Grinnell, Josiah B
farmer, state senator, congressman, author, was born Dec. 22, 1821, in New Haven, Vt. He was a member of the Iowa state senate for four years; and a special agent for the general postoffice for two years. He was elected a representative from Iowa to the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth congresses.
He was the author of Go West, Young Man, Go West; Home of the Badgers; Industries of the United States; and Men and Events of Forty Years. a GRINNELL, KATHERINE VAN AL- LEN, educator, reformer, was born April 20, 1839, in Pillar Point, N. Y. She received her education at the Falley seminary of Fulton, N.
Y.; and has attained prominence as writer and teacher of the scientific principles of the social order. order. She advocates the social system based upon the scientific discoveries of Sivartha in his Book of Life. She has also contributed a number of meritorious poems to the periodical press.