George Richmond Grose papers

George Richmond Grose was born in Nicholas County, West Virginia, on July 14, 1869. Immediately after receiving his A.B. degree from Ohio Wesleyan University, he married Lucy Dickerson, a fellow-student, on June 28, 1894. He studied at Boston University School of Theology, receiving the S.T.B. degree in 1896. Ohio Wesleyan made him a D.D. in 1908 and LL.D. in 1916. Elected to the presidency of DePauw University in 1912, he served for twelve years, securing funding for new buildings and creating the Rector Scholarship. President Grose spent the 1921-1922 academic year in China on a special leave granted him for the purpose of gathering materials for a biography of James Bashford, the well-known Methodist bishop in that country. He published his findings in book form in 1922. Upon Grose's return to campus he devoted most of his remaining tenure as president to the successful prosecution of a million-dollar endowment campaign. Finally, in 1924 he was himself elected a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and left Greencastle to take up his new post in China. He later returned to the United States to become the editor of a religious periodical in California. A final contribution to DePauw University was a short biographical sketch of Edward Rector published in 1928. Grose died in 1953.