BIO: Henry GRIMM, Centre County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including 
the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing 
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. 
Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898.
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COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.  519

  HENRY GRIMM, the well-known merchant tailor of State College, Centre 
county, is a man of marked ability and enterprise, and although he has 
only been a resident of that place since 1892 his excellent qualities 
have won for him the high regard of all with whom he has been 
associated.
  Mr. Grimm is a native of Bavaria, and a descendant of an old and 
honored family, the patronymic having been known in Bavarian history 
for more than nine hundred years. His grandfather, John Grimm, was a 
merchant in that county, and Henry Grimm, our subject's father, spent 
his entire life there, his death occurring in 1862. The mother is still 
living in Bavaria, and one of their three children, our subject, the 
youngest, is the only one to seek a home in the New World. (1) Charles 
is an official in the Bavarian government, and (2) Frederica married, 
and resides in her native land.
  Our subject was born March 4, 1857, and was but five years old when 
he lost his father. On arriving at a suitable age he learned the 
tailor's trade, and worked as a journeyman at his old home until 1883, 
when he came to America. Locating at Philadelphia, he continued to work 
at his trade as a journeyman, but in 1892 he removed to and settled at 
State College, where he went into business on his own account, as a 
merchant tailor, purchasing a shop which at present monopolizes the 
business of the vicinity in that particular line. As Mr. Grimm is an 
expert in high-class tailoring, keeping thoroughly up-to-date in style, 
and is, withal, moderate in his prices, he is likely to retain his 
leadership in his chosen calling. He has a fine residence at State 
College, purchased in 1892.
  His wife, formerly Miss Carrie Miller, was born thirty-four years ago 
at Philadelphia. Their home is made merry by the presence of four 
children - Harry, Liza, Latta and Charles. Since choosing America as an 
abiding place, Mr. Grimm has made constant and thoughtful study of all 
questions which affect the public welfare, and he is active in the 
support of measures of which he approves, his influence being given 
politically to the Republican party. In religious faith he is a 
Lutheran, but there being no Church of that denomination at his present 
home, he attends the Presbyterian one.