BIO:  Anthony Grime, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Hopewell Township, Pg 113

ANTHONY GRIME (or as he is familiarly called Webster Grime), son of Daniel and 
Catherine (Snyder) Grime, was born February 12, 1825, in York Township.  He 
received a common school education and taught school for ten terms in York, 
Windsor and Springfield Townships.  At the breaking out of the Rebellion Mr. 
Grime promptly responded to his country’s call, and enlisted in Company C, 
Eighty-seventy Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers (August 27, 1861), and was with 
his regiment until taken prisoner June 22, 1864, in front of Petersburg.  He was 
taken to Libby prison, then to Castle Thunder and Belle Island; was taken to 
Danville; after a short stay was removed to Andersonville, remaining a prisoner 
of war from June 22, 1864, to March 31, 1865.  After being honorably discharged 
he returned to his native county, where he has since resided.  He has, for many 
years, been the weekly correspondent of the Pennsylvanian, and for some time 
correspondent of the Weekly Republican, Gazette and True Democrat for Hopewell 
and surrounding townships.