"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
JACKSON TOWNSHIP AND MORGANTOWN
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REUBEN C. GRIFFITT, M.D., Physician and surgeon at Morgantown, was born
December 28,1 845, in the identical dwelling in which he now resides, and is
the thirteenth of the fourteen children of Reuben and Lovina (shell)
Griffitt, natives of Sullivan County, E. Tenn. They were early settlers of
this township, and here ended their days. Reuben C. Griffitt was reared in
Morgantown, and went to school and worked on the farm until he was eighteen
years of age. February, 1864, he became a soldier of his country; was in
the range of battles from Chattanooga to Atlanta; captured at Jonesboro,
September 1, 1864; confined at Andersonville, Florence and Charleston, in
all six months, and released Feb. 26, 1865. On account of disability, he
received a furlough, which was renewed until his discharge, June, 1865. He
then attended school until 1868, when he studied medicine under Dr. Johnson,
of Martinsville, for two years, and attended lectures and graduated at the
University of Louisville in 1870, soon after which he opened an office at
Morgantown; practiced until 1875; then attended lectures in New York,
receiving there the ad eundem degree. He then resumed his practice, with
honor and renown. August 14, 1872, he married Miss Minerva D. Prosser
(sister of the present Auditor), and his union has been favored with three
children--Harry D., Bessie L. and Della M. Dr. Griffitt is a member of the
Masonic fraternity, and his wife of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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