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Reuel Colt Gridley
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 $250,000 for the United States Sanitary Commission, which provided aid to wounded American Civil War soldiers.
== Background ==
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 raised $275,000 with his sack of flour.〔Andersen, Jim. (Lost in Austin: A Nevada Memoir ), p.11-12, 18 (2009) (ISBN 978-0874177879)〕〔Hall, Shawn. (Romancing Nevada's past ), p.53-54 (1993) (ISBN 978-0874172287)〕〔Lea, Ralph & Kennedy, Christi (1 October 2005). (Reuel Gridley and a sack of flour ), ''Lodi News-Sentinel''〕〔(25 August 1871). (Another Benefactor Gone ), ''Peninsula Courier'' (reprinted from the ''Jackson Daily Citizen'')〕〔Wier, Jeanne Elizabeth. (The celebration of Nevada's semicentennial of statehood ), p.31-35 (1917)〕〔Hunt, Aurora. (The Army of the Pacific ), p.324-35 (2004)〕
Twain told the story of the Gridley flour sack in his 1872 book ''Roughing It''.〔Twain, Mark. (Roughing It ), p.314-20 (1872)〕〔Kaplan, Fred. (The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography ), p.116-17 (2005) (ISBN 978-1400095278)〕
In 1866, Gridley moved to Stockton, California, and was in poor health; he died in 1870.
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