Background
Grimmett, Elmer Jesse was born on July 11, 1902 in Calhoun County, Arkansas, United States. Son of Joseph H. and Minnie (Groves) Grimmett.
Grimmett, Elmer Jesse was born on July 11, 1902 in Calhoun County, Arkansas, United States. Son of Joseph H. and Minnie (Groves) Grimmett.
Bachelor of Science in Michigan Engineering, Mississippi State College, 1923.
Work Empire Company, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, also Mississippi Power and Light Company, Tupela and Baldwin, Mississippi, 1923-1925. General design, supervisory work Proctor & Gamble Company, Ivorydale, Ohio, 1925-1928, plant engineer, Saint Louis, 1928-1929, charge expansion program Portuguese Ivory (Staten Island) plant, 1929, supervisor expansion and modernization, Saint Louis, 1929-1930, supervisor maintenance inedible division, Staten Island, 1930. ‘ with General Foods Corporation, from 1930, beginning in Post products plant, successively assistant plant engineer charge design major construction, supervisor design and construction new factories at Kankakee, Illinois and Hoboken, New Jersey, chief engineer advisory supervision all engineering, division manufacturing manager, director manufacturing and engineering, 1930-1957, vice president, 1957-1966.
Consultant manufacturing and engineering, from 1966.
Director Firemen’s Mutual Insurance Company, Providence. Board of directors Westchester County United Fund.
Registered engineer, New York, New Jersey.
Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers, National Society Professional Engineers, Pi Tau Sigma. Clubs: Winged Foot Golf (Mamaroneck, New New York
Married Mildred Argust, April. Children: Gordon G., Janice L. Design, consultant.