Dickin County IA Archives Biographies.....Grimm, P. G. June 27, 1871 - 
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Author: IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION

IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME III
1804-1926

P. G. GRIMM

The life of the able physician and public-spirited citizen whose name  
appears above affords a striking example of well defined purpose, innate ability  
and persistency of effort.  Doctor Grimm has long enjoyed prestige in a  calling 
which requires for its basis sound mentality and intellectual discipline  of 
a high order, supplemented by rigid professional training and thorough  
mastery of technical knowledge and today his is recognized as one of the leading  
physicians in northwestern Iowa.  Born in Blair, Nebraska, on the 27th of  June, 
1871, the Doctor is a son of Hans and Elizabeth (Harder) Grimm, both of  whom 
were natives of Germany, whence they came to the United States in young  
manhood and womanhood and were married in DeSoto, Nebraska, in 1869.  Soon  
afterwards the father acquired a tract of railroad land adjoining the town of  
Blair, on which he resided to the time of his death, which occurred in 1919, at  
the age of sixty-eight years.  He was the owner of a thousand acres of land  in 
one body, all of which is still in possession of the family.

Having obtained his preliminary education in the public schools of  Blair, 
graduating from high school in 1889, Peter G. Grimm then entered Rush  Medical 
College of Chicago and he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in  1893.  In 
that year he began the practice of medicine at Edgar, Nebraska,  where he 
remained twenty-two years, attaining prominence as a physician and  surgeon, and 
in 1915 he came to Spirit Lake, where he has remained in practice  continuously 
since.  He is a member of the Clay County Medical Society, of  which he is 
president, the Iowa State Medical Society, the American Medical  Association and 
the American Association of Railway Surgeons.  He is now  serving as coroner 
of Dickinson county, is city physician of Spirit Lake and  local surgeon for 
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad.

On June 11, 1903, Doctor Grimm was married to Miss Edith M. Wilson, of  Hot 
Springs, South Dakota, and to them have been born three children:  Wilhelm E.m 
who is a student in the dental school of Creighton University,  at Omaha, 
Nebraska; Edith E., who is a student in Northwestern University, at  Evanston, 
Illinois; and r. sterling.  Fraternally Dr. Grimm is a member of  Twilight Lodge 
No. 329, A. F. & A. M.; Spirit Lake Chapter, No. 132, R. A.  M.; Esdraelon 
Commandery, No. 52, K. T.; Sioux City Consistory, No. 5, A. A. S.  R.; Abu-Bekr 
Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.; and Twilight Chapter, No. 59, O. E. S.,  of which 
Mrs. Grimm is also a member and a past worthy matron, and she is worthy  high 
priest of Calvary Shrine, No. 18, Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem.  In 
addition to his long and creditable career in his profession, Doctor  Grimm has 
also been an honorable member of the body politic, rising in the  confidence 
and esteem of the public, for as a citizen he has easily ranked with  the most 
influential in affairs looking toward the betterment of his  community.



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