New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-07-21
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE. SATURDAY, JULY q 1900
COL. ". d. GROSVENOR DEAD
WE'LL KNOWN FINANCIAL WRITER Fx-
PRES AT HIS HOME IN
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ENGLEWOOI

Coohel William Mason Grosvenor an editorial
4i.eT Tor The Tribune for nearly a quarter Of a
century and Editor OF ''Dun's Review. since the
iiiii's OF It's publication, died yesterday in his
nome at No. 12s TenaAy Road Englewood n J.
+ lou oeen III for long time but he continued
70 work with his accustomed ability and unfagging,
zeal up to the time Of his death
FOR several years Colonel Grosvenor was troubled
14 asthma and more than a year ago he was
0,'aCAeu with Br1ght's disease of the kidneys
winch greatly enfeebled him and at times threat
eneo 10 end his life In May Of this year his con-
oluon was so precarious that his physicians ex-
Pee'eo MS death. A week ago. when he was driv-
NIs Win mrs Grosvenor along one Of the streets
OF Engewood the kingbolt OF the phaeton broke
ana the vehicle overturned Both Colonel
Grosvenor and his wife were injured BY the acct
oeht' and 1t was feared then that the shock would
De fatal to Colonel Grosvenor. but he seemed to
recover from it. He suffered from the heat on
Monday and Tuesday, but on Thursday he was able
10 eolt the weekly financial journal as usual and
IN the evening he played whist with members Of his
FAMILY. In the night he became unconscious and
ne remained so. His death occurred at II 40 a. m
yesterday.
Colonel Grosvenor was born in Ashfeld Mass
on April a 1885. He the eldest Of five chill
oren- His father was the Rev. Mason Grosvenor.
congregational minister, and the family was de-
seemed from John Grosvenor. who emigrated from
cheshire County. England in the latter part of the
seventeenth century. The boyhood of Colonel Gros-
Venor was mostly spent in Hudson Ohio his father
having become a teacher in the Western Reserve.
He went to New-Haven. Conn. soon after he came
OF age and entered Yale but did not COMPLETE the
college course. He was Editor Of The New-Haven
ta4Iaolurn at the outbreak Of the Civil War in
ls0l' and abandoned journalism for a time 10 be-
come a soldier
Enlstng in the 18th Regiment OF Connection:
volunteers, he soon became adjutant Of the regi-
ment In December 1862. he was promoted to the
rank Of captain. On June Il 1853 he was shot
slroush the arm at Port Hudson. He was in the
hospital for time, but he rejoined his regiment
as soon as the wound healed. On October 90 1865
he became colonel OF the Louisiana Native Guards.
colored regiment. which he commanded until
the close OF the war
Returning TO New-Haven after the war he was
for a time one OF the editors OF THE New-Haven
Journal and Courier but in 1866 he took editorial
charge Of The Democrat" in St Louis. He was
Liberal Republican, and when the proprietors
OF the newspaper insisted upon change of ed
itorial policy in 1870 he resigned the editorshp.
The change followed closely upon the election Of
B. Gratz Brown as Governor of Missouri. The
Democrat" was the leading Republican newspaper
OF Missouri. While he was in editorial charge OF
the newspaper Colonel Grosvenor became inter
ested in the Liberal Republican movement, which
then was gaining ground. He active in the
movement which resulted in the nomination of
Horace Greeley for President and & Gratz Brown
for Vice-President the Cincinnati Convention in
1872 In that same year Colonel Grosvenor returned
The Democrat" There was q disagreement
among the proprietors and a change Of ownership
and he again became editor Of the paper
In 1875. when the paper was consolidated with
The Globe" and became The Globe Democrat"
Colonel Grosvenor came TO this city. In October
of the same year he began the editorial work for
The Tribune which was continued until his death
He wrote financial and economic topics mainly
and he particularly interested in his editorial
on Money and Business" which appeared every
Monday morning, After his accident last week
when he was barely able walk about, he dictated
III edir rieJ VIII ed nj
years ago. in addition TO his work for The Tribune
he began to write weekly articles for Duns agency
and IN 1893 ne began to edit the weekly Review"
Who died yesterday at his home in Englewood n. J.
In 1872 Colonel Grcsvenor published a book en-
titled Does Protection Protect?" At that time he
was not an advocate Of the protective policy, and
in later years, when he was q stump speaker in
Republican campaigns, he sometimes was obliged