Professor Leonard Fletcher Parker wrote this outline of an address he was to give after J.B. Grinnell's death. He comments on both life itself and on J.B. Grinnell's notable life and accomplishments.
Professor of History at what was then Iowa College, Leonard Fletcher Parker was the first to record the life history of J.B. Grinnell and of the town of Grinnell as well. These documents are pages taken from his notebooks and are his personal notes on J.B. Grinnell.