Grubb was a man who overcame a difficult beginning, as the unacknowledged son of a prominent Pennsylvania ironmaster, but became an early settler and respected leading citizen of Stark County, Ohio.
In 1803 Grubb was on the tax rolls as a married landowner in Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he was a hackle (a flax or hemp combing implement) maker and farmer, having purchased 45 acres (180,000 m2) of land from Henry Schultz.
In August 1812 Grubb was drafted as a private into the Ohio militia where he served during the War of 1812, until his discharge at Lower Sandusky on February 24, 1813.
property was later acquired from Grubb's estate by his stepson and became the site of the beautiful and historic Jacob H. Bair House.
Her parentage is unclear, as different documents give her surname as Reber and Sorrick; families with both names lived in the area.
Some evidence suggests she may have been related to Frederick Reber and widowed by John Sorrick, but no connections to either family have been verified.
When Jehu donated the land for the school, he stipulated that there was to be "no preaching, except Dunkards and Lutherans" which, of course, were primarily German faiths.
Andrew Keplar conducted the marriage ceremony for Grubb and Elizabeth and it was humorously recorded for posterity at the time: "You bromise to take this voman you holt by the hant to pe your vife, and that you thtick to her through hell-fire and dunder?
"[5] Grubb died on December 10, 1854, at the age of 73 and is buried at St Jacob's cemetery on State Street in North Canton.
She had been 91 years old at the time, and recalled coming to Ohio with her father George Harter in 1806, when "Canton Public Square contained only a clump of bushes with just three log cabins."