Brief Life History of Elam Hoover
When Elam Hoover Groff was born on 17 October 1848, in Strasburg, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Benjamin Groff, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Hoover, was 31. He married Josephine Elizabeth Metzler in 1870, in Strasburg, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and East Lampeter Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920. He died on 25 December 1933, in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Longeneckers Reformed Mennonite Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Elam Groff, "United States Census, 1930"
- Elam Hoover Groff, "Find a Grave Index"
- Elam Hoover Groff in entry for Howard Metzler Groff, "Pennsylvania Delayed Birth Records, 1941-1976"
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1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World
William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Graff .
Americanized form of Hungarian and Slovak Gróf, Czech, Slovenian, and Croatian Grof ‘count’. The surname Groff is also found in Hungary, where it is very rare.
Americanized form of Norwegian Grov: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so called, from Old Norse grǫf ‘hollow, depression’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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