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DANIEL H. GRUBB
Among
the agriculturists who gave the best years of their life to the development of
Central California's resources was the late Daniel H, Grubb, who was born near
Madisonville, Tenn., September 12, 1837, a son of Darius and Sarah (Heiskell) Grubb, both natives of Virginia. Daniel H. was
only eight years old when his father passed away and he continued to make his
home on the farm until his marriage to Miss Sarah E. Carson, who was born at
Madisonville, Tenn., October 30, 1840. At the breaking out of the Civil War, he
left his farm to enlist in the Confederate army in Company G, 63rd Tennessee Volunteer
Infantry.
His
company surrendered at the battle of Vicksburg, July 4, 1863, and he returned
to his home in Tennessee. Later he became interested in the mercantile business,
meeting with good success, but in 1868 he determined to seek the more promising
future offered in California. Leaving New York December 28, 1868, with his wife
and two children, for Aspinwall, they crossed the
Isthmus of Panama and arrived in San Francisco on the "Golden State."
Mr. Grubb at
first went to Stockton, then removed to Oakdale and
for two years farmed in Stanislaus County. Next he spent some time in Fresno, then returned to Stanislaus County, where he farmed until
1883, when he purchased 500 acres near Snelling and
became one of the well-known grain farmers of that vicinity. Here Mrs. Grubb
passed away on September 6, 1902, the mother of the following children:
Elizabeth D., the wife of James L. Allen; Charles F., George, James, Daniel H.
and William. Mr. Grubb passed away on November 8, 1912, at the age of
seventy-five, retaining his faculties unimpaired to the last.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1601. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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