BIO: Harvey B. GROVE, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 467 & 468.
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  HARVEY B. GROVE, proprietor of the H. B. Grove general store, dealing in 
general merchandise, hay, feed and grain, at West Decatur, Boggs township, 
Clearfield county, Pa., is an enterprising and successful business man of this 
section.  He was born March 28, 1883, at Orbisonia, Huntingdon county, Pa., and 
is a son of James and Margaret (Harris) Grove.
  James Grove was born in Huntingdon county, a son of Joseph Grove, and is 
engaged in the contracting business there.  He has been twice married, first to 
Margaret Harris, who died when their only child, Harvey B., was eighteen months 
old.  Her parents were William and Susan Harris.  The second marriage was to 
Lucy Leader, of which there has been no issue.  James Grove is a member of the 
Reformed church.
  Harvey B. Grove obtained his education in the common and high school at 
Orbisonia, graduating from the latter in 1898.  He then went into the shops of 
the Westinghouse Company, at Pittsburg, where he worked until 1905, after which 
he engaged as clerk in a general store at Orbisonia, where he had charge of a 
general merchandise and of a hardware store, for two years.  For one year 
afterward he was a traveling representative of the International Correspondence 
School of Scranton, Pa., and then went back to the shops where he had learned 
his trade, in Pittsburg, and continued there until September 1, 1910, when he 
came to West Decatur and bought out the firm of Briggs Brothers.  He has done 
considerable improving in the way of modernizing his store and is now enjoying a 
prosperous trade.
  Mr. Grove was married in 1909 to Miss Edna Albert, who is a daughter of John 
and Mary A. Albert, natives of Clearfield county, where Mrs. Albert still 
resides, her husband being deceased.  Mr. and Mrs. Albert had three children:  
Roland, who is deceased; Myrtle, who is the wife of J. T. Guyer; and Edna, Mrs. 
Grove.  To Mr. and Mrs. Grove a son was born on March 7, 1911, who bears the 
name of James B.  They are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.  In 
politics Mr. Grove is a Democrat.  He belongs to Turtle Creek Lodge, No. 777, 
Odd Fellows.