for that
matter.” The congregation, who felt they now owned a “white elephant,” according to
Henderson, was even more shocked when it was revealed that Mould had gone $48,000 over
budget. It was Grinnell who helped relieve the financial crisis from his own pocket…

Dr. Bellows died in 1882 and four years later a bronze memorial table with a life-sized relief of
the minister by Augustus Saint-Gaudens was unveiled in the sanctuary. [Moses died in 1877.]
http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2011/02/lost-church-of-holy-zebra-moulds.html

Augustus Saint-Gaudens' life sized bronze memorial of Dr. Bellows -- (from A Loiterer in New York”) 523

New York Public Library #430777 http://www.sleepyhollowcemetery.org/?s=grinnell

“Hon. Moses H. Grinnell, Collector of the Port of New York” “The restored head stone of Congressman Moses Hicks Grinnell”

524

Bierstadt Brothers NBWM #2000.100.2143 Wolfenstein NBWM #2000.100.272 Bierstadt Brothers NBWM #2000.100.2142

“Edward Bierstadt (1824–1906) was an American portrait and landscape photographer, and engraver. He was a
brother of the painter Albert Bierstadt, and made a number of engravings of his brother’s work.” Wikipedia 525

Photographer: Joseph G. Tirrell NBWM #2000.100.85.78 (detail)

Joseph Grinnell Mansion: third floor added by Frederick c. 1895
The home at far right was built by Joseph’s oldest brother, Cornelius, Jr. Frederick was a grandson of Cornelius, Jr. 526

NBWM #2000.100.1790 The Howland Heirs: Wm. M. Emery, 1919, p. 262

Frederick Grinnell: invented the Grinnell Automatic Sprinkler
Frederick (1836-1905) was a son of Lawrence and grandson of Cornelius, Jr. (slide 3). He invented the Grinnell Automatic
Sprinkler, and his international company remains in business today as SimplexGrinnell (slide 713). Frederick was a member of
the New York Yacht Club and the Eastern Yacht Club. In The New Bedford Yacht Club, Llewellyn Howland III wrote: “But an
even more important addition to the fleet in 1889 was the fast and lovely 83-foot Burgess schooner QUICKSTEP, launched that year
for Frederick Grinnell of Providence and New Bedford… Legend has it that QUICKSTEP was unbeaten during her first four years of
active racing and that on three occasions she won ‘special races against the finest [New York and Eastern Club] schooners in the
class above her’ … the splendid QUICKSTEP, which mainly raced in New York fixtures… And the club fleet now (1902)
numbered seven steam yachts (including Frederick Grinnell’s brand-new 124-foot Herreshoff-designed QUICKSTEP)…”
http://www.simplexgrinnell.com/ENUS/AboutUs/Pages/SimplexGrinnellHistory.aspx 527

Gift of Peter S. Grinnell NBWM #2000.100.1099
Schooner QUICKSTEP c. 1898
Owned by Frederick Grinnell, “124-foot Herreshoff-designed” 528

The New Bedford Yacht Club, Llewellyn Howland III Photographer: Dr. Henry D. Prescott NBWM Collection

Schooner QUICKSTEP c. 1898
Frederick Grinnell, Owner
529

Frederick Grinnell
sons Lawrence and Russell

The New Bedford Yacht Club: L. Howland III, p. 126

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Grinnell

530

“Russell Grinnell’s summer cottage, Red Top
Birchfield, South Dartmouth, circa 1910.”

Greetings From Dartmouth, Massachusetts, A Postcard History by Beverly M. Glennon and Judith N. Lund, 2003

Photographer: Theodosia Chase . Dartmouth Historical Commission

Like his father Frederick, Russell was a member of the New York Yacht Club; and he won the 1928 Race to Bermuda in RUGOSA II. 531

Grinnell Brothers, Bermuda Race, 1828
Lawrence – Flying Cloud III, Special Class Winner
Russell - Rugosa II, Overall Winner

Morris Rosenfeld, Photographer Grinnell Yacht Photos: gift of Peter S. Grinnell NBWM #1980.56.5

Flying Cloud III Crew: Lawrence Grinnell, Jr., Owner
Llewellyn Howland III wrote the following about Lawrence Grinnell, Jr.: “…Lawrence Grinnell’s new Hand-designed 55-foot FLYING CLOUD II
(1922)… the yacht club at its 1923 annual meeting elected Lawrence Grinnell as its new commodore…” (p. 125) “FLYING CLOUD III finished out
of the money in 1924, but under the command of Lawrence Grinnell, Jr. she won the special class in the 1928 Bermuda Race.”
The New Bedford Yacht Club, Llewellyn Howland III, p. 132
532

Photographer: Morris Rosenfeld NBWM: 1980.56.13
RUGOSA II, Russell Grinnell (far left) Start of 1928 Bermuda Race FLYING CLOUD III, Lawrence, Jr.
Overall Winner (white hull)
Grinnell Yacht Photos: gift of Peter S. Grinnell
533

Grinnell Yacht photos: gift of Peter S. Grinnell NBWM #1981.80.137.21.a

FLYING CLOUD, Commodore Lawrence Grinnell, Jr. RUGOSA, Russell Grinnell
Lawrence Russell were sons of Frederick Mary and great grandsons of Cornelius Eliza Grinnell, Jr.

534

Photographer: Morris Rosenfeld NBWM: 1980.56.7

FLYING CLOUD III, 1928 Bermuda Race 535

Photographer: Albert Cook Church NBWM #1980.56.2
Schooner Flying Cloud III
Owner: Commodore Lawrence Grinnell, Jr.
Grinnell Yacht Photos: gift of Peter S. Grinnell 536

Grinnell Yacht photos: gift of Peter S. Grinnell NBWM #1981.80.137.21.a

FLYING CLOUD, Commodore Lawrence Grinnell, Jr. RUGOSA, Russell Grinnell

537

Photographer: Levick, Edwin NBWM #1980.56.3
Schooner Flying Cloud III
Owner: Commodore Lawrence Grinnell, Jr.
Grinnell Yacht Photos: gift of Peter S. Grinnell 538

NBWM #1981.80.131.5
RUGOSA II, Winner of Race to Bermuda, 1928
Built by Herreshoff in 1926 for Russell Grinnell, great grandson of Cornelius Eliza Grinnell, Jr.
Photo: gift of Peter S. Grinnell
539

Russell Grinnell
Great Grandson of Cornelius, Jr. Eliza
Bombé Desk President: General Fire Extinguisher Co.
Gift of Russell Grinnell Director: Morse Twist Drill
This desk came from the family of Director: Mechanics National Bank
Russell Grinnell’s wife, Rose Gifford, 1928 Bermuda Race Overall Winner
daughter of artist R. Swain Gifford. New York Yacht Club Member


“In 1869, Frederick Grinnell, a
Massachusetts-born engineer, purchased a
controlling interest in Providence Steam and Lawrence Grinnell (II)
Gas and became its president… Grinnell Great Grandson of Cornelius, Jr. Eliza
died in 1905 and was succeeded by his New Bedford Yacht Club Commodore
former executive assistant, Frank H.
Maynard. The Canadian General Fire
Extinguisher Co., Ltd. (later Grinnell Co. of
Canada, Ltd.), was incorporated in 1914.
Five years later, Grinnell Co., Inc. was
chartered to act as a sales agency for General
Fire Extinguisher, and Grinnell Co. of the
Pacific was formed to consolidate and
expand West Coast operations… Grinnell's
son Russell succeeded Maynard as president
of General Fire Extinguisher in 1925.”
DEACCESSIONED 540

Photographer: Norman Fortier NBWM# 2004.11.9025

Russell was a member of the
NY 40 Yawl RUGOSA New York Yacht Club, and the
Russell Grinnell, Owner RUGOSA was registered in N.Y.
541

Prescott Collection NBWM #1981.80.150.13.a

ESCAPE, Llewellyn Howland, Jr., July 21, 1935
Llewellyn Howland, Jr. was a great, great, great grandson of Sylvia (Howland)
Grinnell’s brother, Capt. Cornelius Howland (1758-1835). Cornelius Howland
was a shipmate, P.O.W., and ship owner with Capt. Cornelius Grinnell.

The Howland Heirs: Wm M. Emery, 1919 542

JAVA, First Concordia Yawl
Concordia was a Howland company

543

Waldo Llewellyn Howland, Jr.
Partners in the Concordia Co., Inc.

(Partial Article)

(Partial Article)
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=grGRid=80613550
Photographer: Norman Fortier NBWM #2004.11.1267
Waldo Llewellyn, Jr. were great, great, great
JAVA, the First Concordia Yawl grandsons of Capt. Cornelius Howland, whose birth is
“Round Hill Point in far background.” listed in the Capt. Grinnell’s 1785 bible (slide 420).
544

JAVA, the First Concordia Yawl

545

NBWM #1981.80.131.5

Photographer: Church, Albert Cook NBWM #2000.100.112
Untitled 546

Pg. 1 Pg. 9

Pg. 42

Gift of Waldo Llewellyn Howland, Jr. ODHS #766 NBWM 1973.27.2

1852-1855 Log of Ship JAVA
Waldo Llewellyn Howland, Jr. also gave the 1845-1848 logbook of the GEORGE SUSAN (NBWM 1973.27.1). 547

Irving Joanna Grinnell, children of Moses Julia

http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/q-and-a/q8-newsarticle.cfm
The Town of Irvington and Irving Grinnell were named after Washington Irving, who was Irving Grinnell’s great uncle.

Reflections on a River edited by Holly Wahlberg, Dutchess County Historical Society, 2009, pgs. 167-172
548

Irving Grinnell
Son of Moses Julia
Cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Howland Heirs, by Wm. M. Emery

Irving Joanna attended Franklin Eleanor Roosevelt’s wedding
(F.D.R. was a cousin). According to The History of the New York
Yacht Club by J. Parkinson, Jr., Irving was never commodore of
the N.Y.Y.C.; but he was a fleet captain (slide 516). His father
Moses, however, was elected commodore in 1859 but declined
Reflections on a River edited by Holly Wahlberg, 2009, pg. 171
(slide 515). Netherwood was near Hyde Park and the Roosevelts.
549

Grinnell Library, Wappinger Falls, NY

Irving Grinnell
Grinnell Library
“It all goes back to Irving Grinnell. Born in 1839 into a
prosperous New York City family, he retired young to
lead the life of a gentleman of leisure on his estate,
Netherwood, located in what is now Bowdoin Park.
Grinnell took a Victorian philanthropist’s interest in
Wappingers Falls… By 1880 the library was
outgrowing its space and was in perpetual need of
funds. A building fund was started, but it didn’t take
off until 1884 when Grinnell held a Lawn Party and a
Union Fair was held at Zion [Episcopal] Church, both
in aid of the library. The lot at the corner of East Main
and Spring Streets was purchased in 1886; construction
began and was completed in 1887. Grinnell hired a
Below: Irving’s Netherwood Estate New York City architect, and supplied a list of
architectural features he wanted to include. The tower
is modeled after one he saw in St. Battenberg,
Switzerland, and the way the second story overhangs
the first recalls buildings he liked in Chester, England.”
http://www.grinnell-library.org/
Hudson River

I. Grinnell

Reflections on a River edited by Holly Wahlberg, 2009, pg. 171 550

Irving Grinnell Lawrence Grinnell, Jr.
America’s Cup Committee: New York Yacht Club, 1899 Commodore: New Bedford Yacht Club
Founding Commodore: New Hamburg Yacht Club Son of Frederick Grinnell
Son of Moses Grinnell Great Grandson of Cornelius Grinnell, Jr.

http://nhyc1869.com/history.htm The New Bedford Yacht Club: L. Howland III, p. 58 (detail)

New Hamburg Yacht Club
“… incorporated on December 20th 1869 by the local millionaires, river captains and village residents as the ‘New Hamburgh Ice
Yacht Club’. It is considered the 6th oldest yacht club in the United States… Irving Grinnell was the first Commodore and the leading
spirit of the original club. He was a local millionaire who owned a [Hudson] river-front estate with a boat house that was a short
distance south of Third Point. For some years the Grinnell boathouse was used as the yacht club's headquarters. The Grinnell estate
and the adjoining estate of Temple Bowdoin, another early member, is now known as Bowdoin Park of Dutchess County.”
http://www.co.dutchess.ny.us/countygov/departments/dpw-parks/ppbowdoin.htm 551

Henry’s son donated The Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin
to the New York Yacht Club where Henry Moses had been members.

NBWM Archives

552

Daughter of Moses Grinnell

The Bowdoin Family, by Russell E. Train (pages 55-75 are primarily about the Grinnells Howlands)
553

Julia below: daughter of Moses H. Grinnell
wife of George S. Bowdoin

The Howland Heirs, by William Emery, 1919, p. 257

The Bowdoin Family, by Russell E. Train
554

Maine Historic Preservation Commission

La Rochelle: Bar Harbor Cottage of Julia Irving Grinnell Bowdoin
Daughter of Moses Sister of Irving

http://books.google.com/books?id=rnkAAAAAYAAJdq=george%20bowdoin%20bar%20harborpg=PA247#v=onepageq=george%20bowdoin%20bar%20harborf=false

555

Summer Home of Julia Irving Grinnell Bowdoin
“One of the Morgan partners at Bar Harbor was George S. Bowdoin, a grandson of Alexander Hamilton—another of
whose grandchildren was married to Morgan’s son-in-law Pierson Hamilton, also a partner in the bank, also a Bar
Harbor summer resident. Mrs. Bowdoin, the former Julia Irving Grinnell, was the great niece of Washington Irving…”
http://downeastdilettante.wordpress.com/category/j-p-morgan/
556

La Rochelle: Bar Harbor Home of Julia Grinnell Bowdoin

“During the gilded age, when the remote Maine
resort of Bar Harbor was considered second only
to Newport on the summer social tour, partners in
the Morgan Bank, or ‘Morgan Men’, as they were
known, were mainstays of the opulent summer
community. It was understandable. Their
employer had long and deep ties to the resort—
J.P. Morgan’s wife, the former Frances Tracy, had
summered there since childhood, when Bar
Harbor was still called Eden and had returned
most summers since. The great banker, more
restless, traveled back and forth on his yacht
CORSAIR, an imperial presence on the social
scene. Louis Auchincloss, in A Voice From Old
New York, remembered his parents, who
summered in Bar Harbor, cancelling a previous
social engagement when summoned to dine with
Morgan aboard CORSAIR. When young
Auchincloss questioned his parents—his father
did a great deal of business with the Morgan firm
—about throwing over their intended hostess for
that evening, his mother simply told him that
‘someday you will understand’.”

557

La Rochelle: Bar Harbor Home of Julia Grinnell Bowdoin
Granddaughter of Capt. Cornelius, a “poor boy” and a private in the Revolutionary War (slide 414).

558

La Rochelle, Bar Harbor
“In 1901 Bowdoin purchased an in-town
shorefront lot on West Street, and
commissioned a cottage from architects
Andrews, Jacques Rantoul. Completed in
1903, the house , curiously urban in that way of
houses in grand resorts—were it not for the
ocean behind it, one could imagine this house
in Kalorama—was a blend of French
Renaissance Georgian, built of brick and
Indiana limestone. Large (Some 35 rooms on
four levels) but not vast, elegant but not
opulent, it was the first major brick house in a
resort hitherto filled mostly with massive stone,
shingle and stucco cottages. The new cottage
was called ‘La Rochelle’ after the Bowdoin
family’s ancestral town in France.”

“A small circular vestibule opens under the curved
double stairs and looks ahead to French doors to the
ocean terrace, and a 90 foot cross hall.”

559

La Rochelle, Bar Harbor
La Rochelle Side Terrace: “The eastern end of Bar Island… is visible on the right.”
560

Grinnells, J. P. Morgan, CORSAIR I

J. Pierpont Morgan: An Intimate Portrait by Herbert L. Satterlee, The Macmillan Co. 561


J. Pierpont Morgan: An Intimate Portrait by Herbert L. Satterlee, The Macmillan Co.
562


563


564


565

George S. Bowdoin, Philanthropist
Stable: 149 East 38th Street

Irving Grinnell’s Netherwood property became part of Bowdoin Park.

Reflections on a River, Dutchess County Historical Society, 2009, pg. 173

“The stable was purchased in 1907 by George S. Bowdoin who
lived nearby at 39 Park Avenue and East 36th Street. Bowdoin’s
daughter, Edith inherited the building from her father and had it
converted to a garage in 1918.” Like the Manhattan mansions of
Henry and Moses, the main house did not survive.
Architect: Ralph S. Townsend http://library.gc.cuny.edu/murrayhill/items/show/19 http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/bowdoin.pdf 566

Chapter VI. Homes of Old Dartmouth Relatives

NBWM #2000.100.3012

Round Hill Homestead, Birthplace of Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell
Sylvia Howland, wife of Capt. Cornelius Grinnell, was born here on Aug. 4, 1765. She came from a Quaker family that moved to Dartmouth
from Duxbury in the 1650’s. The land was purchased by Henry Howland, brother of pilgrim John Howland. Henry died in 1671, and his
son Zoeth (1636-1676) was killed by Indians in King Phillip’s War. The house was built by Zoeth’s son, Benjamin (1659-1727). It was
passed on to Barnabas (1699-1773) and then to the senior Gideon Howland (1734-1823), who was Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell’s father. 567

Artist: William Allen Wall NBWM #1929.7.1 Artist: William Allen Wall NBWM #1929.7.2

Abraham Russell Sarah Russell
1756-1837 1762-1849
Joseph Grinnell’s father-in-law Joseph Grinnell’s mother-in-law

568

Abraham Sarah Russell
Joseph Grinnell’s in-laws

N.E.H.G.S., by B.B. Russell, 1904, p. 17 18

NBWM #300.83.1 The Howland Heirs: Wm M. Emery, 1919, p. 247 NBWM #300.83.3

As can be seen above, Joseph Grinnell married Sarah and Abraham’s daughter, Sarah R. Russell.
Thus, Joseph Grinnell and Joseph S. Russell were brothers-in-law. The artist, Joseph S. Russell
(1795-1860) was Abraham Sarah’s son. Around 1818, Joseph Russell moved to Philadelphia,
where his mother was born. He sold whale oil candles and frequently returned to New Bedford.

569

NBWM #2000.100.82.95

Home of Abraham Sarah S. Russell
Abraham and Sarah Russell started the first stage from New Bedford to Boston, and they were owners of ten ships. Joseph Grinnell married their daughter,
Sarah R. Russell (1788-1862). Note in negative sleeve reads: “This house was built in 1803 by Abraham Russell. It stood on County St. at the head of Union
St. It was moved to make room for Union St. between 1825-1930 to the NW corner of Union Orchard St.” (DEMOLISHED 1904)
570

Artist: Joseph S. Russell NBWM #1962.4.11

“Dwelling of Abraham Russell Esq., New Bedford”
“The Rotches acquired a lot of the Russell land in 1819 because in 1815, during the War of 1812, Abraham Russell had to take out a five-year
mortgage on his property to cover his business expenses, and William Rotch, Sr. provided most of the money for the mortgage. At the end of the
five-year period Russell was unable to meet his debt, and so the mortgage was foreclosed and Rotch [a fellow Quaker] came intro possession of
much of the old Russell property. Joseph Grinnell, son-in-law of Russell, as trustee under the will, sold the Russell mansion to James Rider.”
New Bedford: A Pictorial History, by Judith Boss Joseph Thomas: 1983, p. 34 571


“Stable of Ab'm Russell, Esq. about the year 1810”
572


“Mr. Ab'm Russell's Stable New Bedford”
573

Artist: Joseph S. Russell, 1848 NBWM #1962.4.10

“South Parlor of Ab’m Russell, Esq. New Bedford”
The artist, Joseph S. Russell (1795-1860), was Abraham Sarah’s son and Joseph Grinnell’s brother-in-law.
574

Artist: Joseph S. Russell, c. 1814 NBWM #1962.4.7

“Original Residence of Ab’m Russell, C. 1804” 575


“New Bedford Market Place, 1848” 576


“Congregational Church, Tiverton, R.I.”
Tiverton Little Compton were also part of the original Dartmouth Purchase 577


“Old Baptist Church Longhill near Dr. Whitridge's, Tiverton” 578


“Dr. Whitridge's Residence, Tiverton, R. I.” 579


“North Parlour of Dr. Whitridge's, Tiverton R. I.”
Old Dartmouth originally included New Bedford, Fairhaven, Acushnet, Westport, and parts of Tiverton and Little Compton.
“Tiverton was originally incorporated in 1694, as part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. A long boundary dispute between Rhode
Island and Massachusetts was settled in 1746, and Tiverton ... was annexed to Rhode Island. The town was incorporated in 1747.”
http://www.tiverton.ri.gov/town/history.html http://www.little-compton.com/about.php
580


“Old Beach Tree in Woods in back of Dr Whitridge's” 581

Artist: Joseph S. Russell, c. 1809 NBWM #1978.10

“Penny Wing School House”
582


“Charley Harry's Great Grandfather Russell's farmyard as it was in 1807.”
583


“Old Residence of T.B. Freeman, 10th and Chestnut Streets”
Around 1818, Joseph Russell moved to Philadelphia, where his mother was born and where this
painting was created. Joseph sold whale oil candles and frequently returned to New Bedford. 584

Photo: Thomas Edward Mulligan White NBWM #2000.100.90.12
Gilbert Russell House
61 South Sixth Street, built 1829. Gilbert was a brother of Abraham Russell. “Gilbert Russell… was the son of New Bedford founder Joseph Russell
III. Gilbert also built the William Tallman Russell House for his son and gave the land for the Cornelius Grinnell and William Swain mansions to his
sons-in-law.” (Clayton Whitley) Today, Gilbert’s house is separated from son William’s (slide 606) by a small house on a 62 ft. wide lot.
585

Gilbert Lydia Russell
Cornelius, Jr., Sylvia, Moses married children of Gilbert Lydia Russell

The Howland Heirs by W.M. Emery, p. 247

Gilbert Lydia Russell are buried about 44 ft. from
Cornelius Silvia Grinnell. As can be read above, four
marriages took place between their children. Gilbert was
an owner of the following: ship ACTIVE, ship ACUSHNET
(with Cornelius Grinnell, Jame Howland, William
Howland, etc.), ship BRISTOL, sloop HANOVER, ship
INDIA, (with brothers Joseph, James M., Henry, Moses
Grinnell), ship OTHELLO, sloop PRESIDENT, ship
RICHMOND, ship TIMOLEON, and ship VANCOUVER.

Russell Portraits in Storage
The below portraits of Gilbert Lydia Russell were
given to the museum by Emily Grinnell, sister of Peter
S. Grinnell. They were probably passed down to Emily
through Cornelius, Jr., Sylvia, Jr., or Moses Grinnell,
who all married children of Gilbert Lydia (above).

Brass plaque reads: Gilbert Russell/ Aug. 1760 – Aug. 1829
NBWM #1993.46.1

Plaque reads: Lydia Tallman/ Sept. 30, 1759 – Sept. 11, 1840
Lydia Russell
NBWM #1993.46.2

586

Russell Warren, Architect

Russell Warren: in the coastal towns of southeastern new england: by Prof. Thomas W. Puryea, 1982, p. 10.

“The first member of the New Bedford community to engage Russell Warren was Joseph Grinnell.”
587

Designed by Russell Warren NBWM #2000.100.3670
Hon. Joseph Grinnell Mansion
This is how the mansion looked when Joseph adopted his niece, Cornelia. The third story was added after Joseph died. Today, he is remembered
for the Grinnell Congregate Home and hosting Abraham Lincoln when he spoke in New Bedford on Sept. 15, 1848 (they were both members of
the Whig Party). Abraham Lincoln’s stay at Joseph’s home clearly illustrated Joseph’s strong anti-slavery beliefs despite some scurrilous remarks
made by his business rival, the ultra-rich Edward “Black Hawk” Robinson. Unfortunately, these erroneous remarks were reported in The New
Bedford Mercury. It is believed that the white horse in the photo belonged to Morgan Rotch who married Josephine Grinnell (334).
588

Photo: Joseph G. Tirrell, c. 1895 NBWM # 2000.100.85.100

John Avery Parker Mansion (DEMOLISHED, 1903)
County Street, Built 1832-34. Designed by Russell Warren. Francis Howland, son of Capt. Joseph Howland and nephew of Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell,
married John Avery Parker’s daughter, Mary. Mr. Parker was president of the Bedford Commercial Bank and Cornelius Grinnell was a director when it
opened in 1816. In 1825 John Avery Parker left the Bedford Bank and became one of the founders and president of the Merchants Bank. Eventually, he
became the richest man in New Bedford; and his mansion is believed to have been largest Greek Revival home in the country at the time it was built. 589

Courtesy of Spinner Publications: KF-D 00148

Charles W. Morgan Mansion (DEMOLISHED 1904)
Head of William Street. Charles Morgan owned the famous whaling ship that still carries his name at Mystic Seaport. He was one of many New
Bedford Quakers who became Unitarians, and he had a pew directly across the aisle from Joseph and Moses (slide 480). Morgan Rotch was Charles
W. Morgan’s grandson, and he married Josephine Grinnell on Dec. 4, 1879. Josephine was a great granddaughter of Capt. Cornelius Sylvia. 590

Double Bank Building
Designed by Russell Warren
“Home of Merchants Bank on the south and Mechanics
Bank on the north. On Water Street at the foot of
William Street, New Bedford.”

Creator: Adams, Stephen F. NBWM #2000.100.441.43 591

Old Dartmouth Photographs
by Palmer Worth
Many of the architectural photos in this presentation came
from this unpublished book by Fred W. Palmer and Henry
B. Worth. It is now in the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

Towns of Old Dartmouth Little Compton and Tiverton were originally part of Old Dartmouth.

592


Anthony-Delano Mansion (DEMOLISHED)
The Joseph R. Anthony Mansion “radically changed” from a Greek Revival mansion like Joseph Grinnell’s (slide 460) after it was purchased by Capt.
Joseph C. Delano. “Located in the center of the square bounded by Cottage, Hawthorn, Orchard Grove Streets, New Bedford.” (map, slide 471) Thus,
this property was directly to the west of the estates of Joseph and Cornelius, Jr., who Joseph Anthony was related to by marriage (slide 586). 593

Saved by WHALE
Photo: Fred Palmer NBWM #2000.100.80.18

Home of John Sarah Howland, Jr.
38 Sixth St., northeast corner of Sixth and Madison Streets, built in 1834. 594

Artist: William A. Wall, c. 1840 NBWM #1986.2.1 The Howland Heirs: Wm M. Emery, 1919, p. 290 Artist: William A. Wall, c. 1840 NBWM #1986.2.2

John Howland, Jr. Sarah (Howland) Howland
1782-1852 1786-1875
Son of John Reliance Howland Daughter of Capt. William Abigail Howland
Brother partner of James Howland II Niece of Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell
Partner of Cornelius Grinnell, Jr. (slide 475)

Sarah Howland (1786-1875) was a niece of Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell and daughter of Capt. William Howland (1756-1840).
Sarah’s father William was Capt. Grinnell’s partner in the firm of Howland Grinnell when it was founded in Jan. 1804 (slide
443). John Howland, Jr. was a partner with his brother James in J. J. Howland. They owned several vessels and a
candleworks with Cornelius Grinnell, Jr. Note: John Sarah were not first cousins. The Howlands were a very old and large
Dartmouth family, and it was not uncommon for one Howland to marry another Howland, who they were not directly related to.
After years of neglect and a serious fire, John Sarah’s home (previous slide) was recently saved from demolition by WHALE.

595

Saved by WHALE
Home of John Sarah Howland, Jr.
38 Sixth St., northeast corner of Sixth and Madison Streets, built in 1834.
596

Home of William H. Ruth Allen
38 Seventh St., south side of School St. between 7th and 6th Streets. William was the son of James Allen and Sarah
Howland (1767-1836). Sarah Howland was Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell’s sister. William’s brother Gideon owned an
almost identical mansion directly behind (next slide), and his destroyed chimneys are barely visible in the haze on the left.
597


Gideon Hannah Allen House
23 Sixth St., southwest corner of Sixth Street and School Street,
built in 1830. Gideon (1791-1878) and his brother William H.
were grandsons of Sylvia Grinnell’s father, Gideon Howland.
(SEVERELY ALTERED) The Howland Heirs: Wm M. Emery, 1919, p. 291 598


William H. Allen was the owner of the beautiful brick
mansion at 38 7th St. (slide 597). He and Joseph Grinnell
were first cousins, and they both lived for 97 years!

NBWM: #1984.32.1

William Howland Allen
Nephew of Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell
599


Home of George Howland, Jr.
37 Sixth St. Northwest corner of Sixth and Madison. Like John Howland, Jr. and Mayor Abraham Howland, George Howland, Jr. was not a descendant
of Gideon Howland. Thus, he was not directly related to Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell; and his accomplishments are not included in this presentation. 600

Charles Russell Mansion ( Hetty Green)
1061 Pleasant St. According to Fred Palmer Henry Worth, this house “…was built by Charles Russell in 1831. In 1833 he failed and the
property was conveyed to the local banks, and later to Sylvia Ann Howland… Edward Mott Robinson occupied the house for nine years
from 1835.” Hetty was Edward “Black Hawk” Robinson’s daughter. She was born in 1834 and lived here until 1842. She was the
granddaughter of Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell’s brother, Gideon Howland (Jr.). (ALTERED to hospital convent) 601

Rodman-Howland Mansion
388 County St., built in 1833, designed by Russell Warren. Owned by William R. Rodman Mayor Abraham H. Howland.
More info: http://www.historic-structures.com/ma/new_bedford/rodman_house.php
602

Abraham Howland
First Mayor of New Bedford
1847-1851
Son of Capt. Weston Abigail Howland
Artist Unknown NBWM #1931.10.2

603

Photo: minkstudios
Rodman-Howland Mansion
Across County Street from the Cornelius Grinnell, Jr. House. Except for a higher level of ornamentation, it is very similar to Joseph Grinnell’s
Mansion and was designed by the same architect, Russell Warren. Abraham Howland was Joseph’s distant cousin and political rival (slide 494+). 604

Photo: minkstudios

Home of Capt. Cornelius Howland, Jr.
382 County St., built 1845. He was the son of Capt. Cornelius Howland and a nephew of Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell. This house is
directly across the street from Cornelius, Jr. Joseph Grinnell, his first cousins. As can be seen to the left, this house is next door to
the Rodman-Howland Mansion. To save the Rodman-Howland Mansion from demolition in 1907, it was purchased by the heirs of
Frederick Grinnell and Horatio Hathaway, who had lived across the street in the homes of Joseph and Cornelius Grinnell, Jr.
605

The Howland Heirs: Wm M. Emery, p. 248

Saved by WHALE
Photo: J. Grinnell

Home of William T. Sylvia (Grinnell) Russell
66 Russell St., built 1822. Sylvia was a daughter of Cornelius Sylvia Grinnell, and she married William
Tallman Russell (1788-1872). This house is about one block east of Sylvia’s brothers Joseph and Cornelius, Jr.
on County St., and it is across the street from her father-in-law Gilbert Russell at 61 So. Sixth St. William was
the brother of Eliza and Susan Russell, who both married Cornelius, Jr. William, Eliza, and Susan were
children of Gilbert Russell, the son of Joseph Russell who was one of the original settlers of New Bedford.

606

The Howland Heirs: Wm. Emery, p. 251

Photo by J. Grinnell

Home of Lawrence Rebecca Grinnell
76 Cottage St., built 1846. Lawrence was a son of Cornelius, Jr. Eliza. After his father died in 1830, Lawrence took over his
business as owner/agent of the MINERVA and EUPHRATES (slide 474), and he became very successful in marine insurance. His
grandfather, Capt. Cornelius Grinnell, had been a founding director of the Bedford Bank in 1803 and the Bedford Marine Ins. Co.
in 1805. Lawrence Rebecca were the parents of Frederick Grinnell, who invented the Grinnell automatic fire extinguisher.
607

Lawrence Rebecca (Williams) Grinnell
Given by Lawrence Grinnell Knowles, Jr.
NBWM #2012.21.2 #2012.21.3

A May 9, 1891 Lawrence Grinnell letter to Charles H. Grinnell, Tacoma,
Wash. is at slide 682+. Charles inherited Cornelius Grinnell’s 1785 bible.

608

(length: 7 ‘ 1”) NBWM #1979.53.4

Business Signs
Given by Peter S. Grinnell
Peter was a great grandson of Lawrence Grinnell.

(length: ?) NBWM #1979.33

609


Photo: J. Grinnell
Home of Joseph G. Lydia Grinnell

89 Hawthorn St., built 1841. Joseph G. was a son of Cornelius, Jr. Eliza. In addition to his iron
business, Joseph G. was in the insurance business with his brother Lawrence. The two brothers built very
similar houses, which are about two blocks from the Joseph Grinnell Mansion. They also shared a pew
almost directly across from their Uncle Joe when the Unitarian Church was built in 1838 (slide 481+).
610


Photo: minkstudios.com

Home of Matthew Rachel Howland
81 Hawthorn St., built 1840. Matthew Howland was Capt. Cornelius Howland’s grandson and a grand nephew
of Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell. Matthew and Joseph G. were both great grandsons of the senior Gideon
Howland (1734-1823); and thus, they were “second” cousins. This house was significantly altered by William
W. Crapo, who wrote the introduction to the The Howland Heirs. Mr. Crapo was an attorney and president of
the New Bedford Institution of Savings, which Cornelius Grinnell had been an incorporator of in 1825.
611


Grinnell Howland Cousins and Neighbors
Joseph G. Grinnell and Matthew Howland were both great grandsons of Gideon Howland (Sr.) of Round Hill Farm.
612

Artist: Auguste Edouart, c. 1842 Rachel Matthew’s children: NBWM #2000.100.376 NBWM #1983.36.1 2

Matthew Howland Silhouettes given by Waldo Howland Rachel Howland
1814-1884 Quaker Minister
Auguste Edouart: “…a silhouette artist called Auguste Edouart… was born in France in 1789. Left fairly early in his
career and made a great name for himself as a silhouette artist in London and in Scotland and other places in the British
Isles. In 1838, he came to New York, and he was the most prolific and most successful of all silhouette artists, probably
for all time. And his goal was to create silhouette portraits of the most notable Americans that he could find.” Sotheby’s 613

Rachel S. Howland, Quaker Minister


Bierstadt Brothers #1983.36.7.4

Bierstadt Brothers #1983.36.7.3 NBWM #1983.36.7.8 Author: Bruce Barnes (Partial Article}
614

NBWM #1983.36.7.16

Rachel Howland Family

Home of William D. Caroline Howland
52 Ash St, built 1884. William D. was Matthew Howland’s son, and Matthew lived around the
corner at 81 Hawthorn St. William was the father of the first Llewellyn Howland. As can be
seen in the 1881 map (slide 471), this mansion and almost all the houses in this presentation are
within two blocks of the original estates of Joseph and Cornelius, Jr. Fortunately, this and
many other homes have been saved and restored in this wonderful New Bedford neighborhood.

The Howland Heirs: Wm Emery, 1919, p. 205 615


Home of Peleg C. Howland
95 Madison St., built 1875. Peleg C. Howland was the grandson of Peleg Howland (1759-1847). Peleg (Sr.) was a brother of Isaac
Howland, Jr., one of the most successful whaling merchants in New Bedford. They were great grandsons of Benjamin Howland
(1659-1727), the builder of Round Hill Farm. Peleg C. Howland devoted his career to the Merchants Bank and rose to the top.
616


http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/90042726
617

Grinnell Rotch
Marriage

NBWM #2000.100.3004

Morgan Josephine (Grinnell) Rotch
Arthur Emily
Home of Morgan Josephine (Grinnell) Rotch
19 Irving Street, built 1846. The Rotchs were neighbors and business associates of the Grinnells
Howlands (slides 10-17 and 431+). Morgan Rotch married Josephine G. Grinnell, who was Joseph
Grinnell’s grand niece. Josephine Morgan lived in this home and are buried in the Grinnell family
plot. In addition to being a mayor of New Bedford, William J. was a director of several companies
including the Wamsutta Mills. This “cottage” is about two blocks from the Joseph Grinnell Mansion
(map, slide 471). It was designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, who designed Jay Gould’s Lyndhurst
castle that was next door to Moses Grinnell’s estate in Irvington, N.Y. (slides 214 215).
The Rotches by John M. Bullard, pgs. 105-110 The Howland Heirs: William M. Emery, p. 266
618

The Metropolitan Museum of Art metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/90042726

Architect: Alexander Jackson Davis, 1845
Preserved by John Bullard, 1st Agent/Director of WHALE 619

Saved by WHALE

Rotch-Jones-Duff House
396 County St. Built c. 1833 for Abolitionist William Rotch, Jr., who had employed Capt. Cornelius Grinnell on his ship BEDFORD in 1795. The
Rotch family were founders of the whaling industry in New Bedford. In addition to running the family business, William Rotch, Jr. became
president of the New Bedford Institution for Saving and was one of the most prominent abolitionists in the city. This house is in its original
condition and open to the public. It was built at the same time as the Joseph Grinnell Mansion at 379 County St. William Rotch was the grandfather
of Morgan Rotch who married Josephine Grinnell, a great grand daughter of Capt. Cornelius Sylvia. William Rotch, Jr. also employed Capt.
Preserved Fish in the 1790’s. Captains Grinnell Fish founded Fish Grinnell in 1815, which evolved into Grinnell, Minturn Co. in 1833. 620

Chapter VII: CHARLES W. MORGAN, Col. Green, Historic Preservation

Creator: Wilbar, Charles Baker NBWM #2003.99.1

CHARLES W. MORGAN
Enshrined at the Howland Homestead, Round Hill, Dartmouth, 1925-1941
621

Fortune of Isaac Howland, Jr.
Inherited by Gideon Howland’s granddaughters:
Sylvia Ann Howland
Abby (Howland) Robinson

http://archive.org/details/howlandheirsbein00emer The Howland Heirs: William M. Emery, 1919, p. 14

http://archive.org/details/howlandheirsbein00emer The Howland Heirs: William M. Emery, 1919, p. 30 The Howland Heirs: William M. Emery, 1919, p. 59
622

Photo: Fred W. Palmer NBWM # 2000.100.80.198 NBWM O.D.H.S. Scrapbook 7, pg. 37

Gideon Howland (Jr.) Mansion
Built around 1795 for Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell’s brother, Gideon
Howland, Jr. He was the highly successful father of the wealthy Sylvia
Ann Howland and grandfather of Hetty Green, the richest woman in the
country. Gideon Howland (Sr.) lived his entire life at Round Hill Farm,
and he was not a wealthy ship owner like his son and namesake.
Contrary to popular belief, he did not build this mansion and no great
wealth nor any ships were listed in the will of Gideon (Sr.) according to
the copy published in The Howland Heirs. (DEMOLISHED)

Right: The Howland Heirs: Wm M. Emery, 1919, p. 354
623

Photo: minkstudios

Gideon Howland (Jr.) Daughters: Abby Sylvia Ann
The Ship Registers of New Bedford state that Gideon (Jr.) was master and owner of the Ship TIMOLEON (S.R.N.B. #3025)
and that he was an owner of owned 41 other ships. With his father-in-law, Isaac Howland, Jr., he founded the fortune that
was inherited by his daughter Sylvia Ann and granddaughter Hetty Green. Sylvia Ann Howland (1806-1865) became a
multi-millionaire and gave $200,000 to the city and $70,000 to charities. Daughter Abby Slocum Howland (1809-1860)
married Edward Mott Robinson, who became one of the richest men in New Bedford. A great deal of inaccuracy has arisen
from the fact that Gideon, Jr. dropped the “Jr.” from his name when his father died, as was the custom of the time.
624

NBWM #1937.47

Philanthropist Sylvia Ann Howland Sylvia Ann Howland Trust
Niece of Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell William M. Emery, 1919

Please note that Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell did not inherit any of the “Howland Fortune” because she died in 1837. However, her
great, great granddaughter, who was named Sylvia Howland Grinnell (born in 1887 alive in 1919), inherited 1/1080. Capt.
Cornelius Grinnell does not seem to have inherited anything from anyone, making him the veritable “self-made man”.
625

Photographer: Tirrell, Joseph G. NBWM #2000.100.85.106

New Bedford Library
Location of the Sylvia Ann Howland Plaque
Designed by Russell Warren, who also designed the Joseph Grinnell Mansion, Rodman-Howland Mansion, Double Bank
Building, and many other Greek revival buildings in New Bedford, Providence, Newport, and Fall River (slides 587 673).

626

The above were highly significant gifts in
1865. In 1850, after Joseph Grinnell had
made his fortune in New York shipping,
built his mansion on County St., become a
bank president, congressman, rail road
president, and president of Wamsutta Mills,
his entire net worth was estimated at just
Standard-Times Collection NBWM #1981.61.272 $100,000 in Rich Men of Massachusetts.

Home of Sylvia Ann Howland, Aunt of Hetty Green
County Street, corner of William St. Built c. 1822 for Thomas Rotch; sold to Sylvia Ann Howland in 1848; and inherited by Hetty
Green in 1868. Several documents prove that Hetty was not married here, as the myth goes. According to The Witch of Wall Street:
“The wedding [Hetty’s] occurred one day that was hot and sultry in New York. It was July 11, 1867… The ceremony was performed
in the residence of her kinsman, Henry Grinnell, in 17 Bond Street, then a fashionable address in the metropolis.” Henry and his
siblings were first cousins of Sylvia Ann Howland, who was the daughter of their “Uncle Gid”, as he was familiarly known. 627

Creator: Arthur F. Packard, c. 1918 NBWM 2000.100.1711

“Last of The Whaling Fleet”, WANDERER CHARLES W. MORGAN
One was Preserved One was Destroyed 628

“WANDERER before the wind” Wreck of the WANDERER
Creator: Church, Albert Cook Creator: Church, Albert Cook
NBWM #1991.6.2 NBWM #2000.100.86.1 (detail)

629

“Whaling bark WANDERER wreck” “WANDERER on the Rocks”
Creator: Albert Cook Church Creator: Ashley, Clifford Warren, 1925
NBWM #2000.100.1042 NBWM #1998.34

This wreck represented the death of the American Whaling Industry,
which was the basis of the Howland-Green Fortune 630


CHARLES W. MORGAN SURVIVED
631

CHARLES W. MORGAN “Enshrined” WANDERER Mast at Round Hill

NBWM #2000.100.1266 NBWM #1995.9.1635
WANDERER spar/mast from Round Hill given by Waldo Howland to NBWM (#1966.41).
NBWM recently gave it to the Mattapoisett Historical Society where the WANDERER was built (slide 709). 632

CHARLES W. MORGAN
Preserved at Round Hill
“The CHARLES W. MORGAN is the last surviving wooden
whaling ship from the great days of sail. Built in 1841 in
New Bedford, MA, the Morgan had a successful 80-year
whaling career. She made 37 voyages before retiring in
1921, and was preserved as an exhibit through the efforts
of a number of dedicated citizens. After being on display
in South Dartmouth, MA, until 1941, she came to Mystic
Seaport, where each year thousands of visitors walk her
decks and hear the fascinating story of her career as a
whaling vessel, historic exhibit, film and media star, and
a porthole into America's rich history.”
http://www.mysticseaport.org

The CHARLES W. MORGAN was a Howland ship (slide
647); and one of the owners was Edward M. Robinson, the
husband of Abby Howland and father of Hetty Green.

WANDERER
“Last whaling ship to sail from New Bedford. On
Wanderer's last voyage (1924), the vessel anchored off
Martha's Vineyard to wait out an approaching storm.
During the night the anchor let go and the ship was
ultimately destroyed on the rocks.”
http://www.mattapoisetthistoricalsociety.org/whalingships_history.htm

NBWM #2000.100.1265 633

NBWM #1981.34.176

Howland Homestead, Round Hill, Dartmouth
This property was purchased by Henry Howland (died 1671), brother of pilgrim John Howland. Henry’s son, Zoeth
(1636-76), was killed by Indians in King Phillip’s War; and the house was built by Zoeth’s son, Benjamin (1659-1727). It
was passed on to Barnabas (1699-1773) and Gideon Howland (1734-1823), who was Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell’s father. It
was then inherited by Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell’s grand niece, Hetty Green. She passed it on to her son, Colonel Green.
634

Howland
Homestead
Location

CHARLES W. MORGAN
wharf location

Photographer: Norman Fortier NBWM #: 2004.11.15470 (detail)
Round Hill Farm
Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green’s Estate
The CHARLES W. MORGAN was birthed on the shore to the far left of the mansion.
635

Creator: Church, Albert Cook NBWM #2000.100.86.139.a
CHARLES W. MORGAN
“at Round Hill dedication [July 21, 1926] with house flags of former NB whaling merchants flying” 636

CHARLES W. MORGAN Dedication at Round Hill
by Clifford Warren Ashley, (dedication took place on July 21, 1926)
New Bedford Whaling Museum #2001.100.4347 637

Hetty Howland Robinson Green Col. Edward Howland Robinson Green

“On July 3, 1916, just a few months short of her 82nd birthday, Hetty Green died in “Edward Howland Robinson Green or Colonel Green (1868 –
her son’s house on West 91 Street. Her estate was estimated to be close to $200 1936) in his electric car operating his radio receiving
million at the time – or an estimated $17 billion in today’s dollars. (J.P. Morgan’s apparatus, probably near his home on Buzzards Bay in
estate at the time of his death three years before was approximately $80 million.) She Massachusetts. Green was son of Hetty Green (the “Witch of
had spent her entire life in pursuit of money. She bought nothing for herself or her Wall Street”), said to be the wealthiest woman in the world.
children. She gave nothing away. She just watched her fortune grow and grow at the Col. Green was quite interested in radio communication, and
expense of virtually everything else in her life except her beloved little dog Curtis, on account of a leg amputation he suffered as a child, he came
whose name she sometimes used on her front door to throw tax agents off her trail.” to own several specially equipped vehicles including this one.”
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/node/2460 http://ohtm.org/blg/collections/automobiles/1914-rauch/
http://theoldmotor.com/?p=2793
638

Round Hill
1973
Col. Green was the great grandson
of Gideon Howland, Jr. and son of
Hetty Green. He inherited half of
his mother’s estate including the
Howland Homestead old Howland homestead at Round
Hill. He died in 1936 and left his
entire estate to his sister, Sylvia
Green Wilks. This land was owned
CHARLES W. MORGAN by the Howland family from c.
Wharf 1660 until Sylvia gave it to MIT in
1948. In 1968, the Town of
Dartmouth bought 37 acres for
Col. Green’s Mansion $200,000 including the beach on
the left. Today, there are 77 homes
on the remainder of this property
and 16 condos in the mansion.

Hetty Green

Granddaughter of Gideon Howland, Jr.
COLONEL EDWARD HOWLAND ROBINSON GREEN AND THE WORLD HE CREATED AT ROUND HILL by Barbara Fortin, p. 85 NBWM #2004.73.104.a Standard-Times Collection
639

Whaling Enshrined, Inc. NBWM #2000.100.67

“CHARLES W. MORGAN - at wharf with full sail set: 1925”
To the right is Salters Pt., which was part of the original Howland Farm. 640


“CHARLES W. MORGAN alight at night, Round Hill” 641

Photo: Martin, Joseph S.Tirrell, Joseph G. NBWM #2000.100.1270

CHARLES W. MORGAN at Round Hill
642

Collection: Kendall - Martin NBWM #M-489a

“The Colonel loved spending money as much as his mother loved hoarding it.”
As evidenced by the two cars on the right, the Colonel usually had his cars built taller than normal to improve access for his cork leg. 643

NBWM #1965.54.2.39

“CHARLES W. MORGAN at Round Hill”
Colonel Green’s private airport hanger in background to left.
644

NBWM #2000.100.372

“CHARLES W. MORGAN at Colonel Green’s, Round Hill”
645

Photographer: Leslie Jones Boston Public Library

WANDERER Mast “Whaleship CHARLES W. MORGAN at Round Hill…, 1929” Blimp Hanger
Copied from the 2013 Southeastern New England Historical Calendar published by Spinner Publications, Inc.
http://www.spinnerpub.com/Calendars_Home.html 646

CHARLES W. MORGAN
“Ready to leave Round Hill”
1941

“On November 8, 1941, the last whale ship, the
CHARLES W. MORGAN was donated to Mystic
Seaport by Colonel Green's sister and heir. It was
due to the lack of financial support from the short
sighted city of New Bedford who had been offered
the ship first. The ship had been enshrined at
Colonel Green's Estate at Round Hill.”
http://www.whalingcity.net

Creator: Church, Albert Cook NBWM #2000.100.86.799 647

MIT Colonel Green
Round Hill Farm

“Edward Howland Robinson Green, known as Colonel Ned
Green, the only son of the renowned female tycoon and miser,
Hetty Green, built his home on Round Hill after his mother's
death in 1916 left him with a fortune of between $100 and $200
million… In 1948, twelve years after the Colonel's death, his
sister and heir donated the entire property to MIT, which used the
240-acre (0.97 km2) estate for educational and military purposes.
MIT erected a giant antenna atop a 50,000-gallon water tank on
the site. Another was erected nearby for research towards the
Ballistic Missile early warning system.
In 1923, Colonel Green founded WMAF, a radio station with the
tag, The Voice from Way Down East. MIT’s President Samuel
W. Stratton and the Department of Electrical Engineering's new
Communications Division were invited to experiment with the
new technology, and the department was initially financed by
Colonel Green. Professor Edward L. Bowles set out to determine
the signal strength and radiation patterns of different antenna
arrays in 1926. Round Hill's radio station followed Admiral
Richard E. Byrd’s polar expeditions, tracked the Graf Zeppelin
dirigible during its maiden transatlantic flight, and was the sole
communication link for areas devastated by the Vermont floods
of 1927. In 1933, Round Hill was the site of Robert J. Van de
Graaff’s electrical experiments. He built a 40-foot tall generator
in an abandoned airship hanger.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Hill_(Dartmouth,_Massachusetts)

648

NBWM 2#000.100.1588

Howland Homestead, 1930’s
The Round Hill Farm was just a poor working farm for most of the 250+ years it was under Howland ownership.
Typical of Colonel Green’s extravagance, tractors like the above were used to mow the lawn on his private airport.
649

Creator: Fortier, Norman NBWM #2004.11.316

“Salter's Regatta”
“View of Beetle Cats racing off Salter's Point. Round Hill lighthouse is in the middle left.” 650

Creator: Baylies, Clifford NBWM #2000.100.3742.19

“Two individuals on beach looking out at Round Hill.”
651

Photo by Aaron Sherman c. 2000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Col_green_mansion.jpg

“Colonel Green's Mansion, Round Hill, Dartmouth”

652

Photo: J. Grinnell
Dartmouth Town Beach, August 2012
The wharf where the bark CHARLES W. MORGAN was birthed is on the right. 653

http://digital.lib.usf.edu/downloads/?doi=M01-09820-Ascale=1200format=jpeg

Col. Green’s Estate on Star Island in Biscayne Bay
Today, stars like Gloria Estafan and Rosie O’Donnell own mansions on Star Island.

Colonel Green was Hetty Green’s son and a great, great grandson of Gideon Howland (1734-1823), who was Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell’s father. The
colonel and his sister Sylvia inherited 100% of Hetty Green’s fortune, which was originated by Isaac Howland, Jr. and Gideon Howland, Jr. (1770-1847).
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1126217/index.htm
http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/153092 654

Colonel Green’s Winter Home on Biscayne Bay
COLONEL EDWARD HOWLAND ROBINSON GREEN AND THE WORLD HE CREATED AT ROUND HILL by Barbara Fortin, p. 143
655

“Col. E. H. R. Green's Yacht
UNITED STATES”
Creator: Dr. Henry Dudley Prescott
Top: NBWM #981.80.48.32.a
Bottom: NBWM #981.80.48.32.a

“Col. E. H. R. Green's Yacht
Aground in Padanaram Harbor”

656

Photographer: Dr. Henry D. Prescott NBWM #1981.80.61.7.a

Shipwrecked
Colonel Green’s monster yacht ran aground near the Round Hill homestead where Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell was
born on Aug. 4, 1765. Much of the Howland fortune that the colonel had inherited sank along with his pathologically
extravagant lifestyle. As previously mentioned, his fortune had originated by his great, great grandfather Isaac
Howland, Jr. and great grandfather Gideon Howland, Jr., and it had been multiplied many times over by the Colonel’s
grandfather “Black Hawk” Robinson and his mother, Hetty Green, the “Witch of Wall Street”.
657

Hetty H. R. Green Hall
Wellesley College
Gift of Col. Edward H. R. Green

Creator: Fred W. Palmer NBWM #2000.100.80.260a

While Colonel Green paid for several women to
attend college and financed MIT research at Round
Hill, Hetty was famous for financial greed and her
complete lack of philanthropy empathy.

Postcard: http://insight.wellesley.edu:8180/luna/servlet/detail/
658

http://www.town.dartmouth.ma.us/Pages/DartmouthMA_Webdocs/pictures

The Dartmouth Purchase originally included New Bedford, Fairhaven, Acushnet, Westport. Tiverton and Little Compton, R.I. were included until 1746.

Dartmouth Town Beach with CHARLES W. MORGAN Wharf
Part of the original Howland Round Hill Farm 659

Photographer: Dr. Henry Prescott NBWM #1981.80.143.4.a

“BALEK in front of Dumpling Rock Light with Col. E. H. R. Green's Mansion in background, 1932.”
660

Photo: J. Grinnell

Captain John Grinnell House, c. 1861
525 Old County Road, Westport
Capt. John Grinnell was captain of the brig THOMAS WINSLOW for two whaling voyages from 1864 to 1867 (March 15, 1864 to July
23, 1865 Oct 25, 1865 to Aril 23, 1867). The THOMAS WINSLOW was built in Westport in 1828. It weighed 135 tons and was 73
ft. in length. The house is about a tenth of a mile from the shipyards at the Head of Westport. Capt. John does not appear to have
been directly related to Capt. Cornelius. Due to his wealth and status and The Howland Heirs, much more is known about Capt.
Cornelius Grinnell. Contrary to popular belief, there is no record of Cornelius Grinnell being a captain of any whaling ship or
being employed in any capacity on a whaling ship or going out to the Pacific. All evidence indicates that his days at sea were spent
exclusively in the North Atlantic merchant fleet. According to Whaling Masters and Whaling Voyages Sailing From American
Ports by Judith Navas Lund, the Howlands were captains on 149 whaling voyages and the Grinnells captained 37 voyages.
661

Spinner Publications: MI-D 0082
Westport
Westport was part of the Dartmouth Purchase 662

Bible given by Capt. Preserved Fish to Eliza T. Grinnell (Mrs. Cornelius Grinnell, Jr.)

Captain Preserved Fish was a partner of Captain Cornelius Grinnell in several ships, and he was a founding partner of
Fish Grinnell. It is believed that Preserved’s brother, Isaac, married Ruth Grinnell, sister of Capt. Cornelius (slide 413).
663

Bible: given by Capt. Preserved Fish to Eliza T. Grinnell (Mrs. Cornelius Grinnell, Jr.)

NBM Archives
Births and deaths of Cornelius, Jr. Eliza Birth of abolition advocate Cornelia Grinnell
Births of Lawrence, Mary, Joseph G., Edmund, William 664

Dr. Bailey Willis
1857-1949
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Stanford University Professor
Son of Cornelia Grinnell
Grandson of Cornelius, Jr. Eliza

BAILEY WILLIS

1857—1949

A Biographical Memoir by
ELIOT BLACKWELDER

Any opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the author(s)
and do not necessarily reﬂect the views of the
National Academy of Sciences.

The Howland Heirs: Wm M. Emery, 1919, p. 254 (slide 485)
Biographical Memoir

COPYRIGHT 1961
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
WASHINGTON D.C.

books.nap.edu/html/biomems/bwillis.pdf http://histsoc.stanford.edu/pdfmem/WillisB.pdf

665

Lawrence I. Grinnell, Ph.D.
1889-1985
Cornell University Professor
Great Grandson of Capt. Cornelius Sylvia


http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ead/htmldocs/RMM02649.html
666

Arthur Gordon Grinnell
1854-1924
Son of Joseph G. Lydia

Artists of New Bedford: Mary Jean Blasdale, 1990
667

Historic Destruction

Unknown Date Photographer NBWM Research Library Photo: Fred Palmer NBWM #2000.100.80.158

Cornelius Sylvia’s Home, c. 1870 Grinnell Home, c. 1906 (DEMOLISHED)

Above: these two photographs illustrate that the area near New Bedford’s
waterfront rapidly became commercialized in the latter half of the 1800’s.

Right: Cornelius Grinnell bought this house from Preserved Fish in 1791. In
the 1790’s, these brothers-in-law were employed as captains by William
Rotch, Jr. (slide 10, etc.). They went on to own several ships together and
found the business that became Grinnell, Minturn Co.

Right: Photographs of Houses and Public Buildings, Henry Worth Fred Palmer, 1907
See Fred Palmer’s photos at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nbwm
668

Grinnell Brothers
1911 Retrospective

The clippings on the left are from a lengthy 1911 article about
Capt. Cornelius and his four most successful sons. Sadly, the
writer did not mention any of Cornelius, Jr.’s successes in
business and politics or the famous ships that he owned and
managed. Furthermore, the two paragraphs about Cornelius,
Jr. are almost entirely about other people and events.

(Note: there are some serious inaccuracies in this article.) (Partial Article)
669

http://spinnerpub.com/Spinner_Photos.html Spinner Publications (ST 00512)

Home of Cornelius Grinnell, Jr., c. 1939
385 County St. Built for Cornelius and Mary Grinnell, Jr. c. 1829. On Nov. 17, 1784, Cornelius, Jr. married Eliza Tallman Russell,
daughter of Gilbert and Lydia Russell. Cornelius, Jr. and Eliza had ten children, the youngest being Cornelia who was born on March 19,
1825. Eliza died on Jan. 19, 1827. On Oct. 9, 1828, Cornelius, Jr. married Mary Russell, a sister of Eliza. On Dec. 11, 1830, Cornelius, Jr.
died. Thus, young Cornelia had a very tragic early childhood with both her parents dying before her sixth birthday. In 1838, Cornelia’s step
mother/aunt died; and she was adopted by “Uncle Joe”. Today, there are many wonderful restored homes in this historic neighborhood.
670

Guide to New Bedford, by B. Clayton K. Whitley

Above: “Little is known of Cornelius
Grinnell Jr…” Despite his many
accomplishments, Cornelius Grinnell,
Jr. became a forgotten man. He does
not have a headstone in Oak Grove
Cemetery, and the above description is
almost entirely about his father!

Photo: J. Grinnell

Cornelius, Jr.’s Home in 2011 (Ahavath Achim Synagogue)
Cornelius Sylvia’s granddaughter, Cornelia Grinnell, lived here 1829-1838. This building was built for Cornelius,
Jr., who was Peter S. Grinnell’s great, great grandfather. It is hoped that this property will be saved and restored to
“green building” standards, and become part of the adjacent non-profit congregate home in the Joseph Grinnell
Mansion. To honor her contribution to the Abolitionist Movement by purchasing the freedom of Harriet Jacobs, the
building should be restored and named: “The Cornelia Grinnell Home”. (DEMOLITION Possible)
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Joseph Grinnell Congregate Home
Future Cornelia Grinnell Home?
Saved by WHALE 385 County Street

Photo: J. Grinnell

Grinnell Family Together
On the far right is Cornelius, Jr. Mary’s former home with the white porch columns almost hidden by shrubs. Sadly, Cornelius, Jr. died
before Joseph built his mansion. It is believed that Joseph built here so he could be a father to his older brother’s nine orphaned children.
Joseph was their guardian along with William W. Swain, and the Grinnells owned Cornelius, Jr.’s house until the Hathaways bought it in
1844. For this entire historic property to return to its former splendor, the parking lot and 1962 school building in the middle should be
removed and replaced with lawn and a gazebo for the residents. Restoring this very visible corner would provide jobs and increase the
historical interest and tourist business in New Bedford. See 1881 map (slide 471) for location of the corner of County Hawthorn Streets.
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Linden Place
Russell Warren
Bristol, RI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Warren_(architect)
Designed by Russell Warren, who lived in Bristol and designed the Joseph Grinnell Russell Warren (1783 – 1860) was an American architect,
Mansion, John Avery Parker Mansion, and Double Bank Building in New Bedford. best known for his Greek revival style, and notably the design
http://www.lindenplace.org/ of the Weybosset Arcade, now known as the Westminister
Arcade in Providence, RI. Warren was born in Tiverton, RI.
By the early nineteenth century, operated out of Bristol, RI
where he constructed several houses for the DeWolfs, a
prominent family of slave traders. Warren built numerous
buildings throughout RI and MA. He also built several
notable buildings in S. Carolina… Notable works:
Linden Place
Linden Place, Bristol, Rhode Island, 1810
Bristol Statehouse/Courthouse, Bristol, RI, 1814 [2]
Westminster Arcade, Providence, Rhode Island, 1828 (first
enclosed shopping mall)
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Warren, Rhode Island, 1830 [3]
Grinnell Mansion, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1832 [4]
Pilgrim Hall portico, Plymouth, MA, 1834 [5]
Levi H. Gale House, Newport, Rhode Island, 1835
New Bedford Public Library,
New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1839 [6]
Smithville Seminary, Scituate, Rhode Island, 1839
State Arsenal, Providence, Rhode Island, 1839
Pearl Street Depot, New Bedford, 1840 (demolished in 1880s)
Osborn House, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1843
James D. Hathaway House, Fall River, MA, 1843
William Lindsey House, Fall River, MA, 1844
Warren Baptist Church, Warren, Rhode Island, 1844 [3]
Longfield/Charles Dana Gibson House, Bristol,
The Wissing House Bristol, Rhode Island, 1849 [7]
Old Third District Courthouse, New Bedford, MA, 1853 (
Traces of the Trade other buildings in the New Bedford Historic District)
http://www.tracesofthetrade.org/ Governor Henry Lippitt House, Providence, RI, Jane Pickens
Theater Event Center
Documentary on the owners of Linden Place and the Slave Trade: (formerly The Zion Episcopal Church), 1834.
“Courage to Bear Witness to Man’s Infinite Cruelties” in
The New York Times, June 13, 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/movies/13righ.html?_r=1

http://www.tracesofthetrade.org/
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Howland Homestead: Moved to Newport in 1969

Birth Home of Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell
In 1969, the Benjamin Howland House of Round Hill was moved
to Newport, RI. Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell was born in this
house on Aug. 4, 1765, and it was the site of numerous Howland
Family Reunions. It was built by Benjamin Howland, and four
generations of Sylvia’s ancestors lived in the house. It is hoped
that my proposed “Cornelia Grinnell Home” will have a similar
fate and be restored along with the property surrounding it.

http://www.newportrestoration.org/preservation/historic_houses/details/33-benjamin_howland
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“Over the past 48 years, WHALE has facilitated the completion of more than 40 restoration and preservation projects in the New Bedford area.” *

Saved by WHALE

*http://www.waterfrontleague.org/

http://spinnerpub.com/Spinner_Photos.html Before After
Not Just Anywhere, Marsha McCabe Joseph Thomas, Spinner Publications, 1995.
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Photo: J. Grinnell

Home of Peter Mary Lou Grinnell
44 William Street, Fairhaven
Peter was the last Grinnell to grow up in the Joseph Grinnell Mansion,
according to historian Peggi Medeiros.
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“Miss Emily Grinnell”
Sister of Peter Severance Grinnell and daughter of Lawrence Emily Grinnell, Jr.
Emily gave the portraits of Gilbert Lydia Russell to the NBWM (#1993.46.1 #1993.46.2 at slide 586) 677

Peter Severance Grinnell
A Founder of WHALE

Standard-Times, Dec. 25, 1995
Standard-Times, Jan. 5, 1981

Standard-Times

Peter Mary Lou gave the GRINNELL RESOLUTE DESK
As noted in The Howland Heirs (#391 III, slide 540), Peter was the son of Lawrence Emily Grinnell,
Jr. and a direct descendant of Cornelius Eliza Grinnell, Jr. In addition to the desk, Peter Mary Lou
gave many family treasures to the Whaling Museum including three William A. Wall paintings and the
portraits of Henry, Moses, and Susan; the Lawrence Grinnell sign; miniatures of William Rotch, Jr. and
Samuel Rodman, Sr.; Sylvia Grinnell’s patriotic embroidery; and many other heirlooms.
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Chapter VIII. Pacific Northwest Descendants Addenda

Charles Herbert Grinnell Emma Adelia Briggs
1862-1915 (unrecorded dates)

Capt. Cornelius Grinnell’s bible was handed down to Charles H. Grinnell.
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Wedding Certificate
Charles H. Grinnell Emma A. Briggs
March 18, 1885, Wasioja, Minnesota

The Howland Heirs: Wm M. Emery, p. 250 261
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Dakota Territory Land Grant, 1890
Charles H. Grinnell was a great grandson of Cornelius and Sylvia (previous slide).
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Lawrence Grinnell to Charles H. Grinnell, 1891
Both men were descendants of Cornelius Sylvia. Lawrence was their grandson, and he lived in New
Bedford. This Charles was their great grandson, and he moved to Tacoma, Washington in 1891. Charles was
born in Mantorville, Minnesota on Oct. 23, 1862 and died in Tacoma on Dec. 31, 1915. At the time it was
written in 1891, this letter indicates that Charles Herbert Grinnell had never been to New Bedford.

Charles H. was a grandson of James Madison Grinnell, the youngest son of Cornelius Sylvia (slide 419).
James Madison Grinnell was a partner in Kollock Grinnell of New Bedford. He owned shares in several
ships including the CICERO, which was built for Kollock Grinnell. James M. moved to Connecticut in the
mid 1830’s after the death of his oldest brother, Cornelius, Jr. His descendants inherited the 1785 family bible.

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1891 Letter regarding the Clark’s Cove Lot: May 9, 1891
This lot had been purchased by Cornelius Grinnell and Cornelius Howland in 1803, and it was the subject of a Dec. 2, 1803 advertisement
in The Columbia Courier (slide 441). These two men, with the same unusual first name, were captured by the British together (c. 1778)
and became brother’s-in-law and business partners. As previously related proven, Cornelius Grinnell and his sons were partners with a
number of Howland relatives in numerous ships and several businesses. This historic letter was almost destroyed in 2008. 683

Lawrence Grinnell to Charles Grinnell Charles H. Grinnell (Sr.)
May 9, 1891, final page President, Tacoma Grocery Co.
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W. Emery: The Howland Heirs, #386, pg. 261

History of Tacoma Charles H. Grinnell (Sr.)
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Charles H. Grinnell (Sr.) was a great grandson
of Capt. Cornelius Sylvia.

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Grinnell Memorial Organ
Tacoma, Wash.
Emma Grinnell donated an organ to the First Baptist
Church of Tacoma, where Charles had been a trustee.
This was remarkably similar to what Frederick
Grinnell’s family did after he died.

Frederick Grinnell Memorial Organ
New Bedford
The First Congregational Society was the name of the
New Bedford Unitarian Church in 1907.

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Charles Esther: 1919 Jim, Tish, Chuck: 1943
Charles H. Grinnell (II) became another successful
Grinnell capitalists. After moving to Vancouver following
WW I, he went into the lumber shipping business.

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Charles H. Grinnell (Jr.)

Charles H. Grinnell (Jr.) was a great, great
grandson of Capt. Cornelius and Sylvia.

The 1785 family bible was passed down
from C. H. to J. B. Grinnell.
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DEIRDRE cruising in British Columbia
Charles H. Grinnell: captain/owner 690

Aboard the DEIRDRE, flying the Union Jack
DEIRDRE was a Canadian boat, and Charles H. Grinnell (II) became a naturalized Canadian in 1935 and was a member of the Royal
Vancouver Yacht Club. From left to right: Grandpa Jim, Uncle Chuck, Grandma Tish, and Great Grandma Esther. Tish was born in
Vancouver on April 14, 1922 and graduated from Mills College. She moved to Cohasset, MA in 1957 and died there on Aug. 1,
2008. James B. was born in Tacoma on Nov. 9, 1920 and graduated from Andover Academy and the University of British
Columbia. He became a Canadian with his father and served in the Canadian Navy during World War II. He was in the wholesale
lumber business in New York, Vancouver, and Boston. He moved to Cohasset 54 years ago and is still living there at the age of 92.
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DEIRDRE: owned by Charles H. Grinnell (Jr.), Cornelius Sylvia’s great, great grandson.
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DEIRDRE II cruising in British Columbia
693

Mildred Patricia (Tish) Grinnell
Mills College
1946

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James B. Grinnell, Scotland, WWII Tish, Madge, Grace Thomson, 1935

C.H. Grinnell residence, 1930’s, Vancouver, B.C. James Tish Grinnell, France, 1952
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Spring 1943 October 2, 1942

Jim Tish Grinnell
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Charles Herbert Grinnell (Jr.) James Briggs Grinnell
1896-1968 1920-

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Wascana: c. 1940
Home of Dr. Mrs. J. W. Thomson
Parents of Tish Grinnell
Vancouver, B. C.

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Dr. James W. and Grace Thomson, 1955
Parents of Tish Grinnell. James W. (1883-1958) was “a graduate in
Medicine from McGill University [and] was the first member of the family
to move to Vancouver in 1907 where he…specialized in surgery.”
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Esther Charles H. Grinnell (II) Charles M. Grinnell
Esther in bow of canoe. Esther’s grandfather, James D. Snoddy graduated from Born in Cohasset in 1957. As can be imagined from his
the Univ. of Michigan in 1859. “He was commissioned colonel of the Sixth confident bearing, Charles has grown up to be the latest in the
regiment Kansas militia June 13, 1864.” He also served in the Kansas House of line of successful businessmen named “Charles Grinnell”.
Representatives. Esther’s father, James, was an attorney in Portland, Oregon. Today, he is the founding president of a robotics company.

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Genealogy Chart of
Cohasset Grinnell Family

Left: yellow line is path of the 1785 family bible. 701

Dedication of Grinnell Children
First Parish Church (Unitarian) of Duxbury, May 1982
At home after Dedication, 305 Mayflower St., Duxbury

These children were born in Boston and were brought home to this
house. Duxbury is the town that Henry Howland settled in after
he arrived from England c. 1623. He did not purchase land in
Dartmouth until 1652 (Howland Heirs, Wm. Emery, pgs. 2 3).
Like their ancient relatives in New Bedford, two of these Grinnell
children became very active in the Unitarian Church; and they
were youth representatives to the national General Assembly.

702

Grinnell Family Home, Duxbury
305 Mayflower St. Designed and built primarily by James Grinnell, Jr.
703

Tish loved flowers and almost all living things. She was a
horticultural judge and president of the Cohasset Garden Club
for many years. This is one of her numerous blue ribbons.

704

Grandma Tish
with 11 of her 13 grandchildren
These “children” are all great, great, great,
great, great grandchildren of Cornelius Sylvia.

“New” Grinnell home, 38 Cedar Street, Duxbury

705

Celebrations Memorials
The above photo was taken at Grandma Tish’s 80th birthday
party. Eleven of her thirteen grandchildren were present, and
Martha is standing next to her mother in the middle of the
picture. Martha was a great, great, great, great granddaughter
of Cornelius Sylvia and some of her ashes were buried
between their graves in Oak Grove Cemetery, New Bedford.

706

Grinnell/Howland Ships
Built in Mattapoisett
Stuart-Barstow House
Grinnell Home 2005-2010
NBWM Volunteer Newsletter

The Ports of Old Rochester, by Edward F. R. Wood, Jr.

707

Mattapoisett Historical Society

Grinnell Home, Mattapoisett: 2005-2010
Stuart-Barstow House, 35 Water St., Mattapoisett, original structure built 1753. Mattapoisett was a part of the Town of
Rochester until 1857. According to Edward Wood, Jr. in The Ports of Old Rochester, 348 vessels were built in Mattapoisett from
1703-1878. Most of them were square-rigged whaling and merchant ships and a few were owned by Grinnells Howlands.
Many of these ships were built by the Barstow family, who owned three shipyards along the shore in front of this house. 708

WANDERER Mast at Shipyard Park
“More than 350 vessels went down the ways during this period
(1752-1878). Among the most famous were:
ACUSHNET. Ship, 1840, which carried as crew member Herman
Melville… Ten years later he wrote the famous whaling saga
Moby Dick.
WANDERER. Bark, 1878, last whaleship to be built in Mattapoisett
Yards; and one of the last whalers to leave New Bedford.” Shipbuilders Plaque
Right: replica of the WANDERER mast on top of the town flagpole. Photo by J. Grinnell: 10.27.12 The Calm before Hurricane Sandy
709

Creator: Raleigh, Charles Sidney NBWM #1918.27.2.12

“Maiden Voyage, Bark WANDERER”
built at Mattapoisett
710

Creator: Raleigh, Charles Sidney NBWM #1992.56
Brig FRANCES A. BARSTOW
built at Mattapoisett
Gift of Francis C. Howland
711

ADDENDA

Additional New Bedford Vessels
Owned by Grinnells Howlands
Adapted From: Ship Registers of New Bedford

Researched Compiled by James Grinnell

Researched Compiled by James Grinnell, Jr.
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Researched Compiled by James Grinnell, Jr. http://www.simplexgrinnell.com/ENUS/AboutUs/Pages/SimplexGrinnellHistory.aspx
713

Adapted From: Ship Registers of New Bedford

Above: Researched Compiled by James Grinnell

Data from: Ship Registers of New Bedford Researched Compiled by James Grinnell, Jr. History of Arthur, Henry, and John Howland by Franklyn Howland, 1885

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Above from: The Howland Heirs, Wm. Emery, 1919, pg. 351

Left: Ship Registers of New Bedford
list of ships owned by Gideon
Gideon, Jr. As explained to the far
left, all these ships must have been
owned by the son, Gideon Howland
(Jr.) born in 1770. Gideon Jr. was
captain of the Ship TIMOLEON in
1812 (#3025) and was captain of
other vessels, whose records have not
survived.

Data from: Ship Registers of New Bedford Researched Compiled by James Grinnell, Jr. 715

Data from: Ship Registers of New Bedford Researched Compiled by James Grinnell, Jr.
716

717

718

Memoir of Joseph Grinnell

William T. Russell (1788-1872) married Joseph’s sister Sylvia. They lived at 66 Russell St. (slide 606), half a block from Joseph
and Cornelius, Jr. on County St. and across the street from William’s father, Gilbert Russell at 61 So. Sixth St. William was the
brother of Eliza and Susan Russell, who married Cornelius, Jr. William, Eliza, and Susan were children of Gilbert Russell, the
son of Joseph Russell who was one of the original settlers of New Bedford. It is believed that William T. started his career at Post
Russell in New York, where Cornelius Grinnell, Jr. became a partner in 1809 (when the name was changed to Post Grinnell).
William owned shares in 18 New Bedford ships; and he owned an oil works with his father and his brother-in-law, Joseph
Anthony. He was instrumental in the founding of Wamsutta Mills with Joseph Grinnell. Capt. Cornelius is said to have given
each of his sons $500 to get started in business when they were 21. The dowry he gave to William T. Russell is not known.

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723

Memoir of Joseph Grinnell William J. Rotch Gothic Cottage

As can be seen above, William J. Rotch was a guest at this dinner
honoring Joseph Grinnell. He was a grandson of William Rotch, Jr. who
had employed Capt. Cornelius as master of his ship BEDFORD in the
1790’s (slide 10). In addition to being a mayor of New Bedford (1852)
and founding president of the New Bedford Cordage Co., William J.
Rotch was a director of several other companies including the Wamsutta
Mills. He lived about two blocks from Joseph Grinnell (map: slide 471)
in his “Gothic Cottage” (right). William J.’s son Morgan was also mayor
of New Bedford (1885-1888), and he married Josephine Grinnell.

The Rotches by John M. Bullard 724

New Bedford Free Public Library Square-Riggers on Schedule, Robert G. Albion, Princeton Univ. Press, 1938

The FLYING CLOUD: launched April 15, 1851
Several sources state that Henry Grinnell retired from Grinnell, Minturn Co. in 1851. As can be seen above,
he was a partner in June 1851, which indicates that he was an owner of the FLYING CLOUD when it was launched.
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729

730

731


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733

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735

736

737

Schooner MOSES H. GRINNELL, designed by George Steers 741

16 Ships Owned by Cornelius, Jr., pgs. 1 2

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Documents (Ship Register #2780 others) prove that
Cornelius, Jr. was the first of the Grinnell brothers to enter
the New York shipping business when he became a partner
in Post Grinnell in 1809 (Post, Grinnell Minturn in
1810). Unfortunately, it is not known how many New
York ships Cornelius, Jr. and his relatives owned.

743


Grinnell-Owned Ships

744

Geography in the Making: The American Geographical Society 1851-1951: by John K. Wright, 1952 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Geographical_Society 745

Geography in the Making: The American Geographical Society 1851-1951: by John K. Wright, 1952 746

*

*Henry Grinnell was interred in Green-Wood Cemetery (slide 113). Geography in the Making: The American Geographical Society 1851-1951: by John K. Wright, 1952 747

American Geographical Society 748

Henry Elected President, 1851

inaccurate

Geography in the Making: The American Geographical Society 1851-1951: by John K. Wright 749

Henry, Hall, Hayes


Above: Grinnell, Hall, Hayes, Bradford


Creator: Fred H. Kiser New York Public Library #1629970

Grinnell Lake Glacier
Glacier National Park, Montana
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New York Public Library #1629982
Grinnell Mountain
Glacier National Park, Montana
Named after the famous naturalist, George Bird Grinnell. George and Capt. Cornelius Grinnell were descendants of Daniel Grinnell who
lived in Rhode Island from 1636 to 1703. Daniel was the third child of Matthew Grenelle, who was the first of his family to come to this
country in the 1630’s. Abolitionist Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, founder of Grinnell College, was also a descendant of Daniel Grinnell. Josiah
and George were not included in this presentation because they were not closely related to Capt. Cornelius or Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell.

“The first edition was published in 20 volumes from 1928 to 1936. These 20 volumes contained 15,000 biographies.” Wikipedia

Editors: v. 1-3, Allen Johnson.--v. 4-7, Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone.--v. 8-20, Dumas Malone.--v. 21, Marris E. Starr,--v. 22, Robert Livingston Schuyler

No living persons ... have biographies in the Dictionary ... [and] no persons who ... [have] not lived in the territory now known as the United States.--Introd., v. 1, p. vii

I. Abbe-Barrymore.--II. Barsotti-Brazer.--III. Brearly-Chandler.--IV. Chanfrau-Cushing.--V. Cushman-Eberle.--VI. Echols-Fraser.--VII. Fraunces-Grimké.--VIII. Grinnell-
Hibbard.--IX. Hibben-Jarvis.--X. Jasper-Yarkin.--XI. Larned-MacCracken.--XII. McCrady-Millington.--XIII. Mills-Oglesby.--XIV. Oglethorpe-Plattner.--XV. Platt-
Roberdeau.--XVI. Robert-Seward.--XVII. Sewell-Stevenson.--XVIII. Steward-Trowbridge.--XIX. Troye-Wentworth.--XX. Werden-Zunser.--XXI. Supplement one. [To
December 31, 1935]--XXII. Supplement two. [To December 31, 1940]

http://ia700806.us.archive.org/11/items/dictionaryofamer08ilamer/dictionaryofamer08ilamer.pdf 762

http://ia700806.us.archive.org/11/items/dictionaryofamer08ilamer/dictionaryofamer08ilamer.pdf

Henry Sarah’s son
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Dictionary of American Biography Josiah Bushnell Grinnell was not included in this family history because he was not closely related to Capt. Cornelius or Sylvia (Howland) Grinnell. 764

The three Grinnell brothers from New Bedford, Joseph, Henry,
Moses, were the only case where more than two members were
selected from a single nuclear family. If the Dictionary of
American Biography was published today, Jack, Bobby, Ted
Kennedy would probably be the only other three brothers to be
honored with inclusion. Of course, their accomplishments were far
more significant than the Grinnell brothers; but they had an
extremely wealthy and powerful father who set them up in politics.
It is of interest to note that the Grinnell Kennedy brothers were
all born in Eastern Massachusetts within fifty miles of each other.

Dictionary of American Biography
“The first edition was published in 20 volumes from 1928 to 1936.
These 20 volumes contained 15,000 biographies.” Wikipedia

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Colonel Green’s
Hybrid Cars
(continued from bottom left) “…The story of
how Green’s cars came together doesn’t seem
to be fully fleshed out. We know that he
pledged $1 million toward the project and that
he was a General Electric shareholder. We also
know that in the mid-1910s, General Electric
bought into the Entz electro-magnetic
transmission patents and used them to
manufacture the special transmissions that
would be used in the Owen Magnetic and later
in the Rauch and Lang taxicabs built in the
late 1920s in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts…
GE, of course, took all the credit when Green
took delivery of his cabriolet… Pleased with
the cabriolet, Green immediately ordered two
more: a brougham and a sedan.”

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/04/18/
colonel-green-and-his-stearns-knight-hybrid/

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Additional Gifts from Mrs. Peter S. Grinnell

Artist: Hannah Howland NBWM #1982.39.4 Creator: Hughes, (Robert) Ball NBWM #1981.12

Hannah Howland Penmanship Example, c. 1808 Samuel Rodman, Sr.
Miniature Portrait made of wax.

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“Bluefish Feeding on Mackerel”
Given in memory of Peter S. Grinnell by Mary M. Grinnell, 1986

Creator: Leander A. Plummer, II NBWM #1988.19

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Creator: Church, Albert Cook (attributed) NBWM #2008.31.3

“wooden ketch… on a glassy Fairhaven Harbor”
near the site of William Bradford’s studio 769

In Memory of
Capt. Cornelius Sylvia Grinnell
and their children:
Cornelius, Jr., Joseph, Sylvia,
William, Henry, Abraham,
Moses, Francis, James

Cornelius Grinnell’s 1785 Bible NBWM Archives

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