Bio: Grout, A. H. (1851 - 1918)

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Surnames: Grout, Stone, Silverthorn, Plumer, Shaunessy, Curley, Rounds

----Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

Grout, A. H. (11 August 1851 - Sep 1918)

A. H. Grout, cashier of the First National Bank of Wausau, has been a resident of this city since 1875 and for the past thirty-seven years has devoted himself in a business way to banking interests. He was born August 11, 1851, in the province of Quebec, Canada, and is a son of E. P. and Tryphosa (Stone) Grout.

The parents of Mr. Grout were also born in Canada and came to Wisconsin in 1863. The father located at Omro, in Winnebago county and followed agricultural pursuits in that locality until he retired to Wausau, where his death occurred, his wife having passed away in Canada. They had six children to grow to maturity, four daughters and two sons, the family record being as follows: A. M.; Abigail, Matilda, Harriet and Rachel; and Frank, who was connected with the First National Bank at Wausau for some years, is now in the employ of a bank at Seattle, Wash.

A. H. Grout began school attendance in his native place and completed it after his father located at Omro, Wis., being then prepared for work on the home farm and also in a saw mill. Later he was bookkeeper for a time at Menasha, Wis., where his ability and fidelity were so recognized that in April, 1875, he was called to a similar position with the firm of Silverthorn & Plumer, at Wausau. When the business was reorganized in 1882 and the institution became the First National Bank, he was elected cashier and has served continuously as such until the present, limiting his interests, to a large degree, to financial matters in this connection.

In 1879 Mr. Grout was married to Miss Eva Shaunessy, of Wausau, a daughter of George Shaunessy, who enlisted from this city for service in the Civil War and died after becoming a veteran. Mrs. Grout died in Wausau, in 1887, and a son survived, Horace Clyde. He is Ass't Gen. Supt. Atlantic Division of the Canadian Pacific Railroad and at present is located at St. John, N. B., his territory covering a part of Quebec, Maine, and New Brunswick. He married Miss Mary Curley and they have two children: Mary Eva and Robert Clyde. In October, 1888, Mr. Grout was married (second) to Miss Mary Rounds, a daughter of W. P. Rounds, of Menasha, Wis. They have one daughter, Edith, who attended school at Wausau, and in California, and then became a student in Lawrence University at Appleton, Wis. Mr. Grout and family are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Wausau and he belongs to its official board. In politics he is identified with the Republican Party. He is a Chapter Mason and for a number of years has been treasurer of both Blue Lodge and Chapter. He is a charter member of the Wausau City Club and also of the Y. M. C. A., and was a member of the first building committee appointed by this organization, and has continued his deep interest until the present.

Obit: Grout, A. H. (1851 - 1918)

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Surnames: Grout

----Source: Marshfield News Thursday 12 Sept. 1918; P. 2, C. 2 and Marshfield Times Wednesday 4 Sept. 1918; P. 7, C. 1

Grout, A. H. (11 August 1851 - Sep 1918)

A. H. Grout, cashier of the First National Bank, Wausau, for thirty six years and a resident of Wausau since 1875, died of apoplexy. A widow and two children survive.

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----Source: Marshfield News Thursday 12 Sept. 1918; P. 2, C. 2 and Marshfield Times Wednesday 4 Sept. 1918  P. 7  C. 5

A. H. Grout, cashier of the First National Bank in Wausau for thirty-six years, died suddenly on his way home from the bank one day last week, apoplexy being the cause of death. He was 67 years old and a native of Quebec, Canada. Mr. Grout was prominent in Masonic and club circles.