William H. Grim    

WILLIAM H. GRIM, physician, Beaver Falls, was born in New Sewickley township, Oct. 20, 1833, and is a son of Michael and Martha (Shearrer) Grim. His grandfather, Philip L. Grim, of German descent and a native of York county, Pa., moved to Beaver county in 1800, settling in New Sewickly township, where he cleared and improved a farm. He erected a two-story residence, which is now occupied by Sampson Pearsall. He had four sons and four daughters, the sons being John, George, Philip and Michael, the last named a soldier of the War of 1812. He cleared and improved a farm in his native township, and died there. His wife was a daughter of John and Mary Shearrer, pioneers of Butler and Beaver counties. They had eight children: Philip L., John, George, Conrad, David, William H., Joseph and Esther (Mrs. George Hartje). His second wife was Susan Nye, by whom he had one son, Benjamin. William H. Grim was reared in Beaver county, taught school for six years, and later studied medicine. He took his first course of lectures in the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, and was graduated from Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1869. He located in Beaver Falls, where he now has a large practice. He was twice married; first to Lucinda, daughter of Levi and Leah (Tice) Spangler, of Lebanon county, Pa., by whom he has one son, William Simpson, now a student of medicine. His second wife was Amelia A., daughter of Archibald and Ann R. (Baker) Robertson, of Beaver Falls. Dr. Grim has served officially in the school board of Beaver Falls for many years. He is a member of the Beaver County Medical Society; is a F. & A.M., and a member of the A.O.U.W.; politically he is a Jeffersonian Democrat.

History of Beaver County, including its early settlement; its erection into a separate county; its subsequent growth and development; sketches of its boroughs, villages and townships; portraits of some of its prominent men; biographies of many of its representative citizens; statistics, etc. by J. F. Richard; A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888. More Beaver County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file! Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com