Grover Henry Alderman (1886-1930)

ALDERMAN, HATHAWAY

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Evening Journal December 1, 1930 (page 1)

GROVER ALDERMAN DIED AT PITTSBURGH

NATIVE SON OF THIS COMMUNITY HAD GONE FAR IN EDUCATIONAL WORK.

Grover H. Alderman, 45, native son of near Nevada, and for some years Dean of Education of the University of Pittsburgh, died at his home in that city Friday, from cancer of the pancreas, from which he had been suffering for some months, according to word reaching relatives in this city.

Funeral services were held there Sunday afternoon and the body will be placed in a receiving vault there and held until later in the month, when the wife will come west, bringing the body to be interred in the Nevada cemetery.

Dr. Alderman leaves his wife and two sons in Pittsburgh, his aged father, S. P. Alderman of 937 Ninth street and a brother F. A. Alderman of 834 G avenue.

The mother died about 8 years ago, the only sister, Mrs. Edith Alderman Hathaway died in June 1922 and the eldest brother A. Bruce Alderman died at Cedar Rapids fourteen years ago.

The deceased was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Alderman pioneers of the Nevada township, where he was born and raised. After attending the rural schools he continued his studies by attending the Iowa State Teachers college at Cedar Falls, graduating from that institution he taught for a few years after which he entered the Iowa State University from which he graduated with credit and took up educational work.

He was in high school work in Iowa for a time, after which he went to the University of Indiana, at Bloomington where he was an instructor from 1922 until 1925, when he was called to the University of Pittsburgh. There he became Dean of the School of Education, which position he had been holding since, although his impaired health had compelled him to lay aside his duties for the past few months.