Died at age 72.
JOHN TODD GRIMSLEY, of the firm of Herndon & Co., is one of the leading merchants and prominent business men of Springfield. The firm has a commodious double store, comprising three floors, and advantageously located on the corner of Adams and Fifth Streets, and is carrying on a very extensive business in the sale of general dry goods and cloaks. This is one of the largest and most prominent firms in this city, doing an annual business of $200,000 and employing a force of sixty-three hands.
Our subject is a native of Springfield, and was born February 3, 1848, to Harrison and Elizabeth (Todd) Grimsley, natives respectively of Kentucky and Illinois. Completed his education in the city schools, and has been in the mercantile business all of his active life, and a member of the same firm for twenty-two years. He is systematic, prompt and enterprising in his business dealings, and is withal true and upright in all his relations, whether of a business or social nature. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and stands among the first citizens of this his native city.
Mr. Grimsley and Miss Cornelia Messler, of Somerville, N.J., celebrated their marriage December 12, 1871. It has been blessed to them by the birth of one child, Mary Swift. Mrs. Grimsley is a daughter of the Rev. Dr. Messler, now deceased, who was for forty-seven years the pastor of the First Reformed Church of Raritan, at Somerville, N.J.
PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1891
JOHN TODD GRIMSLEY, of the firm of Herndon & Co., is one of the leading merchants and prominent business men of Springfield. The firm has a commodious double store, comprising three floors, and advantageously located on the corner of Adams and Fifth Streets, and is carrying on a very extensive business in the sale of general dry goods and cloaks. This is one of the largest and most prominent firms in this city, doing an annual business of $200,000 and employing a force of sixty-three hands.
Our subject is a native of Springfield, and was born February 3, 1848, to Harrison and Elizabeth (Todd) Grimsley, natives respectively of Kentucky and Illinois. Completed his education in the city schools, and has been in the mercantile business all of his active life, and a member of the same firm for twenty-two years. He is systematic, prompt and enterprising in his business dealings, and is withal true and upright in all his relations, whether of a business or social nature. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and stands among the first citizens of this his native city.
Mr. Grimsley and Miss Cornelia Messler, of Somerville, N.J., celebrated their marriage December 12, 1871. It has been blessed to them by the birth of one child, Mary Swift. Mrs. Grimsley is a daughter of the Rev. Dr. Messler, now deceased, who was for forty-seven years the pastor of the First Reformed Church of Raritan, at Somerville, N.J.
PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1891
Died at age 72.
JOHN TODD GRIMSLEY, of the firm of Herndon & Co., is one of the leading merchants and prominent business men of Springfield. The firm has a commodious double store, comprising three floors, and advantageously located on the corner of Adams and Fifth Streets, and is carrying on a very extensive business in the sale of general dry goods and cloaks. This is one of the largest and most prominent firms in this city, doing an annual business of $200,000 and employing a force of sixty-three hands.
Our subject is a native of Springfield, and was born February 3, 1848, to Harrison and Elizabeth (Todd) Grimsley, natives respectively of Kentucky and Illinois. Completed his education in the city schools, and has been in the mercantile business all of his active life, and a member of the same firm for twenty-two years. He is systematic, prompt and enterprising in his business dealings, and is withal true and upright in all his relations, whether of a business or social nature. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and stands among the first citizens of this his native city.
Mr. Grimsley and Miss Cornelia Messler, of Somerville, N.J., celebrated their marriage December 12, 1871. It has been blessed to them by the birth of one child, Mary Swift. Mrs. Grimsley is a daughter of the Rev. Dr. Messler, now deceased, who was for forty-seven years the pastor of the First Reformed Church of Raritan, at Somerville, N.J.
PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1891
JOHN TODD GRIMSLEY, of the firm of Herndon & Co., is one of the leading merchants and prominent business men of Springfield. The firm has a commodious double store, comprising three floors, and advantageously located on the corner of Adams and Fifth Streets, and is carrying on a very extensive business in the sale of general dry goods and cloaks. This is one of the largest and most prominent firms in this city, doing an annual business of $200,000 and employing a force of sixty-three hands.
Our subject is a native of Springfield, and was born February 3, 1848, to Harrison and Elizabeth (Todd) Grimsley, natives respectively of Kentucky and Illinois. Completed his education in the city schools, and has been in the mercantile business all of his active life, and a member of the same firm for twenty-two years. He is systematic, prompt and enterprising in his business dealings, and is withal true and upright in all his relations, whether of a business or social nature. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and stands among the first citizens of this his native city.
Mr. Grimsley and Miss Cornelia Messler, of Somerville, N.J., celebrated their marriage December 12, 1871. It has been blessed to them by the birth of one child, Mary Swift. Mrs. Grimsley is a daughter of the Rev. Dr. Messler, now deceased, who was for forty-seven years the pastor of the First Reformed Church of Raritan, at Somerville, N.J.
PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1891
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