BIO: John M. GROVE, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 313.
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  JOHN M. GROVE, Mill Creek, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in the 
eastern part of the county, in the little town of Ardenheim, May 12, 
1845. He is a son of Samuel B. and Mary (Yocum) Grove, both German by 
birth. They were the parents of seven children: Watson, married to 
Sarah Mundorf, resides in Brady township; Martha (Mrs. J. T. Himes), of 
Mifflin county, Pa.; Anderson, deceased; Samuel, married to Elizabeth 
Rupert, resides in Airy Dale, Pa.; George W., a traveling salesman; and 
John M. Mrs. Samuel Grove died August 30, 1890, aged sixty-eight. Mr. 
Grove survives her, and lives with his son, Watson.
  After only a few years of school training, John M. Grove began to 
work in the line of his calling, that of a tiller of the ground. 
Beginning with work by the day, he persevered diligently until he had 
saved the purchase money for a farm, the one that he lives on and 
cultivates in Brady township. His labors were only interrupted by the 
call to war, during the Rebellion, when he enlisted, September 5, 1864, 
and served for a year in the Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company K. He 
is a Democrat.
  John M. Grove was married to Sarah Elmira, daughter of Henry and 
Malinda Touder. Their children are: Mary; Samuel; Watson; James; Laura; 
Ernest; Esther; and Annie.