BIO: Gaird C. GROVE, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 82.
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G. C. GROVE
Hesston, Huntingdon County, Pa.

Merchant:  Born at Grafton, now called Hesston, Huntingdon County, Pa., 
October 16, 1868.  A son of A. F. Grove, who was a merchant for twenty-five 
years.  The father of A. F. Grove was Jacob Grove who died at the age of 
eighty-seven years.  A. F. Grove died June 15, 1890, at the age of fifty-
four years.  He married Annie Corbin, who died in 1872.  The Groves have 
been residents of this section for one hundred and twenty-five years.  G. C. 
Grove began his early school training at Grafton, Pa., and later attended 
the Martinsburg School, a boarding preparatory school.  He assisted his 
father in business and on June 27, 1890, he began his business career at 
Grafton, Pa., as a merchant.  He has always enjoyed a good patronage.  He is 
a member of the Christian Missionary Alliance church as advocated by A. B. 
Simpson, of New York.  He is a strong adherent to its cause.  He believes in 
the doctrine of the Democratic party.  He has one brother, F. J. Grove, 
station agent, Hesston, Pa.  One sister, Maud, married to J. M. Hoover, who 
died; remarried to Valentine Bush.  One brother died in infancy; also a 
sister.  G. C. Grove was married to Unity Rickeard, of Hesston, Pa., a 
daughter of Elijah and Sarah Rickeard.  They have two sons, Elijah, with his 
father in business, and G. C., Jr., auto salesman, Huntingdon, Pa.  Two 
daughters, Grace, married to Charles Zauzig, a signalman, Penna. R.R., 
Huntingdon, Pa., and Sarah, married to Charles Reams, Philadelphia, Pa.

Note: First name from 1930 Penn Township, Huntingdon County, PA census, and 
from 1910 Miracode census index.