Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor
Anti-Slavery Baptist minister
Died when: 86 years 116 days (1035 months)Star Sign: Libra
Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor (October 18, 1792 – February 11, 1879) was an American Baptist minister known for his anti-slavery views.He founded the abolitionist American Baptist Free Mission Society, which did not allow slaveowners to be missionaries, and refused their contributions, prefiguring the split in the Baptist Church in America into Southern and Northern associations.
He helped found and served as the first president of New York Central College, the first college in the United States to admit both women and Blacks on an equal basis from its first day, and the first college to employ Black professors.
He was described as "a reforming steam engine".In his retirement he worked on a famous mathematics problem and took out a patent to prevent lamp explosions.
