Background
He was born at his father"s farm, Merryweather Farm, in Salem Center, Westchester County, New New York
He was born at his father"s farm, Merryweather Farm, in Salem Center, Westchester County, New New York
Grant studied geology at Harvard University, graduating cum laude in 1915.
He was an American geologist and paleontologist known for his work on the fossil mollusks of the California Pacific Coast. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to San Diego, California. Following graduation he mined for gold in Mexico.
During World War I, Grant enlisted in the United States Army as a private.
By the end of the war, he was a second lieutenant. From 1919 to 1925 he was connected with the New York Stock Exchange.
In 1926, he returned to school and took graduate courses at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1927 he entered the graduate program in paleontology at Stanford University.
Grant received his doctorate in 1929.
After he received his doctorate, Grant worked at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County as the curator of invertebrate paleontology. Grant then taught paleontology at the University of California, Los Angeles beginning in 1931. He rose from instructor to chairman of the geology department, a post he held for eight years.
He retired in 1959.
They later divorced. They had one child named George In 1953, Grant IV appeared on Groucho Marx"s You Bet Your Life, where the consolation question was usually "Who is buried in Grant"s tomb?". Grant died at Saint John"s Hospital in Santa Monica, California from lung failure caused by leukemia.
Grant is buried at Greenwood Memorial Park (San Diego) alongside his father.