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Grosvenor, Charles Henry

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 20, 1833 , in Pomfret, Conn. He enlisted in the union army in 1861, and served throughout the war as major, lieutenantcolonel and colonel, and was brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. He was solicitor of Athens in 1867-68; presidential elector in 1872 and 1880; and was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1873 and re-elected in 1875, serving as speaker in 1876 and 1877. He was appointed a member of the board of trustees of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home in 1880. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-ninth, fiftieth , fifty-first, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty -fifth congresses as a republican.