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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: GROFF, Charles C.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
SSpradling@AOL.com
September 26, 1999
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 443
CHARLES C. GROFF, general manager of the barreling station at South Ruffner,
Kanawha County, W. Va., for the Standard Oil Company, with which corporation
he has been identified for twenty years, was born October 9, 1851, in
Maryland, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Barr) Groff.
John Groff was born in Pennsylvania, probably of German parents. He followed
farming all his life ant owned a farm in Bal-timore County, Md., on which he
died at the age of fifty-two years. He married Elizabeth Barr, who was also
born in Pennsylvania, and she survived him many years, passing the closing
ones at the home of her son, Charles C., where she lived to be eighty-seven.
Five children were born to them, namely: Ida M., who married Joshua Francy;
Anna E., who married J.
K. Gies; Charles C.; William B., who is a resident of Philadelphia; and a
daughter who is deceased.
Charles C. Groff obtained his education in Maryland and then assisted his
father on the L'rm and after the latter's death conducted it for his mother
until he came to
South Ruffuer. In July, 1891, he became an employe of the Standard Oil
Company, at first as foreman of the shops and gradually advancing until he
secured his appointment and promotion to his present responsible position. He
resides at the plant and thus keeps a careful eye on all business operations
including the barreling and shipping from this point to others all over the
country. He is justly considered one of the most reliable and trustworthy
employes of the company.
Mr. Groff married Miss Mary R. Fisher, a daughter of George W. Fisher, and
they have had four children, as follows: G. Fisher, who is in charge of the
store of the Nuttleburg Coal Company, married Grace Malcolen and has three
children-Charles Malcblen, Forrest Barr and Mazie Hunter; Forrest C., who has
been with the Charles-ton National Bank and also the Pine Lum-ber Company of
St. Albans; Benjamin B., who is in the hardware business in Oregon, married a
Miss Veach; and Charles C., who died when aged one year. Mr. and Mrs. Groff
are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a man of strict
temperance and votes according to his convic-tions, with the Prohibition
party.
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