Source:
Twentieth Century History
of
Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio
and Representative Citizens.
By J. A. Kemmell, M. D.
"History is Philosophy Teaching by Example"
Published by
Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co.
F. J. Richmond, Pres.        C. R. Arnold, Sec'y and Treas.
Chicago, ILL
1910.

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LEONARD C. GLESSNER Source: Twentieth Century History of Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio - Published by Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co. - Chicago - Ill. - 1910 - Page 343

HON. E. LINCOLN GROVES, mayor of Findlay, O., and for many years a prominent citizen of Hancock County, was born in Blanchard Township, Hancock County, Feb. 6, 1861, and is a son of Savadra and Lucinda (Fisher) Groves.      Savadra Groves was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, in 1826, a son of Thomas Groves, who was born in Pennsylvania.  In 1828 Thomas Groves came to Hancock County and bought a farm in Blanchard Township where he died at the age of eighty-four years.  On that farm Savadra Groves grew to manhood and spent his life engaged in agricultural pursuits.  His death occurred in 1878.  He married Lucinda Fisher, a native of Crawford County, O., who still survives.      E. Lincoln Groves is an only child and he was reared on the old home farm and attended the country schools.  He then engaged in the butcher business for a time at McComb, in Hancock County, but shortly after his marriage returned to the farm and continued to live there until he was elected sheriff of the county, Jan. 1, 1905, and his acceptance of the office made removal to Findlay desirable.  He served as sheriff through two terms, making an admirable official and retired on Jan. 1, 1909.  In the fall of the same year, his Republican friends again called him to public office, electing him mayor of Findlay and he assumed the municipal reins on Jan. 1, 1910.  He has always been an active and earnest citizen and many times has been elected to positions of responsibility.  For twelve years he served on the Blanchard Township School Board, of which he was president for two years, and in other offices, and was also one of the most highly valued members of the Agricultural Society.      Mayor Groves was married at McComb, O., to Miss Mary Alice McKinnis, a daughter of Thomas McKinnis.  She was born and reared in Blanchard Township.  Her family is an old one in the county, her grandfather, Charles McKinnis, having settled in Liberty Township in 1827.  Mayor and Mrs. Groves have five children, Fern, Carl, Ruth, Albert and Leland.  Mayor Groves is a member of Hancock Lodge No. 75, Odd Fellows; the Knights of Pythias, No. 400, and also the Elks and Maccabees.  He is giving the people of Findlay a fine business administration and in his efforts he is receiving the full support and commendation of the best class of citizens. Source: Twentieth Century History of Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio - Published by Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co. - Chicago - Ill. - 1910 - Page 353

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