Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Grimes, Samuel 1835 - about 1870
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

SAMUEL GRIMES, M. D.

   Dr. Samuel Grimes was born in Maryland and came to Delphi in the year 1835.
He married Almira Milroy, the second daughter of Gen. Samuel Milroy, who died in
1850. He was the state agent for a number of years, when a fire destroyed his
office and the records. He owned considerable land adjacent to Delphi, and laid
out additions to the town, known as "Grimes first and second additions." He
practiced medicine many years, and was associated with Dr. E. W. H. Beck. He was
a highly-educated man, a great student and writer. He had great confidence in
the future of his town and was progressive and energetic in building up the
town. One building remains of his work, erected in 1837 or 1838, which was first
built near where the Monon passenger depot now is. When the frame work was up a
severe wind storm demolished it; he then moved it over to the north side of
town, on an eminence, above high water, and completed it. It was designed for a
tavern, as he expected a side-cut taken from the canal would pass not far from
his place. A side-cut was taken out, but it went no farther than the Spears,
Case & Dugan warehouse. The edifice was never used for a tavern, and for years
stood uninhabited, save only in part. The building has borne for many years the
euphonious name, "Grimes' Folly."

   Doctor Grimes died in Baltimore, Maryland, about 1870, and left no children:
but left a will, which was probated in the Carroll circuit court, in February,
1871. The will was contested and finally set aside. There was a peculiar clause
in the will, which was a legal puzzle. It provided, after making certain
bequests to the heirs of Dr. E. W. H. Beck, that a certain amount of his estate
be used by the "Orthodox clergymen of Delphi for the benefit of colored
children." Delphi, not having such a clerical body, the court held that the will
was indefinite, uncertain and incapable of execution. The colored children did
not get anything, and the legatees did not get near all the estate.


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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana

CHAPTER IX.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF DECEASED PIONEERS OF CARROLL COUNTY.


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