Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Groninger, Frank P. 1861 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

FRANK P. GRONINGER.

   The gentleman to whom the reader's attention is now directed has long been
known, by the citizens of Rock Creek township, as a man of sound business
principles and is well and favorably known throughout Carroll county, and
especially in Rock Creek township, where he has delivered Uncle Sam's mail since
1902.

   Frank P. Groninger, farmer and letter carrier on rural route No. 1, Burrows,
Indiana, was born on October 20, 1861, in Rock Creek township, and is a son of
George and Margaret (Martin) Groninger. He was reared on a farm and received his
early education at the public schools of the district, after which he attended
Valparaiso University, at the end of which course he began teaching school and
followed this vocation for seven years. Mr. Groninger is the owner of forty
acres of land, where he lives, located two and one-half miles west of Burrows,
Indiana. He took the civil service examination in 1902, when rural route No. 1
was established in his district, at which time he began carrying the mail, and
is still in the service. Politically, he is a stanch believer in the policies of
the Republican party, while his religious membership is with the Presbyterian
church of Burrows, of which he is one of the elders. He is a member of Rockfield
Lodge No. 301, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is a past grand,
and a member of the encampment, and is a past chief patriarch, and also a member
of the grand lodge.

   George Groninger was born in Juniata county, Pennsylvania, as was also his
wife, Margaret (Martin) Groninger. They both grew up and were married in that
state, and came to Carroll county, Indiana, in 1848, via Evansville and Terre
Haute, and thence up the Wabash and'Erie canal to Lafayette, locating in Rock
Creek township, Carroll county, where they bought land and spent the remainder
of their lives, Mr. Groninger dying in 1868, and his wife, October 1, 1902. They
were both earnest members of the Presbyterian church and were the parents of ten
children, nine of whom are living in 1915, as follow: Elmira Groninger is
unmarried; Irwin is married and follows farming in Rock Creek township; William
A. is also a farmer of Rock Creek township; Priscilla became the wife of Aaron
Gregg, of Lafayette, Indiana; Ella is the widow of Nelson Van Grundy, of Delphi,
Indiana; John lives in Rock Creek township on a farm; Emma J. is the wife of
Elmer Kilander, of Logansport; Belle became the wife of E. L. Goldsby, of
Arkansas; Frank P. is the subject of this sketch.

   Frank P. Groninger was united in marriage on April 24, 1894, with Addie
McCain, daughter of Samuel and Amanda (McDonald) McCain. She was born on August
28, 1866, near Delphi, Indiana, and is a graduate of the teacher's course at
Valparaiso University. Six children have come to bless this union: Florence, a
graduate of the public school, and is now a student at high school; Charles, who
graduated from the public school, and is also attending high school; Margaret
and Adaline; one child died in infancy and Paul M. died at the age of nine years.

   Mr. Groninger is a prompt, methodical man of business, and has always pursued
a course of fearless honesty in his dealings with his fellow men.


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Biographical Section of

HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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