Portrait and biographical album of Mahaska County, Iowa, containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of Iowa, and of the presidents of the United States . AMES W. GRIMES, thethird gentleman to till theExecutive Chair of the Stateof Iowa, was born in thetown of Deering, Hillsbor-ough Co., N. H., Oct. 20,1816. His parents. John andElizabeth (Wilson) Grimes, werealso of the same former was born on the 11thof August. 1772. and the motherMarch 19,17
Portrait and biographical album of Mahaska County, Iowa, containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of Iowa, and of the presidents of the United States . AMES W. GRIMES, thethird gentleman to till theExecutive Chair of the Stateof Iowa, was born in thetown of Deering, Hillsbor-ough Co., N. H., Oct. 20,1816. His parents. John andElizabeth (Wilson) Grimes, werealso of the same former was born on the 11thof August. 1772. and the motherMarch 19,1773. They became theparents of eight children, of was the youngest and be-came one of the most distinguishedcitizens of Iowa. He attended thedistrict schools, and in early childhood evinced anunusual taste for learning. Besides attending thedistrict schools, the village pastor instructed himin Greek and Latin. After completing his prepar-ations for college, which he did at Hampton Acad-emy, he entered Dartmouth College, in August,1832, which was in the sixteenth year of his was a hard student, advanced rapidly, and inFebruary. 1835, bid adieu to the college halls, andwith James Walker, of Peterborough. N. H., he be-gan the study of his chosen Feelin
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