BIO:  Roie (Adams) GRUMBINE, Lebanon County, PA

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Biographical Annals of Lebanon County Pennsylvania.
Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1904
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ROIE (ADAMS) GRUMBINE, musician, and wife of Lee L. Grumbine, though residing 
for the greater part of her life in Lebanon county, was born in the village of 
Naples, Ontario Co., N.Y.  Her father, John Adams, was a native of Exmouth, 
England, and her mother, Sibyl Fox, of Saybrook, Conn.  Through her mother she 
is descended from the large and prominent family of Palmers, originally from 
Massachusetts.  Miss Adams was educated in the Naples Academy, and graduated in 
music from the then celebrated Lyons Musical Academy, of Lyons, N.Y., of which 
Rev. L. Hinsdale Sherwood, father of William H. Sherwood, the great pianist, was 
the founder, and during his life the principal.  She also studied under the 
latter and in Boston and other places.  She came to Lebanon county as teacher of 
music in Palatinate College, Myerstown, and was principal of the Musical 
Department in this institution for nearly ten years.  It was owing alike to her 
ability as a teacher and to her administrative powers that this department 
rapidly grew in numbers and in influence until it became the leading and most 
important department of the college.  Since her marriage she has resided in the 
City of Lebanon, where she continued her teaching, her pupils numbering 
hundreds; and scores of these are now themselves teaching music here and in 
other places.  It is not too much to say that for upwards of twenty years Mrs. 
Grumbine exerted the leading musical influence in this community, which in music 
culture ranks second to none in the State.  She has also been a contributor to 
various musical periodicals.