Wood County OhArchives Biographies.....Walter Williams  Brim 

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Patrick McVicker Pat.McVicker@ProMedica.org May 22, 2003, 2:25 pm

Author: Portrait and Bio. Record of Toledo and Wood County, OH. qR977.113

Walter Williams Brim was born in Troy Township, Wood, Ohio, on December 9, 
1843.   He was the second of nine children born to his parents, George Brim and 
Betsy Marie Loop.   Walter's older brother was James J.   Younger brothers were 
George, Jr. and Gilbert B.   Sisters were Emaline and Emily (twins, with Emily 
dieing 
in infancy), Laney, Betsy and Clara.   His father was born in Berry Pomeroy, 
Devonshire, England and immigrated to this country in the spring of 1835., 
settling 
near Stoney Ridge in Wood County.   First working in a brickyard and later 
working 
in lumbering, along the Maumee River.   During the years 1837 to 1848, he 
labored 
in the building of the Western Reserve and Maumee Turnpike.   Walter Brim's 
mother 
was born in New York State, March 13, 1813, the daughter of Peter Loop and 
Rebecca Gilbert Loop.
 
Five years after Walter's birth, 1848, his father purchased forty acres of land 
in Sandusky 
County.   It was here that Walter received his early education.   Later he 
attended the 
seminary at Maumee, Ohio.   The Seminary was a Methodist Episcopal 
denominational 
school and after completing three terms of study, left the school   in the 
spring of 1863.   
He was nineteen years of age when he enlisted in Co. L, 3rd Cavalry, under Col 
Charles 
Seidell and Col. Howland.   He served in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia 
and 
North Carolina, taking part in the battle of Mission Ridge and the siege of 
Knoxville 
(in which he was among the advance troops) and among the first to break through 
the lines 
and communicate with Burnside.   After following Longstreet into North 
Carolina, he went 
with his regiment into winter quarters on the Hiawassee River.   In the spring 
of 1864 
followed Bragg into Georgia, charging the enemy at Dalton.   In the Atlanta 
campaign he was 
in many skirmishes, and just before the march to the sea, in the fall of 1864, 
when the Cavalry 
force was divided, he returned to Louisville under Wilson.   The next spring he 
took part in the 
Wilson raid through Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, also to Columbus and Macon, 
George. 
At Columbus, Wilson's command captured twelve hundred Confederates, with a loss 
of thirty 
men. Walter Brim's company was a portion of the force detailed to capture Jeff 
Davis and 
though he was not with the party that took possession of that noted leader, he 
rode over one 
hundred miles in pursuit of him.   At the close of the War he held the rank of 
First Corporal, 
and was discharged at Edgefield, Tenn., August 4, 1865.   Four years after 
returning from the 
South, Walter engaged in farming during the summer and teaching in the winter, 
after which he 
devoted himself entirely to the management of his father's homestead.   In 1876 
he moved to a 
farm near Millbury, and was a member of George Douglas Post No. 183, G.A.R., of 
Millbury.   
He served as Mayor and Councilman of Millbury and served as director of the 
school..

Walter Brim was married to Harriett S. Brahm, on February 4, 1875.   Harriett 
was born in Loudon, 
Pennsylvania, on January 18, 1847, and was the daughter of David and Sarah 
Lookinbill Brahm,
native of the Keystone State, and of Dutch descent.   She moved to Fremont, 
Ohio with her parents, 
when she was about fourteen years of age.   She became the mother of four 
children.   Mary Emma 
(July 12, 1876), who was married to Edwin E. Dancer.   Thomas Earl Brim 
(February 4, 1879) 
married to Gertrude Chambers.   Walter Rolla (October 19, 1891) drown in stony 
quarry, 
September 3, 1898. and David Raymond (June 1, 1891) married to Esther C. Gross.

Walter Brim died in Toledo, Lucas, Ohio on August 9, 1934 (at the age of 
ninety) and is buried in the 
Lake Township Cemetery, Walbridge, Ohio, along with his wife, Harriett, who 
died April 10, 1920, 
in Millbury, Ohio.

Information compiled by Edward J. McVicker (Great Grandson of Walter W. Brim) 
using the 
following sources.   "Portrait and Bio. Record of Toledo and Wood County, OH. 
qR977.113
Genealogy of George Brim and Mary Williams by Esther Brim 1970 and from 
personal knowledge 
of Walter.   He lived with my family when I was about ten years of age.   I 
remember   him setting 
on our front porch swing and upon his tattered horse buggy seat.   My mother 
and sister hid his buggy 
seat in our garage because it looked so bad.   Grandpa Brim was so angry (and 
thinking that I had 
taken the seat) came to the play yard and led me home while holding on to my 
ear lobe)   My 
impression at the time was that he was a mean old man but I changed my mind 
after working on his 
genealogy.



Additional Comments:
Information submitted by Patrick McVicker (Great-great grandson) 17 April 2003


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