WILLIAM A. GRISWOLD, farmer and stock-dealer, P. O. Fennimore; was born in Essex Co., N. Y., February, 1826. He went to Reading, Penn., when a young man, where he learned his trade, that of machinist. He was connected with the machine-shops of the Philadelphia & Reading R. R. Co. for about seven years. He afterward went to Plattsburg, N. Y., where he was foreman of the shops of the Plattsburg & Montreal R. R. Co., and afterward to La Porte, Ind. He came to Lancaster, Grant Co., in 1856, where he and Richard Meyer built a saw-mill. He operated this mill for several years. In 1862, he went to Pittsburgh, Penn., and engaged as foreman of machinery in the construction of the light-draft monitors, Umpqua and Manayunk; was afterward connected with the construction of the Chicago Water Works. He purchased his present farm of 240 acres in 1872, and is now engaged principally in the stock business. His wife was Miss Harriet Meyer, born in St. Petersburg, Russia; she came to the United States in 1848; of German parentage. Her father was a sea captain, and owner of a line of vessels, which plied between Russia and England. Mrs. Griswold is a cultured lady, speaking Russian, German, French and the English languages; she was educated in Russia, where she learned to speak the English language. Mr. and Mrs. Griswold have four children - Ira W., born in 1855, at Plattsburg; J. Lily, born in 1857, at Lancaster; Mary H. and Joseph N., born in 1870.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.