| Parents: Occupation: Marriage: |
Hopkins Pollard Sarah Carpenter Grannis Worked in a feed store and livery barn Farmer [Source: 1900, 1910 and 1930 Federal Census] Theresa Mary Imholte 1895 |
| Children: | Mary "Mary" Frances | Sept. 20, 1897 | † Feb. 9, 1907 |
| George Anthony | Feb. 13, 1899 | † Feb. 21, 1974 | |
| Ambrose Joseph | Aug. 26, 1900 | † Nov. 1965 | |
| Joseph Henry | Dec. 30, 1901 | † Jan. 15, 1955 | |
| James Albert | Feb. 21, 1904 | † Apr. 24, 1971 | |
| Aloysius John | July 11, 1905 | † Dec. 18, 1969 | |
| Lucy E. | Aug. 25, 1907 | ||
| Mary Theresia | Dec. 2, 1911 | † July 1996 | |
| Felix Edward | Mar. 16, 1913 | † 1913 |
| Notes: |
John's mother died three days after he was born.
At the time of the June 12, 1880 U.S. federal census, Grosvenor was 8 years old and living with his father Hopkins and six siblings. He was attending school at the time. His father was a farmer, and his brother James A. was working as a farm laborer. John came to Minnesota at age 20 and worked in a livery barn in Saint Cloud. He worked in a feed store in Buffalo, Minnesota. He lived in Saint Cloud for three years then moved to a farm at Popple Creek and in 1913 took up his residence at St. George Township (currently the Chris Schmidt farm). At the time of the June 8, 1900 U.S. census, John was 28 years old and living on a farm in Mayhew Lake, Benton, Minnesota with his wife Theresa their two children, and William Lookinbill, a 25-year-old single hired man from Iowa [Source: 1900 U.S. Census, Mayhew Lake, Benton, Minnesota; Roll T623-757; Page 6A; Enumeration District 314]. At the time of the April 23, 1910 U.S. Census, John was 38 years old and living on a farm in Mayhew Lake, Benton, Minnesota with his wife Theresa and their six children. He was working as a farmer in general farming, and he and Theresa had been married 13 years. He said that he was born in New York as was his father, but his mother was born in Vermont [Source: 1910 U.S. Census, Mayhew Lake, Benton, Minnesota; Roll T624_690; Page 6B; Enumeration District 6]. After his wife Theresa’s passing in April of 1913, John decided to put the 5 youngest children in an orphanage and keep the two oldest boys at home on the farm, which they relocated to, 4 miles northwest of Duelm and since known as the Chris Schmit place (9001 25st NE, St. George township, sec. 17). After a few months at the orphanage in St. Cloud John brought 12-year-old son Joseph home to do domestic chores around the household. John tried his best to keep the family together after the death of his wife. At the time of the April 2, 1930 census, John was 57 years old and living with his son Joseph, daughter-in-law Rose, their five children, and son Ambrose on the family farm in St. George Township; they did not own a radio. The three men were occupied as farmers in general farming. John stated that he was married when he was 24 years old and that his father was born in New York and his mother was born in Vermont. John reportedly went to Mass every day in his later years. He suffered from asthma. He died of a heart attack on July 2, 1932 in his Model T Ford on his son Joseph's farm (Chris Schmidt farm), and was found by his daughter-in-law Rose in the morning [Source: Joseph Pollard]. |
| Ancestry: | The Frederick Imholte Line [through marriage] |
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