Blacksmith.
Born in Stephens Township, Ontario on 18 February 1862, son of Charles H. Griffin and Maria Taylor, he attended the public school at Mitchell, Ontario until the age of 17 when he began apprenticing as a blacksmith. He worked as a journeyman until 1887 when he moved to Chicago, Illinois then, eleven years later, to Dauphin where he established a general blacksmith shop. On 4 July 1892, he married Emma E. Johnson (?-1949) at Chicago. They had a daughter, Beulah Griffin (1897-1977, wife of ? Sandgren). He died in December 1948 and was buried in the River View Cemetery at Portland, Oregon.
The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.
Obituary, The Oregonian, 21 December 1948, page 15.
Obituary [Emma Johnson Griffin], The Oregonian, 15 November 1949, page 26.
Obituary [Beulah Griffin Sandgren], The Oregonian, 20 December 1977, page D8.
We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
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