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Walter Scott Hendrixson was born in 1859 and received his B. S. degree from Union Christian College, Meron, Indiana, in 1881. He taught at Antioch College from 1882-1888, and earned his Ph. D. from Harcvard in 1903. He also did graduate work in Berlin and Gottingen in the 1890s. He was a member of the Chemistry faculty at Grinnell College from 1890 until his sudden death in 1925.

Evelyn Gardner served as Dean of Women and Profess of English at Grinnell from 1933-1963. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Beloit in 1918 and also taught at Carleton and Pomona.

President of Iowa College (Grinnell College) from 1887-1900.

Career:
Principal of academy, Morrisville, VT, 1873-1875
Pastor, Congregational Church in Upper Montclair, NJ, 1880-1887
President, Iowa College, 1887-1900
Pastor, Cheyenne, WY, 1900-1901
President, Pomona College, 1902-1909

George Davis Herron (1862-1925) was a Congregational Church minister and professor of Applied Christianity at Grinnell College from 1893-1899 where he attracted nationwide attention for his radical statements. After his resignation in 1899 and his scandalous divorce, he joined the Socialist Party and married Carrie Rand. They moved to Italy where he worked for peace as an emissary of President Woodrow Wilson.

Grace Douglass was born March 10, 1882 in Osage, Iowa, the youngest of the six children of Truman O. and Maria Greene Douglass. In August 1882 the family moved to Grinnell where Rev. Douglass served as Secretary of the Iowa Congregational Home Missionary Society, a position he held for the next 25 years. Grace graduated from Iowa College in 1902, studied physical culture in the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics (a graduate department of Wellesley College) for a year, and taught physical training 1903-04 at Iowa College. In September 1904 she married Dr. Hiram Winnett Orr, an orthopedic surgeon in Lincoln, Nebraska. They had five children. Mrs. Orr was active in the Congregational church and with Camp Fire Girls. She is the author of A Layman's Guide to Ecumenicity, 1956.

Dr. Orr died in 1956, and Mrs. Orr later moved to the Mayflower Home in Grinnell. She died Aug. 23, 1962.

Sarah Purcell graduated with a B.A. in History from Grinnell College in 1992. She also earned an A.M. (1993) and a Ph.D. (1997) from Brown University. She joined the faculty at Grinnell College in 2000. In 2016, she was installed to the named chair, the L. F. Parker Professor of History.

Kesho Scott was an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Grinnell College who taught at Grinnell College for over thirty-eight years. In March 2024, it was announced that the inaugural endowed chair in the newly established Department of African Diaspora Studies would be named for Scott.