Lee Light Grumbine
American lawyer and author
About Lee Light Grumbine
Lived 1858 – 1904 (aged 45–46). Lee Light Grumbine was an American.
Lee Light Grumbine (July 25, 1858 - August 18, 1904) was an American attorney, local historian, and published columnist and poet in the Pennsylvania German language. His dialect pseudonym was "Der Old Schulmashter."
Grumbine was born in Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania and died in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, he was active in the Temperance Movement, and a founding office-holder in the Pennsylvania German Society. In 1889 he became editor of the Lebanon Daily Report newspaper. He notably translated the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge into Pennsylvania German.
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American lawyer and author
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Lee Light Grumbine was born in 1858.
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Lee Light Grumbine died in 1904.
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