Frederick Philip Grove - Emigration: USA, 1909

Emigration: USA, 1909

From Berlin he hurriedly transferred to North America on the White Star Liner Megantic in late July 1909. He had double-sold his latest translation, Swift's Prosa Werke in four volumes (from Temple Scott's ed. which is extant in Grove's Library Collection at the UMA).
Four details planted on the very opening pages of Grove's 1927 Search for America led to the discovery of FPG's passage in October 1998, shortly after the "In Memoriam FPG: 1879-1948-1998" Symposium commemorating the 50th Anniversary of his death.
His wife Else joined him a year later in Pittsburgh, and in her papers at the University of Maryland, College Park, it is attested that the couple farmed near Sparta, Kentucky, until 1911, when Greve left her permanently. She modeled in nearby Cincinnati, and later became well known in New York dada circles as Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven. Greve moved west and stayed on a huge Bonanza Farm near Fargo in the late summer of 1912 (it could be identified from the author's autobiographical descriptions as the Amenia & Sharon Land Company in 1996).