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Grosvenor, Lemuel (1814–70), a native of Boston who was educated at Andover Theological Seminary, came to Hannibal in August 1846 to serve as temporary pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. He offered to spend an hour a day giving “young gentlemen” free instruction in either Latin or Spanish (Hannibal Gazette, 10 June 47, quoted in Welsh, 39). Grosvenor was almost certainly the Presbyterian clergyman who in “Villagers” (105) ministers to John Marshall Clemens on his deathbed. In May 1848 he moved to Illinois (Clarence W. Bowen, 1:260–61, 6:304; Sweets 1984, 44; Fotheringham, 104–5).
