C. H. GRINNELL.  To New Bedford, Massachusetts, we look in part for the ancestry of C. H. Grinnell, the alert and capable city marshal of Sheridan, Wyoming, the subject of this sketch.  The restless population of that city, whose all-daring and well nigh all-conquering enterprise lays arctic seas and western wilds under tribute as proper fields for its triumphs, has been the chief source of the whale-fishing industry in this country for nearly two centuries.  It has also gone forth to many frontiers as the advance guard of the coming army of civilization, winning in contest with the difficulties and trials there encountered victories as signal, as continuous and as comprehensive as any there may be to its credit to other domains of energetic action.  Mr. Grinnell was born at New Bedford on Oct. 22, 1847, the son of Frank and Marion W. (Johnson) Grinnell, the former also a native of New Bedford, and the latter of Raleigh, N. C.  The father was born in 1820 and the mother three years later.  She died in 1893 at the age of seventy years; he is still living, aged eighty, at Yellow Springs, Ohio, whither he removed from his native city in 1855, when his son, C. H. Grinnell, was eight years old.  There the son was educated and passed his youth and early manhood.  After leaving school he was employed in railroad work for three years and then engaged in farming in Ohio until 1875.  At that time he moved to Illinois, and, settling near Chicago, for five years conducted a dairying business with success and profit, although the competition was sharp and active.  In 1880 he came to Wyoming and took up a preemption claim of land on a portion of which the city of Sheridan now stands.  He at once began an enterprising stock industry, which he carried on vigorously and successfully until 1899, serving also during a large part of the time as superintendent of a Grinnell Live Stock Co.  In 1899 he turned his especial attention to building and contracting, laying out the Grinnell addition to Sheridan, and erecting many of the best and most substantial houses in the town.  He still owns 150 acres of land, much of which is in the city limit is of Sheridan, and he also owns valuable residence and business property in the town.  The city and the county and all that affects their welfare are dear to his heart, and to their advancement he has given active and intelligent support.  In politics he was a Democrat until 1806, when he came out of the cataclysm of that year transmuted into an ardent Republican, and has held to the faith of his new party continuously from that time.  On its ticket in 1902 he was elected city marshal and the water commissioner of Sheridan, and is at this writing (1903) in the active discharge of his duties, performing them with satisfaction to the community as well as with credit to himself.  In fraternal relations Mr. Grinnell is a member of the order of Free-masons and of the order of Elks.  He was married in Chicago in 1873 to Miss Clara Saberton, a native of that city and daughter of Joseph and Eliza (Hodson) Saberton, natives of England.  They had three children, Marion W., deceased; Joe S., a civil engineer in Alaska; Lawrence R.  The marshal is a member of the Old Settlers' Club.  Mrs. Grinnell died in March, 1902, aged forty-seven years.
Source:  Progressive Men of the State of Wyoming - Publ. 1902 - Page 530

Source:  Progressive Men of the State of Wyoming - Publ. 1902 - Page 834