Publisher's Synopsis
Grant was born to a Patrick Grant (1810-1895) and Charlotte Boardman (Rice) Grant (1821-1882) in Boston, Massachusetts on January 24, 1852 and was a descendant of Edmund Rice an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony. He attended Boston Latin School and graduated from Harvard University in 1873. At one point in his college career he was publicly reprimanded for missing chapel on 22 occasions. He received the first Ph.D. in English granted by Harvard in 1876 and a law degree in 1879.
