Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Grim, Captain Samuel March 24, 1837 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

  Captain Samuel Grim, farmer and stock-grower, who was born 
in Richhill Township, March 24, 1837, is a son of Armstrong 
and Mary Ann (Scott) Grim, natives of this county, and of 
German and English origin. His father spent his life as a 
farmer. Of his family of nine children, all grew to be men 
and women and are now in active life. Capt. Grim is the 
third in the family, was reared on his father's farm, and 
received his education in the common schools and Waynesburg 
College. When war broke out he gave up his studies and 
enlisted in Company B, First West Virginia Cavalry, was 
elected First Lieutenant and served three years. He was 
afterwards promoted to the position of Captain, and among 
other engagements he was in the second battle of Bull Run, 
and the battles of Gettysburg and Winchester. 

After returning from the war, February 25, 1865, he embarked 
in the mercantile trade, opening a general store in West 
Finley, Washington County, Penn. After a period of nine 
years he returned to Richhill Township, settled on a farm, 
and has since continued in that occupation. He owns the farm 
where he now resides, which is well stocked and improved and 
contains 216 acres. 

Capt. Grim was united in marriage, February 14, 1864, with 
Lydia J., daughter of A.J. and Eliza (Sargent) Goodwin, 
natives of Greene County and of German extraction. Their 
children are - Francis Sherman, Rosala, wife of James 
Allison, of Waynesburg, Penn.: Robert Lincoln, Henry Ward 
Beecher, Edna Blanche, James G. Blaine, Loa Logan and 
Frances Lydia. In politics Capt. Grim is a Republican. He is 
Adjutant of the William Smith G.A.R. Post 428. 

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