BIO: George Grove, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                               CHAPTER LX.

                       WEST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.

580  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  GEORGE GROVE, physician, Big Spring, has been one of the most active 
members of the medical profession, and is to-day the oldest practicing 
physician in the Cumberland Valley.  He was born August 11, 1811, in 
Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Penn., son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Welsh) 
Grove, three of whose daughters, all widows, are still living:  Mrs. 
Nancy Seibert, of Chambersburg; Mrs. Jane Pfeffer and Mrs. Mary 
Jeffries, of Philadelphia.  Our subject received his scholastic 
education in Chambersburg; graduated with honor, in 1836, at the 
Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, Penn., his diploma bearing 
the signatures of some of the most noted men in the State:  Granville 
S. Pattison, M. D.; George McClellan, M. D., father of Gen. George B. 
McClellan, and also of Samuel McClellan, M. D., who is one of the 
finest obstetricians in the United States.  Dr. Grove was married, 
April 6, 1837, to Miss Louisa Horn, of Hagerstown, Md., who bore him 
four daughters and two sons (both named George, the first of whom died 
in infancy, and the second enlisted in Company D, Seventy-eighth 
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, when only seventeen, and died a few 
weeks later in the hospital at Nashville, Tenn.).  The daughters are 
Josephine, Mary, Elizabeth and Emma L. Josephine and Emma are living, 
and in every respect inherit the noble qualities of their mother, who 
died October 27, 1847.  Dr. Grove subsequently married Mrs. Martha 
Burkhardt, who bore him one son, Diller, now a resident of Carlisle.  
The Doctor's third wife was Mary A. E., daughter of John and Louisa 
Trego.  He was an iron manufacturer and merchant of Cumberland Valley.  
After fifty years of active practice the Doctor is still hale and 
vigorous, his hair is raven black, and his step is as sprightly and 
elastic as that of a youth of twenty.  Possessed of a liberal education 
and brilliant mind, he has for many years been considered an authority 
on medical matters in this and neighboring counties, and his position 
is a really enviable one among the faculty in the State.  His daughters 
have also received a liberal education, and their accomplishments 
afford additional pleasure to their father, who has devoted so much of 
his valuable time to them.