Background
Walker, James Wilson Grimes was born on September 22, 1868 in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Rear-Admiral John Grimes (United States Navy) and Rebecca White (Pickering) Walker.
Walker, James Wilson Grimes was born on September 22, 1868 in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Rear-Admiral John Grimes (United States Navy) and Rebecca White (Pickering) Walker.
Preparatory education St. Paul’s School, Concord, N.H., Neuchatel, Switzerland, Pont Levoy, France, and Heidelberg, Germany. Сivil engineering Massachusetts Institute Technology. Nina Chinn, February 24, 1897.
Employed general engineering work, bridge construction, railway location, construction and management, 1890-1897. Charge surveys by Nicaragua Canal Commission, beteen Lake Nicaragua and Pacific Ocean, 1898. Commissioned civil engineer United States Navy, 1898.
Resigned 1912.
Member American Society of Civil Engineers, N.H. Society Cincinnati, Academy Political Science, Naval History Foundation.
Children: Elizabeth Grimes (Mistress John Williams Davis), John Grahame, Robert Serrell Wood, Herbert Wood.