To avert the risk of Jacobs being kidnapped, Cornelia Grinnell Willis ( Willis ' second wife ) took Harriet and the Willis baby to a friend ’ s house where they hid.

Tyco ’ s success was largely attributed to ambitious acquisitions of Simplex Technology, Grinnell Fire Protection Systems, Armin Plastics and the Ludlow Corporation.

He went to work for Joseph Grinnell, the Director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, in the spring of 1908, and collected waterbirds for Grinnell ’ s studies of California birds.

In later works on the niche theory, Elton ’ s definition – the Eltonian niche – in terms of functional attributes of organisms ( or its position in the trophic net ), has been viewed by some authors as opposed to Joseph Grinnell ’ s earlier definition emphasizing states of the environment suitable for the species.

Grinnell ’ s books and publications reflect his lifelong study of the northern American plains and the Plains tribes.

( Doctor of Divinity ) from Meadville Lombard in 1987, he was also awarded an honorary L. H. D. s ( Doctor of Humane Letters ) from Nova Southeastern University in 1995, Grinnell College in 2004, Oberlin College, the University of Cincinnati and Willamette University in 2005, Lewis & Clark College in 2006 and Sage College of Albany in 2010.

Its divisions, as given by Grinnell, are: Ahahpitape, Ahkaiyikokakiniks, Kiyis, Sikutsipmaiks, Sikopoksimaiks, Tsiniksistsoyiks, Kutaiimiks, Ipoksimaiks, Silkokitsimiks, Nitawyiks, Apikaiviks, Miahwahpitsiks, Nitakoskitsipupiks, Nitikskiks, Inuksiks, Miawkinaiyiks, Esksinaitupiks, Inuksikahkopwaiks, Kahmitaiks, Kutaisotsiman, Nitotsiksisstaniks, Motwainaiks, Mokumiks, and Motahtosiks.

During a visit to Owens Lake in 1917, Joseph Grinnell from the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in Berkeley reported, “ Great numbers of water birds are in sight along the lake shore -- avocets, phalaropes, ducks.

Based on field observations, Joseph Grinnell formulated the principle of competitive exclusion in 1904: " Two species of approximately the same food habits are not likely to remain long evenly balanced in numbers in the same region.

The first recordings, by George Bird Grinnell in 1897, are of James White Calf or others singing around forty songs in or around the Blackfoot Nation.

Strongholds and Colleges are similar to Shires but located in areas with high military and student populations, respectively ; Calontir has one Stronghold ( Lost Forest in Warrensburg, Missouri ) and two Colleges ( Bellewode in Kirksville, Missouri and No Mountain in Grinnell, Iowa ).

Articles on his life and his obituary are available from the online resources from Drake Library in Grinnell, Iowa.

Many additional materials are available in the Grinnell Room Archives at Drake Library.

Thirty-seven colleges and universities, including Union College, Middlebury College, Denison University, University of Pennsylvania, Bard College, Carleton College, Bryn Mawr College, Boston University, DePauw University, Dickinson College, Franklin & Marshall College, Hamilton College, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Grinnell College, Kalamazoo College, Brandeis, Claremont McKenna College, Mount Holyoke College, Pomona College, Vanderbilt, Oberlin College & Conservatory, UC Berkeley, UCLA, The University of the South, Lawrence University, Wheaton College, Tulane University, Trinity College, and Pepperdine University are partnered with the program.

According to George Bird Grinnell, the accent is on the second syllable ; the " a " in the first syllable is pronounced like the " a " in " father "; and the " u " in the second syllable is pronounced long, like the vowel in " pool ".

The other eighteen who were awarded this distinction were: Roy Chapman Andrews ; Robert Bartlett ; Frederick Russell Burnham ; George Kruck Cherrie ; James L. Clark ; Merian C. Cooper ; Lincoln Ellsworth ; Louis Agassiz Fuertes ; George Bird Grinnell ; Charles A. Lindbergh ; Donald Baxter MacMillan ; Clifford H. Pope ; George P. Putnam ; Kermit Roosevelt ; Carl Rungius ; Stewart Edward White ; Orville Wright. Byrd Memorial on Mount Victoria, Wellington, New ZealandAlso in 1927, the City of Richmond dedicated the Richard Evelyn Byrd Flying Field, now Richmond International Airport, in Henrico County, Virginia.

In 1885, George Bird Grinnell hired noted explorer ( and later well regarded author ) James Willard Schultz to guide him on a hunting expedition into what would later become the park.

In February 1855, merchants represented by Moses H. Grinnell, criticized Fish's bill on immigration and maritime commerce.

Ornithologist George Bird Grinnell wrote articles on the subject in the magazine Forest and Stream, while Joel Asaph Allen, founder of the American Ornithologists ' Union, hammered away in the popular press.

Joseph Grinnell in his " Fur-bearing Mammals of California " noted a beaver specimen collected historically on the Klamath near its confluence with the Trinity River, and further cited a Fish and Game report of beaver from 1915-1917 at the mouth of the Klamath River near Requa, California.

* George Bird Grinnell, Expert on Native American Culture ( Editor, Forest and Stream )

On the trip, he developed a close friendship with George Grinnell, who was an expert on Native American culture.

After the expedition, Grinnell invited Curtis with him on a trip to the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana.

Photographs of his work have toured in shows, such as " Power of the Word ", which began its US tour at Grinnell College's Faulconer Gallery on Oct 6, 2000.

* Grinnell Peninsula, a peninsula on Devon Island in Nunavut

* Cape Grinnell, a cape on Devon Island in Nunavut at Griffin Inlet

* At Grinnell College, dead week is known as " hell week " and, unlike in other institutions, professors do not hold off on big assignments.

He financed an expedition to discover the fate of Sir John Franklin who was lost while searching for the Northwest Passage, and the Grinnell Peninsula on Devon Island is named after him.

Kane then organized and headed the Second Grinnell expedition which sailed from New York on May 31, 1853, and wintered in Rensselaer Bay.

Grinnell was also a ' conductor ' on the underground railroad and was associated with John Brown.

He died of throat disease, complicated by asthma, at his home in Grinnell on March 31, 1891.

Wearin was born on a farm near Hastings, Iowa in Mills County and graduated from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa.

She graduated from Grinnell College, and from that time on lived mainly in New York City.

A well-known public speaker, he has spoken on many college campuses, including Boston College, Tulane University, West Point, University of Notre Dame, Duke University, Grinnell College, New York University, MIT, Georgetown University, American University, University of Southern California, the University of Iowa, and many others.

A large partners desk was presented to President Rutherford B. Hayes on 23 November 1880, while a smaller lady's desk was presented to the widow of Henry Grinnell ; this desk is now in the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

According to George Bird Grinnell, the Dakota had referred to themselves and fellow Siouan-language bands as " white talkers ", and those of other language families, such as the Algonquian Cheyenne, as " red talkers " ( Šahíyena ).

* Grinnell, George Bird, The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Ways of Life, Yale University Press, 1924.

* The Fighting Cheyenne, George Bird Grinnell, University of Oklahoma Press ( 1956 original copyright 1915 Charles Scribner's Sons ), hardcover, 454 pages

In the early twentieth century, he served as a major source or informant for James Mooney and George Bird Grinnell, anthropologists who went to the West to study the Cheyenne and learn about their history and culture.

Cheyenne oral history, as told by Picking Bones Woman to George Bird Grinnell, says quilling came to their tribe from a man who married a woman, who hid her true identity as a buffalo.

As an author, he published under his own name as well as under pseudonyms, including David Grinnell.

A few years after Grinnell first visited, Henry L. Stimson and two companions, including a Blackfoot, climbed the steep east face of Chief Mountain in 1892.

Some of the first colleges and universities in America, including Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Williams, Bowdoin, Middlebury, and Amherst, all were founded by the Congregationalists, as were later Carleton, Grinnell, Oberlin, and Pomona.

A previous mention of a Hans Island is found in Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition, 1853 ,’ 54 ,’ 55, by Elisha Kent Kane ( 1857 ), pages 317 – 319, making the year 1853 often cited as the date of the discovery and naming of Hans Island, including in the letter by the Danish Ambassador to Canada, published in the Ottawa Citizen, July 28, 2005.

During the summer of 1899, Harriman's father organized the Harriman Alaska Expedition, a philanthropic-scientific survey of coastal Alaska and Russia that attracted twenty-five of the leading scientific, naturalist and artist luminaries of the day, including John Muir, John Burroughs, George Bird Grinnell, C. Hart Merriam, Grove Karl Gilbert, and Edward Curtis, along with 100 family members and staff, aboard the steamship George Elder.

During his career, Netsch designed 15 libraries, as well as academic buildings for colleges and universities in the United States and Japan, including Grinnell College, Miami University, Wells College, Illinois Institute of Technology, Sophia University, Texas Christian University, University of Chicago, and University of Iowa.

The original staff hired by Levy included former reporters and editors from a wide range of magazines and daily newspapers, including the Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Union, The New York Review of Books, Business International, the Grinnell Herald-Register, Fortune magazine and the Tampa Tribune.

Lappé has received 17 honorary doctorates from distinguished institutions, including the University of Michigan, Kenyon College, Allegheny College Lewis and Clark College and Grinnell College.