History of Detroit, a chronicle of its progress, its industries, its institutions, and the people of the fair City of the straits, / by Paul Leake ... [Vol. 3]

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for a year. He then entered the medical department of the University
of Michigan, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of
1887, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In the same year he opened
an office in Detroit, and there he has since engaged in general practice,
meeting with substantial success in every way. The doctor is a member
of the Michigan State Medical Society and the Wayne County Medical
Society, and holds membership in the alumni association of the University of Michigan. He has also been an earnest supporter of the work
of the Detroit Young Men's Christian Association, of which he has
long been a member. In short, he is both a physician and a citizen of
high standing.
WILLIAM STUART GRIMES, M. D. prominent physician and surgeon
of Detroit, with offices and residence at No. 120 Edmund Place, where
he is superintendent and proprietor of the Edmund Sanitarium, was
born in Des Moines, Iowa, October 19, 1870, and is a son of the late
Dr. William Stuart and Julia (Kramer) Grimes. The former was a
native of West Virginia (then Old Virginia), whence he went to Ohio
when a young man; was graduated from the medical department of
Miami University, Cincinnati, class of 1857, and practiced in Ohio until
his removal to Des Moines, Iowa, previous to the Civil war. He served
as surgeon with the rank of major of the Twenty-ninth Regiment, Iowa
Volunteer Infantry, and after the close of hostilities returned to the
practice of his profession in Des Moines, and later opened and conducted
free eye and ear dispensaries in that city and Council Bluffs. In 1870
he removed to Denver, Colorado, and there practiced until his death in
1889. He was surgeon to both St. Luke's (Episcopal) and St. Joseph's
(Roman Catholic) hospitals in Denver, was well known in public circles
(being fast friends with a number of the prominent men of his time),
and was related to the Taft family of Ohio.
The early education of William Stuart Grimes, Jr., was secured in
the public schools, at Orchard Lake Military School, near Pontiac
(Mich.) and at Cornell University. He was graduated in medicine from
the University of Buffalo, New York, with the class of 1901, receiving
the degree of M. D., and also took post-graduate work at that university.
He began the practice of his profession in 1901 in Buffalo, where for a
time he was assistant surgeon to the Hospital for Women. Dr. Grimes
was county physician of Wayne county in 1908 and 1909, and in 1911
was a candidate for county coroner before the primaries, but was defeated by only 119 votes. In October of the same year he opened the
Edmund Sanitarium in the old Cheany Strong residence, at No. 120
Edmund Place, which property he remodeled into one of the best and
most complete private hospitals in Detroit, to which he now gives all
of his professional attention. He has three wards, twelve private rooms
and two operating rooms, the latter being removed from the wards and
private rooms and has accommodations for thirty-seven patients. The
sanitarium is a modern and homelike hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of women and children, and is patronized by a large number of the leading physicians and surgeons of the city.
Dr. Grimes is examining physician for the Detroit Order of Eagles,
the American Annuity Association and the Endowment Rank, Knights
of Pythias, and is professionally connected with other fraternities. He
is a member of the Wayne County and Michigan State Medical societies
and the American Medical Association, and also holds membership in
the Alumni Association of the University of Buffalo. He stands in the
front rank as exemplifying the modern sciences of medicine and surgery,