Recently Ancestry.com provided our family with yet more interesting family history information. Through their site you can now search many US Yearbooks and by doing so we came across our paternal grandfather's High School yearbook photo, circa 1929. He's at the bottom - D. Austin Grubb.
Our father had apparently never seen this particular yearbook or photo and commented with the following "Interesting. Must be from West High School in Akron. I think he only spent his last year there. Before then he went to Western Reserve Academy in Hudson. But then his father died and the money dried up. I didn't know that he was "Bud" that early in his life."
The part that we found amusing was once again the strong similarities in the Grubb men through the generations. Beyond the physical resemblance which is again very apparent, there are definitely some personality traits that shine through even in the little comments next to his photo, i.e. "Hobby: Finding a suitable hobby." Apparently being a bit of a smart ass runs in the family because if we didn't know better we could attribute that quote to either of the two David Austins who came after him!
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