Montgomery County TN Archives Biographies.....Adkins, Grover Cleveland 1888 - 
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Author: Will T. Hale

   GROVER CLEVELAND ADKINS. A busy, wide-awake, progressive young man, Grover

Cleveland Adkins, of New Providence, holds a position of note among the leading

merchants of Montgomery county, his integrity and excellent good sense in

business matters winning him the respect and confidence of his associates. He

was born in New Providence, September 17, 1888, a son of F. M. Adkins, and

grandson of the late Jackson Adkins, who was the first member of the Adkins

family to settle in Montgomery county.



   F. M. Adkins was born at Montgomery county, Tennessee, in April. 1867, and

has always claimed this county as his home. Endowed with business talent and

tact of a high order, he has for many years been intimately identified with the

promotion of the mercantile, agricultural and industrial prosperity of this part

of the state. Nearly thirty years ago he established the store now managed by

his son Grover, and here built up a very large and remunerative business, and

accumulated much property. Since relinquishing the management of his mercantile

interests to his son, he has devoted his time and energies to the ears of his

large farm of eleven hundred acres, and in looking after the farms that he owns

in different localities. He is a Democrat in polities, but not an office seeker,

and fraternally belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America, and to the Independent

Order of Odd Fellows. Religiously he is an active member, and steward, of the

Methodist Episcopal church at New Providence.



   F. M. Adkins married, in 1882, in Montgomery county, Ida Texas Rhinehart, who

was born in Montgomery county, in 1864, a daughter of Jackson and Emily

Rhinehart. Five children have blessed their union, as follows: Nettie Jane, wife

of J. P. Shelton, of Montgomery county; Una Pearl, wife of G. W. Kelley, of

Birmingham, Alabama; Grover Cleveland; Wiley M., a farmer in New Providence; and

Hardy E., of Montgomery county.



   Receiving his preliminary education in the public schools of New Providence.

Grover C. Adkins attended school in Clarksville, and at Cumberland City,

subsequently completing a commercial course of study in Nashville. Thus fitted

for his future career, he returned to New Providence, and under his father's

wise instructions became familiar with the details of mercantile business. In

1911, Mr. Adkins, who was amply qualified for the responsible position, assumed

the management of the entire store, and has since conducted the extensive

business in a most able manner, being proficient in every branch of the trade,

and popular with the patrons of the establishment.



   Mr. Adkins married, September 5, 1909, Ethel Darnell, daughter of R. E. and

Lula (Riggins) Darnell, and they are parents of two children, Doris Stanley and

Harold. Politically Mr. Adkins is a Democrat, and fraternally he is a member of

the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; of the Modern Woodmen of America; and of

the Loyal Order of Moose.



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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913





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