The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . t from under him, he led his men onfoot. Shortly after Col. Grubbs regiment was mus-tered out. Gen. Lee entered* Pennsylvania, and theremnant of the Jersey regiment, headed by Col.
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . t from under him, he led his men onfoot. Shortly after Col. Grubbs regiment was mus-tered out. Gen. Lee entered* Pennsylvania, and theremnant of the Jersey regiment, headed by , promptly answered the call Of Gov. Parkerfor troops, and was the first regiment to reach andrepoi-t at Harrisburg. Col. Grubb was afterwardcolonel of 37th New York volunteers, at the siege ofPetersburg. Gen. Grubb was for a number of yearscaptain of the First Troop, Philadelphia citycavaliy,and at the same time colonel of the 6th regiment,national guards of New Jersey. He is an extensivemine owner in Pennsylvania and Virginia. In 1888he was a candidate for governor of New Jersey, be-ing defeated by Leon Abbett, democrat. In 1889President Harrison appointed him U. S. minister toSpain, where he assisted in negotiating the Reci-procity Treaty between the United States and Spain,and also succeeded in getting the Spanish govern-ment to remove the restriction upon the importationof American pork into m(M^ OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 191
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