Montour County PA Archives Biographies.....GRIER, Isaac X. 1835 - 
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  ISAAC X. GRIER, Esq., is a prominent and wealthy citizen of Danville. He was
  born in Danville, December 27, 1835, is a son of Michael C. and Isabella
  (Montgomery) Grier, and a grandson of Rev. Isaac Grier, S. T. D. His mother,
  Isabella, was the daughter of Alexander Montgomery, and granddaughter of Gen.
  William Montgomery, prominent in civil and military affairs throughout the
  Revolutionary period. The great-grandfather was Col. John Grier, who was of
  Scotch-Irish birth, and with many other Protestants came to America about the
  year 1740. This sturdy old ancestor was a farmer and resided below Chambersburg,
  Pa. His son, Rev. Isaac Grier, above named, was the first minister on the West
  Branch of the Susquehanna River; he was pastor of a Presbyterian church of
  Northumberland, of Sunbury, and in Clinton County, and was for several years
  principal of the old brick college at Northumberland. His death occurred in 1812
  or 1813. He was married to Elizabeth Cooper, a daughter of Dr. Cooper, who was
  chaplain at Gen. Washington's headquarters and was held as a prisoner by the
  British for many months. Among their children were Robert C., who became an
  eminent jurist and a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; Thomas
  C., principal of the Danville Academy, who died young; Rev. Isaac, D. D., a
  graduate of Princeton College, who preached over fifty years in the Presbyterian
  Church; John C., who first settled in Danville, where he conducted a mercantile
  business until 1846, when he went to Wilkesbarre, Pa., and thence to Peoria,
  Ill.; William N. was educated at West Point, served on the western frontier and
  also during the Civil War, and was colonel of the ist Regiment,. U. S. Cavalry,
  later being commissioned brigadier-general; Martha, was the wife of Gen. Robert
  Orr of Kittanning, Pa.; Jane was married to William Kibbler of Wilkesbarre, Pa.;
  Elizabeth married Rev. Dr. Thomas C. Strong; Margaret married Henry Sproul, of
  Pittsburg, Pa.; M. C. was a prominent Pennsylvanian, greatly esteemed for his
  philanthropic nature, his public spirit and his high place among the most
  honored and influential laymen in the synods and general assembly of the
  Presbyterian Church. Isaac X. Grier was the second son of M. C. Grier, the
  eldest son being W. A. M. Grier of Brooklyn, N. Y., and the youngest Rev. J. B.
  Grier, D. D. Mr. Grier graduated at Lafayette College in 1858. Before going to
  college he had learned telegraphy and after graduating he acted as secretary and
  treasurer of the old Susquehanna River and North and West Branch Telegraph
  Company, later merged into the Western Union. Meanwhile he studied law in the
  office of Edward H. Baldy, Esq., and was admitted to the bar in 1861. Aside from
  his legal practice he was fully identified with the large public interests of
  the community and was especially zealous and successful in his efforts to bring
  about the location at Danville of the State Hospital for the Insane, of which he
  is one of the trustees. In 1885 he was admonished by impaired health, resulting
  from overwork, to restrict his practice to the management of his own large
  estate, mainly in the neighborhood of Scranton, and the care of a limited number
  of clients. In 1865 Mr. Grier was married to Emma W. Porter, youngest daughter
  of Hon. James M. Porter of Easton, Pa., an eminent jurist and Secretary of War
  in the Cabinet of President Tyler.
  
    Mr. Grier's only son, J. M. P. Grier, graduated at Lafayette College in 1888,
  and was about to be admitted to the bar when he suddenly died. The daughter,
  Isabella, is the wife of Hon. Rufus King Polk, present Representative in
  Congress from the Seventeenth Pennsylvania District.
  
  
  
  Additional Comments:
    Extracted from:
      
      Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
      Published by 
      Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
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