He attended Cleveland public schools and remained in the city until the age of 17, when he moved to North Dakota to work as a cattle rancher.
As the Magnolia and Preston were only open during the summer, Grabow would work at the Highland Park Hotel in Aiken, South Carolina during the winter.
[4] Grabow managed the New Ocean House until 1926, when he turned over control to Clement Kennedy.
[6] That same year, Grabow, Luke M. Boomer, and Harry Merry assumed management of the Gotham Hotel.
[10] On September 11, 1933, died of a heart attack at the Hotel Kenmore Hall in New York City.