Rev. Nathaniel B. Grubb and Salome Godshall

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Husband Rev. Nathaniel B. Grubb ¹

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           Born: 6 Jul 1850 - Frederick Twp, Montgomery Co, PA 1
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         Father: Silas Grubb (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Bertolet (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 4 Jul 1872 2

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Wife Salome Godshall ¹

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            AKA: Salome C. Gottshall 2
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         Father: Joseph H. Gottshall (1822-1899) 2 3
         Mother: Catherine Clemens (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 M Silas Manasses Grubb ¹

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2 F Katie Augusta Grubb ¹

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3 M Arthur Eugene Grubb ¹

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4 M William Henry Grubb ¹

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5 F Lizzie Irene Grubb ¹

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6 M Wallace Bertolet Grubb ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Nathaniel B. Grubb

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He attended the public school until he arrived at the age of sixteen, and then attended the Frederick Institute for one year. During this time he lived on his father's farm, after which he went to Schwenksville, where he learned the trade of milling.
In the spring of 1872 he was chosen minister by the Mennonite church, of Schwenksville, and was ordained on June 30th of that year. He continued as assistant to Moses H. Gottschall until October, 1882, when he became the pastor of the First Mennonite Church of Philadelphia.
In 1877 he opened a well-equipped printing office, and the same year established the "Schwenksville Item," of which he continued to be publisher and editor until the spring of 1883, when he disposed of his entire business and became the stated pastor of his present [1895]charge, having built the previously small and scattered flock of the First Mennonite Church until now the congregation numbers upwards of four hundred members.
Mr. Grubb is a public spirited man, not allowing a spare moment to pass by unimproved. For nineteen years he has been associated as a member of the Publishing Board of the Mennonite Church of North America, having been its presiding officer for the most of that time. He has for many years been a member of the Home Mission and Church Extension Board of the Eastern District Conference, and at the present time he is the presiding officer of the Conference. He is always prominently identified with the religious work of Philadelphia, being a member of the Board of Managers of the Evangelical Alliance of Philadelphia; also, a member of the Board of Managers of the "First-Day" Society, of Philadelphia.
He is very prominently identified with the work of Christian Endeavor, and for a number of years has taken active part in the great conventions, both international and state. Since the age of seventeen he has always been active in Sunday school work. His aid and counsel is sought by many outside of his own church and denomination.
It was he who conceived the great need of an English church paper for the Eastern Church, and, asking several brethren to cooperate with him, he established "The Mennonite," and for six years he was its editor, when compelled with pressing and accumulating duties to ask to be relieved. "The Mennonite " is now the English organ of the Mennonite Church of North America, made so at the suggestion of its founder in 1893.

1 Daniel Kolb Cassel, A Genealogical History of the Kolb, Kulp or Culp Family (Norristown, PA: Morgan R. Wills, Publisher, 1895), Pg 514.

2 Daniel Kolb Cassel, A Genealogical History of the Kolb, Kulp or Culp Family (Norristown, PA: Morgan R. Wills, Publisher, 1895), Pg 516.

3 Rev. N. B. Grubb, A Genealogical History of the Gottshall Family (Gottshall Family Association, 1924), Pg 17.

4 Gertrude Mohlin Ziegler, The Ziegler Family and Related Families in Pennsylvania (Zelienople, PA: Charles Campbell Printing Co., 1970), Pg 103.