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Submitted: 7/29/14 • Approved: 7/30/14 • Last Updated: 8/2/14 • R1027152-G0-S3
Feb 9,1859-1931
Husband of Mary Emma Grasnick Gronmyer
Louis Richard Grobmyer was born February 9,1859 at, Carrollton, Carroll County, Kentucky, and is a son of Henry Harmon and Mary Elizabeth (Cassin) Grobmyer. The elder Grobmyer was at one time a leading distiller of Carrollton, and a man of considerable wealth, but his property was lost during the terrible ravages of the war. The subject of this sketch received a limited education in the country schools of his native county, beginning life as a farmer, shortly thereafter learning the trade of a butcher, which he has successfully pursued up to the present time. At the age of 17 he managed his mother's farming interests, and at age 19 went to Texas where he lived three years and engaged in farming and clerking. He was called home in 1881 by the death of his mother, and soon thereafter engaged in the butcher business. In 1887, Mr. Grobmyer came to Forrest City direct from Carrollton and opened a meat market on North Washington St., his place being located opposite his present handsome quarters. In addition to his butcher business, Mr. Grobmyer has engaged in the business of feeding and shipping of cattle for the larger markets, and in these ventures his good judgement and discrimination have brought practically uniform success. Mr. Grobmyer for several years served as alderman, and in this position brought to bear the same energy and conscientiousness which have characterized his private relations. On October 16,1883 he was married to Mary Emma Grasnrick, of Carrollton, Kentucky, and to this union five children have been born-Leo, Albert, Anna May, Louis Richard Jr., and Joseph Edward, the latter living but one day. In addition to a lovely home in the city, he owns over one thousand acres of farm lands in St. Francis County.
Contributed on 7/29/14 by bill060
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