About Fred Paul Grosscup
Lived 1854 – 1925 (aged 70–71). Fred Paul Grosscup was an American politician.
Fred Paul Grosscup (1854–1925) was a businessman, land developer, and politician who lived in Charleston, West Virginia. He was in the farm implement business, developed a waterworks in Texas, and got into the natural gas and railroad industries. He was also a property developer. He advocated for funding a geological department in West Virginia. Benjamin S. Grosscup, a lawyer in Tacoma, Washington, and Judge Peter S. Grosscup were his brothers.
He married Bertha Maria Coffey of Wooster, Ohio in 1882.
From 1905 to 1907 he was Speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates.
He served on the Panama-Pacific Exposition Commission In 1919 he served as president of the West Virginia Natural Gas Association.
He died in Chicago.
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Who was Fred Paul Grosscup?
American politician from West Virginia
When was Fred Paul Grosscup born?
Fred Paul Grosscup was born in 1854 in Ashland County.
When did Fred Paul Grosscup die?
Fred Paul Grosscup died in 1925.
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Fred Paul Grosscup was a politician.
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Fred Paul Grosscup was American.
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