Albert Truesdale Grove Biography

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ALBERT TRUESDALE GROVE is one of the most influential agriculturists of 
Brookings county. He resides in section 2, Brookings township, near Brookings.  
Mr. Grove is one of the old settlers. and is also the possessor of a war record 
of which any veteran might be proud.  He was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, on 
the 27th of July, 1838.  His father, Abram Grove, followed the trade of a 
carpenter and was also a farmer. He served in the Ohio militia for a number of 
years as a lieutenant, and spent almost all of his life in Trumbull county, 
where he died in March, 1885, at the advanced age of seventy-five. Our subject's 
mother, whose maiden name was Mary G. Henry, was a daughter of James Henry, a 
farmer of Trumbull county, of English descent.  She died in November, 1888, aged 
seventy-six. Mr. Grove's paternal grandfather, Wendell Grove, was a soldier in 
the continental army, and did valiant service in the cause of liberty during the 
colonial days.  He was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1752, and his 
family was of Dutch origin.  He removed to Ohio after the Revolution and died 
there in his ninety-ninth year.  It is said that he was hale and strong almost 
up to the day of his taking off.  Albert spent his early days in Trumbull 
county, where his education was obtained.  In 1859 he went to Minneapolis, 
Minnesota, and three years later, August 9, 1862, he enlisted in Company D, 
Sixth Minnesota Infantry. He was sent with the company to the Minnesota and 
Dakota frontiers, where he fought against the savage Indian tribes which were 
making trouble in the northwest at the time. These aborigines were subdued in 
1864 and Mr. Grove was ordered with his regiment to Helena, Arkansas, to take 
part in the greater war among the civilized tribes.  He did garrison duty there 
for some time, but the climate had such an effect upon many of the men that they 
were disabled, and it became necessary to go to St. Louis to recruit.  Later Mr. 
Grove went south and took part in several engagements.  After the termination of 
the war he returned to Minnesota, and was honorably discharged at Fort Snelling, 
August 9, 1862. He then returned to Minneapolis, where he found employment in a 
sawmill.  A short time after he purchased a farm in Hennepin county, Minnesota, 
where he resided until 1878.  In that year Mr. Grove came to Brookings county 
and homesteaded a claim in Afton township. He left this soon after, and in 1884 
settled upon the claim where he now resides.  The land was, of course, perfectly 
wild, and few if any of the comforts or necessaries of civilization were to be 
obtained less than forty miles distant in Minnesota.  Mr. Grove, however, braved 
the many hardships which he encountered, and by his industry, frugality and 
business ability soon succeeded in making a splendid farm out of his land, and 
is now in very comfortable circumstances.  He has three hundred and twenty 
acres, most of which is under cultivation. The residence, barns, and all 
outbuildings are of modern and attractive construction, and the whole place 
breathes that air of prosperity which is so patent in the well conducted farm.  
Mr. Grove is a life long Republican, and his memory does not run to the time 
when he voted any other ticket, even for the smallest or most insignificant 
candidate.  He has served as clerk of Brookings township, and held the office 
for several years. Robert L. McCook Post, G. A. R., No.74, of Brookings, counts 
him among its leading members.

Mr. Grove married Miss Louise A. Woodward in 1865.  Mrs. Grove is the daughter 
of Robert and Irene (Robinson) Woodward, of Hennepin county, Minnesota, and was 
born in Eckford, Michigan.  Mr. and Mrs. Grove are parents of six children, 
Albert Woodward, who is a stationary engineer at Ellendale, North Dakota; Clyde 
Byron; Eugene Hayes, a graduate of the pharmaceutical department of the State 
Agricultural college, at Brookings; Francis Wendell, now a student at the same 
college, Robert Willis, and Mary rrene. The family are members of the Baptist 
church.