Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Griffith, David D. 1844 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

DAVID D. GRIFFITH.

    David D. Griffith is filling the position of city treasurer of Whiting, and
is one in whom his fellow townsmen have had confidence because his ability and
fidelity have been tested in business and social life. He was born in South
Wales on the 20th of March, 1844, and is a son of David and Ann (Jenkins)
Griffith. The days of his childhood and youth were passed in his native country
and his education was acquired in the schools there. He came to America m 1870,
when about twenty-six years of age, attracted to the new world by the hope that
he might find improved business conditions and greater opportunities here. He
located first in Hubbard, Ohio, but soon removed to Pennsylvania, establishing
his home in Oak Hill, that state, where he remained for about three years. On
the expiration of that period he removed to Churchill, Ohio, near Youngstown,
and subsequently he resided at New Straitsville, Ohio. On leaving there he came
to Whiting, Indiana, in 1895, and entered the employ of the Standard Oil
Company, with which he was connected continuously for eight years or until 1903,
when, following the incorporation of Whiting as a city, he was elected the first
city treasurer and is now acting in that capacity. He was chosen to this
position on the Republican ticket and since coming to America he has been a
stanch advocate of Republican principles. He keeps well informed on the
questions and issues of the day and warmly espouses the party by which he was
chosen to office.

    In 1865 Mr. Griffith was united in marriage to Miss Annie Owens, a native of
South Wales, and they are now the parents of six living children, three sons and
three daughters, namely: William, Sarah, Thomas, Gomer, Margaret and Amelia.
They also lost one son, David, who was killed by an explosion in a mine in
British Columbia, and was under ground for five months before discovered.

    Mr. Griffith is quite well known in fraternal circles, being a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias Lodge, of which he is
now financial secretary; the Whiting Mutual Benefit Association, of which he is
secretary, and Ivorites Lodge, a Welsh organization. He is a very
public-spirited man and takes an active interest in all things pertaining to the
welfare and upbuilding of his community. No citizen of Whiting is more
thoroughly representative or more devoted to the promotion of her welfare than
Mr. Griffith, whose name is widely known for the prominent part he has taken in
local interests. He has never regretted the step which he took when he left his
native country and came to the new world, for he has thorough sympathy with the
free institutions and the governmental policy of the United States and there is
no more loyal American than this adopted son. He has been connected with the
Baptist denomination the most of his days, in this and the old country.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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