GRINNELL, a city of Poweshiek county, Ia., U.S.A., near the centre of the State, at an altitude of about i,000 feet. It is on Federal highway 32, and is served by the Minneapolis and St. Louis and the Rock Island railways. The population in 193o was 4,949 Federal census. Grinnell has the charm of elm-shaded streets, well kept lawns and comfortable homes. It is the seat of Grinnell college, founded in 1847 by three pioneer settlers in Iowa, Congregationalists and graduates of Yale college, and the "Iowa Band" of I2 graduates of Andover Theological seminary, who went west in 1843 as educational missionaries. The college was opened at Davenport in 1848 as Iowa college, moving to Grinnell in 1859, but not changing its name until 1909. The city was settled in 1854, and was named after one of its founders, Josiah Bushnell Grinnell (1821-91), a Congregational clergyman, friend of John Brown, and a representative in Congress, 1863-67. It was incorporated as a town in 1865 and as a city in 1882.