Griggs, Judson A.

JUDSON A. GRIGGS, farmer and stock-dealer, P.O. Randolph, was born in Randolph Township, this county, June 15, 1846; son of Benjamin and Catharine (Boomhauer) Griggs. Our subject obtained his education at the common schools of the county, and has always followed the occupation of farmer. In connection, he also extensively handles stock, both buying and selling. Mr. Griggs was married October 29, 1867, to Catharine S. Henry, a native of Ashtabula County, Ohio, born June 15, 1846. To this union have been born three children: Herbert, Adelbert and Gertrude. He is an active member of the Grange at Guy’s Mills; is a member of the Baptist Church. In politics he is a Republican. Mrs. Griggs’ mother, Eliza M. (Willard) Henry, was born in Connecticut in 1811, and moved to the State of Ohio in her fourth year with her widowed mother, her father, grandfather and grandmother having all died in one week, from that dread disease, cholera. Mrs. Griggs’ father, William Henry, was born in the State of New York in 1813 ; he was a farmer by occupation; was married in his twenty-fourth year and died in the forty-sixth year of his age, deeply mourned by all of his friends.