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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
1763
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
OF SHELBY AND MOULTRIE COUNTIES, ILLINOIS
Containing
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens
of the Counties,
Together with Biographies of all the
Governors of the State, and of the Presidents
of the United States
Chicago.
Biographical Publishing Co.
1891
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HOLLAND S.
GRIFFITH, was born in DeWitt County, Ill., Jan. 3,
1867. His father was born in Pickaway County, Ohio,
was reared there, and married. From thence he came to
Illinois in an early day, remaining for a time in Macon
County, after which he removed to DeWitt County. He
took up a tract of Government land, living on the same for
two years before entering it. This land was located
eight miles northeast of Clinton. He was a very
enterprising man of good judgment and consequently was very
successful. He also entered land in DeWitt County,
besides going quite extensively into real estate in Kansas,
owning one thousand acres in Chase County. Mr.
Griffith was also engaged in stock-raising there.
In 1880, accompanied by his family, he started West with a
team for Kansas and traveled quite extensively, there living
one year on his land in Chase County. Afterward, in
1882, he returned to his home in DeWitt, residing there
until his death, which took place Nov. 16, 1890.
Mr. Griffith was married a second time choosing
as his wife Miss Sarah Reed, of Steuben County, Ohio,
and who became the mother of our subject. She has five
children living: Byard, Dell, Holland, Nellie and
Melvin. Our subject was reared to agricultural
pursuits and was educated in the public schools of DeWitt
County, and resided with his parents whom he assisted on the
farm, until he was twenty-three years of age when he settled
on the farm where he now resides on section 21, Todd's
Point. It is a well-cultivated farm of one hundred and
sixty broad and fertile acres.
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of Shelby
and Moultrie Counties, Illinois - Published: Chicago:
Biographical Publishing Co. - 1891 - Page 681 |
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