FRANK CURTIS GRISWOLD, who is financially interested in several important business enterprises in White Hall, was born on Apple Creek Prairie, in Greene county, October 17, 1874. He is a son of Loyal P. and Nancy C. (Swallow) Griswold, whose sketch appears on another page of this volume.
Frank C. Griswold was reared to farm life and in his youth when not busy with the duties of the schoolroom assisted in the labors of the home farm. He attended Maple Grove school until 1890 and afterward became a student in Hoopeston College at Hoopeston, Illinois, leaving that institution in 1893. He was subsequently a student in Sullivan & Crichton Business School at Atlanta, Georgia, until 1895. For eight years he remained a resident of the south and gave his attention to the furniture and undertaking business until the expiration of that period, when he returned to Greene county, where he is now temporarily living retired. He has, however, various business enterprises and is the owner of one hundred and eighty acres of very valuable and productive land, on which everything is kept in good repair, while the fields are under a high state of cultivation and he contemplates soon the erection of some good buildings. He owns a substantial, modern residence in White Hall and is connected with business affairs of the city as a stockholder in the First National Bank, the White Hall Sewer Pipe & Stoneware Company and the White Hall Electric Railway.
On the 29th of April, 1903, Mr. Griswold was united in marriage to Miss Edith P. Seely, the only daughter of Americus and Mary M. (Shackelford) Seely. Her father was a resident of Illinois for fifty-four years, having been born in Greene county, in 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Griswold have one son, Loyal Seely Griswold, born September 29, 1904. Mr. Griswold gives his political allegiance to the Republican party but has never been an aspirant for political preferment. In matters of citizenship, however, he favors every movement that promises practical benefit and progress. He has a wide acquaintance in the county where the greater part of his life has been passed and the circle of his friends is extensive, his social qualities winning him the favorable regard of those with whom he is brought in contact.