Biography of John Grub, pages 686 / 687.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

John Grub was born in Stark County, Ohio, Sept. 22, 1822, a son of Peter and 
Elizabeth (Rex) Grub, natives of Pennsylvania, of German and French descent.  
When he was five years old his father died leaving his mother with nine 
children to rear and educate.  He remained with his mother on the farm till 
twenty-five years of age, and  from his eighteenth till his twenty-second 
year taught school in the winter, working on the farm in the summer.  In 
1844 he began clerking in a store and remained there till 1851, when he came 
to Indiana and bought a tract of unimproved land in what was then Butler 
Township, De Kalb County.  When he came to Indiana he had but $150; this he 
paid for his land, and then commenced to improve and make a home.  He has by 
his indomitable will and perseverance overcome the obstacles of settling in 
a new country, and has by his continued additions to his first purchase a 
landed estate of 424 acres, all under cultivation.  Having no one but himself 
to rely upon, he early in life learned the lesson of independent action, and 
it has tended to make him through life self-reliant and sagacious.  Mr. Grub 
was married May 7, 1847, to Catherine Kutchner, a native of Stark County, Ohio.  
They have had five children, but three of whom are living---Jefferson, Calvin 
and Clara.  Politically, Mr. Grub is a Democrat.  He served his township as 
Justice of the Peace eight years, and as Trustee four years, and has proved 
himself to be an efficient and worthy officer, attending to public affairs 
with the same fidelity as his own.  Mrs. Grub is a member of the Dunkard 
church.

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