Moses H. Grinnell

Moses H. Grinnell

Moses Hicks Grinnell (1803 - 1877) was a United States Navy officer, congressman representing New York, and Central Park Commissioner.

Grinnell was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on March 3, 1803. After attending public schools, he took his first paying job at the age of 15, working in a "counting room" in New York City. He became a successful merchant and shipper and was subsequently appointed as president of the New York Chamber of Commerce. However, unlike his brother Joseph Grinnell, who represented Massachusetts for four terms, Moses was not by disposition a political animal. He was first a Democrat, then became a Whig in the 1830s, and then a member of the newly-founded Republican Party, for which he served as a presidential elector in 1856.

In February 1860, president-elect Abraham Lincoln, on his way to Washington, D.C., visited the Manhattan home of Grinnell's daughter, whose father had invited many of New York City's most prominent businessmen to meet the first Republican president. Grinnell subsequently wrote Lincoln with introductions for others, becoming something of a conduit of political power, if not a wielder of such himself.

Perhaps best remembered for his work as Central Park Commissioner during the early years of the urban park's design and construction, Moses Grinnell died in Manhattan on November 24, 1877. He was buried in the Sleepy Hollow Burying Ground in Tarrytown, New York.


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