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JOSHUA H. GROVES, superintendent of the Tell City Schools, was born in Perry County, February 26, 1849. He is one of a family of nine sons and two daughters born to the marriage of Samuel T. Groves and Eliza H. Huckaby, natives of Perry County and Breckenridge County, Ky., respectively. The father, who was a practical farmer lived in Tobin Township where he followed farming until his death, with the exception of three year’s residence in Missouri just prior to the war, when he was engaged in mercantile pursuits. His death occurred in 1872. His widow still resides on the homestead farm where Joshua H. was reared. All the educational instruction that he received was in the common schools, but by close application to study and much desultory reading he has acquired a superior education. He entered the profession in which he has since been engaged at the age of fifteen years, and is now recognized as one of the best and most efficient in this part of the State. September 26, 1870, he wedded Lucy F. Connor, a native of the county, and to this union have been born five children, Mary (deceased), John D., Tipton, Mary S. and Sidney K. Prof. Groves is a Republican and a member of the F. & A. M.