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Margaret Grubb
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 Beltsville, Maryland, in 1907, the only child of Elizabeth (née Crissey) and Thomas Lloyd Grubb. They were a farming family and her father operated a plant nursery in Montgomery County, Maryland. His family had settled in Loudoun County, Virginia, in 1762 from Brandywine Hundred, Delaware, and he was a descendant of John Grubb, who originally came from Cornwall in 1677. Margaret's mother Elizabeth died when she was young.
Although christened Margaret, Grubb preferred to be known as Polly. She lived with her father in Elkton, Maryland. She took her first job, in a shoe shop, at the age of sixteen, to support herself and her father.
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 blind date.
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, and became pregnant again in October 1933.
On May 7, 1934, Grubb gave birth two months prematurely to L. Ronald Hubbard Jr. (died September 16, 1991, in 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. On January 15, 1936, the couple had a daughter, Katherine May (or "Kay"), in New York City.
In the spring of 1936 the Hubbards moved to Bremerton, Washington, to be near Hubbard's own family, the Waterburys. They settled in the community of South Colby, Washington, where Hubbard established a "writing studio" from where he produced many of his pulp short stories and novels. The marriage came under strain when Hubbard began spending increasingly long periods in New York in order to be nearer his publishers and fellow pulp writers. Grubb suspected that he was having affairs with other women in New York and confided her suspicions to family friends. According to Robert MacDonald Ford, a friend who later became a state representative, matters came to a head when she found hard evidence of her husband's philandering:
It seems Ron had written letters to a couple of girls in New York and left them in the mail box to be picked up. Polly found them and got so mad that she opened the envelopes, switched the letters and put them back in the box. She didn't tell him what she had done until they had been picked up.
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Margaret Grubb
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 Beltsville, Maryland, in 1907, the only child of Elizabeth (née Crissey) and Thomas Lloyd Grubb. They were a farming family and her father operated a plant nursery in Montgomery County, Maryland. His family had settled in Loudoun County, Virginia, in 1762 from Brandywine Hundred, Delaware, and he was a descendant of John Grubb, who originally came from Cornwall in 1677. Margaret's mother Elizabeth died when she was young.
Although christened Margaret, Grubb preferred to be known as Polly. She lived with her father in Elkton, Maryland. She took her first job, in a shoe shop, at the age of sixteen, to support herself and her father.
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 blind date.
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, and became pregnant again in October 1933.
On May 7, 1934, Grubb gave birth two months prematurely to L. Ronald Hubbard Jr. (died September 16, 1991, in 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. On January 15, 1936, the couple had a daughter, Katherine May (or "Kay"), in New York City.
In the spring of 1936 the Hubbards moved to Bremerton, Washington, to be near Hubbard's own family, the Waterburys. They settled in the community of South Colby, Washington, where Hubbard established a "writing studio" from where he produced many of his pulp short stories and novels. The marriage came under strain when Hubbard began spending increasingly long periods in New York in order to be nearer his publishers and fellow pulp writers. Grubb suspected that he was having affairs with other women in New York and confided her suspicions to family friends. According to Robert MacDonald Ford, a friend who later became a state representative, matters came to a head when she found hard evidence of her husband's philandering:
It seems Ron had written letters to a couple of girls in New York and left them in the mail box to be picked up. Polly found them and got so mad that she opened the envelopes, switched the letters and put them back in the box. She didn't tell him what she had done until they had been picked up.