Mendocino County Biographies

Isaac Y. Griffiths

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Was born in Missouri, January 11, 1832. When but a child his 
parents moved to Illinois, where the subject of this sketch received his 
education, and in 1848 went to Lee county, Iowa, where he learned the tailor�s 
trade. In 1853 he crossed the plains with ox-teams to California, bringing his 
wife with him. They kept a boarding-house in the mines until 1857, when he came 
to Sonoma county and settled at Cloverdale, where he followed farming and 
stock-raising until October, 1859, when he came to Mendocino county and settled 
in Potter valley, where he has since resided. He owns two hundred and forty 
acres of land, and follows farming and stock-raising. Married, September 16, 
1851, Miss Mary J. Simely. They have ten living children: Laura, George H., 
Helen S., Lincoln B., Thomas H., Wirt, Ida, Edwin, Kate, and Frank. Have lost 
two.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 567