"An Illustrated History of Whitman County, state of Washington." San Francisco:
W. H. Lever, 1901.  p. 359.
 
JOHN F. GRIMM, M. D.
 
     It is a trait of of human nature to admire and respect a man who surmounts
obstacles, overrides difficulties and achieves success in life, making the most
of every talent. Such a man is he whose name gives caption to this review, and
it is with pleasure that we accord due recognition to his true manliness and
force of character in these pages.
 
     Dr. Grimm is a native of Knox county, Illinois, born September 23, 1851,
the son of James Cary and Clarissa (Richards) Grimm, natives of Ohio.  When six
years old he accompanied the remainder of the family to Iowa, where he received
his educational discipline, the same consisting of a course in the William
McLain Academy of Iowa City, and a medical course or partial course in the State
Medical University, also located in Iowa City. He afterwards spent two years in
the Rush Medical College of Chicago, graduating February 22, 1881, with the
degree of medical doctor.
 
     No sooner had the doctor completed his professional training, which with
all his other education, was, by the way, acquired by his own unaided efforts,
than he set out for the west. He first visited California, but soon came north to
Willamette valley, where he practiced his profession until 1884. In that year he
removed to Farmington, and here he has ever since resided, engaged first in the
practice of medicine, to which a full decade was given, later in farming. The
doctor has a fine tract of land, embracing two hundred and eighty acres in this
county, contiguous to the town of Farmington, and a quarter section in Idaho.
Upon this land he is raising fine thoroughbred horses principally, though he also
produces some wheat. He resides with his family in a comfortable home in
Farmington, supplied with all the conveniences and necessities and not a few of
the luxuries of life.
 
     The doctor is a good, public-spirited citizen, and one who stands well in
the town and wherever he is known. Fraternally he is affiliated with the
time-honored Masonic order.  His marriage was solemnized in Iowa on May 4, 1881,
Miss Floy I., daughter of Sylvester and Laura (Risley) Leonard, natives of New
York state, then becoming his wife. To their union three children have been
born: Lura and Amber, living, and Leta, deceased.
 

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Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in July 2016 by Diana Smith.
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