Biography

06/20/1845 - 01/16/1899


GROVER, Frank J., a Representative from Lackawanna County; born, June 20, 1845 in Catasauqua, Northampton County, Pa.; attended, Allentown Seminary; graduated, Eastman Business College; sergeant, Company D, 153rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1862-1863, Civil War); time-keeper and paymaster, Grover & Miller, railroad contractors; proprietor, lumber business; building contractor; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1894; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1896); died, January 16, 1899 in Moosic, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; interred, Greenwood Cemetery, Howertown, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.


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