Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Grimmer, Michael 1853 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

MICHAEL GRIMMER.

  Michael Grimmer, who is serving for the second term as county auditor of Lake
county and is a resident of Crown Point, was born in Ross township, this county,
on the 18th of July, 1853, and his entire career has been such as to command the
confidence, good will and respect of his fellow-citizens. His father, Michael
Grimmer, made his way to Chicago in 1841, and after residing in the embryo city
for a number of years took up his abode in Lake county, Indiana, in 1849. He was
one of the pioneers of this section of the state, and he devoted his energies to
agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred in 1853, when his son
Michael was but eight weeks old. He left beside his widow four children, two
daughters and two sons, the eldest being then but little more than twelve years
of age. The mother afterward married again, and Michael Grimmer remained at home
with his step-father until about sixteen years of age, assisting in the
operation of the home farm. He then started out in life on his own account, and
though he had but limited school privileges to equip him for the duties of the
business world he possessed energy and determination, and resolved to win
advancement. By working as a farm hand he earned the money that enabled him to
attend school in the winter months, and later he began teaching in the district
schools, being connected with that profession for ten years. In 1880 he embarked
in general merchandising at Schererville, where he continued for seventeen
years. His business was capably conducted, and his enterprise and fair dealing
formed the substantial foundation upon which he builded his success.

    In the meantime Mr. Grimmer had been called to public office. He is a stanch
Republican in his political views and has taken an active interest in the work
of the party throughout the period of his majority. While engaged in
merchandising at Schererville he served for eight years as trustee of St. John
township, and in 1897 he was elected auditor of Lake county, serving so
faithfully during the succeeding three years that in 1900 he was re-elected and
is now the incumbent in that office. He discharges his duties with marked
promptness and fidelity, and his public career is one which has gained for him
unabating confidence and respect.

    In 1879 Mr. Grimmer was united in marriage to Miss Lena Newman, a daughter
of Joseph and Mary Newman, and they have two children: Frances, who is in the
office with her father; and Fred, who is attending school. Mr. Grimmer is one of
the leading citizens of Lake county, where he has spent his entire life. He is a
self-educated as well as a self-made man. Starting out in life for himself ere
he had attended school to any extent, he became imbued with a laudable ambition
to attain something better, and has steadily advanced in those walks of life
demanding intellectuality, business ability and fidelity. To-day he commands the
respect and esteem not only of his community but of people throughout the state.
Over the record of his public career and his private life there falls no shadow
of wrong, for he has ever been most loyal to the duties of friendship and of
citizenship, and his history well deserves a place in the annals of his native
county.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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