John D. Chubb (1869-1938) was born in Plymouth, England, but came to Marquette as a child. He returned to England for training, then apprenticed with architects H. Gregory and J. B. Sweatt in Marquette in the late 1880s. He worked for several other architects before starting his own firm in Chicago in the late 1890s. He developed a practice throughout the upper Midwest that specialized in public buildings, especially schools. He designed the high schools for Marquette, Ishpeming, Negaunee, Escanaba, Gladstone, Rapid River, Stambaugh, Norway, Munising, and Iron River. For a time he had a branch office in Marquette.^{1<\/sup><\/p>\n}