Samuel S. Griffitt

    Samuel S. Griffitt, dealer in groceries and queensware, is carrying a stock of $3,000, with about $15,000 annual sales. The father of our subject, Reuben Griffitt, was born in Tennessee in 1797; there married , in 1824, to Miss Lovina Shell, and in 1834 removed to this county and farmed near Morgantown, where he died November, 1871.

    Samuel S. Griffitt was born in this county February 13, 1836; reared on a farm; taught school some time; engaged in merchandising at Morgantown from 1856 to 1859; then served as Deputy County Clerk one term, and in the Auditor's office for several years. February, 1863, he married Miss Rebecca M. Drumheller, which union gave issue to two children, Mary and Neddie. After 1871, Mr. Griffitt engaged in the hardware trade for five years, and serve don year as Superintendent. In 1881, he engaged in his present business, in which he has been uncommonly successful. Mr. Griffitt is in politics a Republican.

Source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.