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DAVID ADAMS GROSVENOR, the youngest son of Rev, Nathanand Lydia (Adams) Grosvenor, was born in Craitsbury, Vt., July 10, 1822, and died of cholera, in Cincinnati, Ohio,Aug. 11, 1866, aged 64 years.
He entered College in 1821, but an inflammation in the eyes, during his Junior year, obliged him to be absent, and return
into a lower Class. After graduating, he spent a year in the family of Judge Hall, of Ellington, Conn., as principal of his classical school. The next three years he was in Yale Theological Seminary. He was licensed in 1829, and soon after supplied, for nine months, the pulpit of the Congregational Church in Pomfret, Conn.
In Aug 1831, he commenced preaching in Uxbridge, Mass., and on June 6, 1832, was ordained colleague pastor of the First Evangelical Society in that town, where he remained until May, 1842. From Feb. 9,1843, until the summer of 1852, he was pastor of the First Presb. Church in Elyria, Ohio. In 1853 he commenced preaching in the First Congregational Church in Medina, Ohio, and there remained, as stated supply, for about nine years.
For the rest of his life he resided at Elyria, Ohio; being, for many months, engaged as agent for Lake Erie Female Seminary, and, for more than a year before his death, in the Life Insurance business in Cincinnati.
In May, 1835, he married Miss Sarah Whitney, of Princeton, Mass., who survives him. They had one child, who died in infancy.
