Margaret Grubb
| Margaret Grubb | |
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Margaret "Polly" Grubb
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| Born |
September 22, 1907 Beltsville, Maryland, United States |
| Died | November 17, 1963 (aged 56) United States |
| Occupation | Glider pilot |
| Spouse(s) | L. Ron Hubbard |
| Children |
L. Ron Hubbard Jr. Katherine May Hubbard. |
Margaret Louise "Polly" Grubb (September 22, 1907 – November 17, 1963) was the first wife of pulp fiction author and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, to whom she was married between 1933 and 1947. She was the mother of Hubbard's first son, L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. and his first daughter, Katherine May "Kay" Hubbard.
Margaret Louise Grubb was born in Beallsville, Maryland in 1907, the only child of Elizabeth (née Crissey) and Thomas Lloyd Grubb (1877-1950).They were a farming family and her father operated a plant nursery in Montgomery County, Maryland. His family settled in Loudoun County, Virginia, in 1762 from Brandywine Hundred, Delaware, and was descendant of John Grubb who originally came from Cornwall in 1677. Her mother Elizabeth died when she was young. Margaret took her first job, in a shoe shop, at the age of sixteen to support herself and her father. Although christened Margaret, she preferred to be known as Polly. She lived with her father in Elkton, Maryland.
Grubb was a keen glider pilot and met L. Ron Hubbard on a Maryland gliding field in early 1933, where both of them were learning to fly as preparation to obtaining a pilot's license. At the time, Hubbard was self-employed as a writer of pulp fiction stories. The two began a relationship after going on a .
Hubbard and Grubb married on April 13, 1933, after only a short courtship. They settled in Laytonsville, Maryland. She had a miscarriage not long afterwards but became pregnant again in October 1933.
On May 7, 1934, she gave birth two months prematurely to Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, Jr. (died 16 September 1991 Carson City, Nevada), while on a vacation with her husband at Encinitas, California. Ron, Jr., legally changed his name to Ronald Edward DeWolf in 1972. and the new name is thusly reflected in the California Birth Index, 1905-1995. The couple had a daughter, Katherine May (or "Kay"), in New York City on January 15, 1936.
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