BIO:  Eli F. Grove, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, historical editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 19

ELI F. GROVE, agent of Singer Sewing Machine Company, was born in Hopewell 
Township, York County, in 1852.  He is the son of Henry and Mary (Strayer) 
Grove, natives of the county.  He came to York in 1872 and engaged in the sewing 
machine business (Howe agency), and has been for the past nine years agent for 
the Singer Machine Company for York and Adams Counties.  They have a branch at 
Gettysburg.  Mr. Grove was married in 1877 to Lucy Peeling, of York.  Has always 
done a large trade and is an enterprising young man.  He has devoted his entire 
time to his business, and established a large trade, having eight wagons, and 
has sold up to the present time over 8,000 machines.