Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Grim, G. W.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Nockamixon Township


   G. W. GRIM physician, P.O. Revere, was born in Montgomery 
county in 1832.  His great-grandfather, John Grim (a native 
of Prussia), with his wife, by the name of Fisher, and a 
family of twelve children, first settled on the present site 
of Norristown, Montgomery county, about the year 1700.  The 
children grew up and scattered into Berks, Lehigh and 
Schuylkill counties.  The grandfather, George Grim, remained 
in Montgomery county and was married to Elizabeth Favinger, 
whose parents also emigrated from Prussia.  He had one son 
and two daughters.  The Dismant, of English and Irish 
extraction, whose family first settled in Upper Providence 
township, Montgomery county, in the beginning of the 
eighteenth century.  Our subject is a son of this union.  He 
remained at home with his parents until 14 years of age, 
when his father was killed on the Reading railroad.  The 
following nine years were employed in stove moulding, 
teaching and attending school at Washington Hall, Trappe, 
Montgomery county.  He received a good academic education, 
after which he took up the study of medicine and was 
graduated from Jefferson Medical college, of Philadelphia.  
In 1857 he married Elizabeth Koons, by whom he has had the 
following children:  Ida, deceased; F. Harvey, a graduate of 
Jefferson Medical college; Warren, deceased; George Melvin, 
at home, also a graduate of Jefferson Medical college; A. 
Florence, now Mrs. Bigley; I. Webster, Frank S., Harry E., 
Cora B., Nora E., and James S.   In 1859 Dr. Grim came to 
Nockamixon township and has since been engaged in practice 
here.  He also superintends the work on his farm.  The 
family are members of the Reformed church, and the doctor is 
a democrat.