Groves, Maj. E. [Edward] A.

Submitted by Mike Miller

Maj. E. A. Groves, a prominent ex-service man, and past commander of the New Orleans Post of the American Legion, is general agent at New Orleans for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company. He was born at Marietta, Georgia, was reared and educated there and as a youth took up railroading as a career. At Atlanta, Georgia, he began his connection with the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway as clerk in the office of the general agent. His ability and industry won him consecutive promotion to higher positions in the traffic department and he had a record of uninterrupted service until July. 1917. He attended the officers' training camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, was commissioned a captain of Infantry and in July, 1918, went overseas with the Fifty-first infantry, Sixth Division. He saw service in the Chaumont area and in the Vosges training sector and took part in the last phase of the great Argonne campaign. In September, 1918, he was promoted to major, and he remained overseas nearly a year after the armistice. Returning home in August, 1919, he was given his honorable discharge in December, 1919. He remained in the Reserve Officer's Corps with a commission as major.

Major Groves after his release from the army, resigned his former position with the Rock Island Company at Atlanta, but in March, 1920, was transferred to New Orleans as general agent for the Rock Island Lines in this territory. Major Groves is a popular citizen, one of the able traffic men of New Orleans and though his residence had been established only a few years before, he was honored in 1923 by being elected commander of the New Orleans Post of the American Legion. This is one of the largest posts in the country, representing the consolidation of all the former local posts in the city. He served as commander one year. Major Groves is married and has one son, E. A., Jr.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 382, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.