Seventh Generation (Continued)
Family of Rachel Mason (492) & Andrew Grover

924. Rev. Nahum Wesley Grover (Rachel Mason6, Walter5, Moses4, Daniel3, John2, Hugh1). Born West Bethel, Maine, on 13 Feb 1835. Died Oberlin, Ohio, on 22 Nov 1925. Data from Mason.

Mr. Grover resided at home on his father's farm until twenty-one years old. Then be attended Gould's Academy at Bethel, Maine, 1856-1859; Maine State Seminary, Lewiston, 1859-1860; Bowdoin College, 1860-1864, receiving degree of A.B. 1864, and A.M. 1867; Bangor Theological Seminary, 1864-1867, graduating June 1867. Pastor of Congregational churches in West Charleston, Vt., 1867-1868, Mantorville, Minn., 1868-1874, Bethel, Maine, 1874-1875, Topsham, Maine, 1875-1881, Colebrook, N. H., 1881-1885, St. Johnsbury Center, Vt., 1885-1890, Ossipee Center, N. H., 1890-1900, when he retired from active pastoral work. Resided without pastoral charge in Dorchester, Mass., 1900-1902, Chicago, Ill., and Highland Park, Ill., 1902-1906, Oberlin, Ohio, 1906-1925. He was a delegate in the U. S. Christian Commission, summer of 1864, in active service in the Petersburg, Va., campaign. Was rejected for military service because of arterial trouble. Throughout life he was very active in Sunday School and temperance work in various communities and states in which he lived, and for three years was a member of the State Committee of the New Hampshire Sunday School Association, and four years president of the District Committee of the same, and twenty-two years branch secretary of the International Bible Readers Association. At his death he was one of the few surviving members of the old Washington Total Abstinence Society which he joined in 1841, in politics, a staunch Republican. He was the author of "Catechetical Bible Lessons" and some verse.

He married Frances Elizabeth Osgood, daughter of Alvah H. Osgood & Lucinda Richardson, on 10 Oct 1867 in Bangor, Maine. Born Bangor, Maine, on 1 Jun 1840. Died Winter Park, Fla., on 15 Sep 1929. Data from Mason.

They had the following children:
i.  Frederick Orville. Born North Bangor, Maine, on 31 Jul 1868. Residence: May 1933, Oberlin, Ohio. Data from Mason. No children.
Prof. Grover attended the public schools of Topsham, Maine, 1875-1880, the Colebrook, N. H., Academy, 1881-1884; St. Johnsbury, Vt., Academy, 1884-1886, from which he graduated with honors, June 1886. He entered Dartmouth College that fall, graduating June 1890, with degree of A.B., commencement honors and Phi Beta Kappa membership. Received degree of A.M. from Dartmouth, 1893, and entered Harvard College in the fall of 1894, graduating with degree of A.B., June 1895. Was a graduate student in botany at Harvard, 1895-1898, taking degree of A.M., June 1896, holder of a university scholarship, 1895-1896, and of the Morgan Fellowship, 1896-1897. Traveled in Europe, summer of 1899, and for fourteen months in 1909-1910 and again in 1929-1930, has also traveled extensively in the United States and Canada.
He taught in the St. James Military Academy, Macon, Mo., 1890-1892, Western Military Academy, Upper Alton, Ill., 1892-1894, during which years he was brevet captain in the Illinois National Guards. Was assistant in botany at Harvard, 1895-1896, Radcliffe College, 1895-1897, Harvard Summer Schools, 1896-1897, and in the Biological Laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute of the Arts and Sciences at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., summer of 1898. Associate professor of botany, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, 1898-1900, professor of botany, Oberlin, since 1900, now 1933. Registrar at Oberlin College, 1900-1901, trustee of the Oberlin Kindergarten Training School since 1911, president of the Oberlin Alumni Magazine Publishing Company, 1915-1917, director of Oberlin Art Association, 1913-1917, and a director in the Ohio Road Machinery Company, Fellow of Am. Association Adv. Sci., and of Ohio Academy of Sciences (vice-president 1913-1915, president 1917), life member American Genetic Association, member of Botanical Society of America, Society of American Naturalists, Sullivan Moss Society, New England Botanical Club, Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, England, Societe Linneenne de Lyon, France, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. In religion a Congregationalist, in politics, a Republican.

He married Ruth Havergal Creighton, daughter of David Creighton & Catherine McKenzie, on 3 Sep 1925 in Oberlin, Ohio. Born Chicago, Ill., on 6 Apr 1899. Data from Mason.
1512 ii.  Edwin Osgood (1870-)
iii.  Eulalie Osgood. Born Mantorville, Minn., on 22 Jun 1873. Unmarried: May 1933. Data from Mason.
Attended Public Schools at Colebrook, N. H., and St. Johnsbury, Vt., 1881-1887, also St. Johnsbury Academy, 1887-1891, graduating with honors, 1891. Studied piano and voice in Boston, 1894, studied and traveled in Europe, 1898-1900, also 1909-1910. In her literary work Miss Grover is the author of The Sunbonnet Babies Book, The Overall Boys, The Sunbonnet Babies in Holland, The Sunbonnet Babies in Italy, The Overall Boys in Switzerland, The Sunbonnet Babies in Mother Goose Land, The Sunbonnet Babies A B C Book, In Sunbonnets and Overalls, A Dramatic Reader and Operetta, The Outdoor Primer, The Folk-Lore Readers, The Art-Literature Primer and First Reader. Kittens and Cats, Old Testament Stories, Editor of Volland Mother Goose, My Caravan, Poems for Boys and Girls in Search of Adventure. In religion, a Congregationalist, in politics, a Republican.
iv.  Anne Mason. Born Topsham, Maine, on 22 Jan 1878. Unmarried: May 1933. Residence: Winter Park, Fla. Data from Mason.
Attended public schools at St. Johnsbury Center, Vt., and Ossipee Center, N. H., 1885-1893, Dow Academy, Franconia, N. H., 1894-1898, graduating 1898. Studied at Oberlin College, Conservatory of Music, 1899-1900, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Mass., 1900-1901. Traveled and studied in Europe, 1909-1910. In religion, a Congregationalist, in politics, a Republican.

925. Edward Payson Grover (Rachel Mason6, Walter5, Moses4, Daniel3, John2, Hugh1). Born West Bethel, Maine, on 17 Aug 1839. Died West Bethel, Maine, on 1 May 1925. Residence: Bethel, Maine. Data from Mason.

He married Augusta Ward Wight (1529) , daughter of Seth Wight Jr. (942) (8 Aug 1815-20 Sep 1902) & Barbara Ann Bean (1 Nov 1818-4 Jan 1892), on 25 Nov 1862. Born Bethel, Maine, on 29 Sep 1839. Died West Bethel, Maine, on 12 Sep 1922. Data from Mason. 

They had the following children:
1513 i.  Lilelle Mittie (1864-)
ii.  Mary Bertha. Born Bethel, Maine, on 25 Dec 1867. Data from Mason.
iii.  Dana Andrew. Born Bethel, Maine, on 7 May 1872. Data from Mason.
iv.  Lucian Wight. Born Bethel, Maine, on 14 Mar 1878. Died on 7 Mar 1879. Data from Mason.
v.  Adrian Loring. Born Bethel, Maine, on 25 Apr 1884. Data from Mason.

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