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Joseph Ridgeway Grundy

asting. Joe became a champion bowler, or tenpins player as the game was called at the school, a distinction he retained throughout the years. Now at the age of twelve, his family felt that he had quieted down enough to fit into the family pattern at home and was sent to public school for the next two years and his social contacts widened (Hutton 61).In 1877, Joe was entering the secondary division at Swarthmore, the Quaker institution serving as both a preparatory school and college (Hutton 63). He showed a real enthusiasm for history, especially American History. In 1879, Joe, at the age of sixteen, completed his college preparation (Hutton 64). That same year Joe entered college (Hutton 66). Joe served as the affirmative leader of the debating team which on November 21, 1879, "Resolved: that the annexation of the Canada to the United States would be beneficial to Canada." Grundy's college debating experience would come in handy during the Washington investigations five decades later (Hutton 68)!Joe Grundy was to cross the Atlantic many times on business as well as for pleasure. His first voyage was to Europe during the summer at age seventeen (Hutton 71). He said "This is the laziest life I think that I ever led" (Hutton 75). He hunted up his English relatives, cousins John, Alfred, and Herbert Grundy (Hutton 81). Joe was learning a great deal from his relatives about industry (Hutton 82). By the time Grundy was seventeen he was an industrialist. He wrote: "This is vast water power is, I think, not used at all, but had we such in America it would be lined with mills" (Hutton 86). On his travels, Joseph Grundy was always comparing things to America. Joseph Grundy was glad to be on his way home from the trip.After he arrived home, Joe Grundy went to work as a wool sorter in the Bristol mill. He was no boss's son cosigned to a comfortable office near his father. Joe was simply another employee learning his trade (Hutton ...

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