Reuel Colt Gridley

Reuel Colt Gridley
Gridley with his sack of flour in 1864
Born(1829-01-23)January 23, 1829
DiedNovember 24, 1870(1870-11-24) (aged 41)
Stockton, California
Reuel Colt Gridley Monument
Reuel Colt Gridley Monument
LocationStockton Rural Cemetery
Coordinates37°58′39″N 121°17′11″W / 37.977400°N 121.286400°W / 37.977400; -121.286400
Reference no.801[1]
Reuel Colt Gridley is located in California
Reuel Colt Gridley
Location of Reuel Colt Gridley Monument in California
Reuel Colt Gridley is located in the United States
Reuel Colt Gridley
Reuel Colt Gridley (the United States)

Reuel Colt Gridley (January 23, 1829 – November 24, 1870) was an American storekeeper who gained nationwide attention in 1864, when he repeatedly auctioned a plain sack of flour and raised over US$250,000 (equivalent to $4,870,000 in 2023)[2] for the United States Sanitary Commission, which provided aid to wounded American Civil War soldiers.

Background

Gridley went to school in Hannibal, Missouri, where he befriended Mark Twain. He later fought in the Mexican–American War.[3]

In 1864, Gridley supported the Democratic candidate for mayor in Austin, Nevada, where he operated a grocery store. He made a bet with a Republican friend that the loser would carry a fifty-pound sack of flour through the town. He performed his punishment with the accompaniment of the town band, and at the end someone offered that the sack should be auctioned off to raise money for the Sanitary Fund, a new organization that aided disabled Civil War veterans. After finally selling for $250, the winning bidder did not take the sack, but donated it back to Gridley to be auctioned off again. It was auctioned repeatedly until over $8,000 was raised. When nearby Virginia City, Nevada heard of the event (and where young newspaper editor Mark Twain was working at the time), they invited Gridley to come there, which he did. He then traveled to California where San Franciscans donated $2800 and Sacramento citizens donated $10000, before heading to St. Louis and the major eastern cities. These bidders added around $170,000 to the Sanitary Commission's fund, and within twelve months Gridley had more than $250,000 with his sack of flour.[4][5][6][7][8]

Twain told the story of the Gridley flour sack in his 1872 book Roughing It.[9][10]

The Gridley Store in Austin, Nevada, which was placed on National Register of Historic Places listings in Nevada in 2003

In 1866, Gridley moved to Stockton, California, and was in poor health; he died in 1870.

Legacy

In Austin, Gridley's store still stands and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

In 1887, the "Reuel Colt Gridley Monument" was dedicated in Stockton's Rural Cemetery, depicting Gridley standing next to a large sack of flour.[5][11] In 1965, the monument was registered as a historical landmark by the state of California.[12]

References

  1. ^ "Reuel Colt Gridley Monument #801". Office of Historic Preservation, California State Parks. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
  2. ^ Hall, Shawn (2016). Romancing Nevada's past. University of Nevada Press. pp. 53–54. ISBN 9780874170108. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
  3. ^ Ron Powers (2005). Mark Twain. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
  4. ^ Andersen, Jim. Lost in Austin: A Nevada Memoir, p.11-12, 18 (2009) (ISBN 978-0874177879)
  5. ^ a b Lea, Ralph & Kennedy, Christi (1 October 2005). Reuel Gridley and a sack of flour, Lodi News-Sentinel
  6. ^ (25 August 1871). Another Benefactor Gone, Peninsula Courier (reprinted from the Jackson Daily Citizen)
  7. ^ Wier, Jeanne Elizabeth. The celebration of Nevada's semicentennial of statehood, p.31-35 (1917)
  8. ^ Hunt, Aurora. The Army of the Pacific, p.324-35 (2004)
  9. ^ Twain, Mark. Roughing It, p.314-20 (1872)
  10. ^ Kaplan, Fred. The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography, p.116-17 (2005) (ISBN 978-1400095278)
  11. ^ McAndrews, James, Jr. (26 May 2004). How a lost bet and a sack of flour raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, Modesto Bee
  12. ^ Reuel Colt Gridley Monument listing, California State Parks, Retrieved May 27, 2011

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