17 Facts About Josiah Grout

Josiah Grout's parents were native Vermonters, and they returned to Vermont when Grout was six years old.

Josiah Grout received his early education in the public schools and at Orleans Liberal Institute at Glover, Vermont.

Josiah Grout was a student at St Johnsbury Academy when the Civil War broke out, and he left to enlist in the Union Army for the American Civil War.

On October 2,1861, Grout joined Company I, 1st Vermont Cavalry as a private.

Josiah Grout was promoted to captain on April 4,1863.

Josiah Grout took part in 17 battles and was wounded in the Skirmish at Miskel Farm on April 1,1863.

Josiah Grout requested return to his regiment, but on October 1,1863, he was discharged due to his wounds.

Josiah Grout was promoted to major in March 1865 and mustered out in June 1865.

Josiah Grout was admitted to the bar in December 1865, and in 1866 moved to Island Pond, where he was in charge of customs collections for the districts of Newport and St Albans.

Josiah Grout returned to Vermont in 1880, where he took up farming, and raised some of the finest Jersey cattle, blooded Morgan horses and Shropshire sheep in Vermont.

Josiah Grout was elected to the Vermont Senate from Orleans County in 1892.

Josiah Grout was head of the Republican Club of Derby and was vice president of the Vermont League of Republican Clubs for four years, and president for one.

At the Republican State Convention on June 17,1896, Grout was narrowly nominated as the party's candidate for governor, receiving 339 votes compared to William W Stickney's 336.

Josiah Grout easily beat Democrat J Henry Jackson in the general election, receiving 53,426 votes to Jackson's 14,855.

Josiah Grout's term was highlighted by enhancement to the state's educational system, a visit to the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.

In October 1898, Josiah Grout was succeeded by Edward Curtis Smith.

Josiah Grout again represented Derby in the Vermont House in 1904.