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· . €. Oliver Grimes, Jr ... .........OLIVER GRINIES, JR. was born October 29,1878, at Westminster, Maryland. His father being ] --(. a member of the Board of Trustees of Western Maryland College, it was natural that Mr. ~<::;) Grimes should receive his academic education at this institution, which, moreover, was so con- vcnicnt to his home. It was characteristic of Mr. Grimes, that he graduated at a very early age, after a very successful college cancer. Having left this college with the Class of 1896, :\11". Grimes attended the University of Maryland 1'01 three years, c1uring which time he fitted himself 1'01' his chosen profession, the law. While at the University of Maryland, he became a member of the Alpha Alpha Chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. III 1899, he received his degree and returned to Westminster. to the practice of law. Since that time with characteristic energy, he formed with [1011. Charles T. Reifsnidcr the firm of Reifsnicler & Grimes, Artorneys-at-La ,v. :'''''1'. Grimes soon made it apparent that his field of operations was not bounded by the limits of the legal profession; the business world as well was soon to sec in him, young as he was, a star of consider- able and rapidly increa sing magnitude. Bu t, meanwhile, one of those all-absorbing events notto be lightly touched upon, yet impossible to be omitted, was to dawn upon the lifc which it is our pleasure to clu-oniclc; on January 9, 1901, Mr. Grimes married :\Iliss Bertha Graver, of Pittsburg, Pa. On resuming his business career, so pleasantly interrupted, Mr. Grimes soon caused himself to be rec- ognized as one of the leaders in the commercial enterprise of his native Lawn, aside from his association with many important corporations elsewhere. - - 5 - -