Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Grimes, Robert R. 1848 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    ROBERT R. GRIMES, twenty-two years a resident of California, is a native of
Missouri and was born at Macon City, that state, June 10th, 1848. His father,
James Grimes, was a California pioneer of 1850. His mother, whose maiden name
was Sarah Bast, died when he was but eighteen months old and from that time his
life was one of hardships and uncertainties. During childhood, until he was six
years of age, he lived with an aunt at New London, Mo., later spending some time
with a neighbor, Robert Briggs. From 1856 to 1860 he lived with Professor Hugh
Dunlop, which makes the sum total of his school days. He then worked out on
farms. In 1868 he married Miss Ann T. Carter near Perry, Rolls County, Missouri,
and they located at Hannibal, Mo., where he worked in the shops of the Hannibal
& Saint Jo Ry. Co. In 1870 he went to Dallas, Texas. In 1875 he returned to
Missouri and engaged in farming. Later he purchased a broom factory and for nine
years he raised broom corn and manufactured brooms. In 1883 he sold this
property and bought lands in Texas County, southeast Missouri. Later he
purchased the Smalley Hotel at Licking, Mo.

    By reason of poor health he, in 1888, came to Santa Monica unable to walk
without crutches. He was soon able to work and obtained his first employment of
Stephen Jackson. He later spent one year at the U. S. Government Forestry
Station and later was gardener for Senator John P. Jones for two years. He is
well known in Santa Monica as an expert florist and scientific gardener. For his
second wife Mr. Grimes married Miss Annie Wilson, a native of County Monaghan,
Ireland. Mr. Grimes is father of six children by his former marriage. Mrs. M. A.
Paley and Mrs. Dominguez, of Los Angeles; Mrs. Clark Burnham, of Pasadena;
William, of Orcout, California; Robert and John, of Los Angeles.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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