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Author: Will T. Hale

   GEORGE W. RIMMER. The efficient and valued incumbent of the responsible

office of warden of the state prison of Tennessee, at Nashville, Mr. Rimmer is a

native son of this favored commonwealth and is a scion of a family whose name

has been long and worthily linked with the industrial and civic activities of

the state.



   George Walter Rimmer was born on a farm in Jefferson county, Tennessee, on

the 13th of December, 1870, and is a son of John Henry and Susan (Hammer)

Rimmer, the former of whom was born in Jefferson county and the latter in Sevier

county. William Rimmer, grandfather of the subject of this review, immigrated

from North Carolina to Tennessee, in an early day and numbered himself among the

pioneer settlers of Jefferson county, where he became a successful agriculturist

and where he continued to reside until his death, in 1880, at the venerable age

of eighty-two years, his lineage having been traced back to stanch Irish origin.

John Henry Rimmer and his wife still reside in Jefferson county, where he is a

representative farmer and where he has ever commanded unqualified popular

esteem, as a man of sterling character and as a citizen of loyalty and public

spirit. He celebrated his seventy-eighth birthday anniversary on the 15th of

September, 1912, and died December 23, 1912.



   Reared to the invigorating discipline of the home farm, George W. Rimmer was

afforded the advantages of the public schools of his native county. Thereafter

he continued to be actively concerned with agricultural pursuits for five years,

and he then engaged in the hardware business at Dandridge, the judicial center

of his native county. At the expiration of three years he was elected sheriff of

Jefferson county, and by re-election he continued the incumbent of this office

until July, 1911, when he resigned, to assume the position of deputy warden of

the state prison, at Nashville, an office to which he was appointed by Governor

Hooper. Four months later he was advanced to office of warden, and his

administration has proved in every way efficient and commendable. He is an

insistent disciplinarian but is animated by humane motives and shows an earnest

desire to make the institution of which he has charge an agency for reformation

as well as as one of penance.



   In politics Warden Rimmer gives his allegiance to the Republican party, both

he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian church, and he is affiliated

with the Masonic fraternity, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Junior Order

of United American Mechanics.



   On the 3d of October, 1895, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Rimmer to Miss

Nora Smith, who was born and reared in Hamblen county, this state, and the two

children of this union are Faye Ellis and Clara May.



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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913



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