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Short Biography: A Brief Biography Of Edwin Wiley Grove
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Edwin Wiley Grove (Portrait of him above), also known as E.W. Grove was born on December 27, 1850. He was born in Whiteville, TN which is in Hardeman County. Grove was the son of James Henry and Mary Jane Harris Grove who were both natives of Virginia. Grove had 3 kids with a woman, Alice Gertrude, who were named Hallett, Edwin, and Helen. Sources say it is still a mystery to why he and his family moved here to Paris, TN in 1824. When Grove moved to Paris in 1824 he received a job opportunity at as a clerk at a drugstore owned by Dr. Samuel Houston Caldwell. In 1830 Grove went to Memphis, TN to study pharmacy. He never knew that later on he was going to become a billionaire due to medicine. He just had to wait and come up with something that
E. W. Edwin Wiley Grove
E. W. Edwin Wiley Grove
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E.W. Grove
Edwin Wiley Grove was born in 1850 in Whiteville, Tennessee. He was the son of James Henry and Mary Jane Harris Grove. His parents were both a native of Virginia. Peggy Traylor Grove, Edwin s aunt, raised him along with his siblings. E.W. Grove as a child knew he wanted to have a career related to medicine.
Dr. Edwin Wiley Grove
âAfter attending local schools, young Grove went to Memphis, just two counties west, to study pharmacy.â(NCpedia) This is what would begin his career as an entrepreneur. âAt the age of twenty-four, he moved from southwest Tennessee to the stateâs northwest section, serving as a clerk in Dr. S. H. Caldwell and A. B. Mitchumâs pharmacy on the courthouse square in Paris.â(TN Encyclopedia) About 6 years