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BIOGRAPHIES
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A Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen & Van Wert
Counties, Ohio
Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co.
1896
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DOMINICK N. GENGLER
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Andrew J. Gleason |
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HENRY GOOD
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Wert Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co., 1896 -
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SIMON P. GOOD
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Wert Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co., 1896 -
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LEWIS GRIFFITH
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Wert Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co., 1896 -
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JOHN GROTHAUS,
an ex-soldier of Marion township, Allen county, Ohio, and a
prosperous farmer, was born in the village of Gressnold, kingdom
of Hanover, German empire, Feb. 2, 1841.
CONRAD
GROTHAUS, father of our subject, was a farmer in Hanover,
married Gertrude Raugh, and had born to this union four
children - Matilda (who died at the age of about thirty
years), Gertrude, Joseph (now in the German army), and
John (our subject). The father of this family
died at the age of of seventy-four years, a devout member
of the Catholic church, and an ex-soldier of the German_-Russian
war.
John Grothaus, our subject, received a good
common-school education in his native village, and at the age of
eighteen years (1859) left the fatherland to escape a seven-year
servitude in the German army, and came alone to America,
preferring to fight for the rights of man and republicanism than
for monarchal __le, which gives man no rights. He landed
in New Orleans from a sailing vessel, after a voyage of nine
weeks' duration, and at once came to Delphos, Allen county,
Ohio, and engaged in farm labor until his enlistment at Delphos,
in May, 1862, in company F., Capt. Riley, One Hundred and
Eighteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, for three years or until the
close of the war, if sooner terminated. But his services
over-lapped the three years, as he did not receive his discharge
until July, 1865, and that was an honorable one and issued to
him at Columbus, Ohio. During his military service Mr.
Grothaus took an active part in twenty-two battles and in
many skirmishes that deserve the name of battles in more than
one instance. Among the heaviest and most serious of his
regular engagements were the following: Louden, Knoxville,
Lookout Mountain, the Atlanta campaign, Resaca, the fall of
Atlanta, and all the conflicts from Atlanta to Goldsboro, N. c.,
thus witnessing the climax of the struggle as it were, Mar. 19,
1865.
When "the cruel war was over" Mr. Grothaus
returned to Delphos, Ohio, and there married, in March, 1867,
Miss Mary Suthoff, to which happy union there came ten
children, of whom seven lived to maturity, viz: Mary,
Frank, Lizzie, William, Henry, Louis and John.
Immediately after marrying, M. Grothause located on a
forty-acre farm in Putnam county, Ohio, which farm belonged to
his wife and had been partly cleared. The uncleared part
Mr. Grothaus soon denuded of his forest growth and added
twenty acres to the forty-acre tract; in 1880 he sold the sixty
acres and came to his present farm of 120 acres in Marion
township, Allen county. This tract, also, was a wildwood,
but Mr. Grothaus by the exercise of strenuous and
constant industry, has made of it as good a farm as is
may be found in the township.
In 1888 Mr. Grothaus suffered the affliction
which comes to all through death, the "insatiate archer," in
this distance, taking from him his beloved helpmate, who was a
woman beloved by all who knew her, a devoted mother and a true
Catholic. Mr. Grothaus never again married, but
since the death of his wife has devoted his attention to the
care of his farm and the welfare of his children. He has
done much toward the upbuilding of his township, was very
liberal in his aid toward the erection of the Catholic church at
Delphos, and as a soldier and citizen enjoys the unlimited
respect of all his fellow townsmen.
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Wert Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co., 1896 -
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JOHN T. GROVES
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THOMAS GRUBB
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