Hancock County OhArchives Biographies.....Grose, Jacob 1825 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   JACOB GROSE, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Findlay, was born in Westmoreland
County, Penn.. April 25, 1825, son of Jacob and Margaret (Sheddinger) Grose,
natives of Bucks County, Penn., and of German descent. Our subject's
great-grandfather, in company with two brothers, came to America before the war
of the Revolution, and settled in Bucks County, Penn. In religion they were
Mennonites. The father of our subject died in Wayne County, Ohio; his family
consisted of eleven children. Jacob Grose, the subject of this sketch, was
reared on a farm; served an apprenticeship of three years and a half at the
cabinet-maker's trade, which he followed for twelve years. He was united in
marriage, in 1848, with Mary Sherick, a native of Pennsylvania, of German
descent. Her parents, Peter and Barbara (Funk) Sherick, now reside in Findlay,
this county. Our subject and wife are parents of six children: David S., a
school teacher and farmer; Peter J., Harriet E., Jacob I., Laura J. and William
E. Mr. and Mrs. Grose are members of the Baptist Church of God. He has been
trustee and school director for nine years, and clerk of the board. He is the
owner of 326 acres of land, and takes great interest in the Grange movement, of
which organization he is a charter member, and has filled the office of overseer
in the order.

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Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Blanchard Township




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