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Montgomery County TN Archives Biographies.....Adkins, Grover Cleveland 1888 -
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Author: Will T. Hale

GROVER CLEVELAND ADKINS. A busy, wide-awake, progressive young man, Grover
Cleveland Adkins, of New Providence, holds a position of note among the leading
merchants of Montgomery county, his integrity and excellent good sense in
business matters winning him the respect and confidence of his associates. He
was born in New Providence, September 17, 1888, a son of F. M. Adkins, and
grandson of the late Jackson Adkins, who was the first member of the Adkins
family to settle in Montgomery county.

F. M. Adkins was born at Montgomery county, Tennessee, in April. 1867, and
has always claimed this county as his home. Endowed with business talent and
tact of a high order, he has for many years been intimately identified with the
promotion of the mercantile, agricultural and industrial prosperity of this part
of the state. Nearly thirty years ago he established the store now managed by
his son Grover, and here built up a very large and remunerative business, and
accumulated much property. Since relinquishing the management of his mercantile
interests to his son, he has devoted his time and energies to the ears of his
large farm of eleven hundred acres, and in looking after the farms that he owns
in different localities. He is a Democrat in polities, but not an office seeker,
and fraternally belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America, and to the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. Religiously he is an active member, and steward, of the
Methodist Episcopal church at New Providence.

F. M. Adkins married, in 1882, in Montgomery county, Ida Texas Rhinehart, who
was born in Montgomery county, in 1864, a daughter of Jackson and Emily
Rhinehart. Five children have blessed their union, as follows: Nettie Jane, wife
of J. P. Shelton, of Montgomery county; Una Pearl, wife of G. W. Kelley, of
Birmingham, Alabama; Grover Cleveland; Wiley M., a farmer in New Providence; and
Hardy E., of Montgomery county.

Receiving his preliminary education in the public schools of New Providence.
Grover C. Adkins attended school in Clarksville, and at Cumberland City,
subsequently completing a commercial course of study in Nashville. Thus fitted
for his future career, he returned to New Providence, and under his father's
wise instructions became familiar with the details of mercantile business. In
1911, Mr. Adkins, who was amply qualified for the responsible position, assumed
the management of the entire store, and has since conducted the extensive
business in a most able manner, being proficient in every branch of the trade,
and popular with the patrons of the establishment.

Mr. Adkins married, September 5, 1909, Ethel Darnell, daughter of R. E. and
Lula (Riggins) Darnell, and they are parents of two children, Doris Stanley and
Harold. Politically Mr. Adkins is a Democrat, and fraternally he is a member of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; of the Modern Woodmen of America; and of
the Loyal Order of Moose.


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From:

A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in
commerce, industry and modern activities
by Will T. Hale
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1913



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