“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


E. R. GRIFFITHS,  farmer, Sec. 25;  P.O. Sullivan; born in Wales April 
1, 1830; came to America in 1841; he had followed the sea from the age 
of 12, and was a sailor during his five years' residence in Boston; came 
to Wisconsin in 1848, locating at Beaver Dam, where he farmed seven 
years; went from Wisconsin to Kansas, and remained twelve years in 
Douglas Co. as a farmer.  He was Second Lieutenant in the 1st Kansas 
Militia, and was in many fights with Price and other bushwhackers.  Mr. 
Griffiths sold his Kansas farm and settled on the farm he now owns of 
134 acres in 1870.  He married Miss Ellen Owens July 2, 1878, having 
previously lost two wives.  Mr. G. is a Republican, and a member, with 
his wife, of the Bethel Church.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)