JOHN GRINDELL, cabinet-maker, Platteville, was born in Canada in 1828; came to Wisconsin in 1849, and settled in Platteville. In the spring of 1850 he went to California, returning to Platteville in the summer of 1852. In 1864, he enlisted in the 41st W. V. I. (100-day men) and went out as First Lieutenant of Co. A, and in February, 1865, enlisted in the 47th W. V. I., and served till the close of the war as First Lieutenant. He was married in the fall of 1852, to Miss Susan Cook, daughter of David Cook, of Beetown; has had six children - Ada J., John H., Albert J., Daniel E., Susan May (deceased) and Arthur B. He has been Town Treasurer, and was President of the Village Board in 1879.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.