631:... a Representative from New York; born in New Bedford, Mass., March 3, 1803; pursued an academic course; entered a countingroom in New York City in 1818; subsequently engaged in mercantile pursuits; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress; presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1856; president of the chamber of commerce and of the Merchants Clerks' Savings Bank; commissioner of charities and corrections; Central Park commissioner; one of the Union defense committee; collector of the port of New York from March 1869 to July 1870; appointed naval officer of customs and served from July 1870 to April 1871; died in New York City November 24, 1877; interment in Sleepy Hollow Burying Ground, Tarrytown, N.Y.
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The arrangements for the funeral of the late Moses H. Grinnell were made yesterday. The funeral services will take place at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning in the Church of All Souls, at the corner of Fourth-avenue and
Twentieth-street, the Pastor, Rev. Dr. Henry W. Bellows, officiating. Mr. Grinnell
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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.
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Commissioner during the early years of the urban park's design and construction. A street in the Bronx borough of New York City is named in his honor.
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of New York. The
Grinnell was the first pilot boat to show the fully developed long entry that was to become the New York schooner's trade mark.
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from March 1869 to July 1870, and the Port's Naval
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Grinnell became a successful New York merchant and shipper and was subsequently appointed as president of the
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Moses
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In 1815, his brother Joseph
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Chamber of Commerce of the state of New-York
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However, unlike his brother Joseph Grinnell, who represented
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man" the 1840s, and in the 1850s joined the newly founded
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was built in 1850 for the Jersey pilots and designed by
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in 1851 for $ 90,000 (~$ 2.62 million in 2023).
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Howland) Grinnell (1765–1837). His siblings included
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Grinnell as Collector of the Port of New York in 1869
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404:, on his way to Washington, D.C., visited the
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