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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



which he has lieen a ruling elder since 

 1890. He joined the Forest Grove Pres- 

 byterian church, Allegheny county, in 

 1869, and was superintendent of the 

 Sharpsburg. (Allegheny county) Pres- 

 byterian Sabbath School for two years. 

 He has been superintendent of the Dan- 

 boro (Bucks county) Sabbath School 

 since 1890, except for an interval of less 

 than a year. He has served for several 

 years as secretary of the Bucks County 

 Sabbath School Association and as pres- 

 ident of the Sabbath School' Associa- 

 tion, second district of Bucks county, 

 and superintendent of the normal depart- 

 ment of the Sunday schools in that dis- 

 trict. 



In June, 1905, Mr. Gross asked- to be 

 relieved from the Sunday School su- 

 perintendent duties at Danboro. In do- 

 ing so the school presented him with a 

 beautiful combination couch, and the fol- 

 lowing resolutions signed- by the one 

 hundred and thirty members: 



Dear Mr. H. W. Gross: 



It is with the deepest regret, that we, 

 the officers, teachers and members of the 

 Danboro' Union Sunday School, accept 

 your resignation as superintendent. 



We lose a superintendent whose life 

 has been marked by the most genial 

 companionship and devoted Christian 

 character. 



In you we have recognized a worker 

 whose individual fidelity has been the 

 means of inspiring the young people and 

 adding endurance and courage to the 

 older ones. 



In you we have seen the Christian in 

 belief, in experience and in example. 



In you we have noticed a church mem- 

 ber in profession, in loyalty and in work. 



In you we have seen a Bible student in 

 teachableness and in thoroughness. 



You have been a teacher in knowledge 

 and a teacher in tact and we will be 

 grateful for continued services. 



All have profited by your sympathy 

 and helpfulness. , 



The members of your family deserve 

 their share of credit for the help they 

 have been. Those were happy Sunday 

 School days when the entire family gath- 

 ered in the chapel from Sabbath to Sab- 

 bath. Every man, woman and child have 

 felt for you all in the sad affiiction which 

 has overtaken one of your children and 

 one of our scholars. 



God be praised that He gave you the 

 talent to do so much for us, and may 

 . He continue to give you and us strength 

 to bear what lies before us. 



And we would not be forgetful of your 

 helpmate who has stood so faithfully by 

 you.- 



Again, we desire to express our grate- 

 ful appreciation of the services you have 

 so faithfully and conscientiously ren- 

 dered, and may our relationship cease 

 with Mizpah. 



July I, 1905- 



Mr.^Gross married at Line Lexington, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania, June 17, 

 1875, Susan Elizabeth Funk, of Ililltown, 

 daughter of Jacob and Susanna (Fretz) 

 Funk, the former a native of Springfield, 

 and the latter a daughter of Martin 

 Fretz, for many years a miller at the old 

 Yost mill near Bloomington Glen, and 

 a granddaughter of Christian and Bar- 

 bara (Oberholtzer) Fretz, of Bedminster. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Gross have been the pa- 

 rents of four children: Sarah Ella, Emma 

 Laura, Esther- F. and Walter Gross. The 

 latter died at the age of eight months. 

 S. Ella Gross attended the West Chester 

 Normal school, and has taught in the 

 public schools of Bucks county for two 

 terms. Emma Laura is an invalid and 

 resides at home. Esther F. Gross at- 

 tended the State Normal school at 

 Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, for one j'ear, 

 graduated from the West Chester Nor- 

 mal school, and is now a teacher in the 

 public schools of Quakertown borough, 

 Bucks county. 



HON. WEBSTER GRIM, of Doyles- 

 town, representative of Bucks county, 

 in the upper house of.the state legis- 

 lature, was born in Nockamixon town- 

 ship, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Au- 

 gust II, 1866, and is a son of Dr. George 

 W. and Elizabeth P. (Koons) Grim. On 

 the paternal side his ancestors were 

 early German- settlers in what is now 

 Montgomery county, the pioneer ances- 

 tor being doubtless Adain Greim, who 

 emigrated from Rhenish, Bavaria, ar- 

 riving in Philadelphia in the ship* "An- 

 derson," Captain Hugh Campbell, Au- 

 gust 25, 1751. The family of Grimm, 

 though for several generations, residents 

 of Prussia or Rhenish Bavaria, trace 

 their descent to early Franks who were 

 residents of that part of Gaul which be- 

 came later Normandy, whose descen- 

 dants became allied with those of their 

 Norse conquerors before their migra- 

 tion to the Rhine provinces about the 

 tenth century. 



The, earliest American ancestor of 

 Senator Grim of whom we have any 

 definite record was George Grim, who 

 was a resident of Upper Salford town- 

 ship, ]\Iontgomery county. Pennsylvania. 

 He married Elizabeth Favinger, also of 

 German origin, and they were the pa- 

 rents of three children, one son Adam 

 and two daughters. Adam Grim, son of 

 George and Elizabeth (Favinger) Grim, 

 married Christina Desmond, daughter of 

 Daniel Desmond, who was of English 

 and Irish extraction. Adam Grim was 

 killed on the Reading railroad in 1S46, 

 when his son George W. was fourteen 

 years of age. 



Dr. George W. Grim was born in 

 Montgomery county, March i,^. 1832. He 

 was educated at Washington Hall, 

 Trappe, Pennsylvania, and received a 



