Bio: Griffin, James (1881)
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---Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin, pg. 210.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JAMES GRIFFIN

JAMES GRIFFIN, filer, Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company, Chippewa Falls, came to Wisconsin in 1873; located at Eau Claire, where he was engaged in different capacities, filing in mills and rafting; came to Chippewa Falls in the Spring of 1880, and engaged in present capacity. He was born in Canada in 1833; came to the United States at the age of seventeen years; was employed at lumbering in Ohio for four years, then as filer in Saginaw, Mich., for four years, and at Thunder Bay, Mich., for seven years; then bought a farm of 160 acres near Minneapolis, Minn., and ran it for three years. He was married in Alpena, Mich., in 1862, to Annie Guild, who was born in Detroit, Mich. They have six children: George, James, Martin, Charles, Burt and Ira.