Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Grimshaw, Joseph 1825 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JOSEPH GRIMSHAW, who is a well-to-do farmer situated on section 22, Watertown
Township, Tuscola County, is a native of England and was born January 13, 1825.
His parents, Frederick and Elizabeth (Anderson) Grimshaw, lived and died in
England, the father passing away in 1881, at the age of eighty-three, and the
wife dying in 1851. They were the parents of five sons and three daughters.
Until lie reached the age of eighteen, Joseph Grimshaw remained in England, and
after crossing the ocean he spent two years in Nova Scotia, and then went to
Canada. He was a member of the Second Battalion Rifle Brigade, Regular Reserve
Force; he enlisted at Swakleys, October 11, 1842, and served for five years and
two hundred and one days. He then purchased his time and was discharged April
15, 1848, having joined for twenty-one years.

  Our subject was married in Canada, to Marinda Ostrander, a Canadian, and a
daughter of Isaac and Deborah (Starkey) Ostrander. Both were Canadians, and the
parents of two sons and four daughters, and Mrs. Grimshaw was born August 6,
1824. Mr. Ostrander was a farmer by occupation. He was bereaved of his wife in
1831, and survived her until 1865.

  To our subject and his wife have been born seven children, namely: William C.,
Emeline E., Adeline, Caroline, Isaac H., Joseph T. and, Angeline M. Mrs.
Grimshaw had been previously married to William Gittins, and had two sons by
this marriage, Barnard and Thomas. Mr. Grimshaw and his wife came to Watertown
Township in 1865, and took charge of a farm which they worked on shares, and
finally purchased. It is a fine tract of forty acres upon which they reside. He
has cleared away the timber and erected excellent buildings, and did much
pioneer labor.

  Mr. Grimshaw has been a life-long Republican, and although he is not what may
be called a politician, he has been raised to numerous township offices, having
been Highway and Drainage Commissioner and Constable. Charles Grimshaw, the
grandfather of our subject, was a native of England, and had a family of three
sons, and the maternal grandparents with whom our subject resided for two years
in his youth, were John and Elizabeth Anderson, both of English birth, and the
parents of two sons and three daughters. Mrs. Grimshaw's grandfather, John
Ostrander, and his wife Christian Ostrander, were of New Jersey birth, and saw
all their large family of nine sons and nine daughters grow to maturity. Mrs.
Christian Ostrander brought up five grandchildren, besides her own numerous
flock. Mr. John Ostrander, the father of this large family, was a British
soldier in the War of 1812, and took part in the battle of Lundy's Lane. He
received a land grant from the British Government for his services, and went to
Canada to reside upon it and there died.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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