ANDREW JACKSON GRIMES, a prosperous farmer of Buffalo township, is a grandson of William Grimes, Sr., who was born east of the mountains in Pennsylvania, and became a pioneer settler of Washington county. He married and settled in Donegal township, where he reared nine children. William Grimes, son of the above, was born in 1818, on the old homestead in Donegal township, this county, and in early manhood removed to Ohio, where he lived twenty years. He finally returned to Pennsylvania, and passed the remaining years of his life on the farm in Buffalo township, which is now occupied by his son, Andrew. He was a successful farmer. Mr. Grimes passed from earth in 1881. Andrew Jackson Grimes was born in the year 1860, and passed his youth in assisting his father on the farm and in attending school, receiving a good education. His sister Sallie resides with him on a portion of the old farm. Mr. Grimes is a member of the United Presbyterian Church at Taylorstown, this county, and in politics is a Democrat, but is not an aspirant for political honors.

Text taken from page 1362 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed January 1997 by Neil and Marilyn Morton of Oswego, IL as part of the Beers Project. Published January 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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