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C. E. GRIFFITH, farmer, P. O. Feesburg. Among the mechanics of Lewis Township we mention the name of Hamilton Griffith, the father of our subject, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1824, and died in Lewis Township, Brown County, September 5, 1880. He was his father’s second child, and was raised a farmer boy, but subsequently learned the blacksmith trade, to which he devoted about a quarter of a century, and from 1848 he resided in Ohio, save two years in Indiana. First he engaged near David Barr’s, but soon after married Rebecca, daughter of Mark Day, who was born and raised in Lewis Township. She died about 1855; four of her five children are now living. Mr. Griffith married for his second companion Lavina C. Day (cousin to his first wife), who was also a native of Brown County, and now lives in Felicity, Clermont Co., Ohio. Mr. Griffith was, as most of the pioneers, a judicious manager, and erelong owned a good farm in R. Lawson’s Survey, No. 1716, where he resided at the time of his death. His political affiliations were in accordance with the Democratic party, and his religious ideas with the Christian Church. Of his children, C. E., the third, was born in Lewis Township, April 27, 1849. He has always been a resident of his native county; was raised to farm life, which he still enjoys, and owns (with his wife), 142 acres of good land, well improved. He has not yet reached the meridian of life, and is well fixed in this world’s goods. He was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Solomon Jennings; she was born in 1852 in Louis Township. To this union four children have been given — Jennie L., Solomon J., Orlando H. and Jesse E. Mr. Griffith and wife are both members of the Christian Church.