Colusa County Biographies

Johnson Grover

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            Johnson Grover is a native of the State of Maine, born in 1838.  He 
left his home when nineteen years of age, and secured a position in a mercantile 
house at Boston, Massachusetts.  Here he remained five years, when he started 
for California, August 14, 1861, going there around the Horn, arriving in San 
Francisco February 6, 1862, after a voyage of one hundred and eighty-six days.  
He remained in San Francisco a few weeks, and tarried at Petaluma the same 
length of time, when he went to Humboldt County, Nevada, and was engaged there 
in mining for eighteen months.  He next entered the hardware business in Sonoma 
County, California, having his brother for a partner, remaining here until 1872. 
 Selling out here, he came to Colusa and opened out in the same business, where 
he has ever since conducted a prosperous business.  At one time he conducted a 
branch store in the hardware line at Willows, under the supervision of his 
brother.  Mr. Grover was married, in 1868, to Miss Nannie Robinson, and is the 
father of an interesting family.
 
�Colusa County� � by Justus H. Rogers � Orland, CA � 1891 � pp 449