"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
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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SAMUEL S. GRIFFITT, dealer in groceries and queensware, is carrying a stock
of $3,000, with about $15,000 annual sales. The father of our subject,
Reuben Griffitt, was born in Tennessee in 1797; there married, in 1824, to
Miss Lovina Shell, and in 1834, removed to this county, and farmed near
Morgantown, where he died November, 1871. Samuel S. Griffitt was born in
this county February 13, 1836; reared on a farm; taught schools some time;
engaged in merchandising at Morgantown from 1856 to 1859; then served as
Deputy County Clerk one term, and in the Auditor's office for several years.
February, 1863, he married Miss Rebecca M. Drumheller, which union gave
issue to two children, Mary and Neddie. After 1871, Mr. Griffitt engaged
in the hardware trade for five years, and served one year as Superintendent.
In 1881, he engaged in his present business, in which he has been uncommonly
successful. Mr. Griffitt is in politics a Republican.
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