“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


ADAM GRIMM,  deceased; born at Hohlenbrun, near Wunsiedel, 
Bavaria, May 25, 1824, died in Jefferson, Wis., April 10, 1876.  Having 
received a good education, he entered the office of Justice Wachtel, of 
Wunsiedel, whom, after serving faithfully for several years, he left to 
take the position of head clerk under Lawyer Vogel, of the same place; 
he occupied this position for about nine years.  In 1849, he married Miss 
Anna M. Thoma, born Oct. 29, 1829, at Grafenreuth, near Wunsiedel, 
Bavaria, and emigrated to the United States the same year.  They settled 
in Jefferson, Wis., and for years lived the hard life of a Western pioneer, 
farming, nursery and the bee business being his chief pursuits; in 1861, 
he started a general grocery and dry-goods store in Jefferson; sold out in 
1865 and devoted his time during the summer months to the bee 
business, and, during the winter, to buying wood for the C., & N.W. Ry. 
Co; Aug. 17, 1867, he started for Italy to import to this country the 
Italian species of bees; from that time dated his success in the bee 
business, and soon he became known as one of the greatest and most 
successful apiarists of this country; at the time of his death, he had on 
hand 1,397 colonies of bees; in 1873, he erected a bank building in the 
city of Jefferson and formed a stockholder bank, bearing the name of 
“The Farmers’ & Merchants’ Bank of Jefferson,” and, next year, 1874, 
he started the Green Bay Savings Bank in Green Bay, Wis.; in the 
former he occupied the position of cashier to the time of his death.  He 
left surviving his wife and all his children, whose births date as follows:  
Anna B., born Jan. 22, 1850 (married C. F. Bullwinkel, of Jefferson); 
Margaretha, Dec. 10, 1851 (married C. Kueslermann, of Green Bay); 
Katharina, Feb. 6, 1854 (married H. Gieseler, of Green Bay); Elizabeth, 
born April 18, 1857 (married George J. Kispert, of Jefferson), and 
George, born Sept. 11, 1859, and still residing in Jefferson; he received a 
good common-school education, and at the time of his father’s death, 
was attending the Jefferson Liberal Institute; he left his studies to 
undertake the management of the extensive bee business, which his 
father left; selling out most of the old stock, he started in anew, and his 
apiaries now number nearly seven hundred colonies; during the winter of 
1876, he attended the Northwestern University of Watertown, Wis., and, 
in 1877, entered the Law School of Michigan University, where he 
graduated March 26, 1879; he is also engaged extensively in farming 
near Jamestown, Dakota, where he has about five hundred acres under 
cultivation.


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