BROWN COUNTY OHIO - BIO: GRIBBLE, Le Grand, M.D. (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, Page 396

        LE GRAND GRIBBLE, M.D.  The service of a competent and faithful
member of the medical profession Doctor Gribble has given to the community
of Pomeroy for over a quarter of a century. His name and character are held
in very high esteem over the greater part of Meigs County.
        He was born on a farm at Ripley, in Brown County, Ohio, March 29,
1875, son of William and Mary (Smith) Gribble, natives of Kentucky, in
which they spent most of their lives. His father was a merchant near
Frankfort, Kentucky, and died in the early childhood of Doctor Gribble. The
Gribble family is of remote French ancestry, while the Smiths came from
Virginia. Mrs. Mary Smith Gribble died in 1912.
        Le Grand Gribble spent his boyhood days at Newport, Kentucky, and
in Cincinnati, attending graded school in the latter city, and also
attended public school while living with his uncle, Dr. Frank Wall, at
Urbana, Indiana. He earned his first money selling Doctor Talmadges book of
sermons in Hamilton County, Ohio. After that he followed various
occupations, and for a time was shipping clerk in a wholesale house at
Cincinnati and also worked in a dry goods store. This work enabled him to
accumulate a small capital, with which he continued his education as best
as he could, and having decided to study medicine, he entered the medical
school of the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, where he was graduated
Doctor of Medicine in 1896. Since then he has pursued post-graduate work to
a total of about three years. Doctor Gribble did his first practice in
Cincinnati, but, losing his health, lived outdoors for three years. At that
time he was a man of rather frail health, but has si
nce developed into a fine specimen of physical manhood. For twenty-seven
years he has had his home and office at Pomeroy. He is a member of the
County, State and American Medical associations, is a Knight Templar Mason
and is very fond of outdoor sports, particularly hunting big game in
Canada. He makes yearly excursions to the wilds. His wife has much skill in
the handling of fire arms, and she shares in his enthusiasm for the
outdoors. She is a Presbyterian, and Doctor Gribble's family are Methodists.
        Doctor Gribble married, in 1907, Miss Ursula Hauch, daughter of
August Hauch, of Pomeroy. The Hauch family has lived in this section of
Ohio for a great many years.


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