[p. 946] treasurer of the Home Trust Company, with office at No. 53 Pittsburg Street, New Castle has been identified with the interests of this city for the past decade. He was born in 1864, in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Absalom and Ann M. (Ramsey) Grove.
The father of Mr. Grove lost his life in defense of his country. He was a brave soldier during the Civil War and was fatally wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor. His widow still survives. The son was but an infant when deprived of his father's care and protection, but by the wise provision of the Government he was afforded educational advantages at the Soldiers' Orphans' School in Mercer County. From the age of sixteen years to twenty-one he followed farming and then engaged in a mercantile business, which he continued until 1889, when he went to Butler, Pa. There he resumed merchandising and also became interested in the oil business. He remained at Butler until 1898, when he came to Lawrence County and accepted the position of cashier of the First National Bank of Wampum, coming from there in 1906 to the Home Trust Company. He has numerous other interests in the county and is a director in the New Castle Notion Company, a director in the First National Bank of Wampum, a director in the Standard Wire Company and is president of the Young Produce Company.
In 1889 Mr. Grove was married to Miss M. Alice McMullen, who resides at Sandy Lake Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Grove are members of the Central Presbyterian Church. Fraternally, he is a Mason. Mr. Grove has been an active citizen, taking an interest in public improvements and ever proving a friend of law and order.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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