Evening star., 1936-09-16
DR.. GROSvENOR, 81,
DIES AT AMHERST
Was Father of Gilbert GroS.
venor, Editor of National
Geographic.

DR.. Edwin Augustus Grosvenor, 81,
professor emeritus Of history and in
ternational law at Amherst College,
died last night at his Amherst, Mass,
home. Gilbert Grosvenor, editor Of
the National Geographic Magazine,
one of his two sons, flew from North
ern Quebec to be at his fathers bed
side
DR.. Grosvenor will be buried tomorrow
in Newburyport, Mass, where he was
born August 80, l845, not far from
Roxbury. Mass, the scene Of the TOM
ahawk murder by an Indian of his
ancestor. John Grosvenor, in 1891.
Funeral services will be held at 10 am.
tomorrow at the Amherst residence.
DIR. Grosvenor was graduated from
Amherst College in 1867, the recipient
of the Athenae prize for excellence
in composition. He was poet and SAL
utatorian of his class. Immediately
on graduation he went to Constanti-
nople as instructor of history in Rob-
ert College. Four years later he re-
turned to America to study in An
dover Theological Seminary and was
ordained to the ministry at Newbury-
port in 1873.
Returned to Turkey.
Robert College asked him to take
its chair of history, so he returned to
Turkey, and remained until 1890.
With him during these II years was
his wife, the former Miss Lillian Hovey
Waters, whom he had married in
1873. She was the daughter of Col.
Asa Waters of Millbury, Mass. whose
grandfather. Asa Waters. had founded
the first arms factory in New Eng
land She was cousin of Mrs. Will
liam Howard Taft.
Returning to the United States in
1890, DR.. Grosvenor taught at Am
herst and at Smith College, nearby.
Calvin Coolidge was among his pupils
at the former institution, as we'll as
Dwight Morrow and Harlan Fiske
Stone. For Coolidge's sake, DR.. Grosve-
nor in 1924 ended a lifelong allie
glance to the Democratic party and
took the stump in behalf of his pupil.
In 1895 he became professor of
European history at Amherst, and in
1898 a chair of modern governments
and their administration was created
for him. He held the post until 1914,
when he resigned to become professor
emeritus of those subjects.
Travelled Extensively.
During his teaching career DIR.
Grosvenor travelled extensively, visit
ing every country of Europe and many
parts of Asia, studying especially his
tory and government from first-hand
sources, and lecturing on those sub
jects before university and college
groups both here and abroad.
He wrote much on historical and
governmental subjects. He is the au-
thor of the standard work on Con-
stantinople. an exhaustive two-volume
history and geography of the city. He
contributed more than 800 encyclo-
pedia articles on Europe and Oriental
subjects and edited the Reference His
tory of the World in Webster's Inter-
national Dictionary of 1909.
He wrote THE Races of Europe" a
resume of the racial makeup of the
European peoples, which occupied an
entire issue of the Geographic Maya
zine. He translated Duruy's Ancient
and Modern Times" from the French
and the historical novel "Andronike'
froi.. modern Greek.
For IL years DR.. Grosvenor was
president Of the United Chapters OF
Phi Beta Kappa and on his retire
ment from that Office was elected
a life senator of that body. He was
the only person ever four times elected
president.
Member Of Many Societies.
He also was a member of many
learned societies, among them the
Hellenic Philogic Syllogos Constan-
tinople, the Syllogos Parnassos of
Athens, the American Antiquarian So
ciety, the Authors Club of New York,
Boston and London, and the Cosmos
Club of Washington. He was a
brother in Psi Epsilon.
Besides DR.. Gilbert Grosvenor, an
other son, Asa Waters Grosvenor of
Fort Wayne, Ind, ten grandchildren
and eight great-grandchildren sur
vive DR.. Edwin Grosvenor. Melville
Bell Grosvenor and Mrs. Gertrude
Grosvenor Blair are among the grand
children living in Washington.