Clifton C. Griggs Biography


	This biography appears on page 1839 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	CLIFTON C. GRIGGS was born on May 3, 1875, at Beatrice, Nebraska, 
and went through the public schools of his native place, being 
graduated from the high school there. The family soon afterward moved 
to Lincoln, and there he attended the State University, graduating 
therefrom. Before doing this, however, he was employed for a time on a 
railroad and also taught school to get the necessary funds for 
completing his education. In the summer following his graduation from 
the university he accepted a position with a mining company at Cambria, 
Wyoming, but only remained in its employ about two months. He then came 
to Terry, this state, as assayer for the Portland Mining Company, 
remaining with this enterprise until 1898. He then went to Tuscarora, 
Nevada, as chemist and assayer for the Dexter Mining Company, and 
during the next two years he served that concern with skill and 
fidelity. At the end of this period he resigned and took a berth with 
Kilpatrick Bros. & Collins as chief electrician in construction work on 
the Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming. In 1901 he left this firm and 
became mill superintendent for a mining company near Lead, and in 1903 
resigned to accept a similar position for the Horseshoe Mining Company, 
of Terry, in this state. In all his various engagement Mr. Griggs has 
met the requirements of his place in a masterful manner and has given 
his employers service that has been entirely satisfactory. He is an 
accomplished man in his chosen lines of action, and is impelled by a 
high sense of duty in every undertaking. He was united in marriage with 
Miss Virginia L. Watkins, a native of Nevada state, and they have one 
child. Mr. Griggs belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and is also a 
member of the Modern Woodmen of America.