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Grubb
Grubb is a family name and may refer to the following: * Armstead Otey Grubb (1903–1968), American educator and acting president of Lincoln University * Catharina Elisabet Grubb (1721–1788), Finnish industrialist * Curtis Grubb (c. 1730 – 1789), American patriot and politician, majority owner and operator of the Cornwall Iron Works, son of Peter Grubb, the Works' founder * Dale Grubb (born 1949), member of the Indiana House of Representatives * Davis Grubb (1919–1980), American writer * Edward Grubb (Quaker) (1854–1939), English Quaker * Edward Burd Grubb, Jr. (1841–1913), American Civil War commander, businessman and politician * Evelyn Grubb, American human rights and veterans' rights activist * Freddie Grubb (1887–1949), British road racing cyclist and businessman * Gerd Grubb (born 1939), Danish mathematician * George Grubb, Lord Provost and ex officio Lord-Lieutenant of Edinburgh * Gunnila Grubb (1692–1729), was a Swedish composer * Henry Bates Grubb (17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armstead Otey Grubb
Armstead Otey Grubb (March 14, 1903 – December 5, 1968) was an American educator who served as professor of French and Spanish and as head librarian at Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania. From 1957 to 1960, Grubb served as acting president of Lincoln University. He was robbed and murdered outside his home on the university's campus in 1968. Life and career Grubb was born in Chanute, Kansas, on March 14, 1903, to Alfred and Mabel Bailey Grubb. He received a BA in modern languages with highest honors from Princeton University in 1925, spending a summer at the University of Dijon. He received a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1928. Privately printed in 1937, Grubb's dissertation examined French sports neologisms. Writing in ''Language'', Roland G. Kent praised Grubb's monograph as a "valuable contribution to lexicology." Grubb taught French for ten years at the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia before joining Lincoln University's faculty as a prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Grubb
Jeff Grubb (born August 27, 1957) is an author who writes novels, short stories, and comics and a computer and role-playing game designer in the fantasy genre. Grubb worked on the ''Dragonlance'' campaign setting under Tracy Hickman, and the ''Forgotten Realms'' setting with Ed Greenwood. His written works include '' The Finder's Stone Trilogy'', the ''Spelljammer'' and '' Jakandor'' campaign settings, and contributions to ''Dragonlance'' and the computer game ''Guild Wars Nightfall'' (2006). Personal life Grubb was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He met Kate Novak in high school, and married her in 1983. His first year of employment involved work with air pollution control devices. Beginnings in role-playing games Grubb became a wargaming enthusiast during his high school years. He started to play Avalon Hill wargames including ''PanzerBlitz'' and ''Blitzkrieg'', and the SPI game, ''Frigate''. As a freshman, he attended the campus war-gaming club and was introduced to the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Grubb, Jr
Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Culture * Peter (actor) (born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, Japanese dancer and actor * ''Peter'' (album), a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip * ''Peter'' (1934 film), a 1934 film directed by Henry Koster * ''Peter'' (2021 film), Marathi language film * "Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe'' * ''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith * "Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather Animals * Peter, the Lord's cat, cat at Lord's Cricket Ground in London * Peter (chief mouser), Chief Mouser between 1929 and 1946 * Peter II (cat), Chief Mouser between 1946 and 1947 * Peter III (cat), Chief Mouser between 1947 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Grubb (mason)
Peter Grubb (17021754), the founder of the Grubb Family Iron Dynasty, discovered Cornwall Iron Mines and established Cornwall Iron Furnace, together one of the largest ironworks in Colonial Pennsylvania. The Cornwall Iron Mines are the largest U.S. iron mines ever discovered east of Lake Superior. The youngest of the seven sons of John Grubb and his wife Frances of Brandywine Hundred, Peter first learned the stonemasonry trade. In 1729, he built a water corn and boulting mill in Bradford, Pennsylvania. He constructed his first iron bloomery (a crude form of furnace) in 1737 at Furnace Creek, on the modern border of Lancaster and Lebanon counties. Grubb constructed a regular iron furnace, known as Hopewell on Hammer Creek near his bloomery. As he started to operate Hopewell, Peter soon located three mountains of magnetic iron ore just west of the furnace. He decided to mine the ore and by 1739 had acquired over that he called Cornwall Iron Mines, in honor of his father's bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Grubb
Norman Percy Grubb MC (2 August 1895 – 15 December 1993) was a British Christian missionary and Evangelist, writer, and theological teacher. Biography Early life Grubb was born in Hampstead, England, the son of an Anglican vicar. He was educated at Marlborough College, an English Public School before joining the British Army as a lieutenant in World War I. He received the Military Cross for meritorious action. After the war, in which he was wounded in one leg, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge. Later he married Pauline Studd, the daughter of the famous British cricketer and missionary to Africa C.T. Studd. He left for the Belgian Congo with Pauline in 1920 to follow in the footsteps of his father-in-law, having not yet completed his final term at Cambridge. Missionary work and beliefs Despite having a Christian upbringing it was only at the age of eighteen that Grubb seriously began to consider what it meant to be a Christian. It was a conversation with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Grubb
Nathaniel Grubb (1693–1760) was a Willistown mill owner who served ten years in the Pennsylvania Colonial Assembly from 1749 to 1758. A member of the Quaker religious sect, he broke with the Society during the conservative reform movement and sponsored important legislation promoting military preparations for the French and Indian War. His politically incorrect comments about the Scotch Irish are still quoted. Biography Grubb was born in Brandywine Hundred, Delaware and was the son of John Grubb and his wife Frances. One of Nathaniel's brothers was Peter Grubb who founded Cornwall Furnace. By the mid-1720s, Nathaniel was a carpenter and a member of the Concord Friends Meetinghouse. His political career started in 1736 when he was appointed Willistown’s constable. Five years later, he assisted laying out a road from Chester County to High Street ferry in Philadelphia. In 1742, he became overseer of the poor and supervisor of highways two years later. During the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Grubb
Margaret Louise "Polly" Grubb (September 22, 1907 – November 17, 1963) was the first wife of pulp fiction author and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, to whom she was married between 1933 and 1947. She was the mother of Hubbard's first son, L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. and his first daughter, Katherine May "Kay" Hubbard. Background Margaret Louise Grubb was born in Beltsville, Maryland in 1907, the only child of Elizabeth (née Crissey) and Thomas Lloyd Grubb (1877–1950).Christopher Evans, ''Cults of Unreason'', p. 26 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974) They were a farming family and her father operated a plant nursery in Montgomery County, Maryland. His family settled in Loudoun County, Virginia, in 1762 from Brandywine Hundred, Delaware, and was descendant of John Grubb, who originally came from Cornwall in 1677. Her mother Elizabeth died when she was young. Although christened Margaret, Grubb preferred to be known as Polly. She lived with her father in Elkton, Maryland. She took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillian Metge
Lillian Margaret Metge (née Grubb; 22 June 1871 – 10 May 1954) was an Anglo-Irish suffragette and women's rights campaigner. She founded the Lisburn Suffrage Society, which she left to become a militant activist, leading on an explosion at the Anglican Lisburn Cathedral in Ireland. She was imprisoned briefly, and awarded a Women's Social and Political Union Hunger Strike medal. She continued her campaign, albeit peacefully, during and after World War I. Personal life Born Lillian Margaret Grubb in Belfast, Ireland on 22 June 1871 her parents were linen merchant Richard Cambridge Grubb of Cahir Abbey, County Tipperary and Killeaton House, County Antrim and his wife, Harriet Richardson. She had two brothers, Cameron and Richard. The latter of whom became a veterinary surgeon. She was born into a wealthy family who made their fortunes from the linen industry. She married in 1892, becoming the second wife of Captain Robert Henry Metge (1850–1900) who was an MP for Meath and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Grubb
Kevin Grubb (April 19, 1978 – May 6, 2009) was an American race car driver from Mechanicsville, Virginia. He was the younger brother of former race car driver Wayne Grubb. He was under suspension from NASCAR competition due to two violations in NASCAR's substance abuse policy at the time of his death. NASCAR Cup Series Grubb's only attempt in the Cup Series came in 2002 when he attempted the Pontiac Excitement 400 at Richmond. He drove the #54 Toys "R" Us Chevy for Team Bristol Motorsports, but was unable to get into the race. During his qualifying attempt he spun out on his second lap and without any owner points was the only car not to make the race. The team was supposed to attempt the 2003 season full-time, with Grubb running for rookie of the year, but the plans fell through. Busch Series Grubb's stint in NASCAR's junior series begin in 1997, with four starts with his father's team Grubb Motorsports. His first start came in the #82 Virginia is for Lovers Chevy where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Philip Grubb
Kenneth Philip Grubb (September 14, 1895 – March 11, 1976) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Education and career Born in Mauston, Wisconsin, Grubb was a United States Army Lieutenant in World War I, and thereafter received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1921. He was in private practice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1921 to 1955. Federal judicial service On May 13, 1955, Grubb was nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin created by 68 Stat. 8. He was confirmed by the United States Senate The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States. The composition and pow ... on June 15, 1955, and received his commis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Grubb
John Maywood Grubb, Jr. (born August 4, 1948 in Richmond, Virginia) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and designated hitter, who also occasionally played at first base. He played with the San Diego Padres (1972–1976), Cleveland Indians (1977–1978), Texas Rangers (baseball), Texas Rangers (1978–1982), and the Detroit Tigers (1983–1987). Major League career Grubb was drafted by the San Diego Padres in 1971 with the 24th pick in the first round. He had been previously drafted by the Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds, and Atlanta Braves, but did not sign with them. He made his major league debut on September 10, 1972. In his 1973 rookie season, Grubb put up good numbers and earned himself a starting position in the outfield by hitting .311 with eight home runs, 37 Run batted in, RBI, and 52 Run (baseball), runs scored. Grubb made the 1974 National League Major League Baseball All-Star Game, All-star team during his sophomore season, and strikeout, stru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
