Samuel B. Grimes, M.D.
Dr. S. B. Grimes, whose connection with the leading hotels of Cincinnati as house physician has made his name familiar to the traveling public and who also has a large general practice, began as a farmer's boy and has fairly won the responsible position he now fills. He was born on a farm in Brown County, Ohio, a son of William H. Grimes, who was a scientific farmer. The father died when the son was five years old.
Dr. Grimes attended the district schools of his native county until he was fifteen years of age then entered a business college at Lexington, Kentucky. Later he became a student of the University of Kentucky. During all the time that he was studying literary subjects, he was also applying himself to the study of medicine, having read his first medical book when he was only ten years of age. He matriculated in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D., in 1890. He practiced for three years at Burtonville, Kentucky, and then, having decided to pursue his medical education further, he entered the Bellevue Hospital College of New York City, in which he took the regular course, graduating in 1895. He also pursued special studies on diseases of the throat under competent instructors at the New York Polyclinic. In 1896 he returned west to Adams County, Ohio, where he practiced for a year, at the end of which time he opened an office in Cincinnati. He does a general practice and also is house physician for the leading hotels of the city, including Hotel Sinton, the St. Nicholas Hotel, Hotel Havlin, the Palace Hotel, the Burnet House and Hotel Monroe. He is a valued member of the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati and the Ohio State Medical Society.
In 1893 Dr. Grimes was married to Miss Marguerite Harrison of Kentucky, who died in 1909. Fraternally Dr. Grimes is identified with Harmony Lodge No. 2, F. & A. M. He spared no time or labor in perfecting himself for his profession and has been amply repaid, as his success has been very marked. Few physicians in Cincinnati are more widely known and it is doubtful whether any can claim a larger circle of friends.
From Cincinnati, The Queen City, Volume III by Rev. Charles Fredric Goss, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912