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Joseph Grove
JOSEPH GROVE (deceased) was born in Lewisburg, September 22, 1815, a son of
Samuel and Mary (Glass) Grove, and was reared in Lycoming county from ten
years of age. In 1841 he located in Venango county, where he followed his
trade of mason and stone-cutter, and dealt considerably in coal, for eight
years. In 1849 he came to what is now Hickory township, Forest county, where
he carried on mercantile business for about four years. He then engaged in
lumbering near Tidioute, Warren county, and also kept store six years, after
which he moved into Tidioute, and carried on hotel and mercantile businesses
at that place two years, In 1864 in Franklin, Penn., and engaged in the real
estate and oil businesses there; later he followed farming in Lycoming county,
same State, and also in Michigan. In 1870 he settled in Tionesta, where he was
engaged in the oil business. Mr. Grove was married four times. His first wife
Catherine Gibb of Lancaster county, and his second wife was Mary A., daughter
of George Cummings, of Venango county, and by her he had one son, William A.,
who grew to maturity; his third wife was Belinda W., daughter of William
Wolcott, of Forest county and by her he had six children, of who four are
living: Annie (Mrs. John A.. Hart), Wilbur W., Joseph P. and Belinda E. (Mrs.
A. Doutt); his last wife was Mrs. Jane B. Ague, widow of Dr. Ague. Mr. Grove
died January 15, 1890, aged seventy-four years. He was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church for thirty-five years; in politics, and advocate of
prohibition.Source: Page(s) 931, Chapter 15 Biographical Sketches – Tionesta Township and
Borough of Tionesta
Hickory and Harmony Townships
History of Counties of McKean, Elk and Forest, Pennsylvania.
Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co., 1890.
Transcribed November 2005 by Nathan Zipfel for the Forest County Genealogy
Project
Published 2005 by the Forest County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project
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