BIOGRAPHIES:  GRIFFIN and SINCERBEAUX, Durand, Pepin Co., WI

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GRIFFIN & SINCERBEAUX, wagon manufacturers, Durand. This firm carry on
wagon-making, blacksmithing, planing and sawing of both soft and hard
wood; also have commenced the manufacture of hubs and spokes. Francis
V. Griffin was born in Whitingham, Windham Co., Vt., June 17, 1834. At
the age of nineteen went to New York. Was a machinist by trade. Also
worked in Worcester and Ashburnham, Mass. Then engaged in the furniture
business, at Clinton, Oneida Co., for seven years. Came West in 1869,
and settled in Durand in 1871. He was married in 1860, in Keene, N. H.,
to Miss Sarah Winship. She died in 1868. In 1871 he married Miss Hattie
Gilbert, of East Troy, Wis. Ira Sincerbeaux was born in Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., July 19, 1847. His father moved to Auburn, N. Y., in 1848. Here
he lived until 1875, when he came to South Bend, Ind., and lived there
three years. Then came to Durand. He learned the trade of wagonmaking;
then went into the army. He enlisted in the 9th Heavy Artillery, Co. F,
Sept. 15, 1862. Was mustered out September, 1865, and returned to
Auburn. He was married, Sept. 11, 1867, to Miss Hattie M. Post, of
Auburn, N. Y.

-Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 701


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