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Grubb
Grubb is the surname of: * 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), American politician * Davis Grubb (1919–1980), American writer * Edward Grubb (other) * 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 (1774–1823), founder of the Grubb iron empire, son of Peter Grubb, Jr. * Howard Grubb (1844–1931), Irish telescope maker * Ignatius Cooper Grubb (1841–1927), American polit ... [...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 (Pennsylvania), Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania, 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 Burgundy, 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 (journal), Language'', Roland Grubb Kent, Roland G. Kent praised Grubb's monograph as a "valuable contribution to lexicology." Grubb taught French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jehu Grubb
Jehu Grubb (a.k.a. John Grubb) ( – 1854), unacknowledged son of the prominent ironmaster Curtis Grubb, was an early settler who became a leading citizen in Plain Township, Stark County, Ohio. Grubb served in the War of 1812, was a justice of the peace, served in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1828 and 1832, and in 1852 donated land for the Whitehall School. Grubb was often called John in various documents, and seems to have used both names himself. His stepson built the beautiful and historic Jacob H. Bair House on what been a corner of Grubb's farm. Military and public service *Served in the War of 1812. He was drafted as a private into the Ohio militia in August 1812, where he served until his discharge at Lower Sandusky on February 24, 1813. *Served as a justice of the peace in Stark County. His name appears in that capacity on marriage and other legal documents of his day. *Served in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1828 and 1832, as a Democrat. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Grubb
Sarah Pim Grubb (11 December 1746 – 1832) was a businesswoman and Quaker benefactor in Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland. She married a miller and corn dealer named John Grubb in 1778. After her husband's death six years later, she ran his successful milling business, Anner Mills (3 km NE of Clonmel), herself. Early life and marriage Sarah Pim was born in 1746 at Mountrath, Queen's County. She was the first child of the wealthy Dublin wool merchant John Pim and his wife, Sarah Clibborn of Moate Castle. Her 15 siblings included Joshua Pim (1748–1822), Joshua Pim and Joseph Pike Pim, notable merchants of Usher's Island (Dublin), Usher's Island, Dublin. She was related through both her parents to the most prominent Quaker families at that time. The Pim family moved to Middlesex in 1771 where they mixed with fashionable Quaker society in and around London. In 1778, Sarah Pim married John Grubb, a wealthy flour miller from Clonmel in Ireland. Although a very wealthy family, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Grubb
Robert Grubb (born 31 January 1950) is an Australian actor. He studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), where he graduated"Local star's flying high" by Craig Wellington, '' Sunday Tasmanian'' (21 Feb, 2010) Retrieved from in 1978. There he was a fellow student of actor Mel Gibson. Grubb played the role of Dr. Geoffrey Standish in the popular series '' The Flying Doctors''. He won Australia's Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical for his stage portrayal of ''Pop'' in the Australian production of the Queen musical, ''We Will Rock You''. In 1998, he played The Wolf and Cinderella’s Prince in the Melbourne Theatre Company's production of Stephen Sondheim’s ''Into the Woods''. In 2016, he played Dimitri Weissman in Sondheim’s '' Follies'' at Melbourne Recital Centre. In 2024, he played Max in ''Sunset Boulevard'' opposite Sarah Brightman. He also narrated "Rainforest Beneath the Canopy" in 2004. Grubb was reprising ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Grubb (other) (1942–2006), English zoologist
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Peter Grubb may refer to: * Peter Grubb (mason) (1702–1754), American mason and founder of Grubb family iron dynasty * Peter Grubb Jr. (1740–1786), American patriot and member of Grubb family iron dynasty * Peter J. Grubb (born 1935), English ecologist *Peter Grubb (zoologist) Peter Grubb (1942 – 23 December 2006) was a British zoologist. He often collaborated with Colin Groves and described several new mammal taxa including '' Felis margarita harrisoni'' (a subspecies of the sand cat), the Bornean yellow muntjac, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ole W
OLE, Ole or Olé may refer to: * Olé, a cheering expression used in Spain * Ole (name), a male given name, includes a list of people named Ole * Overhead lines equipment, used to transmit electrical energy to trams, trolleybuses or trains Computing, mathematics, and engineering * Object locative environment coordinate system * Object Linking and Embedding, a distributed object system and protocol developed by Microsoft ** OLE Automation, an inter-process communication mechanism developed by Microsoft * Olé, Spanish search engine which became part of Telefónica's portal Terra in 1999 People * Ole (name) Places * Ole, Estonia, Hiiu County, a village * Õle, Järva County, Estonia, a village * Ole, Zanzibar, Tanzania, a village * Ole, India Country, Mathura district, a village * OLE, IATA airport code for Cattaraugus County-Olean Airport, New York, United States Music * '' Olé Coltrane'', an album by John Coltrane, 1962 * ''Olé'' (Johnny Mathis album), 1965 * ''Olé' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Grubb
Norman Percy Grubb Military Cross, 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. His brother Kenneth Grubb was born in 1900; Kenneth went on to become a missionary, director of a government department and president of the Church Missionary Society. Norman Grubb 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 wo ... [...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 17 ... [...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.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 her first ... [...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 who was an MP for Meath and also a mag ... [...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 No. 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 began in 1997, with four starts with his father's team Grubb Motorsports. His first start came in the No. 82 Virginia is for Lovers Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Philip Grubb
Kenneth Philip Grubb (September 14, 1895 – March 11, 1976) was a United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Education and career Born in Mauston, Wisconsin, 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 on June 15, 1955, and received his commission the next day. Grubb served in that capacity until his retirement on October 8, 1965. He died on March 11, 1976. References Sources * Judges of the United States District Court for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
