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


REEVE GRISWOLD, born Jan. 23, 1809, in Chautauqua Co., N.Y.; 
came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1836 and located in Watertown, 
claiming 160 acres of land, which he sold and took up 160 acres further 
west, all wild land, plenty of wolves and Indians and not a home 
between here and Waukesha.  Griswold, Baldwin and Johnson built the 
first log house in Watertown, which he sold with the land, and it stood 
four or five years ago, just north of where Evans’ livery stable now 
stands.  He afterward bought forty acres of the School Section in Dodge 
Co., but sold it, and is now living on the West road.  Married Miss Lucy 
Ann Hewett, of Watertown; he has five children - Reeve, Jefferson, 
Charles, Frank and Nettie.


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