newspaper editor Professor of Languages
Groves, son of David Groves, was born in Sumner County, Tennessee, April 11, 1834. His father emigrated to Lafayette County, Missouri, in 1835, and the son spent three years in the Masonic College in Lexington, in the same county, before entering Yale College in the Junior year, graduating in 1855.
Returning home after graduation, he studied law in the office of Judge John Ryland, of Lexington, was admitted to the bar in 1857, and began practice in Saint Joseph, where he remained about eighteen months.
He then went to Mississippi, and took charge of a High School, in Cayuga, Hinds County, and was thus engaged at the beginning of the war. He then returned to Missouri, and entered the Southern army, under the command of General Sterling Price. After the close of the war he spent some time at home, and in 1868 was elected Professor of Languages in Richmond College, at Richmond, Missouri, where he continued until 1870.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.
