Northern Alabama, historical and . sof Honor, and Ancient Order of United Workmen,and is prominently connected as a State officerwith each of these secret societies. Our subjects father, Thomas W. Grubbs, wasborn in Brunswick County, Ya., about 1792. Hiswife was a native of the same county, and justthirty days younger than her husband. In earlymarried life they moved to Giles County, Tenn.,where they lived on a farm and where their dustnow repose. He filled various offices of trust,such as sheriff, collector and census taker,and in 1840, it is said, was jiersonally ac-quainted w
Northern Alabama, historical and . sof Honor, and Ancient Order of United Workmen,and is prominently connected as a State officerwith each of these secret societies. Our subjects father, Thomas W. Grubbs, wasborn in Brunswick County, Ya., about 1792. Hiswife was a native of the same county, and justthirty days younger than her husband. In earlymarried life they moved to Giles County, Tenn.,where they lived on a farm and where their dustnow repose. He filled various offices of trust,such as sheriff, collector and census taker,and in 1840, it is said, was jiersonally ac-quainted with every householder in (iiles was a son of Ezekiel Grubbs of Revolutionaryfame. DR. WILLIAM EDWARD FOREST, Presidentof tlie Decatur Building and Investment Com-pany, was born March 17,1850, in Burlington, is a son of John R. and Caroline (Powers)Forest, the former a native of England. William E. Forest graduated at the Universityof Yermont, at Burlington, in 1874, in the classicalcourse, and again at the University of New York,. NORTHERN ALABAMA. 329 ill 187G. in the medical course. He practiced in the hospitals of New York City and else-wiicre. was conneotod with tlie Womens Asylumand the New Yori< Dispensary, and contributedmany monograplis to medical journals, lie was aMUinber of several medical so<neties while activelyin the practice. Ill issii l)i-. ilHcst invested extensively in ill Nortli AlabaiiKi. and in these speculationswas remarkably successful. In 1887 he madeDecatur his home, and became one of the organ-izers of the Decatur Laud and Improvement Com-pany, and has since become a stockiiolder in nearlyall the enterj)rises in tiiat booming city. lie ispresident of the Building and Investment Com-]iaiiy and of two hrick manufacturing companies:president of the Wire Fence Company; largeststockholder and director in the Gas & Oil Com-pany; and secretary in the Artificial Ice is a Knight of Honor, a member of the A
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