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Author: S. J. Clarke

B. A. GRISWOLD.
    As the complexity of business has increased there has come a demand for
efficiently trained men and women who are qualified to take up the onerous and
responsible duties that have to do with the successful conduct of business at
the present day. At various points in the country, therefore, have been
established and conducted commercial colleges which have trained young people
for the business world and today B. A. Griswold is manager and owner of the Fort
Smith Commercial College, located at Sixth and Rogers streets. He became
identified with this institution in August, 1917, and has since successfully
conducted it.

    Mr. Griswold is a native of Missouri, his birth having occurred in Chariton
county in 1879. He pursued his education in the schools of that state and his
business education was acquired in the Capital City Business College at Guthrie,
Oklahoma. Practically his entire life has been devoted to educational work. He
early became principal of the Lawton Business College at Lawton, Oklahoma, there
remaining from 1907 until 190S. He was also principal of the bookkeeping
department of the Taylor Commercial College at Taylor, Texas. In the latter
part, of 1908 he became manager and owner of the Moberly Commercial College at
Moberly, Missouri, and there remained for about nine years, or until March,
1917, when he came to Fort Smith and purchased the Fort Smith Commercial
College, of which he has since been owner and manager. During the intervening
period of four years the enrollment of the school has greatly increased, until
its student body now represents eleven different states. The school is conceded
to be the best equipped in Arkansas and is perhaps the most widely known
business college in this part of the country. Mr. Griswold maintains an
excellent corps of assistants, splendidly qualified to teach in their various
departments, and he has supervision over the entire school, studying each
individual student so far as this is possible and directing his studies to his
best development.

    Professor Griswold was married in 1902 to Miss Lelia Brown of Missouri, and
they have one son, Raymond. Mr. Griswold belongs to the Business Men's Club and
to the Ad Club. He takes the keenest interest in all that pertains to the
welfare and progress of Fort Smith and his cooperation and aid are given to
every plan and measure which tends to benefit the city and uphold its civic
standards.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922



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