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From - Selkirk 1792 - 1985
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Grover Cleveland Fess - Born in Rainham Township on April 4, 1887 the son of Fred and Martha (Yager) Fess, one of eight children.
He spent almost all his life in Haldimand County, leaving for only about six months to learn the carpentry trade in Toronto.
He returned to work with his father who had a lumbering and chopping mill that he had bought from the Sutors in 1909. He played the coronet in the Selkirk Band.
On April 24, 1912 he married Martha Maude Hamilton of Dunnville. They had two daughters, Marguerite and Violet.
After his father's death in 1913 Grover took over the business.
In the fall of 1924, he went up north to Arberg, Ontario deer hunting. For the next 43 years, each fall found him going north, not always to the same location but for the same sport.
In 1927 he sold the chopping mill to William Weaver, Edgar Jones bought the lumber business in 1952, selling coal, lumber, roofing and building supplies.
Grover was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Hagersville. After his retirement, he spent much of his time on his garden and yard.
Mrs. Fess passed away on February 3, 1968. In the fall of 1971, Grover gave up his home in Selkirk and went to live with Violet and Bruce House in Hamilton. He passed away on November 29, 1974 in his 88th year.
This mill is still on the same site and the same building is presently being used by Willis (Don) Lumber yard.
Written by Marguerite (Fess) Sherk in 1977
Women's Insitute History
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Rainham Builders
1887 - 1974 (87 years)