New York Times, 1851 to 1980
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The New York Times website includes a search function for back issues for the period 1851 to 1980. A search for "Grimshaw" yielded 822 results, which are included on this webpage, along with 11 additional "hits" for other spellings of Grimshaw. The order of the results appears to be somewhat random, with a possible bias to decreasing relevance of the article to the search term. The New York Times website is at:
The articles comprise a vast resource for information on Grimshaw immigrants and their descendants in America as well as other Grimshaws throughout the world. Copies of the articles can be obtained in PDF format for an individual fee or for a reasonable "TimesSelect" monthly charge. Additions are being made to this webpage as the articles are explored on the Times website.
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| General Observations |
Robert Grimshaw wrote many letters to the Times; needs a webpage corollary to his
John Grimshaw, bankruptcy judge, had a lot articles. Needs his own webpage corollary to the Paterson, NJ Grimshaw webpage
| Grimshaw Entries |
GERRY PATTISON WED TO EX-PILOT; Bryn Mawr Alumna Bride of Thomas Barker Grimshaw in White Plains Ch... [PDF]
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., May 26 --The marriage of Miss Gerry Pattison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Allen Pattison, to Thomas Barker Grimshaw, son of Mrs. Ira L. Grimshaw of Clermont, Fla., formerly of Scarsdale, and the late Mr. Grimshaw, took place this a...
May 27, 1951 - - Article
LONG BEACH, L.I., Aug. 4. -- Sheriff De Mott of Nassau County has become convinced that William Charles Grimshaw, the moving picture operator, who shot his wife, Mrs. Eva Grimshaw, here on Wednesday night after she had refused to return to him, has escape...
August 5, 1911 - - Article
Dr. Robert Grimshaw, special lecturer in the New York University, said last night that he was well satisfied with the results he achieved earlier in the week in bringing down commodity prices in the vicinity of his home on Washington Heights....
August 22, 1920 - Article
John Grimshaw, retired silk manufacturer, died last night at his home here at the age of 90....
February 18, 1938 - - Article
MATAWAN, N.J., June 27. -- The congregation of the Morganville Methodist Church has had trouble with their young minister, the Rev. W. Grimshaw, and as a result he has been notified that his services are no longer needed....
June 28, 1898 - Article
Miss Grimshaw writes of the perilous adventure of gold-hunting in New Guinea as only one can do who has herself known the poisonous allurement of the tropics, and has braved the dangers of the African wilds. However remote from a reader's experience may b...
March 16, 1913 - Review
Miss Olive Winifred Grimshaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas Grimshaw of this city, has set Jan. 30 as the date for her marriage to Robert Henry Schmelzer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schmelzer, also of Passaic....
January 17, 1937 - - Article
Miss Olive Winifred Grimshaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas Grimshaw of this city, was married this afternoon to Robert Henry Schmelzer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schmelzer, also of Passaic. The ceremony was performed in St. John's Episcopal Chu...
January 31, 1937 - - Article
THIS story of shipwreck and adventure on a South Sea island appears at a season when tropical islands seem more than usually attractive. And Beatrice Grimshaw can write with knowledge and lyrical appreciation of the soft charms of such a setting....
February 17, 1935 - Review
Dr. Robert Grimshaw, who has been teaching system and organization at New York University, and for twenty years was an efficiency engineer in Germany, charged the Navy League, the American Legion, and other organizations for military preparedness with lac...
December 31, 1915 - Article
TRENTON, N.J., Aug. 13. -- Major George F. Fleming of this city was elected State Commander of the American Legion here today to succeed John Grimshaw Jr. of Paterson....
August 14, 1927 - - Article
March 16, 1977 - Article
July 1, 1953 - Obituary
March 23, 1952 - - Marriage Announcement
February 21, 1965 - - Marriage Announcement
July 30, 1950 - Obituary
May 31, 1943 - - Marriage Announcement
September 4, 1960 - Article
May 9, 1971 - Article
September 8, 1946 - - Article
January 18, 1961 - Obituary
May 5, 1953 - Article
January 2, 1943 - - Obituary
January 11, 1939 - - Article
December 12, 1940 - - Article
November 29, 1936 - - Marriage Announcement
June 18, 1939 - - Article
November 3, 1942 - - Marriage Announcement
December 21, 1942 - - Marriage Announcement
September 12, 1920 - Article
July 10, 1942 - Article
November 13, 1927 - Review
December 12, 1936 - Obituary
March 6, 1927 - Review
September 12, 1926 - - Article
August 8, 1931 - - Article
BOSTON, Jan. 10. -- None too promptly has American fiction discovered that the Life Saving Service crews provide self-trained heroes who need not fear comparison with the State-trained soldier and sailor, and Miss Harriet T. Comstock's "Janet of the Dunes...
January 11, 1908 - - Review
February 4, 1923 - - Article
May 10, 1916 - - Letter
January 15, 1928 - - Letter
In answer to a recent communication by Mrs. Pinchot in THE TIMES, in which she quotes Professor Sargent against military training, I beg to offer the following letter from William Muldoon, benefactor and remaker of men who have become broken down mentally...
May 30, 1916 - - Letter
July 24, 1928 - - Letter
May 26, 1930 - - Letter
September 25, 1915 - - Letter
November 4, 1915 - - Letter
Assuming that it was necessary to bring 50,000 soldiers suddenly to Manhattan to resist an invading army, or quell a riot, where would we quarter them? In the great hotels for which the metropolis is world famous, or on the grass in the various parks? I q...
May 9, 1916 - - Letter
June 10, 1931 - - Letter
February 24, 1935 - - Letter
May 23, 1931 - - Letter
February 16, 1935 - - Letter
August 12, 1929 - - Letter
September 11, 1927 - - Letter
July 20, 1932 - - Letter
February 16, 1936 - - Letter
August 23, 1936 - - Editorial
July 27, 1919 - - Letter
June 22, 1916 - - Letter
June 29, 1916 - - Letter
February 26, 1934 - - Letter
June 3, 1916 - - Letter
July 28, 1932 - - Letter
June 18, 1940 - - Letter
June 9, 1916 - - Letter
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES: The letter entitled "The Unwritten Constitution" seems to me to reflect all too well the false motivations for voting that are continually held up before the American public....
August 3, 1938 - - Letter
February 26, 1930 - - Letter
December 12, 1915 - - Letter
February 6, 1915 - - Letter
July 18, 1915 - - Letter
August 6, 1934 - - Letter
January 29, 1931 - - Letter
September 8, 1935 - - Letter
November 12, 1935 - - Letter
May 26, 1935 - - Letter
May 5, 1909 - - Letter
June 6, 1916 - - Letter
August 16, 1936 - - Letter
May 7, 1933 - - Letter
January 6, 1916 - - Letter
March 28, 1916 - - Letter
May 14, 1933 - - Letter
November 8, 1914 - - Letter
April 29, 1916 - - Letter
April 15, 1928 - - Letter
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES: I read with interest the letter of my townsman Scoville Hamlin in quest of "an adequate measure of cost." It is quite right that unfair rates and unfair methods of competition inevitably lead to consideration of the co...
August 1, 1938 - - Letter
October 31, 1915 - - Letter
October 14, 1915 - - Letter
June 14, 1931 - - Letter
October 20, 1935 - - Letter
March 16, 1941 - - Letter
June 6, 1922 - - Letter
April 18, 1940 - - Letter
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Jan. 13 --Mr. and Mrs. Hubert A. Pattison have announced the engagement of their daughter, Gerry, to Thomas Barker Grimshaw of San Francisco, son of Mrs. Ira L. Grimshaw of Claremont, Fla., formerly of Scarsdale, and the late Mr. Grims...
January 14, 1951 - - Article
GRIMSHAW, the Off Broadway producer, was sitting with his tax lawyer over marijuana and coffee at Downstairs at the Uptight, the Sardi's of St. Marks Place. Grimshaw, producer of "Zonked," listened intently as the lawyer detailed the profit figures of the...
January 18, 1970 - - Article
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 -- A second and more specific nation-wide survey on civilian consumer goods items which are in short supply will be made in March, Dr. Austin Grimshaw, who conducted the first civilian shortage census for the War Production Board's Off...
January 20, 1944 - - Article
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N. J., Oct. 6 -- Announcement was made today by lawyers for the Continental Paper Company here that Superior Court Judge John Grimshaw Jr. has granted an injunction restraining Local 299, United Paperworkers Union, CIO, from mass picketin...
October 7, 1949 - - Article
JERSEY CITY, N.J., Nov. 14-- John R. Longo, political foe of Mayor Frank Hague, was notified today by deputy New Jersey Attorney General John Grimshaw Jr....
November 15, 1945 - - Article
A smart little red-and-white cocker spaniel named Upsan Down's Colleen, owned by Mrs. Robert E. Grimshaw of Norwich, Conn., became dogdom's New Year's baby yesterday when she emerged as winner of the Futurity that always is an opening-day highlight of the...
January 4, 1970 - - Article
LONDON, Jan. 16 (Reuters) - The mystery of "Mister X," the anonymous British business man who is backing Filippo del Giudice, film producer, in his plan to boost British movies in the United States, has been solved. William Grimshaw Riley, close personal ...
January 17, 1948 - Article
PARAMUS, N.J., Feb. 3 -- An application for a temporary injunction against the Paramus Sunday Closing Law was denied today by Superior Court Judge John Grimshaw Jr....
February 4, 1961 - - Article
PATERSON, N. J., Feb. 23 (AP) -- Superior Court Judge John Grimshaw Jr. granted a temporary restraining order yesterday to prevent the International Long-shoremens Association from allegedly interfering with oil transportation in the New York Harbor area....
February 24, 1952 - Article
NEWARK, N.J., Dec. 5--A plan for the reorganization of the Reynolds Investing Company, Inc., an investment trust, for its orderly liquidation was filed here today in the Federal court by John Grimshaw, referee in bankruptcy in Jersey City....
December 6, 1939 - - Article
BOSTON, Mass., May 5. -- Dougherty's run scored in the fourth inning of to-day's game looked big enough to win until the seventh inning, when, with Collins on third, and Grimshaw on first, Ferris hit to deep left field for a home run. The drive was a beau...
May 6, 1905 - - Article
NEWARK, N.J., Dec. 18--Federal Judge Guy L. Fake approved today a report by John Grimshaw Jr., referee in bankruptcy, in which a plan was recommended for reorganization of the Reynolds Investing Company, Inc., an investment trust, for the purpose of order...
December 19, 1939 - - Article
PATERSON, N.J., Nov. 8. -- Approval of the original plan of the bondholders' protective committee for the reorganization of Botany Consolidated Mills, Inc., is recommended by John Grimshaw Jr., Federal Bankruptcy Referee, in a report which has been forwar...
November 9, 1936 - - Article
LONDON, Sept. 17 -- The woman killed in an airplane smash at Ivenghoc Friday was identified at the inquest today as Ethel Russell Armitage, English by birth and the wife of Russel Armitage, whose address is understood to be Maple Avenue, Dover, N.J. She w...
September 18, 1923 - - Article
A tall, dark man, dressed in black with a white slouch hat and a belt from which hang two tassels, has been worrying Supt. Grimshaw of Roosevelt Hospital....
October 12, 1905 - Article
As a protest against profiteering on retail sales of fruit, vegetables and fish, Dr. Robert Grimshaw, a special lecturer in New York University, suggested yesterday that "sandwich men" be posted at the doors of dealers, with placards ......
August 5, 1920 - Front Page
Buffalo began a series of four games with the Jersey City baseball club of the Eastern Leagrue yesterday, and although the visitors outbatted the local players the Jerseymen won the game through errors made by Grimshaw and Shaw of Buffalo....
May 16, 1902 - Article
In December last George Grimshaw was a witness for the defense in the suit of Fannie A. Devine against Thomas Devine for a limited divorce....
September 14, 1883 - Article
BOSTON, Aug. 5. -- Boston won to-day's game, 3 to 2, in twelve innings. Pruiett's lack of control did not count in the run getting. Boston saved the game by putting in Hoey and Grimshaw to bat for Criger and Pruiett and won in the twelfth by a batting ral...
August 6, 1907 - Article
BOSTON, June 18. -- Jack Thoney of the Toronto Club of the Eastern League has been obtained by the Boston Americans in exchange for First Baseman Grimshaw and Second Baseman Schlafly, the latter recently purchased from Washington. The New York Americans w...
June 19, 1907 - Article
"Grimshaw" has sent $2 to THE TIMES for Mrs. Landgraf, which was delivered to her last night....
July 9, 1886 - Article
I have in my possession a scrap heap of old books and among them is a history of England by William Grimshaw. It is written from the English standpoint and has been in use in academies and schools for the last sixty years. It has words of praise for Engli...
May 23, 1909 - - Letter
The barn and other buildings surrounding the residence of F.E. Grimshaw, at East Hampton, L.I., were destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The loss is $5,000, covered partially by insurance in the Suffolk County Mutual Company. Four valuable horses, twenty...
December 12, 1891 - Article
More than 33,000 soldiers passed through the Mackay-Roosevelt Hospital Unit, Base Hospital No, 15, during its operations in France, according to the report of Charles B. Grimshaw, Superintendent of Roosevelt Hospital, issued yesterday....
April 28, 1919 - Article
Petitions for allowances for fees and disbursements in connection with the reorganization of Botany Consolidated Mills, Inc., under the Federal Bankruptcy Act, will be heard at 2:30 P. M. on Monday in the County Court House in Paterson by Referee John Gri...
February 14, 1937 - - Article
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. -- Consul General Mason of Berlin sends a report from Robert Grimshaw of Hanover, Germany, on the importance of securing patents on articles imported into Germany when such articles are patentable....
September 12, 1905 - - Article
PATERSON, N.J., Jan. 10. -- The meeting of silk manufacturers indorsed the action of the Silk Association in New-York this afternoon, and appointed John Grimshaw, Joseph Wadsworth, and Daniel J. Sheehan a committee to prepare and have signed a memorial to...
January 11, 1890 - Article
BOSTON, Mass., May 9. -- The Bostons wound up their series with the Greater New Yorks this afternoon with a victory, the score being 5 to 2. Powell and Tannehill were the opposing pitchers, and the game was lost by the visitors in the first inning, when B...
May 10, 1905 - - Article
Beatrice Grimshaw, author of "When the Red Gods Fail," is at present in New Guinea, where she is gathering material for a new book....
September 2, 1911 - Article
"Iron Man" McGinnity, the ex-Giant and present manager of the Newark team, leads the Eastern League batsmen with an average of .400. He has played In eight games. Fitzgerald of Providence and Grimshaw of Toronto have played In more games and are close beh...
May 15, 1910 - Article
James Grimshaw, the once famous lightweight jockey, has just died of earneer in Bohemia, and although he obtained considerable success both as a jockey and as a trainer in Austria and Germany, where he settled after leavlng England in 1870, he is reported...
January 6, 1889 - Article
Mrs. Georgine Thomson of this place has announced the engagement of her daughter, Miss Marjorie Grimshaw Thomson, to Harry Lee Barton Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Barton, also of Upper Montclair....
August 1, 1937 - - Article
Detective Wilson, of the Fourth Precinct, while on duty in Grand-street on Saturday evening, observed Mary Grimshaw. 65 years old, whose picture can be seen under No. 257 in the Rogues' Gallery, enter Ridley's store with the easy confidence of a woman who...
November 19, 1883 - Article
AMONG the books published yesterday by Doubleday, Page Co. are "Fiji and Its Possibilities," by Beatrice Grimshaw; "In High Places," a story of modern New York, by Dolores Bacon: "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils," by Selma Lagerlof; "With Juliet in Engla...
October 26, 1907 - Review
The police of a dozen cities are looking for a bogus " Lieut. Cox, U.S.N.," who is traveling about the country getting forged checks cashed, and causing trouble generally. The fellow, whose picture in the uniform of an officer of the navy, is in the hands...
June 9, 1908 - Article
John Grimshaw Wilkinson, blind botanist, on whom Leeds University conferred an honorary degree of Master of Science for his investigations of botanical flora, died today at Leeds at the age of 81....
March 2, 1937 - - Article
BOSTON, Mass., June 24. -- Wild throws by Chase and Dougherty, which allowed three runs to be scored, were the cause of the Greater New Yorks' defeat to-day by the champion Bostons by the score of 3 to 0. The tallies were made in this way: Stahl was hit b...
June 25, 1905 - - Article
ALTOONA, Pa., Jan. 14 (AP).-- One hundred passenger cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad will be reconditioned and streamlined in the company's shops here at a cost of $2,500,000, F.G. Grimshaw, manager, announced today. He said approximately $1,000,000 woul...
January 15, 1939 - Article
With Chesbro in the pitcher's box for seven innings and Griffith officiating in the other two, the Greater New Yorks scored a clever victory over the Bostons yesterday, the final tally being three runs to two. Not one of these runs was earned, Chesbro and...
May 4, 1905 - Article
The three lower classes of the Mercersburg Academy have elected officers as follows: Upper MiddlerPresident, Richard Greene of St. David, Pa.; secretary, Joseph L. Jamison of Greensburg, Pa., and historian, Frederick G. Grimshaw Jr. of Altoona, Pa. Lower ...
February 17, 1937 - - Article
The case of Grimshaw against Hutton, in which the plaintiff prayed the court to pronounce for the will of William Hutten, gentleman of Manchester, who died possessed of about $175,000 personality in September, 1870, was heard recently in an English court ...
July 22, 1877 - Article