Edward was less than 2 years old when his mother died. His father remarried when he was 8, but Edward was raised primarily by his mother's siblings. He was a boy scout as a youth and an adult leader in scouting his whole life.
His father did assure that Ed receive a quality education. In 1941 he received his PhD from Yale and in October of that year he married Hope Rogers in Crestwood, KY. Ed had started work for American Cyanamid in Bound Brook, NJ upon his graduation from Yale so Bound Brook was now Hope's home also. Ed worked the next 35 years for American Cyanamid originally as a Research Chemical Engineer and retiring as VP for Sales, Intermediates. He preferred to be called Ed and hated being called Dr. Groth or Doc, joking he was fearful someone would want medical advice.
Ed took his family on many vacations usually by car, but sometimes by train. When they visited their families in Louisville, he was proud of the fact that he could drive the trip in one day, usually taking 16 to 18 hours. Most of these trips were long before Dwight D. Eisenhower received authorization (1956) to start our interstate highway system. At Hope's insistence the family would usually stop overnight to rest and this was frequently at a location in Ohio. Ed enjoyed these trips with his family and hiking and camping. Ed always thought of himself as a "dog person." He had dogs growing up and got a cocker spaniel as a pet for his sons. If the subject came up he would say "I hate cats!" Then one day his elder son, brought home a stray kitten. Ed came out, saw the kitten, said "What's that, a CAT?" Then he said, "Oh, listen, it's purring," and then he began to pet it. And from that point on his home was never without one or two cats.
When his sons were to start high school Ed, decided they would have a better education at a prep school and arranged for them to attend Darrow School in Lebanon, NY where they both graduated before going on to Princeton.
After retiring from American Cyanamid in the fall of 1975 at age 60, Ed decided he wanted to begin a new career and with an upbeat and energetic approach he accepted an assignment at NMSU teaching Chemical Engineering. In the summer of 1976 he moved to Las Cruces to begin his new career and bought a house there while Hope remained in NJ to sell their Bound Brook house and attend to the personal and practical closures that accompany all extensive geographical moves. It was a few months before she could join him.
His stepmother Lillian moved into their "mother-in-law" suite a little later, and Ed himself died at age 68 only six years after his move. At his request his ashes were scattered by the Organ Mountain trails near Las Cruces as he had embraced the area with fervor from the moment he arrived there.
His father did assure that Ed receive a quality education. In 1941 he received his PhD from Yale and in October of that year he married Hope Rogers in Crestwood, KY. Ed had started work for American Cyanamid in Bound Brook, NJ upon his graduation from Yale so Bound Brook was now Hope's home also. Ed worked the next 35 years for American Cyanamid originally as a Research Chemical Engineer and retiring as VP for Sales, Intermediates. He preferred to be called Ed and hated being called Dr. Groth or Doc, joking he was fearful someone would want medical advice.
Ed took his family on many vacations usually by car, but sometimes by train. When they visited their families in Louisville, he was proud of the fact that he could drive the trip in one day, usually taking 16 to 18 hours. Most of these trips were long before Dwight D. Eisenhower received authorization (1956) to start our interstate highway system. At Hope's insistence the family would usually stop overnight to rest and this was frequently at a location in Ohio. Ed enjoyed these trips with his family and hiking and camping. Ed always thought of himself as a "dog person." He had dogs growing up and got a cocker spaniel as a pet for his sons. If the subject came up he would say "I hate cats!" Then one day his elder son, brought home a stray kitten. Ed came out, saw the kitten, said "What's that, a CAT?" Then he said, "Oh, listen, it's purring," and then he began to pet it. And from that point on his home was never without one or two cats.
When his sons were to start high school Ed, decided they would have a better education at a prep school and arranged for them to attend Darrow School in Lebanon, NY where they both graduated before going on to Princeton.
After retiring from American Cyanamid in the fall of 1975 at age 60, Ed decided he wanted to begin a new career and with an upbeat and energetic approach he accepted an assignment at NMSU teaching Chemical Engineering. In the summer of 1976 he moved to Las Cruces to begin his new career and bought a house there while Hope remained in NJ to sell their Bound Brook house and attend to the personal and practical closures that accompany all extensive geographical moves. It was a few months before she could join him.
His stepmother Lillian moved into their "mother-in-law" suite a little later, and Ed himself died at age 68 only six years after his move. At his request his ashes were scattered by the Organ Mountain trails near Las Cruces as he had embraced the area with fervor from the moment he arrived there.
Edward was less than 2 years old when his mother died. His father remarried when he was 8, but Edward was raised primarily by his mother's siblings. He was a boy scout as a youth and an adult leader in scouting his whole life.
His father did assure that Ed receive a quality education. In 1941 he received his PhD from Yale and in October of that year he married Hope Rogers in Crestwood, KY. Ed had started work for American Cyanamid in Bound Brook, NJ upon his graduation from Yale so Bound Brook was now Hope's home also. Ed worked the next 35 years for American Cyanamid originally as a Research Chemical Engineer and retiring as VP for Sales, Intermediates. He preferred to be called Ed and hated being called Dr. Groth or Doc, joking he was fearful someone would want medical advice.
Ed took his family on many vacations usually by car, but sometimes by train. When they visited their families in Louisville, he was proud of the fact that he could drive the trip in one day, usually taking 16 to 18 hours. Most of these trips were long before Dwight D. Eisenhower received authorization (1956) to start our interstate highway system. At Hope's insistence the family would usually stop overnight to rest and this was frequently at a location in Ohio. Ed enjoyed these trips with his family and hiking and camping. Ed always thought of himself as a "dog person." He had dogs growing up and got a cocker spaniel as a pet for his sons. If the subject came up he would say "I hate cats!" Then one day his elder son, brought home a stray kitten. Ed came out, saw the kitten, said "What's that, a CAT?" Then he said, "Oh, listen, it's purring," and then he began to pet it. And from that point on his home was never without one or two cats.
When his sons were to start high school Ed, decided they would have a better education at a prep school and arranged for them to attend Darrow School in Lebanon, NY where they both graduated before going on to Princeton.
After retiring from American Cyanamid in the fall of 1975 at age 60, Ed decided he wanted to begin a new career and with an upbeat and energetic approach he accepted an assignment at NMSU teaching Chemical Engineering. In the summer of 1976 he moved to Las Cruces to begin his new career and bought a house there while Hope remained in NJ to sell their Bound Brook house and attend to the personal and practical closures that accompany all extensive geographical moves. It was a few months before she could join him.
His stepmother Lillian moved into their "mother-in-law" suite a little later, and Ed himself died at age 68 only six years after his move. At his request his ashes were scattered by the Organ Mountain trails near Las Cruces as he had embraced the area with fervor from the moment he arrived there.
His father did assure that Ed receive a quality education. In 1941 he received his PhD from Yale and in October of that year he married Hope Rogers in Crestwood, KY. Ed had started work for American Cyanamid in Bound Brook, NJ upon his graduation from Yale so Bound Brook was now Hope's home also. Ed worked the next 35 years for American Cyanamid originally as a Research Chemical Engineer and retiring as VP for Sales, Intermediates. He preferred to be called Ed and hated being called Dr. Groth or Doc, joking he was fearful someone would want medical advice.
Ed took his family on many vacations usually by car, but sometimes by train. When they visited their families in Louisville, he was proud of the fact that he could drive the trip in one day, usually taking 16 to 18 hours. Most of these trips were long before Dwight D. Eisenhower received authorization (1956) to start our interstate highway system. At Hope's insistence the family would usually stop overnight to rest and this was frequently at a location in Ohio. Ed enjoyed these trips with his family and hiking and camping. Ed always thought of himself as a "dog person." He had dogs growing up and got a cocker spaniel as a pet for his sons. If the subject came up he would say "I hate cats!" Then one day his elder son, brought home a stray kitten. Ed came out, saw the kitten, said "What's that, a CAT?" Then he said, "Oh, listen, it's purring," and then he began to pet it. And from that point on his home was never without one or two cats.
When his sons were to start high school Ed, decided they would have a better education at a prep school and arranged for them to attend Darrow School in Lebanon, NY where they both graduated before going on to Princeton.
After retiring from American Cyanamid in the fall of 1975 at age 60, Ed decided he wanted to begin a new career and with an upbeat and energetic approach he accepted an assignment at NMSU teaching Chemical Engineering. In the summer of 1976 he moved to Las Cruces to begin his new career and bought a house there while Hope remained in NJ to sell their Bound Brook house and attend to the personal and practical closures that accompany all extensive geographical moves. It was a few months before she could join him.
His stepmother Lillian moved into their "mother-in-law" suite a little later, and Ed himself died at age 68 only six years after his move. At his request his ashes were scattered by the Organ Mountain trails near Las Cruces as he had embraced the area with fervor from the moment he arrived there.
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