| Birth: | 5 Feb 1853 in North Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA 1 |
| Death: | 28 Jul 1937 in Joliet, Carbon, Montana, USA 1 |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Joseph Grover b. 8 Jan 1808 in Bowdoin, Sagadahoc, Maine, USA |
| Mother: | Edith Eveline Riddle b. 9 Sep 1833 in , Boone, Kentucky, USA |
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| Burial: Hamilton, Ravalli, Montana, USA 1 |
| Ancestral File #: 18CC-PMR |
| Changed: 17 Dec 2006 16:00 2 |
| Mary Elizabeth McMurray (Wife) b. 16 Jan 1856 in , , Illinois, USA
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| Marriage: | 12 Dec 1874 in Big Pine, Inyo, California, USA 22 Nov 2006 16:17 |
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 Henry Washington Grover b. 18 Oct 1875 in Big Pine, Inyo, California, USA
- Henrietta Myrtle Grover b. 26 Nov 1879 in , Inyo, California, USA
- Elsie Eveline Grover b. 24 Jul 1882
 Inez Mary Grover b. 25 Sep 1886 in Big Pine, Inyo, California, USA
- Alvah Matilda Grover b. 12 Aug 1889 in Hamilton, Ravalli, Montana, USA
- Leland Virgil Grover b. 9 Nov 1891 in Hamilton, Ravalli, Montana, USA
- Babe Grover b. 29 Jun 1894 in , Ravalli, Montana, USA
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Individual:
Progressive Men of Montana, Page 1086
Henry Grover [0141]
It is much to the credit of a man to win from his friends and neighbors a complimentary nickname, which by common acceptance is indicative of his character and standing among them. There is oftentimes more in such a sobriquet sincerely applied and fairly earned, than could be otherwise expressed in paragraphs or pages. It is so in the case of "Honest" Henry Grover of Hamilton, one of the most enterprising and progressive fruit-growers and farmers of the Bitter Root valley. Mr. Grover was born on February 5, 1853, at Ogden, Utah, the son of Jared and Eveline (Riddle) Grover, natives of Iowa and Tennessee. He was the first born of eight children and received his early education in the public schools of Nevada, supplementing this with a hard and trying experience as a cowboy for ten years in that state and eastern California, after which he teamed and freighted for five years in the same locality. In 1882 he came to Montana and settled in the Bitter Root valley, three miles northwest of Hamilton, where he has since resided continuously except three years when he was running a stage.
Mr. Grover has a fine farm on 160 acres, a beautiful and comfortable home, and one of the best orchards in this section of the country. It consists of twenty acres planted with choice fruit trees, which are now in good bearing condition and yield annually large crops of the fruit produced in the state. He ships its products to all sections of the northern belt of the United States and southern belt of Canada, and realizes handsome profits. In political fealty Mr. Grover is a Democrat and in fraternal relations a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, in which he holds the rank of past master workman and three times the representative to the grand lodge. He was married on December 12, 1974 at Big Pine, Cal., to Miss Mary E. McMurry, daughter of J. W. and Matilda McMurry, her father being a prominent farmer and merchant of that place. They have had seven children, of whom but these four are living, Inez M., Alvie M., Leland V. and Loretta. Mr. Grover has lived among this people one-fifth of a century and has so demeaned himself that now there is not one but does him reverence. His home is everybody's fireside who comes as a guest; his wife is the priestess of the house and the almoner of a generous but judicious charity to those in need and the center of a refined social circle; his children are the light of his home and the delight of his numerous friends. His life is passing profitably in usefulness to his kind, his community, his state and his country.(Research):Henry Grover had an intense dislike for his father, Joseph Grover, a sentiment possibly shared by his mother, Edit Eveline. When Edith married Henry's half brother, Jared, the two seemed to get along very well together, so it is quite natural that Henry would state that Jared was his father, being his step-father and having the same name.
Henry appears in the census records with his true father, if you wish documentary proof of the matter.
- Media: Book
Title: The Descendants of John Riddle (1803-1887), Volume 2
Author: C.C. Riddle, B.A. Riddle
Publication: Privately printed, 1997
Page: Page 4, 10
Quality: 2
- Title: Chauncey C. Riddle (personal communication, February 26, 20
01)
- Media: Book
Title: Progressive Men of Montana
Author: Unknown
Date: 17 Nov 2000
Page: Page 1086
Quality: 4
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