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fairs, taking little part in public mat- 

 ters outside his own immediate local- 

 ity. He married Elizabeth Jamison, 

 daughter of Daniel Jamison, of Nocka- 

 mixon, Bucks county, of. Scotch-Irish 

 ancestry, and they reared a large family 

 of children who by intermarriage with 

 families in that vicinity brought the Car- 

 rells into relation with many of the lead- 

 ing families of Bucks county. His chil- 

 dren were: Joseph; Benjamin, married 

 Mercy Comfort; John; Mary, married 

 Lot Bennett; Sarah, married ]\lahlon 

 Banes; Jesse, married Mary Bennett; 

 Isaac; Elizabeth, married John Cornell. 

 Joseph Carrell, the grandfather of 

 Ezra P. Carrell, was born June i, 1792, 

 at Carrellton, the old family homestead 

 near Richboro. Bucks county. When a 

 young man he learned the trade of a car- 

 penter under his uncle, Jesse Johnson, 

 and followed it some years. About 1835 

 he purchased the Carrell farm in War- 

 minster where he lived the remainder of 

 his life, dying April 25, 1884. When 

 quite a young man he served as corporal 

 in the army during the war of 1812-14, 

 and many were the anecdotes he used to 

 tell of camp life at Camp Dupont, near 

 IMarcus Hook, where his regiment was 

 then stationed, Philadelphia at that time 

 only extending as far north as Vine street 

 and south to Pine street. Those who 

 knew him remember him as a portly, 

 white-haired old gentleman, tall and 

 erect, with a military bearing acquired 

 in youth and never forgotten. He was 

 one of the last survivors of the small 

 coterie of veterans of the war of 1812-14 

 which included General John Davis, 

 W' illiam Bothwell, and one or two others 

 whose relations were very intimate. He 

 was for many years an elder of Nesha- 

 miny Presbyterian church, with whose 

 interests he was actively identified dur- 

 ing his whole life. He was twice mar- 

 ried, to Mary and Anna Gill, sisters, of 

 an old English family who emigrated 

 from London to Philadelphia and later 

 settled in Northampton, Bucks county, 

 where their descendants are now quite 

 numerous. By the first marriage he had 

 three children: Hugh Jamison, Emily, 

 and Ezra Patterson, and by the second 

 marriage two daughters: Sidney, who 

 became the wife of Thomas B. Mon- 

 tanye; and Elizabeth, who married Rob- 

 ert Thompson Engart. 



F. HARVEY GRIM, M. D., who for 



the past twenty-five years has been a 

 prominent physician at Revere, Bucks 

 county. Pennsylvania, was born at Re- 

 vere, September 4, 1859, and is a son of 

 the late Dr. George W. and Elizabeth 

 (Koons) Grim, the former of whom was 

 one of the prominent practicing physi- 

 cians of Upper Bucks and for thirty- 

 three 3'ears was located at Revere, being 



one of the prominent men of that local- 

 ity. His great-grandfather was a native 

 of Rhenish Bavaria, and belonged to a 

 family that were prominent in the af- 

 fairs of Europe several centuries ago, 

 tracing their descent from Prankish resi- 

 dents of that part of ancient Gaul that 

 became later Normandy, where the fam- 

 ily became allied with those of the Norse 

 conquerors, and later migrated to the 

 Rhine Provinces about the tenth cen- 

 tury. 



The American pioneer of the family 

 located in Montgomery county, where 

 George Grim, the great-grandfather of 

 F. Harvey Grim, was born. He located 

 in Upper Salford township and married 

 Elizabeth Favinger, also of German or- 

 igin, and they became the parents of 

 three children, one son Adam and two 

 daughters. 



Adam Grim, son of George and Eliza- 

 beth (Favinger) Grim, married Chris- 

 tina Desmond, of English or Scotch- 

 Irish extraction, and lived in Montgom- 

 ery county. He was killed on the rail- 

 road in 1846. 



Dr. George W . Grim, son of Adam and 

 Christina (Desmond) Grim, was born in 

 Montgomery county, March 13, 1832, 

 and was educated at Washington Hall, 

 Trappe, Pennsylvania, receiving a good 

 academic education. His father dying 

 when he was of the age of fourteen 

 years, he learned the trade of a stove 

 moulder and worked at the same for 

 some years. Having badly burned his 

 foot in the discharge of his duties, he 

 decided to prepare himself for the med- 

 ical profession, and resuming his studies 

 at Washington Hall accepted a position 

 as instructor in that institution, in the 

 meantime entering himself as a student 

 in the office of Dr. Gross, at Harleys- 

 ville. He later entered Jefferson Medi- 

 cal College, from which he graduated 

 in the class of 1859, and immediately lo- 

 cated at Revere. Nockamixon township, 

 Bucks county, where he soon built up a 

 large practice. He purchased a fine 

 farin near Revere, which he conducted 

 in connection with his professional du- 

 ties. He married in 1857 Elizabeth P. 

 Koons. who survives him, and they vVere 

 the parents of nine children, six sons 

 and three daughters. Three of the sons 

 are prominent physicians, two are mem- 

 bers of the Bucks county bar, and one 

 is an instructor at the Keystone State 

 Normal school at Kutztown. The fam- 

 ily are members of the Reformed church. 

 Dr. George Grim died at Revere, March 

 6. 1892. 



Dr. F. Harvey Grim is the eldest son 

 of Dr. George W. and Elizabeth 

 (Koons) Grim. He was reared in Nock- 

 amixon township and acquired his edu- 

 cation at the local school, the West 

 Chester State Normal school and the 

 Keystone State. Normal school at Kutz- 

 town. He studied medicine with his 



