 It was run down by the steamer "Union" on the Outer Middle Ground.The Grinnell was the first pilot boat to show the fully developed long entry that was to become the New York schooner's trade mark.In February 1860, president-elect Abraham Lincoln, on his way to Washington, D.C., visited the Manhattan home of Grinnell's daughter, whose father had invited many of New York City's most prominent businessmen to meet the first Republican president.