Wilford E. Gruver, the efficient and popular cashier of the Clayton Savings Bank and the valued incumbent of the offices of treasurer of Clayton corporation and of the school district in which the village of Clayton is situated, is a native son of the Hawkeye state and is a scion of the third generation of both the paternal and maternal families in Iowa, with the civic and material history of which commonwealth the names of the respective families have been long and worthily identified. Mr. Gruver holds precedence as one of the representative young business men and loyal and public-spirited citizens of Clayton county, has a secure place in popular esteem and is well entitled to recognition in this publication. He was born at West Union, Fayette county, Iowa, on the 5th of November, 1890, and is a son of Benton C. and Amazet (Burke) Gruver, both of whom were likewise born in this state, where their parents settled in the early pioneer days. The father of the subject of this review has given the major part of his active career to agricultural pursuits and still maintains his residence in Fayette county, his devoted wife having been summoned to eternal rest in 1913 and being survived by all of their eight children. Wilford E. Gruver supplemented the advantages which he received in the public schools of his native county by taking an effective course in a business college in the city of Cedar Rapids. Soon after having thus fortified himself he assumed a clerical position in a bank at West Branch, Cedar county, and two years later he was promoted to the position of assistant cashier of the institution. About two and a half years later he resigned this office and became cashier of a bank at Beaver Creek, Minnesota, where he remained one year. He then resigned his position and came to Clayton county, where he has served as cashier of the Clayton Savings Bank since 1915, and where he has made an admirable record in the executive management of this substantial and popular financial institution of the county. He is treasurer of his school district. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, and at West Branch, Cedar county, he still retains affiliation with Wapsinonock Lodge, No. 381, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He is popular in the representative social life of the community. On June 8th, 1916, he married Katharine Richards, of McGregor, whose father, F.S. Richards, is cashier of the First National Bank, of McGregor. source: History of Clayton County,
Iowa; From The Earliest Historical Times Down to the
Present; by Realto E. Price, Vol. II, 1916; pg.
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