History of Grimes County, Iowa

Excerpts from the "The History of Iowa", by Benjamin F. Gue. Copyright 1903
Transcribed by Sue Soden .

Copyright © 1998 by Sue Soden.

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GRIMES COUNTY, IOWA
1876 created
1876 abolished
PARENT COUNTY: Pottawattamie

Grimes County was created by act of the Sixteenth General Assembly in 1876,
embracing twelve townships lying in ranges thirty-eight, thirty-nine and
forty of Pottawattamie County. The act provided in compliance with a
provision of the Constitution, that the proposition should be submitted to
a vote of the electors of 1876. The division of the county was defeated at
that election and the new county was never organized. It was named for
Ex-Governor James W. Grimes, for many years a distinguished member of the
United States Senate.