Addison A. Griffith and Mary Galbraith

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Husband Addison A. Griffith ¹

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           Born: 5 Jul 1842 - Canonsburg, Washington Co, PA 2
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         Father: Levi Griffith (1809-1883/1886) 3 4
         Mother: Margaret McClelland (Abt 1805-Aft 1893) 1 3

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       Marriage: 1870 2

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   Other Spouse: Hannah Cook (      -      ) 2

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Wife Mary Galbraith ²

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         Father: Rev. William Galbraith (      -      ) 5
         Mother: [Unk] Backup (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M William Griffith ²

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2 F Maggie Griffith ²

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General Notes: Husband - Addison A. Griffith

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He was born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, where he received a thorough training at the public schools. At the age of eighteen years he was appointed assistant in the quartermaster's office, army of the Cumberland, remaining there sixteen months, and was then transferred to the Department of the Shenandoah, where he was until the close of the [Civil] war. He then returned home, and going to Oil City, Pennsylvania, engaged in trading in oil, hay, grain and general produce. A year later he opened a general store at Freeport, Armstrong County, which included dry goods, notions, boots and shoes. He conducted this business eighteen months, then managed a hotel at Sioux City, Iowa, one year, and afterward, having purchased a stock of goods, opened a store about sixty miles north of Sioux City, and there remained two years. He then resided on a farm in Iowa several years, and, moving from there to Dakota [Territory?], sold agricultural implements there for two years; thence returned to the farm in Iowa, and finally located in Canonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania. He served several years as division officer of the Morganza Reform School, and soon afterward opened the extensive tobacco establishment in Canonsburg.
He was actively identified with the interests of the Republican party. He was a member of the United Presbyterian Church.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1457.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1458.

3 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 875.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 834.

5 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 545.