BIO:  James N. 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, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 174

JAMES N. GROVE, youngest son of John and Elizabeth (Moore) Grove, of York County, Penn., was 
born in Shrewsbury, March 26, 1837.  His parents were of German and Irish descent respectively, 
and had a family of six sons and five daughters.  Until his fifteenth year he remained on his 
father’s farm, but at that age he began learning the trade of millwright with Robert Koller, 
near Shrewsbury, which trade he had followed since.  He built the Spring Grove Paper-mill and 
two for Hoffman & Sons, in Maryland.  During his life he has built five or six paper-mills, and 
from fifteen to twenty saw-mills. In 1861 he enlisted at York in Company D, Eighty-seventh 
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, was ranked as corporal and was discharged in 1861 as 
sergeant.  During his service he participated in many a hard fought battle; at Winchester, Va., 
he was captured and for twenty-four days was confined at Libby Prison and Belle Island.  He 
also took part in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, near Winchester, 
and many other battles and skirmishes.  After leaving the service he returned to Shrewsbury, 
where he engaged in his trade.  In 1865 he was married, at New Freedom, to Annie Singer, 
daughter of Charles Singer, and has six children:  Luella, Charles Henry, William Emery, James 
F., Edward and Gertrude.  Mr. Grove is a member of the Reformed Church and his wife of the 
Evangelical Church.  He is a Mason, a prominent citizen, and holds and has held various offices 
of the borough.  At present he is repairing a paper mill at Woodbine, Md., for Capt. Tollun, 
who was Confederate officer of the day at Winchester on the day Mr. G. was captured.