Michael J. Griffin Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Surname: GRIFFIN
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1256

      MICHAEL J. GRIFFIN,* who has been a resident of Portsmouth, N. H.,
for nearly half a century, is senior member of the firm of M. J. Griffin & Son,
which acts as caretaker for eleven different cemeteries of Portsmouth. He
is well known and is recognized as a progressive and public spirited citizen,
having frequently been called into civic service. Mr. Griffin was born in Cork,
Ireland, in 1853 and is a son of Timothy G. and Nora (Sheridan) Griffin,
both of whom lived in Ireland throughout their lives. All of their offspring,
however, came to the United States, their names being respectively: Thomas
S., Michael J., Mary and James.
      Michael J. Griffin was thirteen years old when he emigrated to the United
States, and was for one year a resident of Foxburg, Mass., before locating
at Portsmouth, N. H. Here he attended night school for a time and when
eighteen years of age began, in a small way, his present line of business, at
which he has continued ever since. The firm of which he is head serves as
caretaker for three Catholic and eight Protestant cemeteries. Mr. Griffin
has four different times served terms on the board of Alderman, and is now
chairman of the police commission. He was in the street commission in
1906, and also served on the park commission. In 1886 he was elected to
represent his district in the State Legislature. He is a democrat in politics.
      In 1874 Michael J. Griffin was joined in marriage with Mary Connery, a
native of Massachusetts and a daughter of John and Ellen (Daniel) Connery
of Ireland. She was one of two children, having a brother, Michael. Our
subject and his wife reared the following children: Michael J. Jr., James P.,
William T., Dr. Samuel F., and Charles H., who died at the age of twenty-
one years. In religious attachment the family is Catholic. Mr. Griffin is a
member of the order of Foresters.

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