BIO: Abraham GRUBB, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 185-186.
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  ABRAHAM GRUBB, McConnellstown, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born May 
15, 1818, in Hopewell township, son of Samuel and Hannah (Boyer) Grubb. 
He is a brother of Andrew Grubb, of Walker township. Mr. Grubb's 
boyhood was spent on his father's farm, working with his father in 
summer, and attending subscription school during the three winter 
months in a log school house with windows of oiled paper. At the age of 
twenty, he began to learn carpentry and after three years became a 
journeyman, filling that position for two years. Then he began business 
for himself in the valley, building many farm houses and barns, besides 
several houses in McConnellstown. He was also for several years a 
millwright, working in different parts of the county. He removed to 
McConnellstown in 1842, and built his home, a $2,000 brick dwelling, 
and the workshop in which he still carries on the business. Abraham 
Grubb was married in 1847 in Walker township, to Rachel, daughter of 
John Given, a farmer of Walker township. She was born in Huntingdon 
county in 1826. Their children are: James, who died at the age of ten 
years; Elizabeth, wife of Ross Houck, of McConnellstown; Junetia; 
Andrew B.
  Andrew B. Grubb was born in McConnellstown, February 13, 1855. He 
attended the township school and Dickinson Seminary, at Williamsport, 
Pa. Under his father's instructions, he became a skilful carpenter, 
joiner and millwright, and has been in the undertaking business with 
him in McConnellstown for nearly twenty-five years; they have been very 
successful. Andrew B. Grubb was married in Walker township in May, 
1877, to Samantha B. Yocum, born in Juniata township in 1853, and died 
January 22, 1892. They had no children.
  Abraham Grubb is a Democrat, and was several times elected as auditor 
on the ticket of that party. His son served as assessor one term and 
for three years as school director; he is also a K. of G. E. Mr. Grubb, 
Sr., was an I. O. O. F., one of the first in this county to join that 
society. Abraham Grubb is a devoted and consistent member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church, which he serves as treasurer and steward. 
His long life of abstinence from tobacco and alcoholic drinks speaks in 
the cause of temperance more eloquently than words. He and his son are 
both teachers in the Sunday-school.