MUSCOGEE COUNTY, GA - BIOS George J. Grimes, M.D.

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Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Georgia, Page 615
Published by the Atlanta Historical Association in 1895

MUSCOGEE COUNTY

George J. Grimes, M.D., was born in the city of
Columbus, Ga., Jan. 12, 1847.  He began the study of
medicine under his father, Dr. Thomas W. Grimes, one of
the leading physicians of Columbus.  Young Grimes was
graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical college of
New York city in 1868; returned to Columbus the same
year and entered actively upon the practice of his
profession, in which he has achieved a very wide and
enviable reputation.  In 1872-73 Dr. Grimes was made
visiting physician to the Columbus City hospital, and
from 1886-1891 was president of the board of health of
Columbus.  In this capacity he rendered much valuable
service to the public in preventing, by a rigid system
of quarantine, the influx of refugees from the various
quarters infected with the yellow fever.  In 1892 Dr.
Grimes was elected first vice-president of the Georgia
State Medical association.  He is the author of a
series of papers of much practical value to the medical
profession, on the subjects of Aneurism, Hernia and
Tubercular Meningitis.  Personally Dr. Grimes is held
in highest esteem, and is a social favorite and of
Chesterfieldian manners.  While held in high esteem by
the rich, he commands the gratitude of the poor on
account of appreciated services rendered them, and is a
typical representative of the true southern gentleman,
many of whom are yet found in the old county of
Muscogee.