WILLIAM GRINDELL, cabinet-maker; Platteville; was born in Canada in 1820; came to Buffalo, N. Y., and learned his trade, and in 1845 came to Platteville, where he has been in business ever since. He was on the School Board of Platteville about thirty years in succession, and has been on the Village Board several terms; his first wife, to whom he was married in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1843, was Miss Lydia Cook, she died in 1855, and in 1857 he married Miss Margaret McMurry, of Platteville, he has nine children living, three sons by the first wife, and three sons and three daughters by the second wife. One daughter, Miss Lillie Grindell, is Assistant Teacher in the Rock Graded School of Platteville; she was educated at the Normal School, of Platteville, and commenced teaching in 1877; the first year at Ellenboro, Grant Co., then one year in Dodgeville, and is now on the second year in her present position.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.