Son of Caleb John Grimes and Margaret Thorockmorton
Leander was born on his grandfather's farm, in his boyhood he assisted his father on the farm during the summer and attended district school in the winter. He later was a student of Waynesburg College for several terms and afterwards at Mount Union College, Alliance Ohio. He taught six consecutive winters. In February 1876, he went to Iowa to look after parent's land interest in Madison and Lucas Counties, and from that time on Pennsylvania ceased to be his home. He married Eva Alice Howell of Patterson, Iowa and I were married at her home on the evening of December 42, 1877. She was 19 and I was 26. Lived on his mother's farm near Derby for about two years, then moved to his father's land in Lee Twp., Madison Co. We started to my home in Pa., Hunter's Cave, Greene Co., early the next morning. Stayed in Pa. about 60 days, then came back to Iowa, to set up housekeeping on one of my father's farms located at Derby, Iowa, Lucas County. A year later went onto an 1100 acre farm of my father's in Madison and Dallas Counties, Iowa, 3 1/2 miles south of Boonesville. Later, we bought this farm and fed hogs and cattle for 40 years. He eventually became on of the large land owners and cattle feeders of the state. We built (1895) and lived in our home on 1040 West 19th Street. Des Moines, Iowa from 1896 to 1907, settled his family there to educated his children. While buying feeders for his Iowa lands he became acquainted with the cattle districts of Texas and in 1908 purchased a large ranch (1000 acres still in possession of his children (1926) in Plainview, Hale Co. and lived there some years,having sold his Des Moines property and given up his Iowa farm to his son Robert, and sold it and came to California. Lived in apartment houses about 10 years. In 1916 bought nearly 1 acre at 241 South Hollistan Avenue., Pasadena Ca., where his widowed daughter, with her two children, also made their home. In March, 1923, every member of the family was stricken with influenza, and while the daughter's life hung by a thread, Leander died with tragic suddenness,March 28, 1923 of influenza, after five days illness. His little grandson, Robert Baker, died the week before. Double funeral services were held for them, in Pasadena, Ca. He was buried April 2, 1923, Altadena, Los Angeles, Ca. Lot #1730 Mountain View Cemetary. Lee was essentially a man of friendships and of books, "one of those who seek, What Bibliomaniacs love," and his magnificent library of many thousand volumes of first editions and rare books out of print, was a delight to his book-loving friends. After his death the sight of the treasured volumes standing in stately array, touched the heart with pathos. "Dead he lay among his books, The peace of God was in his looks. Ah, his hand will never more Turn their storied pages o'er, Never more his lips repeat, Songs of theirs however sweet. Let the lifeless body rest, He is gone who was its guest, Gone as travellers haste to leave An inn, nor tarry until eve." He stook outside (almost aggressively outside) religious denominations. His mind could take nothing which had not the sanction of reason. But no one could live with him without loving him and feeling respect for his deep sincerity and his instinct for the good. His wife Eva died in 1924 of heart failure in Pasadena, also and burial was at the same cemetary.
Leander was born on his grandfather's farm, in his boyhood he assisted his father on the farm during the summer and attended district school in the winter. He later was a student of Waynesburg College for several terms and afterwards at Mount Union College, Alliance Ohio. He taught six consecutive winters. In February 1876, he went to Iowa to look after parent's land interest in Madison and Lucas Counties, and from that time on Pennsylvania ceased to be his home. He married Eva Alice Howell of Patterson, Iowa and I were married at her home on the evening of December 42, 1877. She was 19 and I was 26. Lived on his mother's farm near Derby for about two years, then moved to his father's land in Lee Twp., Madison Co. We started to my home in Pa., Hunter's Cave, Greene Co., early the next morning. Stayed in Pa. about 60 days, then came back to Iowa, to set up housekeeping on one of my father's farms located at Derby, Iowa, Lucas County. A year later went onto an 1100 acre farm of my father's in Madison and Dallas Counties, Iowa, 3 1/2 miles south of Boonesville. Later, we bought this farm and fed hogs and cattle for 40 years. He eventually became on of the large land owners and cattle feeders of the state. We built (1895) and lived in our home on 1040 West 19th Street. Des Moines, Iowa from 1896 to 1907, settled his family there to educated his children. While buying feeders for his Iowa lands he became acquainted with the cattle districts of Texas and in 1908 purchased a large ranch (1000 acres still in possession of his children (1926) in Plainview, Hale Co. and lived there some years,having sold his Des Moines property and given up his Iowa farm to his son Robert, and sold it and came to California. Lived in apartment houses about 10 years. In 1916 bought nearly 1 acre at 241 South Hollistan Avenue., Pasadena Ca., where his widowed daughter, with her two children, also made their home. In March, 1923, every member of the family was stricken with influenza, and while the daughter's life hung by a thread, Leander died with tragic suddenness,March 28, 1923 of influenza, after five days illness. His little grandson, Robert Baker, died the week before. Double funeral services were held for them, in Pasadena, Ca. He was buried April 2, 1923, Altadena, Los Angeles, Ca. Lot #1730 Mountain View Cemetary. Lee was essentially a man of friendships and of books, "one of those who seek, What Bibliomaniacs love," and his magnificent library of many thousand volumes of first editions and rare books out of print, was a delight to his book-loving friends. After his death the sight of the treasured volumes standing in stately array, touched the heart with pathos. "Dead he lay among his books, The peace of God was in his looks. Ah, his hand will never more Turn their storied pages o'er, Never more his lips repeat, Songs of theirs however sweet. Let the lifeless body rest, He is gone who was its guest, Gone as travellers haste to leave An inn, nor tarry until eve." He stook outside (almost aggressively outside) religious denominations. His mind could take nothing which had not the sanction of reason. But no one could live with him without loving him and feeling respect for his deep sincerity and his instinct for the good. His wife Eva died in 1924 of heart failure in Pasadena, also and burial was at the same cemetary.
Son of Caleb John Grimes and Margaret Thorockmorton
Leander was born on his grandfather's farm, in his boyhood he assisted his father on the farm during the summer and attended district school in the winter. He later was a student of Waynesburg College for several terms and afterwards at Mount Union College, Alliance Ohio. He taught six consecutive winters. In February 1876, he went to Iowa to look after parent's land interest in Madison and Lucas Counties, and from that time on Pennsylvania ceased to be his home. He married Eva Alice Howell of Patterson, Iowa and I were married at her home on the evening of December 42, 1877. She was 19 and I was 26. Lived on his mother's farm near Derby for about two years, then moved to his father's land in Lee Twp., Madison Co. We started to my home in Pa., Hunter's Cave, Greene Co., early the next morning. Stayed in Pa. about 60 days, then came back to Iowa, to set up housekeeping on one of my father's farms located at Derby, Iowa, Lucas County. A year later went onto an 1100 acre farm of my father's in Madison and Dallas Counties, Iowa, 3 1/2 miles south of Boonesville. Later, we bought this farm and fed hogs and cattle for 40 years. He eventually became on of the large land owners and cattle feeders of the state. We built (1895) and lived in our home on 1040 West 19th Street. Des Moines, Iowa from 1896 to 1907, settled his family there to educated his children. While buying feeders for his Iowa lands he became acquainted with the cattle districts of Texas and in 1908 purchased a large ranch (1000 acres still in possession of his children (1926) in Plainview, Hale Co. and lived there some years,having sold his Des Moines property and given up his Iowa farm to his son Robert, and sold it and came to California. Lived in apartment houses about 10 years. In 1916 bought nearly 1 acre at 241 South Hollistan Avenue., Pasadena Ca., where his widowed daughter, with her two children, also made their home. In March, 1923, every member of the family was stricken with influenza, and while the daughter's life hung by a thread, Leander died with tragic suddenness,March 28, 1923 of influenza, after five days illness. His little grandson, Robert Baker, died the week before. Double funeral services were held for them, in Pasadena, Ca. He was buried April 2, 1923, Altadena, Los Angeles, Ca. Lot #1730 Mountain View Cemetary. Lee was essentially a man of friendships and of books, "one of those who seek, What Bibliomaniacs love," and his magnificent library of many thousand volumes of first editions and rare books out of print, was a delight to his book-loving friends. After his death the sight of the treasured volumes standing in stately array, touched the heart with pathos. "Dead he lay among his books, The peace of God was in his looks. Ah, his hand will never more Turn their storied pages o'er, Never more his lips repeat, Songs of theirs however sweet. Let the lifeless body rest, He is gone who was its guest, Gone as travellers haste to leave An inn, nor tarry until eve." He stook outside (almost aggressively outside) religious denominations. His mind could take nothing which had not the sanction of reason. But no one could live with him without loving him and feeling respect for his deep sincerity and his instinct for the good. His wife Eva died in 1924 of heart failure in Pasadena, also and burial was at the same cemetary.
Leander was born on his grandfather's farm, in his boyhood he assisted his father on the farm during the summer and attended district school in the winter. He later was a student of Waynesburg College for several terms and afterwards at Mount Union College, Alliance Ohio. He taught six consecutive winters. In February 1876, he went to Iowa to look after parent's land interest in Madison and Lucas Counties, and from that time on Pennsylvania ceased to be his home. He married Eva Alice Howell of Patterson, Iowa and I were married at her home on the evening of December 42, 1877. She was 19 and I was 26. Lived on his mother's farm near Derby for about two years, then moved to his father's land in Lee Twp., Madison Co. We started to my home in Pa., Hunter's Cave, Greene Co., early the next morning. Stayed in Pa. about 60 days, then came back to Iowa, to set up housekeeping on one of my father's farms located at Derby, Iowa, Lucas County. A year later went onto an 1100 acre farm of my father's in Madison and Dallas Counties, Iowa, 3 1/2 miles south of Boonesville. Later, we bought this farm and fed hogs and cattle for 40 years. He eventually became on of the large land owners and cattle feeders of the state. We built (1895) and lived in our home on 1040 West 19th Street. Des Moines, Iowa from 1896 to 1907, settled his family there to educated his children. While buying feeders for his Iowa lands he became acquainted with the cattle districts of Texas and in 1908 purchased a large ranch (1000 acres still in possession of his children (1926) in Plainview, Hale Co. and lived there some years,having sold his Des Moines property and given up his Iowa farm to his son Robert, and sold it and came to California. Lived in apartment houses about 10 years. In 1916 bought nearly 1 acre at 241 South Hollistan Avenue., Pasadena Ca., where his widowed daughter, with her two children, also made their home. In March, 1923, every member of the family was stricken with influenza, and while the daughter's life hung by a thread, Leander died with tragic suddenness,March 28, 1923 of influenza, after five days illness. His little grandson, Robert Baker, died the week before. Double funeral services were held for them, in Pasadena, Ca. He was buried April 2, 1923, Altadena, Los Angeles, Ca. Lot #1730 Mountain View Cemetary. Lee was essentially a man of friendships and of books, "one of those who seek, What Bibliomaniacs love," and his magnificent library of many thousand volumes of first editions and rare books out of print, was a delight to his book-loving friends. After his death the sight of the treasured volumes standing in stately array, touched the heart with pathos. "Dead he lay among his books, The peace of God was in his looks. Ah, his hand will never more Turn their storied pages o'er, Never more his lips repeat, Songs of theirs however sweet. Let the lifeless body rest, He is gone who was its guest, Gone as travellers haste to leave An inn, nor tarry until eve." He stook outside (almost aggressively outside) religious denominations. His mind could take nothing which had not the sanction of reason. But no one could live with him without loving him and feeling respect for his deep sincerity and his instinct for the good. His wife Eva died in 1924 of heart failure in Pasadena, also and burial was at the same cemetary.
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