Howard Benjamin Grose

Background

Grose, Howard Benjamin was born on September 5, 1851 in Millerton, New York, United States. Son of Review Henry Laurenz and Emma Louisa (Seward) Grose.

Education

Preparatory education old University of Chicago. Bachelor of Arts, University of Rochester, 1876, A.M., 1880. Doctor of Divinity, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1907.

Career

Ordained Baptist ministry, 1883. Pastor First Church, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1883-1887, First Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1888-1890. President State University of South Dakot, 1890-1892.

Recorder and assistant professor of history, University of Chicago, 1892-1896. Associate editor The Watchman, Boston, 1896-1900. Editorial secretary American Baptist Home Mission Society, 1904-1910, editor of Missions, 1910-1933.

Retired as editor emeritus for life. Honorary vice-president for life, International Society C.E., 1935. Vice president board of trustees Federal Council Churches of Christ in America, 1917-1921.

Chief religious press section United States Food Administration, 1917. Author: Aliens or Americans?, 1906. The Incoming Millions, 1906.

Advance in the Antilles, 1910. Never Man So Spake, 1924. George Edwin Horr, a Biography, 1928.

Editor-in-chief, A Library of Knowledge, 1914.

Connections

Married Caroline Bristol, August 13, 1877. Children: Howard Bristol, Laurence Rich, Margaret Bristol.

Father:

Review Henry Laurenz Grose

Mother:

Emma Louisa (Seward) Grose

Spouse:

Caroline Bristol

child:

Laurence Rich Grose

child:

Margaret Bristol Grose

child:

Howard Bristol Grose