Nevada Genealogy Trails - Elko County - Charles W. Grover /TITLE>  <SCRIPT language="JavaScript"> today=new Date(); cy=today.getFullYear(); </SCRIPT> </head> <body><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFE8" bgproperties="fixed"> <P> <table align="center" border="5" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" width="90%"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="10%"><img src="../graphics/Keeper.gif" alt="" height="145" width="87"> <br> </td> <td align="center" <big><big><big>Nevada Genealogy Trails<br>Elko County<br>Charles W. Grover</b><big><big><b><br><small><small><small> Biography</small></small></small></b></big></big></big></big></big></big></td> <td valign="top" width="10%"><img src="../graphics/Keeper.gif" alt="" height="145" width="87"> <br> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </center><p><b> <b>CHARLES WILLIAM GROVER</b> is one of the most popular and efficient financiers and officials of this section of the state, actively interested in all measures for the good of people, and is now serving as recorder and ex-officio auditor of Elko county. He came to the "Silver" state in April, 1875, but is a native of Indiana, born in Vigo county on the 27th of January, 1856, and is of English and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His father, Charles Wesley Grover. was born in Newark, Ohio, but at a very early day in its history the latter's father removed to Indiana, where Charles Wesley received his education. In 1879 he came to Nevada, where for a time he taught school at the Humboldt Wells in Lamoille valley, Elko county, but later moved to Elko and purchased the Independent from S. S. Sears. After remaining tha successful editor of that publication for a number of years he sold it to its present owner, W. W. Booker. Mr. Grover passed away in death on the 13th of March, 1894, when sixty years of age. He had married Miss Phebe A. Wines, a native of Indiana, and she still survives him and makes her home in Boise. Idaho, being now sixty-six years of age. They reared four children, two sons and two daughters. Charles W. Grover, who is the only member of the family in Nevada, attended the public schools of Indiana during the period of his boyhood and youth, and later became a student in the seminary at Farmersburg. that state. When twenty years of age he came to Elko, Nevada, where for over twenty years he followed farming and stock-raising, raising a fine grade of Hereford and Durham cattle, and his horses were mostly for the saddle. In his political affiliations Mr. Grover has been a life-long Democrat, and as its representative was elected to the position of county recorder in 1900. this office having been tendered him without solicitation on his part, and he is now serving in his second term. At his first election he received a majority of one hundred and eighty-seven votes, and at the last election had no opposition, having been endorsed by both parties. In his fraternal relations Mr. Grover is an active member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having filled all offices in both branches of the order, and is now district deputy grand master of Elko Lodge.<p> On the 19th of March, 1882, Mr. Grover was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ellen Holland, who was bom in Utah, the daughter of John Holland, now of Elko, Nevada. This union has been blessed with ten children, all born in Nevada, namely: Ethel, Charles F., Maude, Nellie, Inez, Raymond, Oliver, A1bert, Carl, Vivian and Ada. The family are members of the Presbyterian church, in which Mr. Grover is now serving as chairman of its board of trustees. They have a pleasant home in Elko, and are highly esteemed residents of the town in which they have so long made their home.<HR /> <h5><b> Source:<br> A History of the State of Nevada: Its Resources and People<br> By Thomas Wren, Lewis Publishing Company<br> Published by The Lewis publishing company, 1904<br></b></h5> <hr align="center" width="25%" size="5" noshade="noshade" /><p> <b><CENTER>GO TO:<p><A HREF="#top"> Top Of Page</A><br> <a href="http://genealogytrails.com/nev/elko/index.html">Elko County Main Page</a><br> <a href="http://genealogytrails.com/nev/">Nevada Trails State Page</a><br> <a href="http://genealogytrails.com/">Genealogy Trials Site</a></a></center><p> <center>  <ADDRESS> <STRONG><P> <FONT size=2 face=arial> <center>Copyright © Genealogy Trails <SCRIPT language="JavaScript"> document.write(cy); </SCRIPT></center> <center>All Rights Reserved with Full Rights Reserved for Original Contributor </center></FONT> </STRONG> </ADDRESS> </body></html>