History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 467.
[Bourbon County]  [Paris City and Precinct]

JOHN GRIFFITH, hotel-keeper; P. O. Paris; the owner and proprietor of the
Thurston House.  Mr. Griffith was born in Scott County, this State, in the
year 1812, son of Benefield and Aquilla Truitt Griffith.  The father of
our subject was a native of Delaware, and settled in Scott County in the
early part of the present century; he was a farmer by occupation, to which
vocation our subject was raised, but left home at the age of seventeen
and took to driving stage; being a lover of horses, and staging having a
peculiar charm for him, he pursued this exciting and (to him) enjoyable
business for many years.  There was sharp competition in those days among
the various lines, and trusty and fearless drivers were in demand.  Mr.
Griffith being a man of muscle, and withal a careful and efficient
horseman, he was in demand, and continued as knight of the "ribbons" until
he was thirty-nine years of age.  After he abandoned the stage, he engaged
in the livery business, which he run a short time, and since the year
1850 he has been in the hotel business at this place, and has been
connected with the Thurston House.  Mr. Griffith keeps a good hotel, and
is kind and obliging to his guests.  He has about twenty-four rooms for
the use of his patrons, besides good sample rooms; also barber shop and
bar attached to the same.  Free 'bus runs to all trains.  Upon the whole
travelers will find Mr. Griffith a good man to patronize.  February, 1851,
he married Mary Reid, daughter of William Reid.

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Scott-KY

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