Source: Written by Bruce Landeck, landeckb@bellsouth.net

SAMUEL EDWARD GRIMM

Samuel was born in Freeburg, Pennsylvania on March 3, 1859. He graduated from 
the Freeburg Academy where he then later taught. He moved to Lewistown, 
Mifflin County, Pennsylvania were he met and married Frances G. Ort on Dec 24, 
1883. In 1889 he, his brother H.H., and brother-in-law Oliver Ort traveled out 
the Centralia, Washington to scout the area. They returned in 1890. Then 
Samuel and his family including wife Frances and children Huber, Warren, and 
Mary, Oliver and his family, and Oliver and Francesą mother Mary Aurand Ort 
moved in April 1891 permanently to Centralia. Two more children, Francis and 
William, were born in Centralia. Samuel and his brother-in-law Oliver laid out 
the Cochran donation claim in Centralia, extending south from Hansen Street, 
and did government surveying on the Olympic peninsula when it was a 
wilderness. Samuel was on the school board in the early days; was elected 
Lewis county assessor in 1898 and 1900, county treasurer in 1902 and 1904, and 
was a director of the Union Loan and Trust company. The family had a 220-acre 
farm in the Hannaford valley, now the Arthur Foote place. They lived in 
Chehalis in 1903 and 1904, while Samuel was holding county office. Three of 
his sons served in World War I, Lieut. Warren O. Grimm, killed in Centralia in 
1919, who served in Siberia; Francis, in the marine corps., and William, in 
France. Huber, Warren, and William made the family name prominent in athletic 
history at the University of Washington. He died at 83 in the home of his son, 
Huber in Centralia and is buried in Mountainview Cemetery in Centralia, 
Washington.