Catharina Elisabet Grubb (February 8, 1721 – March 31, 1788) was a Finnish

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. She was the daughter of

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Nils Grubb from

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and

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and sister of Michael Grubb and married to merchant, industrialist and

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Johan Jacob Kijk Johan * Johan (given name) * ''Johan'' (film), a 1921 Swedish film directed by Mauritz Stiller * Johan (band), a Dutch pop-group ** ''Johan'' (album), a 1996 album by the group * Johan Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada * Jo-Han, a manu ...

, who as the owner of the manor Tykö bruk, part owner of two tobacco factories in Åbo, the

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factory in

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and the glass factory in

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was called the richest man in Finland. At the death of her spouse in 1777, she made an agreement with her children that she would manage the entire estate until her death. She was very successful: she developed the cultivation of iron at Tykö and Kirjakkala who became the most successful within the metal industry: by 1784, a third of all iron bought by Åbo came from her.

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* Biografiskt lexikon för Finland 1
Svenska tiden
(2008).

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