Ignatius Cooper Grubb

Who was Ignatius Cooper Grubb?

Ignatius Cooper Grubb was a Delaware politician, jurist and historian who served as an Associate Justice of the Court of Errors and Appeals from 1886 to 1897 and as the Associate Justice at large of the Delaware Supreme Court from 1897 to 1909. As Secretary of State under Governor John P. Cochran from 1875 to 1879, he became involved in a boundary dispute with New Jersey that was not resolved until 1935. He is best remembered as the champion for legislative reapportionment in Delaware in the 1880s and 90s and as the author of a 1896 history of the Delaware judiciary.