Ohio Genealogical Society
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Montgomery County Chapter Ohio Genealogical Society |
Personal Sketch
George A. Grove, MiamisburgGeorge A. Grove, a citizen well and favorably known in this County, was born on the 25th day of August 1817, in Berks County, Pa. The time of his youth, which he spent in his native State, was chiefly applied to the acquisition of a good practical business education. He emigrated to the State of Ohio, and came to this County in the year 1836, and was employed for the first three years as a clerk in a business house.In the year 1839, he was joined in marriage to Miss Christina Kercher, a daughter of Mr. Jacob Kercher, one of the original proprietors of Miamisburg, who emigrated from Pennsylvania to this State and County, 1808, and died in Miamisburg, 1855. Mr. Grove first entered into business for himself in the aforesaid town, in the produce trade and shipping, which he carried on for a number of years with gratifying results. In 1855, he united with Messrs. H. Groby and E. Shultz in forming the present favorably known and successful firm of H. Groby & Co., of Miamisburg,--formerly in the lumber trade, and now in the business of banking,--a co-partnership which has existed for twenty years without any interruption, and still continues with favorable prospects for the future. Besides, Mr. Grove is largely interested in the "Miamisburg and Carrollton Hydraulic," and the extensive "Cutlery" of Hunter & Co., also located in Miamisburg. He served his County on the Board of its Commissioners for six consecutive years, being elected to that office by a handsome majority, in 1865, when every other candidate on his (the Democratic) ticket was decidedly defeated; and he was re-elected to the same office in 1868, while his party was still in the minority. Among the other public acts and works of the Board of Commissioners, during his connection with it, which bear the impress of his influence and counsel, he looks with especial satisfaction upon the "Orphans' Home of Montgomery County," an institution to which he gave much careful attention and his utmost support, as a public officer, from its inception to its complete and successful establishment. But the year 1866 was one of sore affliction and bereavement to the subject of this sketch. Having slowly recovered from a dangerous illness himself, his excellent and in every respect most estimable Christian wife, who had been his faithful companion for more than twenty-seven years, was stricken down with disease, and, after enduring much suffering for many months, departed this life in peace, on the 25th of September of the aforesaid year, and the fifty-first of her age.
Mr. Grove lived a widower six years, and was then again united in marriage, on the 16th of October, 1872, with Miss Sarah J. Gebbart, his present accomplished lady. Any may the grace and blessing of God attend them during a long life, is the prayer of the writer of this sketch.
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