Margaret Louise "Polly" Grubb was the first wife of pulp fiction author and Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard, to whom she was married between 1933 and 1947.
15 Facts About Margaret Grubb
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Margaret Grubb was the mother of Hubbard's first son, L Ron Hubbard Jr.
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Margaret Louise Grubb was born in Beltsville, Maryland, in 1907, the only child of Elizabeth and Thomas Lloyd Grubb.
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Margaret Grubb's 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.
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Margaret Grubb took her first job, in a shoe shop, at the age of sixteen, to support herself and her father.
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Hubbard and Grubb married on April 13,1933, after only a short courtship.
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Margaret Grubb had a miscarriage not long afterwards, and became pregnant again in October 1933.
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On May 7,1934, Grubb gave birth two months prematurely to L Ronald Hubbard Jr.
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Margaret Grubb suspected that he was having affairs with other women in New York and confided her suspicions to family friends.
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Margaret Grubb didn't tell him what she had done until they had been picked up.
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Margaret Grubb had briefly considered moving to California to be with her husband during his posting there, but decided not to, as she did not want to uproot her children.
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Margaret Grubb filed for divorce in Port Orchard, Washington, on April 14,1947, on the grounds of "desertion and non-support", since neither she nor her children were obtaining any support from her absent husband.
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Margaret Grubb had no idea that he had already committed bigamy by being married to another woman, nor did Hollister know until then about Grubb.
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Margaret Grubb demanded 42 months of support payments that Hubbard had failed to make since their settlement, totaling $2,503.79.
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Hubbard responded by saying that Margaret Grubb should not have custody of the children because she "drinks to excess and is a dipsomaniac".