Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Griswold, Leavitt S. January 3, 1853 - 
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Author: 1883 Mecosta Co. Portrait & Bio Album

LEAVITT S. GRISWOLD, M.D., physician and surgeon at Big Rapids (office in Roof 
block, Michigan avenue), was 

born Jan 3, 1853 in Trumbull Co., Ohio.  His parents were Jesse and Helen 
(McWilliams) Griswold, the father 

following the double occupation of farmer and stone mason.

Dr. Griswold was reared on a farm until he was 17 years old, meanwhile 
obtaining his elementary education.  

He attended the union school at Greenville five years, and began  the study of 
medicine with Dr. Mulhern, of 

Greenville, going thence to the Detroit Medical College, where he was 
draduated in the spring of 1879.  He 

had the benefit of several months' practice as an assistant in Harper's and 
St. Mary's Hospitals in Detroit, 

and first established his business at Sand Lake, Kent Co., Mich., bur decided 
to make a transfer to Big 

Rapids, which he did in October 1881.  He has a good practice in the city and 
adjacent country, both in 

medicine and surgery, and is steadily rising in his profession.

Dr. Griswold was married at Vassar, Tuscola Co., Mich., June 12, 1879, to 
Mattie A., daughter of John 

Liston.  She was born at Bowling Green, Wood Co., Ohio.  Their two children, 
Carl A. and Roe Oscar infant, 

were born in Big Rapids.

Dr. Griswold is a member of the Union Medical Society of Northern Michigan, of 
which, in 1882, he was 

Secretary; also belongs to the State Medical Society.  He owns his residence 
at 223 West Pine Street.

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