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Source:
A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio

An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention
to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial,
Educational, Civic and Social Development
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Prepared Under the Editorial Supervision of
Dr. Benjamin F. Prince
President Clark County Historical Society
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Assisted by a Board of Advisory Editors
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Volumes 2
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Published by
The American Historical Society
Chicago and New York
1922

A B C D E F G H I J K L M
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  ED GRAM.  In the agricultural community of Madison Township one of the best known citizens and most capable farmers is Ed Gram, a native of Clark County, and whose life -has been devoted to the work of his farm.
     He was born in Greene Township, near Pitchin, May 19, 1860, son of Jacob and Catharine (Miller) Gram.  His father was born near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and his mother, in Virginia.  They came to Clark County when young people, grew up here and before getting permanently located Jacob Gram made four trips on foot between Pennsylvania and Ohio.  After his marriage he located near Pitchin, and was a farmer in that community until his death in 1869.  The mother died in 1864.  She was a Methodist.  Of their nine children Ed is the youngest, and four are still living, the three others being: Margaret, a widow, residing near Pleasant Grove; Theodore C., of Springfield; and Joseph, of Greene Township.
      Ed Cram spent his early life on the farm near Pitchin where he attended school. In 1885 he went out to California, and spent several years in the Far West.  He returned to Clark County in June, 1888, and on Feb. 26, 1889, married Miss Ella KingMr. and Mrs. Gram have two daughters: Elsie M., born Dec. 9, 1890, wife of Ralph Walker; and Anna C., born Sept. 22, 1910.  Mr. and Mrs. Gram are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is an elder in the church at South Charleston.  He is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, F. and A. M., and took his first degrees in that lodge in 1886 and has filled a number of its chairs.  He is a republican.  The farm to which he has devoted so many years consists of a hundred acres.
     Ella King, wife of Mr. Gram, was born in Clark County Oct. 8, 1869, daughter of Daniel and Anna B. (Packer) King.  Her father was born at Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, June 16, 1839, and her mother was born Nov. 22, 1846, daughter of Milton and Eliza (Willis) PackerMilton Packer was born on Oct, 18, 1824, and his wife on July 18, 1817.  The King family is of Revolutionary ancestry.  Daniel King served as a soldier in the Civil war.  His parents were Andrew and Theresa (Fox) King, the latter a daughter of Daniel Fox, who served as a soldier in the War of 1812.  Daniel Fox was a son of Frederick Fox, who was a drummer boy in a Pennsylvania Regiment during the Revolution.  Mrs. Ella King Gram was born at the old Willis Tavern, but since early infancy has lived at the homestead where her home is today.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 346
  ADAM GRUBE. The late Adam Grube was one of the substantial men of foreign birth who, coming to Springfield, became valued citizens of their adopted country and here amassed a fortune. He was born in the Rhine province of Bavaria, Germany, a son of Jacob and Philipena (Shearer) Grube, who in 1835 came to the United States and after living at Tiffin, Ohio, for two years, located at Springfield. During the time he was at Tiffin, Jacob Grube had to work very hard in construction work on the Wabash Canal. After coming to Springfield he continued to work by the day until his demise. When still a lad Adam Grube helped to take care of his mother and brothers and sisters, working to do so by selling produce from house to house, and his honest measure and pleasant manner soon enabled him to build up a large trade. As soon as he was strong enough he began working out by the day, and in the meantime gained a knowledge of the brick industry, entering, when only twelve years old, the brickyard of James Robinson, and receiving for his labors $3 per month. He was patient and very thrifty and at last was able to go into partnership with his brother in the purchase of fifteen acres of land, on which the industrious young men carried on gardening. Later he bought his brother's interest in this property. For fourteen years he lived in a house built of logs before he replaced it with one of brick he had himself manufactured, for he and his two brothers, Jacob and Christian, had gone into the brick industry, in which they continued for six years. Then for a few years Mr. Grube again devoted himself to gardening, but once more began to manufacture brick, taking as his partner Charles Elmer Grube. They gave employment to twelve men and five boys and did a big business, but he retired from it before his death, which occurred July 19, 1910. Adam Grube first married Anna Mary Wilch, born in Hancock County, Ohio, and they had eight children, the only survivor being one son, John A., who is living in Springfield, Ohio. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Grube married, October 6, 1868, Gertrude Rettig, born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, May 5, 1845, a daughter of John P. and Elizabeth (Heoffley) Rettig, who settled in Henry County, Ohio, in 1863. By his last marriage Adam Grube had nine children, of whom four survive, namely: George P., who is at 1756 Limestone Street, a sketch of whom follows; Samuel D., who resides in Moorefield Township, married Abbie J. Baker, and they have three children, Ruth, Mrs. Robert Scifers, has two daughters, Gertrude G. and Mary Jane Scifers; Margaret, Mrs. H. J. Robinson, who resides with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Grube, and Delbert I., who also lives with Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Grube; F. Joseph, who lives in Moorefield Township, married Mary Helle, now deceased, who bore him one son, Irvin A. F. Grube, with his father; and Gertrude S., who is keeping house for her brother, F. Joseph, in Moorefield Township, just north of Springfield. Adam Grube was a business man of excellent judgment and invested his money wisely. He owned several farms in the vicinity of Springfield and the fifty-acre addition to Springfield that is known as Grube Addition. He belonged to Saint Luke's Evangelical Church of Springfield, in which he was an earnest worker. The democratic party had in him a firm supporter, although he never cared for public honors. He did his full duty as he saw it, was honest, sincere and helpful, and when he died one of the best citizens of Clark County passed to his last reward.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 186 - Transcribed for Ohio Genealogy Express by Cathy Portz
  GEORGE P. GRUBE. One of the best-known and most highly respected families of Clark County is that bearing the name of Grube and its members are numbered among the most representative citizens of Springfield. One of them, George P. Grube, of 1756 North Limestone Street, is following a somewhat original line in his business operations, for he is not only a poultry fancier, but also raises Pekingese Chinese dogs and has built up a very valuable connection in both lines. Mr. Grube was born at Springfield, February 10, 1873, a son of Adam and Gertrude (Rettig) Grube, natives of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, a sketch of whom precedes in this work; and grandson of Jacob and Philipena (Shearer) Grube, natives of Germany, who came to Clark County, Ohio. Growing up in Springfield, George P. Grube attended the Snow district school and Nelson's Business College and remained with his parents, who owned fifteen acres of land, now the block of 1700 Limestone Street, until his marriage, which occurred February 20, 1899, when he married Carrie E. Morgan, born at Tampico, Indiana, a daughter of William and Rachel (Mahanka) Morgan, natives of Tampico, Indiana. After his marriage Mr. Grube built a house just south of the Home Road, on North Limestone Street, where he resided for seven years, during which time he continued working with his father in manufacturing brick, in which industry the elder man had built up a large business. Selling his interest in this, Mr. Grube then bought one acre of land about two blocks south of his home, on North Limestone street, and erected a new residence. He was engaged in manufacturing brick on his own account until 1915, when he sold his business and bought one and three-quarter acres, with a frontage of 124 feet and a depth of 576 feet, on which he put up another residence. While working in greenhouses he at the same time began to raise single-comb, Mottled Ancona chickens, and has exhibited them in the principal poultry shows of the country. He won first prize at Chicago upon two occasions, first prize at Cincinnati; and in January, 1922, the first prize at Cleveland. He sold one hen for $100. He also received two prizes at the poultry show held at the Madison Square Garden, New York City, and he is still engaged in breeding and raising these fine chickens, and, as before stated, is raising the Pekingese dogs so in demand for pets by the wealthy. Mr. and Mrs. Grube have no children. They belong to St. John's Lutheran Church of Springfield. Politically he is a democrat but he is not active in public matters. Fraternally he maintains membership with Lone Star Lodge No. 732, I. O. O. F. Mr. Grube has always been a hard worker and deserves the success which has attended his efforts. His fame as a poultry fancier has gone far beyond local bounds, and his exhibits are looked forward to with great interest by others in the same line of business as well as those who seek at these shows especially fine specimens for their own flocks.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 187 - Transcribed for Ohio Genealogy Express by Cathy Portz
  PERRY ANDREW GRUBE. Although now living retired at Springfield, Perry Andrew Grube has had a useful life and accomplished much of a practical nature, doing everything on his own account, for he left school when he was eleven years old to earn his own living. He was born in German Township, Clark County, Ohio, May 11, 1859, a son of Jacob and Catherine (Nawman) Grube, natives of Tiffin, Ohio, and German Township, respectively. The paternal grandparents, Jacob and Philapine (Spearer) Grube, natives of the Rhine Province, Germany, came to the United States about 1836, and remained until 1838 at Tiffin, Ohio, but in the latter year came to Springfield and bought 600 acres on West North Street. The maternal grandparents, Jacob and Elizabeth (Kemp) Nawman, were natives of Virginia, where the great-grandfather, Thomas Nawman, was born in 1779. About 1801 Thomas Nawman brought his family to Clark County, Ohio, traveling across country with three wagons drawn by oxen. He took up land in German Township, cleared his farm, improved it, and developed a large property. This farm was later divided among his children, and Jacob Nawman received his share. The parents of Perry Andrew Grube settled in Springfield after their marriage, but a year later moved to the present site of Ridgewood, German Township, now a part of Springfield, where they owned 156 acres, and this they operated for many years, but subsequently moved to a farm of fifty-six acres nearby, and there he died March 23, 1915, his widow surviving him and making her home at Tippettville, Florida, with her daughter, Mrs. Laura Brenning. The children born to Jacob and Catherine Grube were as follows: Perry Andrew, whose name heads this review; Laura, who is Mrs. Luther Brenning; Benjamin, who is deceased; Sarah, who is Mrs. Wilbur Morris of Fremont, Ohio; Christopher and Solomon P., both of whom live on Grube Road, Springfield. From the time he was nine until he was fifteen Perry Andrew Grube lived on a farm in Ridgewood, and then moved to one in German Township. Until he was eleven years old he attended the district schools, and then began working in a wood yard, where he remained for four and one-half years, during which time he disposed of the wood on twenty-five acres of land, hauling it to different customers at Springfield, and was then engaged in farming for a time. When he was twenty-two years old, he went on the road as a salesman and traveled through Indian Territory and Texas for three years, then returning to Clark County and going on his father's farm in German Township. In 1896 he married and moved to Grube Road, which was named in his honor, and was there engaged in farming for five years, at the expiration of that time going into the dairy business on Grube Road and Saint Paris Pike, which he conducted for eleven years. He then bought 142 acres of land from his father-in-law in Harmony Township, and for three and one-half years conducted this property, and then abandoned farming and once more went into a milk business and maintained a milk route. On May 12, 1910, he organized the Home Diary, in partnership with George Ustler and George Wendel, and this was so successful a venture that William and Orville Trout were admitted to the firm in 1912, and the manufacture of ice cream, under the name of the Standard brand, was added. This connection was continued for eight years, and in 1922 Mr. Grube disposed of his interests and is now retired. He owns his handsome modern residence 1206 Fountain Avenue, Springfield, ten valuable lots at Ridgewood, and a farm of 156 acres of land three miles west of Fremont, German Township, which is operated by his sons. On March 18, 1896, Mr. Grube married Addie F. Slentz born in Harmony Township, a daughter of Henry and Ruth (Bennett) Slentz, natives of German Township; and granddaughter of Erastus and Elizabeth (Dickerson) Bennett, natives of Kentucky. Mrs. Grube died July 29, 1911, having borne her husband the following children: Henry who lives at Kalamazoo, Michigan; Jessie who is Mrs. Freeman Campbell of Plattsburg, Ohio; and Andrew, Ira and John Lewis, all of whom are farmers of German Township. On May 11, 1915, Mr. Grube married Mrs. Minnie (Thompson) Brown, born in Pickaway County, Ohio, the widow of Charles Brown. Mrs. Grube has two children by her first marriage: Turney A., who lives at Albany, New York; and Bessie, who is Mrs. Clyde Dillon of Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Grube is independent in his political affiliations, and for nine years served on the School Board of Springfield and Harmony Townships and represented Harmony Township on the Board of Supervisors of Clark County for nine years. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Grube is a most highly respected citizen and is recognized as one of the best representatives of the men who have made their own way in the world that the county possesses.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 201 - Transcribed for Ohio Genealogy Express by Cathy Portz

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