Husband Dr. George G. Groff 1 2
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Father: John Groff ( - ) 3
Mother: Susan Beaver ( - ) 3
Marriage: 1880 2
Wife Margaret Palmer Marshall 1 2
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Father: William Pusey Marshall (1826-1901) 4 5 6
Mother: Frances Lloyd Andrews (1826-1904) 5 6
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1 M William Marshall Groff 2
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2 M John Charles Groff 2
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3 F Margaret Beaver Groff 2
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4 M James Andrews Groff 2
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5 F Frances Lloyd Groff 2
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. George G. Groff
Lewisburg, Union Co, PA
For thirty-one years he was a professor in Bucknell University, thirteen years a member of the Pennsylvania State Board of Health, ten years a member of the State Board of Agriculture, surgeon-major of Pennsylvania troops in the Spanish-American war, sometime superintendent of public instruction and medical director in Puerto Rico and widely known as a lecturer and author.
He received his early education in the public schools, and in academies at Phoenixville and Norristown, and, later, in the West Chester State Normal School, Michigan University, Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, and the University of Leipsic. He received, at different times, the college degrees of B. S., M. A., M. D., Ph. D., and LL. D. Until his eighteenth year he assisted in the labors of the farm, then began to teach in the public schools, then in the West Chester State Normal School, and in 1879 became professor of Organic Sciences in Bucknell University. During 1887-88 he was acting president of the University, and was instrumental in starting an increase in attendance which has continued until the present time. A prominent Baptist wrote that he advertised the University more in three months than had been previously done in forty years. As a teacher he was enthusiastic and successful, inspiring his pupils to diligent and accurate work. In public life he was school director, coroner, assistant-surgeon in the National Guard of Pennsylvania, and a member of the State Boards of Agriculture and Health for eleven years. In 1897 he was president of the State Board of Health, and a member of the State Medical and Dental Councils. A large portion of the work of the State Board of Health originated with him. He was the author of almost all the health circulars of this Board, which were said to be the best issued by any State in the Union. In 1889, after the great flood of that year, he had charge of the sanitation at Johnstown, which he conducted in a most successful manner. For fifteen years he did much work at Teachers and Farmers Institutes, lecturing on health and scientific subjects. He was the author of a large number of pamphlets, charts, maps and diagrams intended to aid science teachers; also of a Series of School Physiologies, Farm and Village Hygiene, School Hygiene, Dairy Hygiene, and a text book on Mineralogy. Dr. Groff was a constant contributor to leading periodical literature. He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pennsylvania German Society, and of the Welsh Society of Philadelphia. He was a member of the Baptist Church, and in all theological matters held liberal views. [CBRCP-CCUS, 874]
General Notes: Wife - Margaret Palmer Marshall
from West Chester, Chester Co, PA