Hines, H. K. "An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon." Chicago: Lewis
Pub. Co. 1893.  p. 1061.
 
     WILLIAM GRUBBS, an aged and honored citizen of Forest Grove, now in his
eight-sixth year, was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, May 26, 1806.  On account
of his age and experience and the regard in which he is held by the community,
he might be styled not the Father of his Country, but certainly the Father of
Forest Grove.  His father, Conroid Grubbs was born in the same State as his son,
and was of German ancestry.  He was married to Catharine Wyble, a native of his
own State.  They had eleven children, of whom Mr. Grubbs is now the only
survivor.
     The subject of our sketch was reared on a small farm, twelve miles from
Pittsburg, working on his father's farm and at the carpenters' trade.  He came
to Oregon in 1870, and purchased a farm at Eugene, where he remained five years,
when he sold out and removed to Spring Valley, in Polk county, where he
purchased another farm, residing on it for another five years, and again sold
out, this time coming to Forest Grove, in 1880, where he purchased a block of
four acres, where he has since resided, partially retired from active business,
but raising on this fine block choice fruit and vegetables.
     Mr. Grubbs married Miss Margaret McGinnis in 1839.  She was a native of his
own State and a daughter or Robert McGinnis, a farmer there.  They are the
parents of the following children:  Their eldest son, Henry Wilkinson Grubbs, is
a merchant in Chicago; Lewis B., resides in La Camas, Washington; and their
daughter, West Anna is the wife of J. A. McCune, a banker of Portland, who has a
handsome residence in Forest Grove; Charlotte, is the wife of Samuel Irwin, of
San Francisco; Eliza E., is the wife of L.M. Redman, and resides on their farm,
twelve miles from Portland.
     It is a source of gratification to Mr. Grubbs that he has been a Republican
since the organization of that party.  He has never been a member of any
fraternal society.  He and his wife were reared Presbyterians, and have been
married fifty-three years, enjoying the highest regard of their fellow-men.
     Honorable and industrious, intelligent and persevering, Mr. Grubbs has gone
through life prosperously, followed by the kindest whishes of all who knew him.

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