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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 395-396]

  J. H. GROVES, proprietor of the Woodbine Valley Stock Farm, Pilot
  Township, is one of the prominent and extensive agriculturists of
  Cherokee County.  He was born in Delaware County, Ohio, December 1,
  1842, and is a son of ADAM and CATHERINE (SELLERS) GROVES, natives
  of the State of Pennsylvania.  In 1855 the family removed to Clin-
  ton County, Iowa.  The father died in Scott County, Iowa, Iowa, and
  the mother in Pilot Township, Cherokee County.  J. H. GROVES, the
  subject of this biography, was reared to farm life, and received
  the advantages of the common schools.  During the great Rebellion
  he enlisted in August, 1862, in the Twenty-sixth Iowa Volunteer
  Infantry, Company C; he took an active part in the engagements of
  Arkansas Post, siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Mississippi, Lookout
  Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold Ridge; thence he went to
  Chattanooga, thence to Vienna, spending the winter there; after-
  ward he went to Resaca, and thence to the Kinnesaw Mountains; at
  one time he belonged to the First Division, Fifteenth Army Corps,
  and was detached from SHERMAN'S army and placed under HOOKER at
  the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge; he marched
  through the Carolinas, and was with General SHERMAN at Raleigh,
  North Carolina, at the time of the surrender of General JOHNSTON.
  He attended the grand review at Washington, District of Columbia,
  was honorably discharged, and was mustered out of the service at
  Clinton, Iowa.  Mr. GROVES engaged in farming in Clinton County
  until 1869 when he came to Cherokee County and took a homestead
  of eighty acres of Government land in section 26, Pilot Township;
  he was prosperous in his undertakings, and invested in land until
  he owned 760 acres in one body, on which he lived until 1887, when
  he removed to Woodbine Valley Stock Farm; this place contains 1,280
  acres of well-improved land; there is a comfortable dwelling, and
  one of he best barns in the county; in the stone basement is a tank
  filled with a natural supply of water, and all the arrangements of
  the barn are equally convenient.  Mr. GROVES is one of the oldest
  and most extensive cattle and most extensive cattle feeders in
  Cherokee County; in raising stock he makes a specialty of the higher
  grades, and has been very successful in this enterprise.  The large
  tracts of land now owned by Mr. GROVES, viewed from the small be-
  ginning, attest his thrift and wise management.  In Clinton County,
  Iowa, Mr. GROVES was united in marriage to Miss ELLEN BULL, who was
  born in England, and came with her parents, GEORGE and CATHERINE
  (BRUCE) BULL, to America.  Mr. and Mrs. GROVES have four children:
  GEORGE F., CHARLES H., ALICE E. and ROY A.  Politically our subject
  is an Independent Republican.  He was elected county supervisor in
  1871, serving one term; he has also filled the office of township
  trustee, acquitting himself with much credit.  He is a member of
  Speculative Lodge, No. 307, A.F. & A.M., and Burning Bush Chapter,
  No. 90, R.A.M.  Mr. GROVES is still in the prime of life, is cordial
  in manner, firm in his convictions of right and wrong, honorable in
  business, and highly respected by all who know him.


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