Businessman. He is remembered for his part in bringing the Pacific Railway through Johnson County, Missouri. With groundbreaking ceremonies for the start of the Pacific Railroad held in St. Louis on the fourth of July 1851, he was determined to bring the railroad to the rural areas of the state. He owned a great deal of property in Johnson County, which would be much more valuable after the railroad. He planned for the depot to be on his property with surrounding businesses. His father, Joseph Grover, was a native of Baltimore County, Maryland. His family migrated to Kentucky where he received a local school education until the age of 15 when he became a clerk in a store for five years. On September 30, 1834 in Madison Indiana, he married Letitia D. Sheets and came to St. Louis, Missouri. In a short while, they came Warrenbury in Johnson County, Missouri with two small children. He was very prosperous soon having an estate. After serving as county's fifth sheriff, he was elected to the State of Missouri Senate for four years. Although he was a long-time member of the Whig political party, he received over 200 Democratic votes. He promoted public schools and often rallied citizens to support this cause. During his career in the Missouri Senate, he was the leading proponent in securing the location of the Pacific Railway through Johnson County. For his efforts, he was presented with a silver pitcher after his term in the State Senate. He organized the county's first Masonic Lodge, helped with building the lodge along with the Masonic College in Johnson County. By 1858 the railroad had not reached Johnson County, but the Westport Stage Coach came through his hometown of Warrenburg daily. He was not a slave-owner nor an abolitionists but he felt that the Union should be preserved. By 1861, the railroad had reached Sedalia, which was 27 miles east. When the American Civil War started, he fought for the Union Army as a colonel in the 27th Missouri Volunteers, which was one of the first regiments raised in the state. He received his military uniform coat as a gift from General Ulysses Grant and worn it for a formal tintype photograph. On September 19, 1861, less than six months into the war, during the “Siege of Lexington, Missouri,” he was critically wounded when a musket ball blast broke his femur. At that point, Colonel James A. Mulligan's forces were obligated to surrender the fort at Warrenburg to Confederate General Sterling Price. Taken to a friend's home in St. Louis, Grover died painfully of this wound six weeks later. The railroad did reach Warrenburg by 1864 but the depot was built on another landowner's property. His widow and the remaining of their nine children living at home left Warrenburg and could be found documented at various locations during the war.