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From Young's history of Lafayette County, Missouri (1910)
J. F. GROVES.
It is a pleasant task to write the biography of one whose life has been so full of achievement as that of Mr. Groves, and we are sure that its perusal will be an inspiration to some of younger years. He has brought intelligence and purpose into his work, that which some think not so worthy of a man of high talents, farming, but his life is a proof that a man can find an opening for the use of the highest abilities on the farm as well as another place, can do as much good for the community and prosper as greatly. Mr. Groves ranks among the foremost agriculturists in this state, where good farmers are plentiful.
J. F. Groves was born in Dover township, Lafayette county, in 1840, the son of David Groves, born in Tennessee in 1806, who came here in 1836, and entered land four miles south of Dover, on which he lived until his death in 1895. He owned four hundred acres there and seven hundred in all, and was a general farmer and made something of a specialty of raising hemp. He was a veiy active worker in the Democratic party and was at one time a candidate for the Legislature. David Groves was married to Eliza Ann Hutchins, of Kentucky, in 1832. who bore to him the following children:
As printed in Young's history of Lafayette County, Missouri (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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