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L. GRIM & SONS, furniture dealers, Ripley. This firm established business in their present location in 1866—at that time, a one-story frame building. It was re-built in 1872, and the adjoining added to the edifice, which affords a frontage of forty feet, by sixty feet deep. The firm carry a stock of from $5,000 to $8,000, and, with the undertaking business, conduct a large trade. The senior member of the firm was born in Prussia in 1810. He embarked to the United States in 1841, and located at Cincinnati, Ohio. Subsequently, he removed to Danville, Highland County, and there engaged in business until 1862. Two years afterward, he followed farming in that county, and after purchasing property at Winchester, Adams County, engaged in the saddlery business, which he followed until he arrived in this city. His marriage to Miss Theresa Brodbeck occurred in 1849. She was a native of Switzerland. Of the four children born to this union, three are living, viz.: L., Jr., was married in 1876, to Miss Emma, daughter of Jacob Stamm, of this county; Joseph, who is engaged in the dry goods trade at Oxford, Ind.; and Albert, who with L., Jr. and father, form the above firm. Mr. Grim has been a Director of the Building Association, in which his son L., Jr., is an officer at the present time. He is also a member of the I. O. O. F., and K. of P. This elabornte establishment is the largest furniture house in Ripley, and their excellent work commands a large and just patronage.