03047crm a2200217 4500 758977910 TxAuBib 20150918120000.0 150918s1855||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u TxAuBib Galveston, Central Wharf, 1855 [Museum Object]. 1855. """Drawn from nature, Geo. W. Grover. "Galveston, Central Wharf, 1855. Pen and ink sketch, tinted of ""Galveston as seen from the main mast of a ship at Central Wharf, October 1855."" Signed. Conserved by St. Mark Fine Arts, Houston June 2013.". PERMANENT COLLECTION. 20150918. "See GDN 2/13/1898 for account of the drawing by Grover. He discusses many notable buildings and aspects of the city that had changed from 1855-1898. Presented by his son, Walter Grover, to the Galveston Historical Society. See George Grover file for addtional information. TSHA entry for GROVER, GEORGE WASHINGTON (1819�1901). George Washington Grover, Texan Santa Fe expedition participant and Galveston merchant and civic leader, was born at Sacketts Harbor, New York, on November 9, 1819, the son of Nathan and Frances (Warren) Grover. In 1824 he moved with his father to Cincinnati, Ohio, and in 1839 to Texas. On August 12, 1840, he served under Mathew Caldwell at the battle of Plum Creek. At Austin on June 1, 1841, he volunteered for the Texan Santa Fe expedition. Largely through the treachery of the artillery company commander, Capt. William P. Lewis, Grover and his companions were captured near San Miguel, New Mexico, and marched to Mexico City. While in captivity there, with the assistance of John Talk and perhaps others of his fellow prisoners, he edited a manuscript newspaper, The True Blue, under the pen name Simon Pure. In addition, on January 1, 1842, he wrote a memoir, ""Minutes of Adventure from June, 1841,"" which is one of the principal primary-source documents of the failed expedition. After his release from captivity he returned to the family home, somewhere ""below Austin."" He subsequently joined the California gold rush and worked for a time as a placer miner. Having little success in the mines, however, he returned to Texas and established a mercantile house in Galveston. He was an alderman in 1861 and served for a time as mayor pro tem. On February 24, 1870, a great fire in Galveston destroyed Grover's grocery and provision store. An active Mason, Grover was elected grand secretary of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Texas for 1874 and 1875, and as an Odd Fellow he served as Grand Patriarch of the Grand Encampment. He died in Galveston on December 21, 1901, and was survived by his wife and four children. The manuscript of his ""Minutes of Adventure"" is preserved in the Rosenberg Library, Galveston.". "Grover, George W.". https://rosenberg.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/6F703A1E-60EB-48A4-AE29-234727664160 See Museum Object Listing RV8