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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  SAMUEL H. GRUBER, son of Jacob and Susan (Emerick) Gruber, natives of
Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectively, was born in Preble County, in July, 1840.
His father was a minister of the Lutheran Church. He settled in Piqua Plains, in
Ohio, about 1805, removed to LaSalle County, Ill., in 1850, and is still living
there.

  The ancestors of this family came from the country of the Rhine many
generations back, and were among the first settlers of the State of Pennsylvania.

  Samuel H. Gruber was born near Louisburg, Ohio, went with his parents to
Illinois, received a good education at a seminary in LaSalle County, and in 1871
entered college at Ann Arbor, Mich., where he took the law course. In 1873, he
removed to Yankton, Dak., where he opened a law office, and met with encouraging
success for about twelve and a half years, acting for a part of the time as city
attorney.

  During this time he organized the Yankton Fire Insurance Company, and became
one of its directors, and served as its treasurer for several years. In the fall
of the year 1885, he went to the far South, but soon returned to Montgomery, and
later on to Decatur, where he has since remained.

  Mr. Gruber was married to Miss Harriet, daughter of Col. Pinkney Lugenbeel, of
Fort Randall, Dak., a colonel of the United States Army, a graduate of West
Point with Sherman and Hancock.

  Mr. Gruber practiced law while he was in Montgomery, and in 1887 assisted in
organizing "The State Abstract Company," of which he is a director and the
president. At Decatur, he is president of the Gateway Land Company, an
institution which was organized in September, 1887.

  He and his wife are members of the Episcopal Church. He is an Odd Fellow and a
Knight Templar Mason.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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