William Morton Grinnell

William Morton Grinnell (February 28, 1857 – February 9, 1906) Another uncle, Daniel Oliver Morton (1815–59), served as the Mayor of Toledo, Ohio from 1849 to 1850.

He was educated in Stuttgart and at Phillips Exeter Academy. He then studied at Harvard College, but left without taking a degree because of health problems, traveling to France, where his father had recently been appointed U.S. Consul at Saint-Étienne. William Morton Grinnell worked for a while for the United States Consulate in Lyon. He then attended Columbia Law School. Together, they had two children: Elizabeth Lee Grinnell (1900–1993), who married Henry L. Abbott. and George Morton Grinnell (1902–1953).

Grinnell died of pneumonia in New York City on February 9, 1906.

Works A Comparative Glance at the French Code Civil and the Proposed New York Civil Code (1886) The Regeneration of the United States: A Forecast of Its Industrial Evolution (1899) Social Theories and Social Facts (1905)