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Dr. Edward Doughty GRIGG is a native of Missouri, born in Shelbyville, Shelby Co., December 10, 1838, and is the son of Edward D. and Amanda M. (MCFARLAND) GRIGG, and grandson of Jacob GRIGG, a clergyman of the Baptist faith, who emigrated from Wales and settled in Virginia prior to the Revolutionary War. He here reared his three sons, of who Edward D., Sr., completed his medical studies and lived a nomadic life. Dr. Edward D. Grigg, Jr., completed his studies at Laporte, Ind., and after practicing in
that State for some time, came to Missouri, in 1857. He made a settlement at Neosho, and practiced his profession at that place until the breaking out of the late war. He then served as assistant surgeon of the Tenth Missouri Regiment, under Gen. PRICE. He entered the field as first lieutenant of Company A, Gen. M. M. PARSON's command, and served with honor and bravery until the evacuation of Corinth, when he came home to recruit. He was taken sick, and afterward went to Illinois, where he taught school
for about eighteen months. He then returned to Neosho. He was married in Jefferson County, Mo., to Miss Mary Susan, daughter of F. G. DUVALL [see sketch elsewhere], and this union resulted in the birth of five sons and one daughter: Dr. George P. (a physician), Horace, Pierre, Felix, Clifton and Mary. Dr. Grigg is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and he and wife are members of the Baptist Church.
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