Galusha Aaron Grow
Born: August 31, 1823
Birthplace: Ashford, Connecticut
Father: Joseph Grow 1787 – 1827
(Buried: Grow Cemetery, Hampton, Connecticut)
Mother: Elizabeth Robbins 1787 – 1863
(Buried: Harford Cemetery, Harford, Pennsylvania)
Political Party: Democratic Party and Republican Party
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Education:
1844: Graduated from Amherst College
Occupation before War:
1847 – 1850: Attorney in Susquehanna County Pennsylvania
1850 – 1851: Farmer and Surveyor in Susquehanna County.
1851 – 1863: United States Congressman from Pennsylvania
1851 – 1853: Member House Treasury Department Expenditures Committee
1853 – 1855: Member of House Indian Affairs Committee
1855 – 1859: Chairman of House Territories Committee
1855 – 1857: Member of House Agriculture Committee
1857: Unsuccessful Republican candidate for Speaker of House
1858: Physically attacked by U.S. Congressman Laurence M. Keitt
1859 – 1861: Chairman of House Territories Committee
1859 – 1861: Member of House Agriculture Committee
1859 – 1861: Member of House Rules Committee
Civil War Career:
1861 – 1863: Speaker of United States House of Representatives
1861 – 1863: Chairman of House Rules Committee
1862: Unsuccessful candidate for reelection to U.S. Congress
1864: Pennsylvania Delegate Republican Party National Convention
Occupation after War:
1871 – 1875: President of Houston & Great Northern Railroad
1875 – 1894: Lumber, Oil, and soft coal Businessman in Pennsylvania
1884: Pennsylvania Delegate Republican Party National Convention
1892: Pennsylvania Delegate Republican Party National Convention
1894 – 1903: United States Congressman from Pennsylvania
1894 – 1895: Ranking Member of House Education Committee
1895 – 1903: Chairman of House Education Committee
1902: Choose not to be a candidate for renomination to U.S. Congress
1903 – 1907: Resided in Glenwood, Pennsylvania
Died: March 31, 1907
Place of Death: Glenwood, Pennsylvania
Age at time of Death: 83 years old
Burial Place: Harford Cemetery, Harford, Pennsylvania
Letter to President Lincoln in 1861:
"My colleagues having signed and sent to you a recommendation for Hon. T[haddeus]. Stevens of Pa for a place in your cabinet and not having an opportunity at the time of signing I take this occasion to assure you that I fully concur in their endorsement." Grow added: "In closing permit me to express the earnest hope, as well as the desire of a majority of republican members of Congress, that you may find it compatable with your sense of duty to secure the services of Mr [Schuyler] Colfax as P. M." Genl.
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