from Amherst College and was ordained as a minister in Newburyport in 1872. After returning to the U.S., he obtained an M.A. After graduating, he served as a tutor at Robert College in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey). He prepared at Brown High School in Newburyport, and graduated from Amherst College in 1867 as class poet and salutatorian. Edwin Prescott Grosvenor and the author Harriet Sanborn Grosvenor. Grosvenor was born in 1845 in West Newbury, Massachusetts, the son of Dr. His son, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, was the first employee and longtime editor of National Geographic Magazine.
Grosvenor was called 'one of the most cosmopolitan of Americans' by author and abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Edwin Augustus Grosvenor (Aug– September 15, 1936) was a historian, author, chairman of the history department at Amherst College, and president of the national organization of Phi Beta Kappa societies from 1907 to 1919.
